Meditation on interbeing

Today's reading was mostly a meditation on interbeing. "At first it seems as though things exist outside one another period the sun is not the moon. This Galaxy is not another Galaxy. You are outside me. The father is outside the son. But looking deeply, we see that things are interwoven. We cannot take the rain out of the flower or the oxygen out of the tree. We cannot take the father out of the son or the son out of the father. We cannot take anything out of anything else. We are the mountains and rivers, we are the sun and stars. Everything inter- is. This is what the physicist David Bohm called the implicate order. At first we see only the explicate order, but as soon as we realize that things do not exist outside one another, we touch the deepest level of the cosmic. We realized that we cannot take the water out of the wave. And then we cannot take the wave out of the water. Just as the wave is the water itself, we are the ultimate.

“Many still believe that God exists separately from the cosmos, his creation. But you cannot remove God from yourself; You cannot remove the ultimate from yourself. Nirvana is there within you. If we want to touch the ultimate, we have to look within our own body and not outside. Contemplating deeply the body from within, we can touch reality in itself. If your mindfulness and concentration are deep as you practice walking meditation in nature, or as you contemplate a beautiful sunset for your own human body, you can touch the true nature of the cosmos.”