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We are dependent
What came to me last night is how dependent we all are. Growing up is of course becoming independent, and in some aspects it may take a lifetime. However, beyond that independence is a joke.
Just consider how long we can survive without air, water, or food. And those also depend on so many things, like the sun, the atmosphere and the whole of society. We all want to be independent, but the whole strive just leads to separation. Independence doesn't exist. But when we have so-called securities such as income, it's easy to believe in independence. And even in hard times it's attractive to hang on to the idea that we could be independent in the future. If we believe in independence, we can believe in independent others and not care for them. The seeing of dependence leads to love and freedom from separation.
I totally agree with you Michiel about how little we usually reflect on the interdependence of everything on this planet, or we should say in the Cosmos. Your post is a useful reminder of that.
Moreover we are oriented in such an anthropocentric way, believing that we are somehow depending on others or on the society to survive, but as for the rest we can manege without it.
The truth is that in the hierarchy of creation the lower can manege without the higher but the opposite is not possible.
So to your post I would add that it is not enough to feel oneness with your fellow men. Oneness means caring for every living creature, trying to hurt or harm as little as possible.