Saturday, September 6, 2014

False Boundaries


In the Diamond Sutra, we are taught that a human being is not independent of other species, so to protect humans, we have to protect the non-human species. If we pollute the water and air, the vegetables and minerals, we destroy ourselves. We have to learn to see ourselves in things that we thought were outside of ourselves in order to dissolve false boundaries.

---The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching - by Thich Nhat Hanh---

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