20. Will Power and Free Will

'Will' or freewill, is the independence of a separate entity to act, without the pressure created from circumstances, as if we are separate from nature and have a free will. However as long as cause and effect are inter-related, the effect will always be dependent on the cause, as if the cause unfold into an effect. As if cause and effect are one whole, without separation. It is, as if, I am writing this post because I want to write this post and not because I am being provoked or pushed to write this. However in this case, there is an urge or a desire acting as an unseen force that is causing the writing and spilling out the words and so it is not out of a free will. Thought happen to us, uncaused and lead us to act out a freewill caused in thought. Every word comes as a thought that automatically gets typed on to the keyboard. It is as if the fingers are controlled by thought, as its doer, rather than a me, sourcing the doing. 

One way to analyse our free will is to deeply look into how our actions are taking place. Culture, beliefs, society, upbringing etc, is conditioning our memory of who we think we are and in relation to this , we act. For example, if I rob a normal man, i may not be hurt. If I rob a police, he will beat me to death. So we may say, actions of this type are arising out of a condition, that Might is right. There may be rare cases of empathy from a Police to act differently, and that should allow us to include a variety to the way, how we act.
Analysing further, we may say, there would be a variety of ways in which we act and in many case, we regret the way we act. So free will, is just a word and doesnt mean that, it is applicable as simply as, ' I feel like lifting my had, and so I did'.
Let us say, for example that I smoke and also drink. Lets us say I used my will -power and stopped smoking. Now we say that I have a will power which could take me out of smoking. It also seems that as each days passes, the strength of your will power by which you stopped smoking gets increased automatically because will power is apparently subject to time. Meaning to say, that if I have avoided the temptation for 2 years, it is lesser than if I can keep avoiding it for 10 years. So my will power, becomes stronger, powered by time, and not powered by lack of urge.  Finally either the temptation gives in and your nature to dislike smoking is what rules kicking away of the habit. When the love for smoking transforms to hate for smoking, you succeed in kicking the habit of smoking. Love and hate happen to you. it is not cultivatable. In case you stopped smoking, you say that your willpower prevailed. In both cases there was explanation depending on the after effects of a certain decision. We use will power on to decide ( even this may not be right to say, but we assume) but the outcome is not a result of the decision. The outcome can only be explained in relation to the decision as to whether the decision was right or wrong and whether the circumstances relating the decision was favourable or not suitable for the decision or not. The decision to quit smoking was wrong or the friend circle were too strong for me to put the thought in practice. There are only explanations here when quitting fails.
Now when I look back, I see that I had will power to stop smoking but I require a new will power to stop drinking. It is as if each habit has a separate set of willpower requiring to be exercised. How many such will powers can we accumulate?. All of us have one or other addictions. Finding fault with others or  judging others is the biggest addiction. No matter what power you use, one cannot get out of judging addiction. Higher the status of wealth or power, the bigger is this type of addiction. Persons down the ladder of power and wealth also judge others but their judgement is not of much value. However when your boss judges you, you can lose your job. So will power seems to be different for different addictions.
Desire or attachments is the driving force behind addictions or the coming out of addictions. No body knows how a certain desire sets in. But a deep desire can result in taking one through, to succeed with his effort of achievement. The satisfaction of the result, leads to a feel of will power. If he did not succeed due to forces greater than his desire-force, there is a feeling of will power being lost. Both desire and the circumstantial external forces to cultivate the desire, are all arising from outside of the thinking mind. Desire comes in as a thought and external forces as luck or bad luck. In both cases there is no involvement of a person with a free will.
Will power and Free will are just words applied to life but all the while there is just life energy playing out through these bodies all the time making it look as if an effort was being put into the game. Effort is noticed only when there is a resistance to liking the game. A person getting good marks in maths without effort is because he loves the subject and getting good marks using will power to study is because there is no resistance to love studying maths. When there is love in what you do, effort will vanish and if you love all that do, then the person inside the body will also vanish.