I'm also a believer in karma, which is the principle of cause and effect. Cause and effect determine our reality.
At the same time, I believe in free will. Although our decisions are heavily influenced by past experiences and habits I believe it is possible to step out of conditioned acting at any time, accessing the direct wisdom of our true self.
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Interesting, seems like a hybrid of the two.
Yes, and actually there is a real conflict between the theories of relativity which is based on order and predictability and the chaos theory, based on chaos. But both of them seem to be valid! Chaos theory is valid for smallest subatomic particles and the theory of relativity addresses rather larger macroscopic bodies.
How they fit together exactly I have no idea. But in a philosophical way I think cause and effect is the realm of the conditioned self, the conditioned person and freedom from being bound by cause and effect - chaos in a positive sense - is the realm of the absence of the conditioned, false self, experiencing our true, unconditioned self.