Interbeing

In the mailbox this Sunday morning, reflections on “Interbeing.”

Some mystics – The Buddha significantly – go so far as to say that individual suffering is a manifestation of only one suffering; it is all the same and all of us are besieged with it. This was The Buddha's first and fundamental truth from which all other truths that matter arise. The term “suffering” is an English translation of now thousands of interpretations expressed in many languages from this quite broad understanding of the human condition: Our universal dissatisfaction, longing, grasping, fear-based neediness, and angst out of which the consequential blindness to our conditions arise.

All opposites are connected to their “other.” There can be no space nor time between them. All “things” appear separated by space or time or both, only due to the illusions created by the dualism insistent-ed by the language-trained cognitive structures of our brain.

The polluted earth, extinct and endangered species, tortured animals, nonstop wars, and constant religious conflicts have been the result of this insistence that separate appearance is “real.” Brains only appear to be separate. Created and operated by energy, they are all connected, as are we each and all.

Between Creation and Me there is no 'Between'. – Meister Eckhart