You are awareness, the phenomenon of knowing arising due to constituent cause and conditions, you become your actions and you continue after death in the effect of your intentional actions. This is naturally self-evident like pain, disease, old age or death.
You are effect of your own actions, whether tangible or intangible. For your own good, you should live in a right manner, act in a right manner and leave the right effect through your actions. However, due to self-ignorance, you may live in a wrong manner, you may perform wrong actions, and you may produce wrong effect through your actions.
Wrong Effect of Intentional Actions Due to Ignorance
Due to self-ignorance, you may believe yourself to be eternal immortal inner independent of cause and conditions. As inner self, you may believe in next birth or after life.
Eternal immortal reality of inner self or inner being independent of constituent cause and conditions is your hallucination and has no real existence except in your fantasy due to self-ignorance. The effects of your intentional actions are your continuity after life. You are born in the effect of your intentional actions.
Due to self-ignorance, you may live and act according to self-conception in the guise of self-ideation or self-identity which is not only artificial but may also be unreal.
Eternal immortal Inner-self independent of cause and conditions is self-ignorance and a misleading belief. Your life and actions based on self-ignorance will create a deceptive environment for yourself internally and externally.
Believing that you are eternally independent of cause and conditions will put in conflict with life and your environment. The effect of your conflicting life and actions will be your continuity.
Whereas, living with a detached disinterested awareness without inner-self, you will be cautious, sensitive and harmonious with the cause and conditions of life, knowing correctly in the right context.
You Continue in Your Effect
You are awareness, the phenomenon of knowing arising due to your indispensable constituent cause and conditions including processes of life. You become your action, and you attract the effect of your intentional action just like, as classically said, “calf attracted to its mother”. You create your environment through your actions and it’s effect.
For example, if you create a weapon for a wrong reason, it is more likely to end up in battlefield and get destroyed; however, if you plant a fruit tree for right reason, it is more likely to attract life. Right motives and right actions give rise to right effect and a right ecosystem.
You become your actions and you continue in the effect of your intentional actions in form of your children and your contribution to society, nature and universe.
The effects of your action will find its destiny just as water, air, earth, and heat find their destiny in the endless recycling of nature and universe. The way you live and act in the present will determine the future of the effects of your actions.
The way you live, act and effect, has to be right for you and for others. You have a choice to make regarding how to live, what actions to take and what effects to leave.
Impermanence Through Endless Recycling
But even the effect of actions is neither eternal nor permanent. Nothing is permanent. Everything dies or changes, disintegrates and gets endlessly recycled through the law of impermanence.
Just like a wave of water settles but its matter energy and process can continue as its effect into different new waves, so also you are continuation after death as the effect of different actions, and you will continue in the different effects of your actions. Nothing continues intact and nothing is permanent in the endless recycling of life, society, nature and universe.
Hence you should be detached to be happy in impermanence, act ethically and effect benevolently.
Individual actions and effect of those actions stay in the ecosystem of which they are a part. Hence society should encourage ethical life and actions.