[Dalai Lama:] Education, from the Buddhist viewpoint, begins with
the notion of interdependence. Everything depends on everything
else. . . . This shared awareness is esential if we want to improve,
however little, our own attitude toward the world, our own
relationship with it. We must
overcome the isolation of our mind,
we must
renew our ties with the rest of the universe.
Otherwise we are lost.
Lost because separate.
We have to show people,
indefatigably, that our interest is the interest of others, that
our future is the future of others. And when I say "others,"
I'm not thinking just of human beings, who are evidently the same as
us. I'm thinking of all the other forms of life, on this earth and
outside the earth.
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