Interconnectedness

Humanity is one single body. What touches one part of this body touches all. Touch one strand the entire web vibrates. Humanity shares a single destiny. This sharing of destiny, this network of interdependence, is infinite in scope. My life and yours are completely autonomous. Yet we each exist only in total resonance with all other beings.

Due to the fundatmental interconnectedness that lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. Therefore, my happiness is to a large extent dependent on yours. From this, it becomes clear that 'my' interests and 'your' interests are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge. Because of this, if we wish for our own happiness, we have to consider others. It is a practical necessity that we do so.

A mutually dependent universe means that each indivudal helps to sustain the world and shape its course of events. We are continually interacting with others and the world. The manner in which we think, speak, and behave issues karmic energy which acts upon the world. At the same time, we are molded by events and nurtured by personalities we meet.

Mutuality and interdependence are the substance of our lives.