/lit/ - Literature

This is my personal take on the matter. I am not super knowledgeable about Buddhism so take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm not really speaking about Buddhism specifically anyway and more on what I think how reality works, it is only tangentially related.
>>16756218 got me thinking.
>For all I can tell, I placed myself in Samsara through my unlimited freedom because it was more interesting to me
I think we "choose" to be in Samsara or material existence as much as a ball "chooses" to roll downhill. Inanimate objects at any give altitude are driven to the bottom most altitude as it is the most stable, souls are driven towards matter for the same reason. At a high altitude, a ball has so many forces acting on it to fall down hill, the winds, gravity, etc. There are so many ways for the potential energy of the ball to be expelled and for it to reach equilibrium at the ground. Same for a soul in an immaterial existence. In immaterial existence there is freedom and unlimited potential, but that can go both ways. Go to sleep right now and have a dream. Dreams are essentially a demo for what immateriality is like, and you can have either the most wonderful dreams or the most horrible nightmares. Material existence, for all that is worth, is stable and predictable, which is why so many souls find solace in it. It is the metaphorical bottom of the hill.