A
Buddhist Dialogue with Science
By Timothy
Harada
The
6th through the 9th factors of life, internal cause, relation (or external
cause), latent effect and manifest effect, explain the workings of cause
and effect on both the physical and the conscious/spiritual
planes. Just as in science, “to every action there is an equal
and opposite reaction,” which is part of Newton’s laws
of motion, Buddhism states that the same is also true for the actions of
thoughts, words and
deeds. These 3 types of actions (the Indian word Karma means action) that
a human performs, cause an equal
and opposite reaction back to that human.
The 8th factor of life, gives us the idea of “instant
karma (as John Lennon sang about).” Even though someone’s
actions do not have what may appear to be an instant effect, the potential for
that effect is already stored in the person’s 8th level of consciousness,
waiting for the right causes and conditions in which to manifest. So once
you do, say or think anything, you have created a latent effect that will
manifest as soon as all the causes and conditions are right for it to manifest.
However, that latent effect is still instantly manifesting in your life as
energy. We know that energy in our life has either a positive or negative
effect on our state of mind, and psychosomatically, on our health. NEXT>>>
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