For a table to exist,
we need wood, a carpenter, time, skillfulness, and many other causes.
And each of these causes needs other causes to be. The wood needs the
forest, the sunshine, the rain, and so on. The carpenter needs his
parents, breakfast, fresh air, and so on. And each of those things, in
turn, has to be brought about by other causes and conditions. If we
continue to look in this way, we’ll see that nothing has been left out.
Everything in the cosmos has come together to bring us this table.
Looking deeply at the sunshine, the leaves of the tree, and the clouds,
we can see the table. The one can be seen in the all, and the all can be
seen in the one. - Thich Nhat Hanh in The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
The venerable Thich Nhat Hanh
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