The Illusion of Free Will

It is important to first understand what we mean by the phrase "Free Will".  In the common textural meaning free will is a persons ability to act without constraint(s). A kind of self determinism. But this begs the question, is a person ever free of the influences of his or her inherent conditioned existence? We are all a product of our past experiences and those experiences both the physical and the psychological are the basis for our actions. So our actions are largely predictable within the framework of what we know, believe and understand. We cannot simply throw off what essentially encumbers our every action and reaction. Individual discretion to a large degree is determined by the past.

Is it possible to understand our own inability to act without reference to our conditioned mind set and to proceed in an entirely different direction free of an appetite or a repetitious indulgence?  Will is actually desire cloaked in the human minds inescapable confusion of having to choose.  And choice exist only when the mind is confused.  When the mind that desires is attentive then it may be possible to understand that choosing or choice derives its duality from motivation. One may then realize that there is actually no choice. There is only opinion which arises out of one's conditioning.

Is there action without choice or will without will? Action without motivation is a by product of a mind that is choicelessly aware.  Awareness without a movement, of just being in that moment absent an opinion or an emotion. It is the negation of the known for something new and without definition. An action born out of a void but wholly within the realm of logical inference. The factual becomes the anti-reactionary which is free of emotional conditioned motivation which is the basis for all opinion. So it is not possible to exercise "free will" because it exist only as a subset of minds clinging to choices that are merely the result of opinion.  To be choicelessly aware is to be factual. Which is absent the emotional immaturity of the trappings of the minds limited ability to understand. Not choosing allows one to enter a moment of non-movement that brings about something that may be outside one's conditioned response.