01-10-2015, 04:20 PM
(01-10-2015, 12:33 PM)jivatman Wrote: They are three different approaches, but my understanding of causality is more advanced than the others other.
It makes for powerful meditation to consider causes, moving backwards, that have brought yourself to it's present state, and then (Buddhist approach) see these as are part of an endless web of samsara/suffering and are "empty" or Western Approach, consider that the move backwards to a first cause, God.
as an individual experience, my current understanding of causuality would be this.
Imagine a mansion with an infinite number of rooms, and all the lights are off.
As a soul choosing to experience this mansion, one goes in and turns the light on in some rooms, to see what is there. You can also turn the light off at your discretion.
Given many incarnations, and the loss of concrete memory, one forgets that you might have switched the light on in some rooms, and wonder why that room is still lit. One may even choose to blame someone else for it still being on.
In this analogy, the mansion represents the infinite potential experiences of reality; the light as choosing to activate that potential, and make it real for you, and the forgetting as representing a karmic force that you don't comprehend, but that forgiveness will allow ownership and deactivation of that ongoing potential.
The causation here is turning on the light switch (always a personal choice), and continuing to experience the contents of that room until you decide you no longer to need to experience it (again, also a personal choice).