Currently reading "The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching". Can anyone help me understand this passage?
Hi r/Buddhism! Sorry for the length of this post, but I've read and re-read this passage and can't seem to get it. Or at least I don't think I'm getting it. It seems to be put quite simply, and yet I can't understand, hence my confusion.
For reference, this passage is found in the chapter titled "Right Mindfulness".
Contemplation on interdependence is a deep looking into all dharmas in order to pierce through to their real nature, in order to see them as the great body of reality and in order to see that the great body of reality is indivisible. It cannot be cut into pieces with separate existences of their own.
The object of our mind can be a mountain, a rose, the full moon, or the person standing in front of us. We believe these things exist outside of us as separate entities, but these objects are us. This includes our feeling. When we hate someone, we hate ourself. The object of mindfulness of the body, feelings, perceptions, any of the mental formations , and all of the seeds in our consciousness. The Four Establishments of Mindfulness contain everything in the cosmos. Everything in the cosmos is the object of our perception , and as such, it does not exist only outside of us but also within us.
If we look deeply at the bud on a tree, we will see its nature. It may be very small, but it is also like the earth, because the leaf in the bud will become a part of the earth. If we see the truth of one thing about the cosmos, we see the nature of the cosmos. Because of our mindfulness, our deep looking, the nature of the cosmos will reveal itself. it is not a matter of imposing our ideas on the nature of the cosmos.
Does this mean that "we" (people, plants, air, horse-shoes etc) are all pretty much "one thing"? Help me out, please :)
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