#causesandconditions

[aracaria]

Causes & Conditions Oil on canvas. 60x60cm #causesandconditions #psychologicalart #abstractart #contemporarypainting #contemporarypainting #buddhistart #insights #religiousartwork (at Mullumbimby) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQfj4ziHS0l/?utm_medium=tumblr

[acaringcounselor]

When I first started studying the teachings of the Buddha and read this, It didn’t make sense. After all we all have choice, right? I knew that our reactions are based on our experiences but what the Buddha taught goes much deeper than that. It has to do with what is outside our awareness, with how we’ve been conditioned and all the different causes and conditions that came together for that anger to arise. So it’s complex and not something we can understand on a conceptual level and this is why meditation is essential, it shifts us out of concept and into connection with the direct experience of what’s happening as it’s happening. We get to see how anger arises, what it feels like in the body, the breath, the heart and mind, and the best part is that we get to investigate it on the cushion where we can’t harm anyone. It truly is a healing and transformative approach to life. #compassion #understanding #vedana #volition #causesandconditions #intentions #meditation #awakening #wbmindfulness https://www.instagram.com/p/BsRg_YBnIpL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xlync47stt6j

[causesandconditions]

A R G U M E N T

Many individuals would assume that a cause is simply the necessary and sufficient conditions that precede any and all occurrences. Such rationale is said to be false and requires modification in order to provide a satisfactory answer as to what exactly is a cause. Instead, the false misconception of cause is more fitting for a ‘condition’.

A condition on its own cannot be both necessary and sufficient. In order to be necessary, a condition must be the only condition able to produce a certain result. In order to be sufficient, a condition must be able to produce a certain result on its own. Instead, the relationship between certain positive and negative conditions consolidate to form a complex condition. The complex condition is sufficient for a certain event to occur but not necessary. While each individual condition within the complex condition is necessary for the formation of the complex condition but not sufficient.Conditions that harbour these characteristics are classified by Mackie's as INUS conditions for being insufficient and necessary but unnecessary and sufficient. Thus, the ‘cause’ that people often make reference to are actual conditions.