l<\/a>, causing the white ball to bounce off. What I see is a series of images, and then we judge that the \u201ccause\u201d is the black ball hitting the white ball, resulting in the \u201ceffect\u201d of the white ball bouncing off. Therefore, many times we feel that we only need to see the cause, and we can roughly know what the effect is.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAnother type of \u201ccausality\u201d can be explained as follows: in social relationships, every person\u2019s behavior will lead to a certain result. For example, \u201cgood deeds bring good rewards, bad deeds bring bad consequences.\u201d When we do something that conforms to contemporary universal values, we will receive some good rewards. Otherwise, we will go to hell or suffer retribution. However, in our daily lives, we often find that many \u201cretributions\u201d have not actually fallen on the wrongdoers, and many do-gooders have even suffered imprisonment. At this time, many people will say, \u201cIt\u2019s not that there is no retribution, the time has not come yet\u201d to comfort themselves, balance their anger, or even fantasize that these \u201cevils\u201d will be repaid in the next life of the wrongdoer, such as becoming \u201cblind\u201d or \u201cdisabled.\u201d However, such statements involve moral value judgments, just like a set of Buddhist social scoring systems. In Buddhism, who can judge how much merit you will gain by saving an insect? What retribution will you face by killing a cockroach? There is also a temporal issue with doing good deeds. Who can guarantee that a good deed done at this moment will not turn into an evil deed the next moment? And if all disabled people are reincarnations of wrongdoers, do we still need to sympathize with them? It seems that \u201ccausality\u201d suddenly becomes elusive in such situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How should causality be understood in the original teachings of Buddhism ?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The first example represents the \u201ccausality\u201d relationship in natural science, while the second example is the \u201ccausality\u201d in social relationships. Regardless of whether the relationship between quantum physics and \u201ccausality\u201d can be combined, it still works in natural science, but the \u201ckarmic retribution\u201d in social relationships seems to break the theory of \u201ccausality is not false.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In many primitive religious theories, many myths and rituals are related to natural phenomena. Any natural phenomenon can be imagined as a god who governs it, such as the god of thunder, the god of wind, and so on. Many rituals are for praying to the gods for good weather and family safety. However, in the original Buddhist scriptures, there is no explanation of natural phenomena or worldly rules. Many are analyses of personal psychological phenomena and point out how to be liberated from these sufferings in meditation practice.<\/strong> Therefore, it can be concluded that in the theory of original Buddhism, we cannot use it to explain external physical or social regulatory changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\nYes, \u201ccausality\u201d refers to the internal changes that each person undergoes due to external environmental information. For example, some traumatic experiences in childhood can lead to behavioral deviations in adulthood, or past insults and humiliations can become future obsessions. These experiences can be triggered by receiving information at a certain moment in the future, and even many emotional reactions can be so intense that they can destroy objective rational cognition and deny facts. The inner world changes based on external environmental changes and is uncontrollable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIndeed, human cognition has deficiencies and limitations. We can only understand other people\u2019s statements based on our own understanding. When the speaker expresses something beyond the listener\u2019s cognition, the listener will interpret the speaker\u2019s meaning based on their own understanding and cognition, which can lead to distortions of the concept of \u201ccausality\u201d in Buddhism due to the use of external cognition to understand Buddhism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cutting off causality in the original teachings of Buddhism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Due to the triggering of the \u201cCausality chain\u201d by many information receptions that cause painful \u201ckarmic consequences,\u201d some people have proposed solutions, such as transforming all external information, intercepting all information that is unfavorable to their emotions, or even destroying all senses so that they cannot receive any information. These involve means to clear memory or cause permanent disability to solve the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, in the theory of original Buddhism, what we need to cut off is not the cause or the effect, but \u201ckarma.\u201d \u201cKarma\u201d is the connection in \u201ccausality.\u201d For example, if you have a fearful heart towards cockroaches, if the \u201ckarma\u201d is strong, it means your fear is more significant. Some people may even have physiological effects such as fainting and dizziness. Our ego is all bound by \u201ckarma,\u201d and meditation is the means to cut off \u201ckarma.\u201d However, not all \u201ckarma\u201d needs to be cleared. For example, there is something called \u201cgood karma,\u201d which can connect individual \u201ccausality\u201d and make the psychological state healthier.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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