I am the 12 year old girl, refugee on a small boat
who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate
and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.Thich Nhat Hanh from http://desertrosepress.com/Detailed/35.html
The truth of our interconnectedness or interbeing, as the Buddhist monk, scholar, poet and peace activist, Thich Naht Hanh, refers to it, is fundamental to the truth of who we are. There is no separate and discrete entity that is ‘you’ or ‘Lucy’ that exists independently of all else. How can there be? Even the air we breathe is without boundary.
Which molecules of air could we say are just ‘yours’ or just ‘mine’? No, that sense of a separate ‘you’ or ‘I’ is but an illusion and a very persistent one. It is an illusion that babies and very young children are free from before they are conditioned into the consciousness of separation!
This does not mean that there isn’t a condensation of energy or a configuration of consciousness that is uniquely ‘you’. There is and this is what we see. However, to see only this and no more or no further or no deeper leaves us with a false belief in separation and a gnawing sense of isolation. For in truth, consciousness is the substratum of all of life, animate and inanimate, permeating and taking all forms of being. It is rather like the ocean which gives rise to waves of all sizes, shapes and forms. But it is the one ocean and all the waves are inherently of the one nature.
To overlook or ignore this truth is to live in denial of who we are! And many of us do! Which is why we struggle in an unenlightened (ignorant) consciousness of self-preservation, competition and exclusivity. These ways of being directly attack and dishonor the truth of who we are, our very nature!
However, when we allow ourselves to experience our interconnectedness or interbeing, the illusion of separation slowly begins to dissolve. When we pray or offer intent from a place of interconnectedness, our prayer or intention is powerful for it arises from and draws on not just one ‘cut off’ or ‘isolated’ ‘piece of consciousness’ but from the entire and infinite field of consciousness which is the field of infinite possibilities! Would you really want anything less???
Much love, Lucy
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