The Non-Duality of Causal Determinism

The free-willies claim that your thoughts create reality, so you better be damn careful what ya think. 

This raises the question, did the dinosaurs "think" themselves into extinction? (if only they had read “The Secret” or Deepak Chopra). In fact, I often notice my dog intently staring at me and I wonder “okay, what reality are you thinking me into biotch?” Since, obviously, her reality for me is much different than my reality for me (come to think of it, I often find myself giving her Milk Bone’s without wanting to).

Does nature ‘think’ its reality into being? If not, then why do egocentric’s ‘think’ they have something over nature? Are they not a part of the natural order? Are they separate from the universe that caused them into existence? 

The problem with “thought” created reality is that, deep down in your cranial cavity within a million miles of neuro-circuitry, you have many downright nasty subconscious thoughts that you’re not even aware of and, if thought created reality were even a remote possibility, there’d probably be alota dead bodies around you. But I'm just saying…

Egocentrics are essentially narcissistic by nature and they want everything to be as they say it should be. Hence, they’re all running around yapping and nipping at the heels of reality like a pack of neurotic Pomeranian's, gnashing their teeth and demanding everything be other than what it is. Nevertheless, the universe has ordained it thus and thusly it must be, simply because the causal universe couldn't give a spit what you think "your" reality should be. 

But, does egocentric mammalia ever thank the universe for its egocentricity and all the happy horse sheit that existence makes real? Nope. Not even a nod. Instead, egocentrics construct symbolic fantasies to make reality something it is not and never has been. Nevertheless, it seems reality doesn’t much care as it just continues being reality regardless of the symbolic fictions egocentrica mammalians superimpose upon reality to deny the brute fact of what is.

From the moment of the Big Bang, (long before you were born, by the way) a causally determined reality has unraveled (referred to as “time”) and every moment has been entirely influenced by the moment before, right up to and continuing on after, the moment egocentrica mammalia insisted he had a ‘self’ and required the “thoughts” of that ‘self’ to be owned by exclusively by him, thereby, resulting in his both loving and loathing the chaotic sheit that pops up in his skull. 

Although we’re talking about millions of years, this love/hate relationship was also predetermined as a result of the Big Bang, since the one major pattern easily perceived as a product of the emergent, unfolding world, is "duality." Hence, a ‘self’ inhabited egocentric brain must both love and hate itself, intermittently, moment to moment and the harder you attempt to drown yourself in positive thoughts, the more intense will be the onslaught of negativity.

Not to mention that every time you ‘think’ you make a conscious decision, millions of “subconscious” neuro-circuits are influencing what decision you make entirely outside of your ability to even know what subconscious thoughts are influencing the decision you seem to be making in the moment. 

Is it any wonder why you often think of your 'self' as a stupid moron? But no worries, it’s not your fault. You had no free-will in sculpting your egocentric subconscious hell hole and there’s circuits firing off in there that you wouldn’t even want to bring home to mama. 

Experiences impacted your body and were stored in the brain as neuro-circuits. Hence, this very fact negates an autonomous “self” from the gitgo, since there are circuits in your grey matter that will result in specific interactions with your world that you can do nothing to alter simply because these circuits are outside the purview of conscious awareness. You don’t “know” they’re there, but they’re crashing against the rocks of every conscious experience you encounter, making it other than what it is. But that is part of what is too, since nothing escapes the causal determinism of the universe that made you.

Nevertheless, egocentrics can’t help but think they make volitional choices not influenced by anything but their own autonomous free-will. Such is the delusional nature of the fiction you call “I-me.” But this fiction is your natural endowment and if the causal order didn’t want you to have it, then you’d be sheiting in the woods along with the rest of the natural world.

Obviously, this means there are no random events or coincidences. Everything “happens” as it must, based on prior influences that had to occur, and is certain to happen as only it can, based on preceding antecedents. 

Every experience arises in association with a preceding experience and “you” have never had a choice in this, but you are completely unaware of the patterns that have impacted upon your grey matter. However, there are a rare few in history that have attained the capacity to understand this and, obviously, this was not in their power to achieve, simply because nothing need be done except what you’re doing right now in this moment.

Experiencing the non-duality of causative determinism is not a choice and so, it requires no effort at all. It just comes upon you one day and you think, “Huh? No! really….Dafuq!” (maybe not those exact words).

Problems will seem to arise, however, because all packed up in your neuro-circuitry are electrochemical belief currents firing off impulses you call “thoughts” and many of those “thoughts” seem to require you do grandiose things to emphasize your specialness and separateness from the unfolding natural order. This is a product of socio-cultural programming that you had no choice in learning, but that allowed you miles of neuro-circuits necessary to reinforce that your choices and decisions are not causally predetermined and that you actually make autonomous choices completely free from the influence of the universe. 

Yet, egocentrics actually are programmed to believe that the Big Bang unfolded a billion different manifest processes, except egocentricity. You believe the ludicrous idea that you make your “self,” completely free of universal causality and “you” actually believe you sculpt your egocentricity to your own specifications.

Without the Big Bang to kick start millions of years of causally determined progress, you would not exist. But egocentrics have extracted or emancipated themselves from this predetermined flow and, hence, they cannot reap the rewards of flowing with it, but must flow against it. It doesn’t matter what they ‘choose’ to do in this regard, because they will do what the universe has determined no matter how intense that suffering may be as they grit and grind over how reality, or the “world” they experience, “should” be something other than what it is being in the moment. Hence, we worship the historical visionaries of the world, whose great ideas haven’t even made the slightest dent in what the universe ordains for egocentrics.

When this understanding comes upon you, you’ll begin to see that one can never claim to  have wasted time or wasted their “life,” since in a causally determined universe, time is always utilized exactly as it must. Did you do absolutely nothing constructively productive today? Not to worry, because if "you" were not supposed to be a lazy bum today, you would never have been one. 

The non-duality of causal determinism can be a refreshing transcendence from guilt and anxiety for those who one day realize it. It smashes to smithereens all your conditioned ideas of what your “life” should be like. It allows the past to recede farther and farther from view, because it is only guilt that keeps the past alive. What anxiety could be experienced when one fully understands the causal certainty of a future that egocentricity cannot alter and any successful attempts at altering reality was preordained anyway. 

You just think “you” made the right choice when, in fact, no other choice could have been made but the one you made, contrary to all your gritting and grinding over what choice is best. It’s an absolute guarantee that you will make it, no matter what the consequences. 

Of course, while reading this, based on your programmed neuro-circuitry, you’re most likely squirming like a worm on hook. But no worries, the non-duality of causal determinism is not yours to “achieve.” You can no more make the experience happen, then you can make egocentricity disappear (which many have been trying to do for centuries, but to no avail as egocentricity seems to burrow deeper into the neurons causing nastier messes each year).

When you understand that you are cause of nothing, there comes an incredible lightness of being and you can stop all that incessant steering, letting the boat go where it will, which is obviously right where the universe wants it. 

Unfortunately, the universe is not a democracy. It follows the Law of Certainty and everything that has happened to you in your life, had to happen exactly as it did. There can be no mistakes in a causally determined universe of certainty. Yet, for those with the adequate brain circuitry, the patterns can easily be seen, because the circuits fail to filter perception, allowing you to see the big picture up close and personal.

Yes, Virginia, there is an ego, but there has never been a “you” to make it go.

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