The idea behind inter-being is that everything is connected. Not just connected though, but everything is one. The best way to talk about this idea is with an example, so I will share one that I was meditating on yesterday.
When my sister and I were little our Grandma Mary would make us clothes. I remember a pair of pajamas that she made us, my sisters were baby blue mine were a rose pink.
It's easy to see how those pajamas could not exist without me my parents and my grandparents. As I thought about it more I could see other people and things that existed within those prized pajamas.
I could see the people involved in manufacturing the cloth
The artist who designed the pattern
The machines that harvested the cotton
The plants that grew to make it
and the sunlight and water that allowed all of those people and plants to live.
All of these things didn't just help this item to be created they were a part of it. They are still a part of it and a part of me every time I remember that gift.
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