Infinity
What is embracing infinite life? It’s embracing infinite interconnection with all other beings. If life is beginningless and endless, and death nothing but a swift transition from one existence to the next, then you and everyone else have already been living together forever. Therefore, you have had endless different relationships with them—as they have with you. We have all been each other’s mothers, fathers, lovers, best friends, and worst enemies, and we will continue to be everything to each other throughout time.
So in order for our lives to become completely actualized in enlightened happiness, all other beings must also experience their lives as full of happiness. We can leave out no single being. The Three Musketeers had it right, we are “all for one and one for all.” We cannot liberate just ourselves from suffering, because it is impossible to achieve fully perfect bliss if anyone is excluded from it. Infinite interconnection logically mandates infinite responsibility.
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