6.2 The Responsibility of Not‑Ignoring Cause‑Effect: Freedom at the Center of the Law

6.2 The Responsibility of Not‑Ignoring Cause‑Effect: Freedom at the Center of the Law

【Deep Reflection】
Many mistakenly believe that since everything is "empty," one can act recklessly. This is the greatest downfall---turning "emptiness" into another excuse for indulgence, which is still the reckless action of "mind at work."

【Embodied Practice】
The awakened one not only avoids ignoring cause‑effect but sees it with even greater clarity. Having recognized all things as Self‑Nature, to harm another is to harm oneself; to pollute the environment is to pollute one's own home. Your actions become exceptionally pure: you do good not to accumulate merit or reach heaven, but because "doing good" is the most natural function of Self‑Nature. You cease creating new karma, for you take one hundred percent responsibility for every thought---yet hold zero percent attachment to the outcome. This is precisely the responsibility and freedom of No‑Mind.

Closing of Chapter
Knowing cause and effect, you navigate the world with ease; with an unattached heart, you are not ensnared by it.

Freedom is not license to act outside the law; it is to recognize, at the very center of the law, that you are the "emptiness" that sets the law yet is bound by none.

You assume all responsibility, yet are burdened by none; you experience everything, yet retain not a trace. This is called: supreme responsibility, supreme freedom.

Such a state is reached only by one in No‑Mind.