Interbeing

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If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud and the paper inter-are.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Thích Nhất Hạnh

Lineage: Plum Village

By Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Sources

• contentCuong Tu Nguyen — medieval Vietnamese Buddhism scholarship

  Cuong Tu Nguyen

  pp. 150–175