/lit/ - Literature

What does /lit/ think of this dialogue I just had with someone on an 'enlightened' subreddit?

>I don't have free will

Deciding what we experience to be "free will" or "no free will" is like trying to decide if the paint color on the wall is egg-shell white or white. The name doesn't define what it is, the color itself defines what it is. Life with "no free will" looks like this, life with "free will" looks like this, so why does it matter?

>All of the things that cause me pain in my life are my fault because I'm not looking at it the right way

Same could be said for "illusion" or "real" They are just labels ascribed to experiences that don't inherently say what they are. But we do know for a fact we are experiencing the experiences themselves. So why get caught up in the labels? We mistake our labels for the things themselves!

>All of the things that cause me pain in my life are my fault because I'm not looking at it the right way

Fault relies on causation, and a singular cause to the way situations seem to arise can't be found in actual experience. Just try it out, why are you reading this here? Find the sole cause.

>My very view of reality is an illusion, and I'm being tricked

There are no tricks, just innocently formed habits and assumptions. Even then, nothing is hidden. Experience of being habitually pigeon-holed into boring narratives shine just as brightly as hanging out with naked beauty.

> don't even exist

"Exists" or "doesn't exist" is another example of labels given to experience that never actually says what it is. Reality is unfathomable, depthless.
Basically, forget about trying to figure anything out because Reality doesn't make sense. The only sense to be made is in the feeling of hereness, nowness, immediacy of experience itself.