Hale Dwoskin, who teaches the Sedona Method, has an advanced course where he shows you how to release the attachment to free will. I highly recommend it.
Karma and sin require free will in order to operate effectively. When you've done something wrong, you blame yourself and feel guilty setting yourself up for a karmic debt to be paid in some present or future lifetime. Most major religions depend on these rules. When someone else does you some perceived wrong, you develop negative feelings toward that person and you help maintain the status quo. Now this is all well and good for those who want to play the game.
But how can you feel guilty if you know you are not the do-er. You were just acting out the script and mouthing your lines. When someone hurts you, you know that they really didn't do that to you. How can karma control you any longer? You have become free of it.
As the Dalai Lama put it, "there is no good or bad, but whenever you can, do good."
The realization of the futility of free will, however, is the key to moksha or liberation. You don't want to play anymore and you want out. Eventually this is what happens to everyone. Meanwhile you love it here and can't be dissuaded from buying into the free will control mechanism. Again that is fine and good. No one should leave before their time.
As an analogy, think of a normal dream. You're actually in a staged play and not really in control of the script. You think you have free will but you really don't. You're led along from one scene to another. Unless of course, you become lucid in the dream state. When you have a lucid dream, you know it's a dream and you are in control. You direct the script. You can have all the siddhis you want and fly, teleport, beat formidable monsters, and become fully aware.
This Maya we are in is also a dream - a dream emanating from Pure Consciousness. Most of us are not fully aware - we're just robots mechanically going with the flow. But there is a ghost in the machine - the God within each of us.
However, a few do attain self-awareness and become lucid in this great dream and realize how illusory it is. The few who attain enlightenment and achieve liberation from Maya, never to be reborn, unless they "choose" to, for the purpose of enlightening others to their predicaments.
No, none of this is new. It's taught in the Bhagavad Gita and is at the core of Advaita Vedanta, the philosophical foundation of all branches of Yoga.
when the Taoist sage Chuang Zu awoke from his nap, he said he had no way of knowing whether he was a man who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or if he was still a butterfly who was dreaming he was a man.
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