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TENDING TO THE CAUSES Let’s say that you’d like to have some fruit. You could go get a seed and plant it carefully. As the seed becomes a sapling and then a tree, you could water and fertilize it, protecting it from pests and pruning it carefully. As the years go by, you can take good care of your fruit tree. But you cannot make it give you an apple. We can tend to the causes. But we cannot control the results. Knowing this can bring a sense of peace, since so many of the factors that determine what happens are out of your hands. It also brings a sense of responsibility, since it is up to you to tend to the causes you can. We are interdependent, and still each of us must do our own practice—and tread our own path with care.