If you are a
poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of
paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot
grow: and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the
paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here
either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.
"Interbeing"
is a word that is not in the dictionary yet, but if we combine the prefix
"inter" with the verb "to be", we have a new verb,
inter-be. Without a cloud, we cannot have paper, so we can say that the cloud
and the sheet of paper inter-are.
If we look into
this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the
sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow. In fact nothing can grow. Even
we cannot grow without sunshine. And so, we know that the sunshine is also in
this sheet of paper. The paper and the sunshine inter-are. And if we continue
to look we can see the logger who cut the tree and brought it to the mill to be
transformed into paper. And we see the wheat. We know that the logger cannot
exist without his daily bread, and therefore the wheat that became his bread is
also in this sheet of paper. And the logger's father and mother are in it too.
When we look in this way we see that without all of these things, this sheet of
paper cannot exist.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
taken from: Awakin.org
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