Law of Cause & Effect in Motion

Buddhitakso

Generally speaking, there are two categories of motion – constant and variable motion. When we mention that the rising force of something would generate a new equal opposing force (law of balancing), we are actually referring to action or cause and reaction or effect process under constant motion phenomenon.

But under variable motion phenomenon, the law of balancing would orientate in a unique harmonising mechanism. Let us look at the following illustrations: -

Constant Motion

Under constant motion circumstance, come factor equals to become factor: -

Come factor = Become factor

Variable Motion

Acceleration

When come factor accelerates, the relative become factor would decelerate: -

Come factor ↑, Become factor ↓

(End results: Mental & physical progresses slow down à time dilation circumstance in Einstein’s special theory of relativity).

Deceleration

When come factor decelerates, the relative become factor would accelerate: -

Come factor ↓, Become factor ↑

(End results: Mental & physical progresses speed up à ambience of meditation. For now, we know that meditation is the way to speed up the path to Enlightenment and that is why monks or nuns need to become celibate and disengage themselves from the common society before re-engage again for spreading Dhamma.)

More examples: -

• When a car stops suddenly in a quick action; the reaction process becomes slow down in relative to the action and this is a basis for greater inertia effects – serious injuries on the passenger.

• When a car stops steadily in a slow action; the reaction process becomes faster in relative to the action and this is a basis for lesser inertia effects – mild injuries on the passenger.

• When one launches a bullet towards a target – too fast an action would take the target longer time to react relatively.
  If compared with launching a throw of baseball – slower an action would give relatively longer time for the target to react.

• When one runs water on a piece of paper in low velocity; the atoms or molecules within the paper have sufficient time to react relatively quicker to hold tight as a scale unit and vice versa.

In reality, we always exist in motion that varies under the influence of conditional phenomena and this scenario coincides with the Buddha’s saying that the working result of Karma was one of the four unconjecturables and to speculate about it would bring madness and vexation to anyone who conjectured about it.

genot

a very good topic