Two nights ago I watched a very creative anthroposophist and a very creatively devout atheist argue about three-folding. Before going to sleep I was reading a comparative analysis of various forms of Gnosticism. That's when this "causality/morality" game was born. It's meant in seriously playful truth.
#1. Did something go wrong at some point in the distant past? (Some people might be imagining Eve eating the apple as an image of the earliest point of something going wrong; but even if you don't have an exact notion of what exactly went wrong, at this point the question is simply if you think something did indeed go wrong)
If no, think of an action that you consider to be the result of a moral weakness and use this as an analog for "what went wrong". Or, go on with your December Day.
if yes, continue
#2. Was there a reason for this event?
if no, enjoy the land of non-causality!
if yes, continue
#3. Was this reason of a moral character? (that is, do we consider this event to have had an element of 'choice' or do we consider it to simply be the product of spiritual/physical mechanics)
if no, exit (you might notice that in answering yes to #1 you are using the word "wrong" in a formal manner, which is fine; it's how I almost exclusively use it) and keep up the good work
if yes, continue
#4. Could the entity responsible for this event have chosen differently?
if no, you might want to revise your response to #2 and/or #3. Unless you can locate a possibility of "choice", you may exit into your day.
if yes, (make sure you mean it; don't answer 'yes' here if your thought system really needs the event to be amoral or needs the morality to be located outside the entity we are calling responsible)continue
#5. Is your answer to number 4 based on an actual observation? (or is it based on anything else?)
if no, join the metaphysical club? Billions upon billions are doing it!!!! You will certainly be able to find people who will share your belief (especially now that we have the world wide web)
if yes, continue
#6. Is your observation sharable? (or at the end of the day do people just have to say they see it as well)
if no, enjoy your cult of the faithful (you have seen something from which other will, at most, recieve the fruits of faith; as long as they listen to you.)
if yes, continue
#7. Can you share your observation with people who do not share your world-view? (or does it require a rather sophisticated set of agreements?)
if no, enjoy your slightly less restrictive cult of the faithful. If you find that the majority of people who "share" you observation also share your particular world-view, it might be that there is an unconscious form of conflation taking place. By the way, i don't see this type of cult as necessarily a problem.
if yes, continue (answering yes means that you can observe this event with folks who might be inclined to interpret it very differently, depending on their world-views...but you can each point to and agree upon the qualitative nature of the description; it would be like two people agreeing on their drawings of the moon while disagreeing on what the moon is)
#8. observe this event.
if you can't observe it, go back and see if you really mean "yes" to number 5; it might be that rather than an observation, you are being guided by a set of mental pictures in which a particular ideology is hiding away and merely calling itself "empirical".
if you are observing the event, continue.
#9. Observe the event until you "see" how a specific cognitive projection is functioning in its genesis.
if the projection does not reveal itself, go on with your day happily and do your best to be helpful and harmless
if you locate the projection, continue
#10. Observe the activity of projection until you notice its cause/source.
if you can't notice its source, go on with your day but also enjoy having made a discovery that almost no ideology or spiritual path can afford to accept as valid.
if you notice its source, continue
#11. Observe this source until the light of cognition locates its point of falsity.
if this does not take place, try resting your attention on this source-idea and notice if there is an aspect of it that is livingly unformed.
if this does take place, continue
#12. As Christ in You, go back to #1 and try to suppress the joy! Or just enjoy your day.