Quotes About Interconnectedness

Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.

In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears.

We all exist as part of a wonderful stream of life.

Just as a flower is made only of non-flower elements, Buddhism is made only of non-Buddhist elements, including Christian ones, and Christianity is made of non-Christian elements, including Buddhist ones.

I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud.

There are four kinds of food that every person consumes every day. In Buddhism, we call these kinds of food the Four Nutriments. They are edible food; sense impressions; volition; and consciousness, both individual and collective.

When you lose a loved one, you suffer. But if you know how to look deeply, you have a chance to realize that his or her nature is truly the nature of no birth, no death. There is manifestation and there is the cessation of manifestation in order to have another manifestation. You have to be very keen and very alert in order to recognize the new manifestations of just one person.

When we have hatred and anger in ourselves, they rebound to all quarters. When we have peace and joy in ourselves, our peace and joy will radiate throughout the whole cosmos.

We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of the comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self.

Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life.

When conditions are sufficient, we manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient, we no longer manifest. It does not mean that we do not exist. Like radio waves without a radio, we do not manifest.

A wave has a right to live her life as a wave, but she must also learn to live her life as water because she is not only a wave. She is also water. And water lives without the fear carried by the wave.

We cannot be by ourselves alone. We can only inter-be with everything else in the cosmos.

He saw that living beings suffer because they do not understand that they share one common ground with all beings.

The Buddha said, "There is no separate self." You and your son, you and your daughter are just a continuation of many generations of ancestors. You are part of a long stream of life. Whatever your children do continues to affect you deeply—just like when they were in your womb.

Nothing can exist by itself alone. It has to depend on every other thing. That is called inter-being. [...] There is no being; there is only inter-being.

The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.

The wheat field needs clouds and sunshine. So in this slice of bread there is sunshine, there is cloud, there is the labor of the farmer, the joy of having flour, and the skill of the baker and then—miraculously!—there is the bread. The whole cosmos has come together so that this piece of bread can be in your hand. You don't need to do a lot of hard work to get this insight. You only need to stop letting your mind carry you away with worrying, thinking, and planning.

Things cannot stay the same because they are influenced by everything else, everything that is not itself.

When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing.

Emptiness means to be full of everything but empty of a separate existence.

Và b?i vì hoàn c?nh bao gi? cÅ©ng mang tính cách cá»™ng ??ng, chúng ta bi?t r?ng chính con ng??i Ä'ã t?o nên hoàn c?nh c?a mình và ch? có con ng??i má»›i ?? s?c chuy?n t?o ???c hoàn c?nh

Lev dig in i tanken att du finns i universum och att universum finns i dig. Om universum finns, finns du. Om du finns, finns universum. Det finns ingen födelse. Det finns ingen död.

We need the vision of interbeing—we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of "this" is the well-being of "that," so we have to do things together. Every side is "our side"; there is no evil side.