What are some classical Buddhist works that deal with free will?From what I understand about Buddhist world view, there should be no room for free will, everything should be hardcore determinists. But I read in Gethin's "The Foundations of Buddhism" that the general position is that we cannot control the event around us or our mental states, but we can control how we react to these things, which seems strange in that it would seem to necessitate a "self" apart and beyond these things to make such a decision.
>>24687448>that it would seem to necessitate a "self"Buddhism Is against the idea of a metaphysical self,banself that can control the world and exist outside the world, having a individual Will(chanda) or a Sense of identity(pugdala) are not equivalent with a self(atta)
>>24687448>a "self"Not a self, consciousness. Consciousness isn't individuated or instantiated. Consciousness sees a being writing this post, much like it sees a being reacting to this post with>no uGuess what. There is no you. There is no I. There are apparent posts, and apparent trolls, and apparent rage, and consciousness reacts with buddha nature or without buddha nature.
