Religion and Nothingness

So there's a sense in which even when I think that I'm acting according to my own free will, my own good intentions, right, I'm actually manifesting multiple conditions of karma whose effects I don't necessarily understand.

That's, that's interesting because Nishitani has this, uh, in Religion and Nothingness, he's sort of, I guess, threading the needle between what this classical issue in Western philosophy of what they would say in the old days, liberty versus necessity, or now we talk about free will versus determinism.

Mm-hmm.

So the, the note you ended on there that you're, you're sort of manifesting, um, past conditions that you might not have, uh, have consciously acted on in the present moment, how does that relate to this whole issue of, of free will versus determinism? Or how do you see that, that, that question as regards to karma?

That's, that's such an incredible point.

Yeah.

It, the, the, the whole discourse on technology in Religion and Nothingness, mainly through Nietzsche, um-

Hmm