LOA Teachings Assume Cause/Effect

Yes. My experience is of divine perfection. Is it true that anything ‘bad’ can really happen?

Hello Gopal, Forgive me as I haven’t read through many pages yet. Are you trying to see through the illusion of me?

If so, are you able to see : That ‘But it's not easy to stop’
is just a believed in thought?

Very kind of you....



Yeah, it's a label we give to a particular, specific kind of experiential content. From the vantage point of clearly seeing the distinction between that which abides, unchanging, vs. that which is appearance only, those smaller distinctions/labels that mind applies, really don't matter....it's ALL ephemeral, ALL temporal, ALL empty and devoid of inherent existence in it's own right...it depends upon that which abides for it's temporal arising/appearance.

The only place is DOES matter, is in distinguishing those appearances that DO appear from those that actually don't appear and are instead, erroneously imagined. That's what the term "illusion/delusion/false" is speaking to. A separate me doesn't really appear....it's imagined. Separation does not really appear....it's always only imagined.



Yes, it's mind that slaps those personal judgment based labels upon a particular feeling state. The person 'likes' certain feelings more than others....it's built into the personal experience to likes/dislikes/resists certain conditions, which really is not a problem at all, until and unless there's a separate person imagined into the mix. It's that separate person idea that heaps an overlay of fundamental judgment upon an arising feeling of discord/resistance, to say it 'should not' be arising and that it needs to be controlled by the person.

That term "real" often presents a problem in these conversations, which I why I tend not to use it. An appearance IS really appearing, but it's absent inherent existence. Only abiding Awareness as ground "exists" in it's own right. So in that sense, I get why some say that appearing things, thoughts, feelings are not 'real,' but Awareness IS.

I think sometimes the "not real" label gets used to deny and sort of denigrade experience....as though not being real/not having inherent existence somehow means we should personally cease to care about it at all. It's true, awakening does lessen the depth of 'concern' that mind applies to unwanted/dis-liked conditions, but it does not completely dissolve ALL caring...all concern. Those who insist it does are as I see it, 'brown-bearing it.'

Yeah, I'd say imagining outcomes is pretty much built into the whole experiential unfolding of an arising intent, intuitive movement/action towards the fulfillment of that intent and the unfolding itself towards that fruition.

As you allude to, it's only when there's attachment to a particular result that it becomes problematic.

I think whenever there's a bit of stickiness that crops up re: a particular intention, it's always a good thing to drill down into what the highest interest is there. Often in that, there's a loosening up around some of extranneous stuff one thinks must become manifest in order for the intent to be fulfilled. That question; What do I 'really' want?...a good one in those cases. It's often the case that a bunch of erroneous 'shoulds' have entered in and once those are seen for what they are, it becomes clear the intent is actually already showing evidence of coming into fruition.