Nishijima Roshi was fond of saying, "God is the universe. The universe is God." While I grew up thinking that people and dogs and iguanas and bugs were alive while most of the rest of the universe was nonliving, he saw the universe as a living thing. That idea has been present in Buddhism from the beginning. Life is a common element to everything in the universe. Complex systems like human beings experience life in a particular way. But to say that things that experience life in different ways from us are therefore nonliving may be a mistake.
---Brad Warner---
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