Suppose

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Suppose you are hypothesizing

that you can make mental constructions

about the nature of causality.

 

Then you realize that your

hypothesis that you are postulating

constructs might itself be based on

an unsubstantiated self-centered bias.

 

At that point, you

notice that your hypothesis

that you are formulating

a supposition is not only

speculative opinion,

but depends on the belief that you can

define anything at all appropriately.

You then see that any hypothesis might

be based on a poorly constructed

assumption that the self has a

position in time and space.

 

In this way, your mind is

seen not to be anything

other than supposition,

and suppositions about

the nature of your mind

and its incarnations

are therefore insubstantial

and unable to be supported

by any useful evidence.

 

As you realize the futility

of attempting to base

Reality on supposition,

all incarnations, past,

present and future dissolve

in One Instant.

 

Past, present, and future

instantly transpose into one

infinite, boundless, reverberation

of empty fullness.

 

(Causality is seen to be not only reversible,

but omnidimensional, as not only is the past

constructed by the future, but past and future

are encompassed by Now.)

 

-- Dan

 

>Suppose there is a ball in this room, and we each have a mallet in

>our hands and begin to strike the ball, giving it hundreds of blows,

>driving it from point to point, until at last it flies out of the

>room. With what force and in what direction will it go out ? These

>will be determined by the forces that have been acting upon it all

>through the room. All the different blows that have been given will

>have their effects. Each one of our actions, mental and physical, is

>such a blow. The human mind is a ball which is being hit. We are

>being hit about this room of the world all the time, and our passage

>out of it is determined by the force of all these blows. In each

>case, the speed and direction of the ball is determined by the hits

>it has received; so all our actions in this world will determine our

>future birth. Our present birth, therefore, is the result of our past.