Xaver wrote about no free will:
>it will mean we all are totally helpless and have no choice at all – completely
>choiceless 24 hours a day...

As usual, the mind dichotomises - it thinks it is one or the other.
In life, it never is one or the other, it is, at least, both.

There are disciplines that say we have no Free Will.
In one way it is true, and in another absolutely not.

When one 'drops in' it is very obvious which way 'it' is flowing.
Flow with it and there is harmony, delight. 'Choose' and there is conflict.

Please, take a moment, and look. what is the main energy - everywhere.
Conflict is all pervasive, it is all over. Especially on the 'inside.'

One way of describing it:
When the 'click' happens it is like riding around 'inside/outside' the
vehicle - which we call - the body.

Sitting quietly doing nothing (very rare eh) the body wants to eat, or
sleep, of fix something. No doing required - you just allow, and go along
for the ride. You don't always have a clear idea of what is happening, or
where you are going, or what for - and that is the fun - not knowing.
"As a little child."

But that is not the way most people live. Doing.
It is the mind that decides - usually out of addiction, or wanting to avoid
the moment just as it is. So doing is done.
And if things on the outside are not the way the conditioned and addicted
mind wants them to be it will fight to get it that way.
Sometimes subtle and sneaky, sometimes aggressively.
But fulfilment is never realised in this way. "Thy Will be done."
Even though there is no 'thy.'

Take a look at this - just as a possibility. There is a flow, and the flow
will flow you into the situation you need to experience in order to
expand/evolve/wake up. If you are unconditionally present you get the
experience you need, and flow on.

If you are not unconditionally present and decide with your mind to do what
you want, rather than what is needed, that situation will reoccur - over and
over and over - until you get the experience you need - in order to stay in
the flow of evolving.

And not only that, each time you decide not to follow the flow that is your
maximum potential, the situation gets more extreme.
In approx. order: gentle reminder; a serious loss; serious illness; death.
Death, for most people is the final reminder. Too late for this time around,
but as 'your life passes before you' you get to see more clearly where you
have 'missed' and the whole thing starts again. Happy re-birthday.

And not only for you, but, maybe, for the whole of humanity.
Scientists tell us that there have been many species/phases before us that
have disappeared. At the tipping point we either evolve into a more
developed species, or die out and start again. Either way, no worries.

At the moment, looking at the way we are treating each other, and ourselves,
ant the way most of humanity is behaving, are we worth saving?

In Brazil, over and over, the exclamation was; "It is so dee-ficult."

Complaint is bullshit. Dishonest. A con.
Anybody can have/do absolutely anything they want - if they want it enough -
by making it their absolute unconditional priority. Try it.

Happy experimenting...