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The further we progress along our path to enlightenment, the more freewill we will have. This is because our intentions, thoughts and actions will be influenced less and less by the three poisons - greed, aggression and delusion. With it's law of cause and effect (karma) Buddhism is not a deterministic philosophy. The reason we suffer is because we fail to follow the Buddhist path to the cessation of suffering - believing in a creator God or some divine power outside of the self really means relinquishing your freewill to this divine power. If you believe that you are creating the causes for results which will follow from them, as in Buddhism, then this is freewill.