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  1. Book search result icon First Things First Did the Buddha Teach Free Will?
    Did the Buddha Teach Free Will? As with so many other issues, the Buddha took a middle path between the two extremes of determinism and total free will. If all your experience were predetermined from the past—through impersonal fate, the design of a creator god, or your own past actions—the whole idea of a path of practice to the end of suffering … 
  2. Book search result icon First Things First Worlds & Their Cessation
     … In terms of habits and practices, each side can be very insistent that the way they draw inferences about the world is “scientific”—as they define the term—and that they know for a fact what ways of behavior are actually valid in the context of their worlds. From the Buddha’s point of view, though, all these ways of clinging are suffering. And … 
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