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“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied together into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly…Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world.”

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

MLK Jr. was a prophet in the truest sense – one who sees clearly, who knows the heart of love, & has the courage to speak truth to power. it cost him his life, as it has for other prophets throughout history. part of the truth of seeing clearly & knowing love is to see & know that we are interdependent w/ each other & all life. Buddhism teaches this w/ sharp clarity. MLK Jr. understood this. the truth of interdependence is a threat to those who misunderstand & abuse power, because it undermines such ideology. if we understand & know our interdependence then how can we marginalize or oppress, or embrace the cruelty, brutalization, & destruction of others we are currently seeing? if we are seeing our situation clearly, our interdependence, & we know love fully, then we can’t, & likewise we are compelled by love to speak up & take action to end such harm & suffering.

~j

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