stu writes snipped: In all cases, free will is adopted and rejected by people regardless of their proclivity towards faith. However, I am ever suspicious of anyone's arguments if they involve themselves with faith. If they are willing to accept one notion without adequate evidence what then of their other notions? Sounds to me like a lot of guesswork.
TomT: In my experience relating Free Will and awakening I have come to see that Awakening is absolutely FREE. But it will Cost you every concept you have about it. Secondly it WILL happen because it is who you are and all you do is get to see that which has always been right under your nose. As one of my friends likes to say ""You'll find IT in the last place that you don't look." Tom