Sphere of Possibilities – Free Will

Free Will and Conscious Control of Self

If you consider the general happenings on a daily basis, you will find that you are consciously taking these decisions. You take a particular route to your workplace. You spend some time every day at your favorite restaurant. You listen to some music before you go to sleep. These are the decisions that you take consciously. I can safely assume that I am the one who choose to be happy or sad. What about pain? How can you choose not to feel pain if you cut your thigh with a razor blade ?? The simplest answer would be – ‘Don’t play with the razor blade’. It will certainly eliminate the possibilities where you are yourself are the cause of an outcome. What if the outcome appears to be dependent on something external? Can you still manage to choose freely? You will need to control the external factors to choose freely! You will need to eliminate ALL factors that may lead to PAIN. That’s realism. Someone with a realistic approach to life can not think it to be POSSIBLE to eliminate all such causes that may lead to pain in one form or other.

A man who is utterly serious about self control, happens to love all decisions he takes. Such a man will have barriers in front of decisions that he may like but prefers not to make. He has chosen to control INTERNAL factors to choose freely. He has chosen the route of SELF Control to choose freely! A man who can control his thoughts is sure to be pleased with anything he does or receives. You can also look at the source of pain to break free from it. You will have to convince yourself that the pain is internal to you, whether or not the cause is external. That’s spiritualism. A spiritual man or woman thinks that it is POSSIBLE to control oneself and thus control everything that could stop you from choosing freely.

One chooses to control the outer crest and other chooses to work on the inner core.

Mind and Free Will

You will start assuming that the decisions that you take are really your decisions. Decisions that you don’t like begin to appear as decisions that you didn’t want to take. One goes with the desire and the other goes without it. That’s how mind takes it.

Situations on Ground

Actual situation is that there are decisions that you take yourself and there are decisions that were borrowed or pushed on you. There are decisions that you like and decisions that you don’t like; nothing more. Realists will have no real answers to situations on Ground. They won’t and they could not like all their decisions. They could not accept all that came and give all that they wanted to. They will bury the KNOWN concept of Free Will altogether. May be they are working on something better. (who knows?)

Space occupied by Possibilities:

You can take X number of decisions.

You cannot take Y number of decisions.

You can take Z number of decisions but you don’t.

You see, X+Y+Z = ALL POSSIBILITIES

Sphere of possibilities is as much as you can think. Scope of your Free Will is limited by what you know and think about. You can think of moving up against the gravity, for example. How can you possibly choose to do something that you consider to be impossible? Well, that’s where faith, fear and knowledge come to the scene.

• Wright brothers had faith that they could build an airplane. They had to have faith because they didn’t know for sure if the airplane would work.
• Wright brothers were NOT afraid of a lifelong failure. A permanent failure POSSIBILITY was not present in their dictionaries.
• Wright brothers had knowledge that increased their sphere of possibilities. They did something that was considered impossible till then.
• With the advent of advanced technologies and scientific findings our sphere of possibilities has increased as well. You can think, for example, of setting a colony on Moon in your lifetime. The moment you can think about your personal life in the same manner, you’ll begin to choose freely.