What is this uncompromising, and yet constantly compromised "force" at work in us, that we call... "free will"? Here's the truth that – once seen – acts to set us free: what we call our will is the conditioned residue of experience past as it imposes itself on the revelation of each moment in order to create – and sustain – an imagined sense of "I". This false self not only imagines itself as being apart from the fear and pain inherent in the level of consciousness that gives rise to its temporary existence, but it also imagines that "one day" it will escape its innate suffering by an equally imagined act of will.