We are after a STATE (of being), and not situations or possessions or dependent, obedient, and supporting people. All events provide a means of action, and through right ways of ACTING we achieve desired states. Why is our treasure in DOING? A state is REALIZED THROUGH doing.
A state IS, and the doing DOES. The doing does not PRODUCE the state. State is a 'standing', a 'situation', a 'condition'. Action is a movement, a process, a doing. We say that a deed causes something to be. Since EVERYTHING in creation is a continued happening, and no thing is anything else but another kind of continued happening and doing, what thing is really produced by action? Another kind of action. Action leads to action. Then there is no rest, no spell, in this dreary round of action? There are different kinds of actions, some toilsome and some restful. Do restful actions produce a state of rest, and toilsome ones a state of toil? Condition ('a putting together') of rest or toil? Certain doings ADD UP to rest or toil?
A condition -- a putting together -- position, agreement, quality, is not a result but a power of producing 'results' (Latin, 'to leap back'). A state is what causes the action, the doing, and it is, upon analysis, always itself a combination of factors and elements. This is so because we CANNOT THINK, and therefore cannot make analysis, without manipulating appearances. But a state or 'standing', a status, is NOT any of these appearances. It is a contained within, between, among, these appearances. (The kingdom of God is within, or it can also be translated as, AMONG you.) Our treasure is in doing because action leads us deep into, or back to experience that which causes us to act. If that state or standing or combination and configuration that we ourselves are is impure, our action will show this impurity. But have we not been saying that pure and good deeds lead to purity and goodness? They do, but not as we imagined. They lead to the experience of our mind in action as pure or impure, and therefore to the making of liberating changes. We first become aware of our grosser actions and speech.
We cannot begin by producing just a state of love, much as we want to. We begin by seeing our unloving acts, try practicing loving acts (the opposite), and this reveals to us our state and condition of unlove. Once we see this condition we can change it. Since state produces the action -- action reveals the state. The ultimate state is the Absolute and the experience of it is nirvana, and the sum of actions is the relative state, and the experience of it is samsara. By means of samsara, we arrive at nirvana. They are not diferent things -- the absolute produces the effect and appearance of the relative; the relative cannot produce -- but must lead to -- the absolute. Of course actually nothing at all is produced. It is. The factor which causes the duality in us is unawareness.
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