Cause & effect are inescapable
Do we know what causes one thing and not another?
It seems we are mostly uncertain and have many guesses about lots of things.
Yesterday while I was sitting, my dogs, Buck and Henry caught a squirrel. I heard the rush, the shuffle and the screams of a bystander squirrel. I saw Buck holding the squirrel in his mouth and screamed for him to drop it. He shook it. I got up as quickly as I could with a fractured bone and hobbled out to stop the attack. By the time I reached them the squirrel was crippled and bleeding and certain to die. We all are of this nature to die, it is the when and how that is uncertain. I was then able to get the dogs away from the squirrel long enough for it to die without more violence. It reached it paws many times in the air and struggled for breath. And then was still. This death was sudden and struck without warning.
By the time I realized what happened I also realized I couldn't put any weight on my foot. Later in the evening an x-ray showed a new fracture, longer and worse than the first. CAUSE AND EFFECT ARE INESCAPABLE. But what exactly is the cause? My hobbling out to stop Buck? Years of what? Genetics? I don't know.
The pose or posture of cause and effect is care. Just care. Care, no matter what. Care. It leaves everything else in the dust. Care, without a particular goal. Care, without anything added or subtracted. Evaluating the cause & effect is limited.
These four preliminaries are to help us be a true human being, unconditionally. We take the pose of the moment...life is fragile, death is sudden, cause and effect are inescapable...what is it looking like right now? My newly casted leg is up on the side of the desk as I write this on the computer. The phone rings and I turn to attend to it. The dog bumps my leg for a rub on his head. The door opens upstairs and I heare, "whaer are you?"
It seems we are mostly uncertain and have many guesses about lots of things.
Yesterday while I was sitting, my dogs, Buck and Henry caught a squirrel. I heard the rush, the shuffle and the screams of a bystander squirrel. I saw Buck holding the squirrel in his mouth and screamed for him to drop it. He shook it. I got up as quickly as I could with a fractured bone and hobbled out to stop the attack. By the time I reached them the squirrel was crippled and bleeding and certain to die. We all are of this nature to die, it is the when and how that is uncertain. I was then able to get the dogs away from the squirrel long enough for it to die without more violence. It reached it paws many times in the air and struggled for breath. And then was still. This death was sudden and struck without warning.
By the time I realized what happened I also realized I couldn't put any weight on my foot. Later in the evening an x-ray showed a new fracture, longer and worse than the first. CAUSE AND EFFECT ARE INESCAPABLE. But what exactly is the cause? My hobbling out to stop Buck? Years of what? Genetics? I don't know.
The pose or posture of cause and effect is care. Just care. Care, no matter what. Care. It leaves everything else in the dust. Care, without a particular goal. Care, without anything added or subtracted. Evaluating the cause & effect is limited.
These four preliminaries are to help us be a true human being, unconditionally. We take the pose of the moment...life is fragile, death is sudden, cause and effect are inescapable...what is it looking like right now? My newly casted leg is up on the side of the desk as I write this on the computer. The phone rings and I turn to attend to it. The dog bumps my leg for a rub on his head. The door opens upstairs and I heare, "whaer are you?"
posted by Dog Hair at 2:40 PM
4 Comments:
So hard to read that story. Too close to the time some fellow loosed his pitbull on our cat. I couldn't make the dog let her go. I sreamed at the guy (I think his brain was drug fried) to make his dog free her but he could do nothing either. He stood there helpless. Pitbulls are so strong. Our cat died. She didn't make a sound. The dog had to be empounded and was put to death because it had hurt a human, me. I felt so sad for our cat and the dog. Death so sudden and violent. Cause and effect: the dog, a lovely black and white dog, was used by a human to kill small animals (others besides ours) and had to die. The dog was innocent. The young man was the most injured one of all. I met him after I got out of the hospital. His mind wasn't all right. I think of him.
Ansgar
Cause and effect. It brings to mind of all the violence in our world. And then more violence bringing more violence which is its own form of cause and effect.
And I wonder what was the original seed or cause of the young man's (with the pitbull) actions? What is it if one went back and back and back?
Deb bie
Back and back and back and what do we find? Is there anyone to blame? Or are we all in the same boat? Cause and effect is a door way to compassion.
I am sorry to hear of the cat, the dog, the man and you.
Liz
What I didn't tell is that our little cat, Nattie, was very sociable and would sway down the street and across the alley and enter any house or apartment with an open door, claiming it as her own. More than once we had to go hunting for her, knocking on strangers doors. As she liked outside we got to putting her on a leash and keeping an eye on her has she lay almost hidden in the cool shade of a bush. This day I had put her out. This day the protection didn't work. I felt that I had been partly responsible for her death. Cause and effect again.
All day today I have been so aware of cause and effect in every little thing that I do.
Did you bury the little squirrel, Liz? I could see its little paws reaching out and feel it trying to breathe.
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