Rick Repetti is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, and author of four books, including Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will (Routledge 2018), and dozens of articles and chapters on meditation and free will. He is an APPA-certified philosophical counselor, podcaster, and 4th-Dan Shotokan blackbelt, and has taught meditation and yoga since the mid-1970s.