
Interbeing

Inclusiveness means that we don’t see ourselves and the other person, or this condition, as separate, but that we are interconnected.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself


As the Buddha is said to have explained to a disciple:
“You are one of those gems, and every person, every animal, every tree and plant, every insect, every speck of dust that floats up into a sunbeam and down onto a road, is a gem of the net of Indra. Every emotion that you feel, and all the feelings that all beings have ever felt, even thousands
... See moreCompassion, in Tibetan terms, is a spontaneous feeling of connection with all living things. What you feel, I feel; what I feel, you feel. There’s no difference between us.