Is Enlightenment Determined By Fate?

[hinawashi]

I've been wondering whether someone can become enlightened or not is determined by fate, i.e. try as hard as you may you can never get your low-consciousness friends to reach the same state as you are. I've been feeling this way and I'm really confused right now.

So does free will actually exist? Or does fate merely give us the choice to follow it or not?

[SOUL]

Something to ponder.......

 

Edited May 10, 2017 by SOUL
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[Shin]

Yes and no.

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[Prabhaker]

9 hours ago, hinawashi said:

I've been wondering whether someone can become enlightened or not is determined by fate

If you are identified with your body and your material existence, in the same proportion you are determined by cause and effect. Then you are a machine. But if you are not identified with your material existence, with either body or mind – if you can feel yourself as something separate, different, above and transcendent to body-mind – then that transcending consciousness is not predetermined. It is spontaneous, free.