Dont mistake the inessential for the essential, and the essential for the inessential!

This unquestionably - as read by me was so stated by the Lord, was so stated by the Arahat:

"For the noble friend, who by will, who fully aware, who delibereately brin infinite, boundless and endless friendliness into being, this mountain like limitless Goodwill makes any substrate evaporate, the chains of mind, the mental fetter wears thin, slender and slack. If one without ill will cares for even one single living being, such one through that becomes quite skilled and clever, so far more the case for the Noble Friend, who by possessing a caring heart for all sentient beings without any even single exception, accumulates massive - yeah! - monumental amounts of merit!

Those Kings, gurus and priests who sacrifies life, objects of fire, who baths ceremoniously, devoted to mere forms and empty ritual, blindly attached to and obsessed by culture, tradition of ancient and unknown habit, do not ever experience even a sixteenth of the Release of Mind by Friendliness fully brought into being, just like the vagueness of even all the stars together, cannot neither ever outshine the moon. Since there cannot be any animosity whatsoever, nor enmity at all, neither any even atomic trace of hostility in a Nobly Released One, who by caring indicriminatelty and infinitely for all living beings, who by possessing such treasure of a Mind Relased into Firendliness, simply cannot never ever suppress, harm, repress nor kill any being, and cannot niether never ever cause antother to suppress, harm, repres or kill any breathing being.'

Source from the Pali Tiptaka, which are the 56 volume ancient sacred scriptues of the Buddhist, recited and compiled 483 BC, approximately 4 months after Buddhas death.

Comment:

Even minor Goodwill breaks major barriers, ever spreading like sweet rings in water!

What then to say about infinite Goodwill! Such forceful tidal wave of pure loving-care cannot ever be restrained nor surpassed.

MAKE MIND LIKE A SMILING MOUNTAIN!

:o)

Free Will - Yes or No?

I strongly believe in the saying that - Where there is a Will there is Way..

.. BUT I also started reflecting on Free Will. Its a controversial subject.

Are we the captain of the ship? Or, are we living our destiny - our past deeds, our Karma?

Here is what Robert Anton Wilson has to say from a scienftic perspective:

"All your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free-will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules"

hmm.. Is there a self? May be its too early to discuss that subject. So lets concentrate on.. IS there such thing as Free Will or do we live a pre-defined pattern ?

Arthur Schopenhauer put the puzzle of free will and moral responsibility in these terms:
Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free, even in his individual actions, and thinks that at every moment he can commence another manner of life. ... But a posteriori, through experience, he finds to his astonishment that he is not free, but subjected to necessity, that in spite of all his resolutions and reflections he does not change his conduct, and that from the beginning of his life to the end of it, he must carry out the very character which he himself condemns...."

Cause and Effect. Its called determinism, Free Will vs Determinism..

We are limited according to the laws of the universe, in our choices to x. Moreover, we are limited to our subconsious imprint,. WE will always make a choice that reflects our behaviour pattern, we might believe its Free and Independent however it is not.

UNTIL we are aware that we always react in the same way, until we say NO to our inner programming and choose be anew, to think differently, to react differently.. Until then we are a prisoners to our mind, to our self.. and there is no trace of Free Will.

My conlusion is that only liberated and enlightened beings can be Free of Will, Free of Cause & Effect, Free of limitations..