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Tag: interbeing

Thich Nhat Hanh
Book Bits

The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing

January 22, 2026January 20, 2026 Vanessa Able

Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.

Tagged Buddhism, Emptiness, existence, Experience, interbeing, nothingness, separate self, sunyata, Zen3 Comments
Susan Bauer-Wu
Book Bits

The Problem With Business As Usual – On Interconnectedness and the Climate Crisis

June 30, 2023June 30, 2023 Vanessa Able

Inspired by the work of the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Susan Bauer-Wu's book is her personal expression of concern for the earth.

Tagged activism, climate, climate crisis, Dalai Lama, earth, ecology, interbeing1 Comment
Interview, Podcast

Engaging in Compassionate Action: Pamela Ayo Yetunde

May 31, 2023June 19, 2023 Vanessa Able

A conversation with Pamela Ayo Yetunde about spirituality, interconnectedness, and the need to foster understanding and compassion in today's world.

Tagged Buddhism, community, Compassion, healing, Indra's Net, interbeing, Interconnectedness, interdependence, Social Change, social justice, spiritual kinshipLeave a comment
Ursula K LeGuin
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Ursula K. Le Guin – Kinship

March 26, 2022March 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

The mystical teachings of trees are beautifully expressed in Ursula K. Le Guin's poem, Kinship, in which she explores our own primal origins.

Tagged being, forest, interbeing, life, nature, Poetry, TreesLeave a comment
Mockingbird
Way-Seeking Mind

Hey, Mockingbird

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY ABIGAIL KING This is how it began: mornings, sitting outside on a stone bench, listening to the mockingbird. You exist. I exist.

Tagged being, epiphany, illumination, interbeing, Interconnectedness, mockingbird, revelation4 Comments
Blanche Hartman
Book Bits, Zen

Respecting Ourselves, Respecting Things

September 28, 2020September 28, 2020 Vanessa Able

Zenkei Blanche Hartman discusses respect for the physical world, which starts with respect for ourselves, grounded in interconnectedness.

Tagged interbeing, Kindness, laziness, Materialism, objects, respect, self-respect, trust, ZenLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • Bob Rama - Ascetic Aesthetics
    Bob Rama - Ascetic Aesthetics
  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Wendell Berry - Do Not Be Ashamed
    Wendell Berry - Do Not Be Ashamed
  • William Stafford's Looking Across the River
    William Stafford's Looking Across the River
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • Sealskin, Soulskin - A Fable About Returning to Our Wild Origins
    Sealskin, Soulskin - A Fable About Returning to Our Wild Origins
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Nietzsche on Why It Is Also Important to Forget
    Nietzsche on Why It Is Also Important to Forget
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing

- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Bob Rama – Ascetic Aesthetics
    Translator and poet Bob Rama shines a little candlelight on ascetic renunciation in his pleasingly-titled poem "Ascetic Aesthetics".
  • Emily Tong – Girlhood Ghazal
    Using the ancient poetic form of the ghazal, Asian-American poet Emily Tong searches for home in her "Girlhood Ghazal".
  • A Year of Kō: 15th Sekki
    15th Sekki poems by SHAOMEI YU, COLEMAN DAVIS AND NADINE LEITSO
  • Riley Danvers – [Soma]tic
    Oregon poet Riley Danvers reveals what it means to be human in a painful state of flux in her avant-garde [Soma]tic.
  • Phach Huynh – Traces
    Ho Chi Minh City poet Phach Huynh reveals all the stories and presences which are held in the lonely silences with his masterful "Traces".
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