The Metaphysical Foundation of Buddhism and Modern Science

Chapter 1: Cause and effect. A high speed photograph by Harold E.
Edgerton.
Picture: http://canibuk.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/harold-edgerton/
Commentary: A projectile after penetrating an apple. The penetration of the
projectile is the cause of the direct effect: the beginning of an explosion of
the apple. This happens at the same moment. Cause and effect cannot be
separated. They are not one object and they are not two separated objects.
There is no space and no time between cause and object. The cause leads
immediately to a near effect. There is not first a cause and later an effect.
The most important characteristic of bodies is their interdependence and the
resultant, substancelessness, the impossibility of existing individually and
independently. A thing is not independent of its cause and conditions, nor is it
identical with them.