Comments on: Buddhism and Free Will http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/19/buddhism-and-free-will/ My life as a father, Buddhist and Japanophile / Koreaphile. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Doug http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/19/buddhism-and-free-will/#comment-4083 Wed, 05 May 2010 18:10:54 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2616#comment-4083 Hi LNB, and welcome to the JLR!

]]> By: L N B 2 netis http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/19/buddhism-and-free-will/#comment-4082 Wed, 05 May 2010 15:14:56 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2616#comment-4082 The pickle that all religions encounter when trying to decide philosophically where there is or is not free will is dispatched handily by both Albert Einsten and The Buddha. The Buddha just refused to comment philosophically on it and Einstein is quoted: “We can’t solve problems (or the question) by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

Contemporary neuroscience shows that when given the “free will” to choose from a number of possibilities, that the choice is made long before (many seconds) there is awareness of it.

]]> By: ChasingSanity.com http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/19/buddhism-and-free-will/#comment-2503 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:57:13 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2616#comment-2503 Freewill versus determinism has been debated for many years by many people. I debated it myself for a long before I determined that both fully exist. It is not one or the other, and I think the debate is a bigger issue for those that subscribe to beliefs in Christianity, for (and this is being big time simplistic) if things are not determined, than God is not all knowing, God cannot see the future, for if He could, things would be determined, and if things were determined, than our salvation (or lack thereof) is beyond our control. However if we have freewill, accepting God (Christian God) into our lives is an act of choice, and we are held to account.

This is a big problem that has never been resolved for those subscribing to Christianity.

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