Causation Discussion ☺️🙏🏼
Brooke:
Causation is a system of cause and effect. And that system, it’s not one to one. Many causes create many effects, which create a whole web of causation.
Tim:
Causation. Every cause has an effect, and every effect is a new cause, and so on. Sifu explained it in quite a cool way: A seed grows and becomes a plant, then it becomes an apple tree. That tree can grow a hundred apples in a season, but each of those apples has seeds, and there’s no limit to how many apples those seeds can produce. So within each seed is something unlimited. This helps us understand causation because there’s no limit to what can grow from that.
Valerie:
There are four parts of causation:
1. Main cause—your intention.
2. Main supporting cause.
3. Timing.
4. All the direct and indirect causes.
Merryn:
Consciousness and cause and effect are like different sides of a piece of paper. You need consciousness for causation to appear.
Simon:
Causation has no “I.” Nothing changes on its own. Everything that’s changing has to have many causes working together. But if everything is interconnected like that, there is no “I.”
Monkey:
Causation over lifetimes becomes karma.
Giant Dog:
The present is the result of past causes. Past causes create present effects. The future comes from present causes.
Ricardo:
Through causation, we can understand that life is illusion. Because everything has a cause and effect, and causation has no “I.” Everything is constantly changing within this no “I” system. This is another way to understand that life is illusion.
Sean:
Causation is like a circle—it has no beginning, no end. You can’t say where it starts or stops. For that reason, it’s eternal. That eternal logic can either guide your life, or, if you’re unaware, it can leave you blind.
Tim:
Causation and awakening. Because of causation, it means we can awaken. We can observe our suffering, trace it back to its cause, and fix that cause, making the suffering go away.
RedBull:
Siddhartha Buddha said that understanding causation is the deepest of the deep. It’s so deep, mysterious, and complicated to grasp all the causation from all the unlimited consciousness. To truly understand causation is mind-blowingly beyond comprehension. That’s why it’s the deepest of the deep.
