Is The Voice Egoic And Does It Give The Illusion That I Am Talking To Myself

[Joseph Maynor]

If there is no free will shouldn't the voice be released as egoic?  Or should it be accepted.  I realize the irony here as there is really no control.  However, increased awareness with create the desired control.  Awareness alone is curative.  The Truth alone is curative.

Edited July 21, 2017 by Joseph Maynor

[Shin]

That's not an illusion, you're talking to yourself.
You are in whatever you do.

Every single thing that happens to you is yourself talking to you.
There is no randomness about what you call your life.

You're testing yourself all the time.

[Nahm]

@Joseph Maynor If there is free will, there is you doing. There is no free will, because in reality, there is no you. Believing in free will = believing in the illusion. I spent a year or so on free will. Please let me do you a solid here....either start making a super serious case for free will until it contributes to breaking your mind open so become enlightened, or just let it go and spend the time doing your practices. 

[Ananta]

Here an article of Ted Schmidt's (Vedanta teacher), it cleared up the free will topic for me-

http://www.nevernotpresent.com/publications/cycle-life-illusion-free-will/

 

At the end of the article he says, in conclusion-

"The conclusion to be drawn from this inquiry is that the apparent individual is definitely not the doer. To the apparent individual, however, the process heretofore described feels like free will, and thus from his or her point of view it amounts to the same thing. Hence, the apparent individual isn’t off the hook. He or she still must pay attention to his or her inner promptings and respond to them in the way that he or she deems most appropriate. Ironically, though determined by the vasanas, one’s destiny is revealed through the mechanism of one’s apparent free will. In other words, one’s apparent choices betray one’s causal program. Paradoxically, therefore, pre-destination and free will are, for all practical purposes, fundamentally the same thing."

Edited July 22, 2017 by Anna1