Man is not an island; nothing is.
All is interrelated, all is interdependent
.Independence - the very word is false,
so is dependence. The reality is interdependence.
Everything is so deeply connected with everything else that nothing can exist apart.
If you can understand a small rose flower in its totality, root and all, you will have understood the whole cosmos, because the whole cosmos is involved in that small rose flower. In the smallest leaf of grass all is contained.
But remember, as Fa Tsang said to the Empress: All illustrations, all descriptions are static, and existence is a dynamic flux. It is a river. Each thing goes on moving into each other thing. It is impossible to draw lines where one thing ends and another begins; there are no demarcating lines -- there cannot be. So all distinctions are only for practical purposes, they have no existential value.
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