Today's Daily Dharma from Tricycle:
Cause and Effect
If we open our eyes and look at the universe, we observe the sun and moon, and the stars on the sky; mountains, rivers, plants, animals, fishes, and birds on the earth. Cold and warmth come alternately; shine and rain change from time to time without ever reaching an end. Again, let us close our eyes and calmly reflect upon ourselves. From morning to evening, we are agitated by the feelings of pleasure and pain, love and hate; sometimes full of ambition and desire, sometimes called to the utmost excitement of reason and will. Thus the action of the mind is like an endless issue of a spring of water. As the phenomena of the external world are various and marvelous, so is the internal attitude of human mind. Shall we ask for the explanation of these marvelous phenomena? . . . Why is the mind subjected to constant agitation? For these Buddhism offers only one explanation, namely, the law of cause and effect.
~ Soyen Shaku, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Vol. II, #4
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