“The essence of emptiness is that everything depends on everything else.”

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“The cosmos is neither one nor many. When you touch one, you touch many, and when you touch many, you touch one. Look more deeply, and you will see yourself as multitudes, penetrating everywhere, interbeing with everyone and everything.”

Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Avatamsaka Realm”

“The health of the planet and the health of the people are One. We are part of nature and of its complex living processes. The earth, food and our bodies are interconnected living systems.”

Vandana Shiva, Regenerating Our Planet, Regenerating Our Health

“The perception of identity is the perception of interdependence. It is the perception of the contingency and fragility of our own life, as well as that of all other things.”

Francis H. Cook, Hua-yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra, p. 66.

“Waves and water are one, yet that does not hinder their difference. Water and waves are differ­ent, yet that does not hinder their unity. Because of their unhindered unity, being in the water is being in the waves.”

Tu Shun, “Cessation and Contemplation in the Five Teachings of the Hua-yen.”

“All worlds enter one point,
one point enters all worlds;

untold eons enter one instant,
one instant enters untold eons.”

Avatamsaka Sutra. Cleary translation. Shambhala 2014, pp. 954-955.

Image of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva via Handmade Handcraft.