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rebirth the ultimate interconnection?

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One thing that never ceases to impress itself upon me is the inter-connectedness of Buddhist concepts, all seem to complement each other and fit together like pieces in a puzzle, especially in Mahayana: all beings are interconnected. Enlightenment of individual beings is in a sense interconnected through the mediating channels of the Bodhisattvas.

So am i taking things a step too far if i posit that rebirth is a type of interconnection?

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Rebirth is a link in the 12 chains of dependent origination so I guess you could call that interconnection.

That Bodbisattvas realize the fruition Kayas of Buddhahood is also due to the fact of their being sentient beings to be the object of compassion and merit accumulation. So you could say Buddhas and Bodbisattvas are interconnected with beings in that way too. Then there are the vows and commitments of realized beings and the pure aspirations of beings which creates further interconnection.
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A step too far. It depends, since also interconnected.

But then is there a step too far, as a step out of the net of Indra?

Since there is 'no being' existing out of itself, can there be birth out of itself without causes and conditions? (12 links of dependence...)
Mind or body, or both, or a perhaps a self somehow outside of these is making this self-birth happening?

I am so thinking...Embryology, compounded aggregates, mind and its 'surroundings' with whatever hops around there, we all breath the same air...

We are not a self establishment, such inherent establishment is not, even samsara is very much experiencing such inherent nature of self. Bodhisattvas not. Or?
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Supramundane wrote: Wed Jun 06, 2018 4:12 am So am i taking things a step too far if i posit that rebirth is a type of interconnection?
Definitely not. You could even go so far as to say that all beings have at one point been your mother. :smile:
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Supramundane wrote: Wed Jun 06, 2018 4:12 am So am i taking things a step too far if i posit that rebirth is a type of interconnection?
Hello Supramundane,

How could it not be? But on the other hand, if it were interconnected that would mean that all karma is interconnected, so for instance my actions would be more like our actions. That can’t be right, right?
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Thank you for your comments.

i am trying to imagine the intellectual consequences of horizontal AND vertical interconnection.

It makes me see rebirth and karma in a new light.

as a species we must die; for there to be birth there must be death. for there to be evolution, we must die. we are born to die.

our existence is but an expedience to an end. but we do not know what that end is.

if my karma radiates around me and beyond my death in an uninterrupted chain, this makes sense.

So Indra's net is multi-dimensional; it must have dimensions we have not dreamed of or glimpsed...
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boda wrote: Wed Jun 06, 2018 6:17 pm
Supramundane wrote: Wed Jun 06, 2018 4:12 am So am i taking things a step too far if i posit that rebirth is a type of interconnection?
Hello Supramundane,

How could it not be? But on the other hand, if it were interconnected that would mean that all karma is interconnected, so for instance my actions would be more like our actions. That can’t be right, right?
yes and no.

i mean, the way i see it now, my karma is mine and mine alone so far as it is my intent that gives birth to karma. but yes, ours in the fact that the consequences of my actions emanate like a persistent radiation in all directions, connecting us all, even those of us who have not yet been born...?
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All beings are interconnected in this web.

Kevin...
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seeker242 wrote: Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:51 am
Supramundane wrote: Wed Jun 06, 2018 4:12 am So am i taking things a step too far if i posit that rebirth is a type of interconnection?
Definitely not. You could even go so far as to say that all beings have at one point been your mother. :smile:
true we are all connected in ways that we cannot imagine. we are all brothers, sisters, fathers, etc.

i once told my son when he was being particularly naughty, "remember, you may have children of your own someday".

"You too", he answered.
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Virgo wrote: Thu Jun 07, 2018 1:34 am All beings are interconnected in this web.

Kevin...
Who's the spider :spy:
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Kunga Lhadzom wrote: Thu Jun 07, 2018 2:21 am
Virgo wrote: Thu Jun 07, 2018 1:34 am All beings are interconnected in this web.

Kevin...
Who's the spider :spy:
Indra :P
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Kunga Lhadzom wrote: Thu Jun 07, 2018 2:21 am
Virgo wrote: Thu Jun 07, 2018 1:34 am All beings are interconnected in this web.

Kevin...
Who's the spider :spy:
Everyone has been both the spider and the fly. :smile:
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seeker242 wrote: Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:51 am
Supramundane wrote: Wed Jun 06, 2018 4:12 am So am i taking things a step too far if i posit that rebirth is a type of interconnection?
Definitely not. You could even go so far as to say that all beings have at one point been your mother. :smile
Oh no! This is a step too far. "I" want to get out of here, where is the exit of nature - net? :alien:

Confusions-delusions seems to be the 'exit', abiding in a restricted dreamworld.
A side note, still related somehow:
Modern concepts of space, time, and nature reinforce estrangement, isolation, meaninglessness, self-centeredness, and despair. We need a reality that’s a suitable habitat for our caring, connected presence.
Exclusion is not possible other than in delusion.
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