Trainee...What I mean about free-will, after re-reading my last post, has everything to do with this thread...time lines/manifesting and such.
I'm glad you provided backing for my initial post in this line...I had forgotten about Zen Buddhism...despite having 'lived it'...hehehe
It is free-will that enables the creation process...which we've established, can only happen in the eternal now.
The power we exert only effects that which we engage...and engagement happens in an instant...this instant...not yesterday or tomorrow.
True understanding equals enlightenment...imho.