Saturday, September 23, 2023

sangha: an interconnected interdependence_🌿

sangha is a unity of everything and seeing how every single micro-entity is interconnected with you and with each other. it is an awareness of what exist and how one is part of the united existence. in other words it togetherness, belonging-ness, a feeling of equanimity, one-ness, united existence, collective kinship and a synthesis of anicca and anata. when we, the buddhist say, "sanghang sharanam gacchami" in tri-saran panchasheel, we take refuge to this sangha. 

i was watching this sci-fi documentary of carl sagan and neil degrasse tyson called "cosmos: a spacetime odyssey" in which tyson while standing under the tree explains how he is connected to the tree. he says that the DNA of tree and himself has similarities in many ways and have gone through ages of evolution which makes both of them as relatives and parts of family.

i was looking at that relation from darwinian's perspective locating it in his theory of evolution. now the proposition about sangha and sanghalogy put forward by the venerable of the buddhist community have provided a space to explore the same argument from a buddhist perspective.

📑 sangha: an interconnected interdependence_ 
🖋 @dnyanesh_____