21 November 2009

Interbeing -

The dead cow lying in India is rotting.
It "exhales" carbon dioxide,
which drifts to your country,
where it is absorbed by the trees,
which "exhales" oxygen,
which is mixed with the air,
which is drawn in by the air-conditioner into your home,
which is breathed in by you.

Where does the cow or you begin or end?
Are you not the cow too?
In this way and so much more,
we are inter-connected to everything.

We exist interdependently;
we are dependently-originated.
We do not exist independently.

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