Quotes About Interconnectedness

Every mental state is also physical.

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.

Reconcile with yourself for the sake of the world , for the sake of all living beings . Your peace and serenity are crucial for all of us .

Con ng??i s? dÄ© l?n h?p trong kh? Ä'au là vì nh?n th?c sai l?m c?a mình: vô th??ng thì cho là th??ng, vô ngã thì cho là ngã, không sinh di?t thì cho là có sinh di?t, cùng chung má»™t tá»± tính mà l?i cho là riêng l? tách bi?t.

Even if two people have a baby together, they are still separate. Each of us remains in isolation. It's not by living together, or by having sexual relations, or even by having children together that we can dispel this feeling of isolation. We can only dispel our mutual isolation when we practice mindfulness and are able to truly come home to ourselves and each other.

With concentration on nonself—the reality that we do not have a separate self—we become aware that suffering is there not only in us but also in the other person.

The truth is, when we burn the paper, it will change into something else and will continue on in other forms—as ash, smoke, and heat, in our body and the universe. The heat is one of the next lives of the paper, as is the smoke rising to the sky. The ash will return to the earth and become part of the soil. So the sheet of paper, in its next life, might be a cloud and a rose at the same time.

Our way of eating and producing food can be very violent, to other species, to our own bodies, and to the Earth. Or our way of growing, distributing, and eating food can be part of creating a larger healing. We get to choose. The

There's no feeling of superiority, of inferiority, or even of equality.

Any meaningful work for peace must follow the principle of nonduality, the principle of penetration.

About thirty years ago I was looking for an English word to describe our deep interconnection with everything else. I liked the word "togetherness," but I finally came up with the word "interbeing." The verb "to be" can be misleading, because we cannot be by ourselves, alone.

Dear friends, I have seen deeply that nothing can be by itself alone, that everything has to inter-be with everything else. I have seen that all beings are endowed with the nature of awakening.

Learn to look at your body as a river in which every cell is a drop of water. In every moment, cells are born and cells die. Birth and death support each other.

The First Mindfulness Training is about protecting the lives of human beings, animals, vegetables, and minerals. To protect other beings is to protect ourselves. The second is to prevent the exploitation by humans of other living beings and of nature.

To practice is not to practice for ourselves alone. We practice for everyone. We should be proud to say, Violence, it may come from somewhere else, but not from me. Hatred, discrimination, it may come from somewhere else, but not from me .

No coming, no going no after, no before. I hold you close, I release you to be free I am in you And you are in me

When we look deeply into nonself, we see that the existence of every single thing is possible only because of the existence of everything else. We see that everything else is the cause and condition for its existence. We see that everything else is in it.

According to our narrow view of a truly existing self, life is just my body, my house, my spouse, my children, and my riches. But if we can extend beyond every limit we have created for ourselves, we will see that our life exists in everything, and that the deterioration of phenomena cannot touch that life, just as the arising and disappearing of the waves cannot influence the being of the water.

The second way of practice is to remove the discrimination that comes from dualistic thinking, that separates inside from outside; ourselves from others; the subject from the object; the spiritual from the material. With no more dualistic discrimination, we have an immense freedom that is nirv??a.

many dimensions, and the sparks go out in all directions. So do not think that you go in only one direction. You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society and the whole world.

French philosopher Henri Bergson called élan vital. Like all species, we have a will to live and a strong desire to cling to and protect our life and to defend ourselves from danger. But we have to be cautious not to let our instinct of self-preservation and auto-defense mislead us into thinking we have a separate self.