Recognizing our Equality
with Howie Geismar
We have so much more in common with each other than we have differences, but we tend to focus on the differences rather than our commonality.We create a duality of self and other; then we cling, often painfully, to our self, our I, as being important and right while viewing others as less important and often wrong. Through exploring Buddha's teachings on recognizing our fundamental and meaningful equality with others, rather than focusing on our more superficial differences, we discover that caring about and cherishing others brings us a greater freedom and inner peace.