Chapter Twenty: Analysis of the Assembly
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If effects are produced by an assembly Of causes and conditions And are present in those assemblies, How could they be produced by those assemblies? [20.1] If effects are produced by the very assembly Of causes and conditions, And are not present in those assemblies, How could they be produced by those assemblies. [20.2] If effects are present in the assemblies Of their causes and conditions, They should be perceptible in those assemblies, And yet they are not perceptible in those assemblies [20.3] If the effects are not present in the assemblies Of their causes and conditions, Then the causes and conditions Equal what are not causes and conditions [20.4] If the cause ceases to be, Having been supplied to its effect, It follows that the cause has two identities, One supplied and another that ceases. [20.5] If a cause ceases to be, Without having been supplied to its effect, The effect that arise when it has ceased Do not have any cause. [20.6] If effects arise together With their assemblies, The producer and produced Will then be simultaneous. [20.7] If the effects arise Before their assemblies, The absence of causes and conditions Implies that effects are uncaused. [20.8] If a cause ceases, Yet is transferred to its effect, It follows that a cause already arisen Would arise once more. [20.9] How could that which has ceased and disappeared Be the producer of an arisen effect? An enduring cause that is connected to its effect, How could that produce it? [20.10] If cause and effect are not connected, What effect would then be produced? Whether seen or unseen by the cause, No effect is produced. [20.11] A past effect is never in contact With a cause that has passed, Nor with one that has not arisen, Or one that has already arisen. [20.12] An effect that has arisen Is never in contact With a cause that has not arisen, That has passed, or that has arisen. [20.13] An effect that has not arisen Is never in contact With a cause that has arisen Has not arisen, or that has passed. [20.14] If there is no contact, How could a cause produce its effect? Even if there is contact, How could a cause produce its effect? [20.15] If empty of an effect, How can a cause produce its effect? If not empty of an effect, How can a cause produce its effect? [20.16] An effect that is not empty does not arise. An effect that is not empty does not cease. It follows that what is not empty Has not ceased and has not arisen. [20.17] How can the empty arise? How can the empty cease? It follows that the empty Has not ceased and not arisen. [20.18] Cause and effect being identical Will never make sense. Cause and effect being different Will never make sense. [20.19] If cause and effect were identical, Produced and producer would be the same. If cause and effect were different, Cause and noncause would be equal. [20.20] If an effect is existent by nature, Then what could its cause produce? If an effect is nonexistent by nature, Then what could its cause produce? [20.21] If it does not produce any effect, The cause does not make sense. If the cause does not make sense, Of what, then, is the effect? [20.22] If the assembly of causes and conditions Does not itself Produce its own identity, How could it produce an effect? [20.23] Therefore, nothing is produced by an assembly, And yet there is no effect made by anything else. When no effect exists, How can there be an assembly of conditions? [20.24] <- Prev Next -> |
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