 You tend to look at your life through the lens of cause and effect. The perspective assumes acts motivated by generosity, love and kindness will create effects, or outcomes, reflecting that motivation, or more precisely, will create the space from which generous, kind and loving outcomes are likely to arise.
Conversely, you believe acts of malicious intent will create and foster outcomes of suffering, pain and difficulty. This is presented by many religions as an axiom--do good and good will be done to you, do bad and bad will happen. Of course, there are many exceptions to this rule. Bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. What is in error with this cause-creates-effect, or intention-creates-outcome thinking is the very knowing that your deeds, no matter how good they may seem, can be seen from another perspective, another viewpoint, as bad. From one religion to the next, from one person to the next, there is a lot of variation as to what is considered good and what is considered bad. There may be some similarities, some overlapping evaluations of particular deeds as being good in many religions, but certainly not all deeds and circumstances are viewed in the same way. It seems that in today’s world, this knowing is coming through: You stand in a place from which you view the world as good or bad, and what is seen to be good or bad actually only has relevance for you. No one else will ever see things exactly the way you do. A major part of the feeling of separation that results from the expectation that your own view is particular to you is that you are attached to the belief that you are the individual agent of all doing. In other words, there is an arrogant “I,” a self-centeredness, involved with believing that you are able to discern what is good, and what will create what. In the deeper knowing, it becomes clear that the real “you” doesn’t “do” anything, that the body/mind instrument that you believe is you is not the doer. Once you let go of being the doer, you let go of believing that certain actions will create certain outcomes. Yet that doesn’t mean that you give up all responsibility for your actions, the functional mind/body vessel that engages in life can accept it’s role as allowing thoughts, feelings, and actions to arise out of consciousness--One Life Awareness. It just has to let go of the belief that it is independent in doing so. One Life is All That Is, and there can be no determination of a doer and that which is done. There is just the doing. You may believe that you must understand something before you can accept it. Understanding that there is no reliable “cause and effect” relationship can be difficult for the ego to accept. The ego always wants to take credit for creating outcomes, especially desired outcomes. An intellectual understanding and acceptance is not complete. Instead, the notion of no cause and no effect must be accepted before it can be understood. Consciousness, One Life Awareness, is not attached to individual selves, in a sense, it flows through all seemingly individual body/mind instruments. One Life Awareness is not unique to a particular body, but is All That Is. You might think there are separate souls, or separate consciousnesses, but that is just an appearance. The human being you are is not independently creating reality. The human being you are is a pass-through station for consciousness. It doesn’t transmit anything, it doesn’t relay anything, it doesn’t create anything, it just is as it is. So the doer does not exist anywhere. What you think of as the body/mind/soul/personality is the by-product of the streaming consciousness which you try to claim as yours, and try to claim as the agent of doing. Let go of that idea, and let go of karma--cause and effect--actions and outcomes and realize what you are, which is already and exactly as you are. Just be in the being, in your natural state. Step out of the thought that you are a separate independent individual, for that is a misperception. Each action appears to be done by a doer who expects a relevant outcome. Look more deeply and see there is no real doer, nothing done, nothing to expect. Step into the All That Is, allow One Life Awareness to flow, and just be.
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