Do You Have Any Free Will?

I'm trying to help people give themselves intellectual permission to contemplate other things than what rationalist materialism would accept, or consider acceptable or not. But ultimately, this is direct embodied experience that is transformative. And I'm keenly aware of that. Do you have any free will? I don't think Bernardo Castro really exists. How can it have free will? If it's not there? So even the question already presupposes too much. This is the difference between the East and the West broadly speaking, no? That the East seems to say, well, suffering comes from your desire. Here's one solution: Get rid of desire. Get rid of will. The West poses other