CAUSE AND EFFECT

In lak’esh/Hala ken
I am you/You are me

We blindly live fearing the scarcity of what we consider good and longing for what gives us peace. We believe that both the feared and the yearned for appear and disappear in a random, unpredictable way, stemming from mysterious and uncontrollable turns of luck. The truth is that we are not prisoners of luck or of any god’s whims of punishment or rewards. Luck does not exist. Empowerment comes from the understanding and conscious practice of the network of interconnections in which we exist, and the relationship between cause and effect.

When an individual ignores the Law of Responsibility -also known as the Law of Retribution, Law of Cause and Effect, or Law of Karma- he feels powerless to choose the path of his life. The person feels victim of dark forces, powers out of his control that produce the feared or longed effect without the possibility of foreseeing the present and much less the future.

By ignoring the retributive concatenation of our acts, one lives in insecurity and fear feeling victim of dark unknown forces. From this dynamic of ignorance, life is perceived as a random act and therefore as an unpredictable sequence of rewards and punishments that generate insecurity and fear.

Freeing ourselves from this ignorance consists in understanding that we reap what we have sown, even if we do not remember the circumstances of the sowing, or ignore the type of seed we had planted. The strategy to achieve this liberation does not consist in performing rituals or other techniques arising from insecurity. The strategy is total adherence to goodness, is ‘to treat others as you would like them to treat you’. This is the golden rule of ethics in which all religions are based. The book of Galatians (6,7) says illustrating the Law of Cause and Effect: “for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” With the application of this simple principle of knowledge, we can select to plan seeds of peace instead of seeds of suffering. However, previously sown seeds of suffering will bear its fruit while the field gets ready for the new harvest.

The good I do to my neighbor (not only humans, but any creature) I am doing it to myself because my “I” is not an exclusive, separate or single entity but a oneness, a network of interconnected I’s and you’ s.

If I harm others, I will be hurting myself. If I live exercising compassion, I will live immersed in the compassion of all visible and invisible beings, part of the unimaginably vast and admirable creation of which I am an active part.

It is enough for the sower to know that the seed sown will germinate in the darkness of the earth and his sprouts will come into view at some unexpected moment.

Giving and receiving are two sides of the same coin: what is given is being received, and what is received is being given. By ignoring this reciprocal relationship between giving and receiving, one lives in the greatest turbulence without understanding that what is received is similar in nature to what is being given. Seeds of greed and anger are sown in the hope to reap benevolence and justice. This dissociated or fragmented consciousness produces suffering.

Everything that exists is linked to everything else; every thought, intention, feeling, word or action resonates in similarity the same way the echo is similar to the sound that produces it. That is why it is necessary to live cautiously, in the awakened consciousness that our actions resound not only in our close environment but in everything that exists. The great wars, the holocausts, the violence we see every day in our societies are the product of the anger energies dwelling in our hearts. Each human heart provides the world with war or peace energy. Let’s be aware of the consequences we generate by the way we conduct our lives and its repercussions, not only for ourselves but for humanity and creation as a whole. We are one hundred percent responsible for what happens in our daily lives as for what happens in the infinite and eternal Life.

Affinities are networks of relationships in which we move; they are creations produced by the way of living we choose. For example, a cunning person is linked to the deceitful affinity network as an honest person, who does not seek personal recognition, creates an affinity with graciousness and integrity. These affinity networks are visible and invisible; each vibration we produce is mutually entangled and reinforce each other. By ignoring this interconnectedness, in fragmented minds, human beings cause fear and terror on the planet. Fear and terror harvested not only by those who planted it, but that spreads throughout the entire creation. Genesis 9: 2 says: ‘…the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.’ When an individual fully understands the interconnection -the Interbeing- renounces to cause damage. Progressively, his clouded mind discerns what he previously was not able to see, and grasps that what was considered good might have been bad and vice versa. This new understanding allows the person to make corrections, because bitter and fresh water cannot come out at the same time and from the same source.

Correction or return to interconnected consciousness is the method offered by the perennial wisdom to achieve a benign form of existence. Correction sets in motion the return to the other shore, the shore from which we once departed to the sea of confusion.

Perennial wisdom teach us that in the face of important events in our lives, whether we consider them favorable or unfavorable, we must ask ourselves: ‘What should I learn from this event? The necessary life changing transformations will progressively emerge from this inner will to exercise peace and love in our daily lives. As the result, new networks are activated in the subtle planes of life (biochemical, bioenergetic, psychological, spiritual) until the understanding that leads to wisdom is consolidated. Wisdom is nothing but the practical application of the principle of Unity.

To transform, we must not blame ourselves, instead we must take advantage of our mistakes. Guilt is produced by a past action, understood in the present as a mistake, but not considered as such in the past. Guilt produces stagnation and prevents transformation. We need to wake up to the consciousness of interconnectedness to get out of this dream and the numbness that it produces. We can generate admirable effects of peace and good in our lives, in our immediate environment, and in all of creation. Let’s transform our hearts so that we can congruently create a new way of life where there will be no more victims of the violence that we carry generation after generation in an endless intergenerational chain. Let’s use the greatest transforming power within us, the immeasurable power of love. This power mobilizes all the related forces of love and compassion to activate the great transformation that we all desire and deserve. It is up to each one of us to plant causes of love and compassion, to heal our souls and the soul of the Earth.

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Aída Reboredo Arroyo

Es autora de libros y artículos; cofundadora del primer centro de estudios de la mujer en México. Es Psicóloga Clínica con estudios de maestría y doctorado realizados en Francia y Brasil. Fue profesora universitaria en diversas instituciones académicas de la Ciudad de México y de Veracruz, así como cofundadora de las Agencias Especializadas en Delitos Sexuales.