Smash wrong ideas and inter-be! Darkness cannot drive out darkness; Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; Only love can do that.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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etting go is the first principle of losing desire. Letting go of ideas, of the ego, of the “I”. I am not, we inter-are; it is inter-being, not me having a self (Thich Nhat Hanh: 1987). The “I” is useful for practical things in our day-to-day life, therefore, it has a certain value. Yet, it creates an artificial demarcation between humans, animals, plants, and minerals. There is no you and me, there is only inter-being. No his and her, but an inter-being. Father and son inter-are. Mother and child inter-are. Teacher and student inter-are.
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