It is not understandable to you that there is no cause. There are reasons why and even proof given for everything, and yet I maintain that there is no cause. There is no cause.
A bullet is shot from a gun, and someone dies. It seems obvious, even inevitable to you, that the shooting of the bullet determined the death.
It is said that a germ caused a cold. There is all kinds of evidence of this. And yet I maintain that there is no cause. This is an important point. Remembering that there is no cause will prevent you from seeking a cause. It will prevent you from demanding justice. It may help you to move on in life as it is, and without anger. Anger is rampant, yet there is no cause. There are provoking incidents, yet they are not the cause. There is no cause. We could say that the cause of anger is your reacting in anger. And, then, you dub your anger righteous.
Causes are given for war. All kinds of causes are given. Justification must be found, yet there is no cause sufficient to warrant war. War is war, justified in many ways, and yet, in the relative world, there seems to be every justification.
Look not for justice, for justice isn't a word in the vocabulary of Heaven. The cry for justice is a cry. One thing seems just to you, and unjust to another. One thing seems unjust to you, and righteous to another.
Sooner or later, you will stop looking for explanations. There is no explaining, beloveds. If you were to find cause, beneath that lies another cause and another. Causes seem to be endless, and yet I maintain there is no cause.
Without seeking explanations, you will, beloveds, refrain from judgment. Remembering there is no cause will get you out of the frame of mind of judgment. I am asking you to look beyond the relative world and all that is there to see. The relative is all image and comparison. There is darkness and light. There is good and not good. In the relative world, there is always trouble impending, as the world sees it, with a little good thrown in. Because the whole world agrees with you doesn't make it true.
The relative world has labels. Fresh and stale. A man hungry for a piece of bread doesn't think about the staleness of the bread whereas another man throws out a whole loaf of yesterday's bread. A man in love sees the beauty of his beloved whereas a man not in love does not see the beauty. Everything, everything in the relative world is a matter of choice. What you look at is your choice. What you pick out of what you see is your choice. You do have the freedom to see as you choose. You also have the freedom to see differently.
The relative world is a temporary phenomenon, and yet it is viewed as if it were permanent. The world changes. Everything in the relative world changes. What is in favor today may not be tomorrow. Change is the name of the game in the relative world. You can even change your mind.
The relative world is a layer. Consider it, for our purposes of discussion here, like the frosting on cake. This frosting is not always delicious though, certainly, it may be. Under the frosting lies a cake. The cake I speak of never gets stale. It is always delicious. It always comes out right. The cake is baked to perfection.
Relative life is the frosting. It is only the frosting. There is the tendency to think that the frosting of relative life is paramount.
There is a big piece of cake that runs through all of life.
We can say that the unseen layer of life is the cause for the layer seen. Certainly the relative life arises from there. Relative life comes from this unseen layer. And yet for everything in the relative life, I maintain there is no cause. All are innocent. All are as innocent as you. There is no cause.