Rod to Piet, Heloisa and Maria

Piet, Heloisa, Maria

It's really interesting that Piet brought up "Causality" because it is so intimately related to Time. Our conventional idea of causality requires a sequential, i.e., time-based, pattern of events where one event (the Cause) must happen before the other event (the Effect) can occur. 

     Cause —> Effect

 So just as we can understand No-time as the immediate Now, we should also be able to understand No-cause. What is happening, is Now. What "caused" Now to happen is Past, but Past does not exist except as memory. Further, what Now "will cause" is Future, but Future does not exist except as anticipation.

No past
No future
No time
No cause
No effect
No unknown

All is complete
All is here
All is now

Today I briefly meditated on this interlocking set of time-linked ideas, and plan to do so again during my usual Wednesday evening Vipassana meditation. I hope to see how being in Now not only disbands Past & Future, but also disbands Cause & Effect. It should be interesting!

... from Rod