You and Paulo Coelho - channeling through The Alchemist (one of my favs) speak truth. Yes the base is the cause and effect universe ( and there is more beyond cause and effect too). I have to not let the second precept go to my head, but yes...

Difficulties are only more difficult if we avoid, deflect o subvert them. Difficulty from the neutral witness one within - can transform difficulty into pure energy. Pure energy of the highest order is love that includes all anger, hatred, difficulties, grief, and sorrow, etc.. All negativity/positivity/difficulties transforms itself through being. Being is that which is unattached to anything good or bad or all that is in-between.

So yes from the alchemical of changing lead into gold is the act of unattached love or unconditional love.

It makes me laugh when the Being in me transcend ego and then when I return there is ego to claim all that Being has. It makes me laugh. Being can hold ego, but ego cannot hold Being. Know what I mean?