What is your take if I ask you, “Why do you think we are separate and different from each other although we are all one as the earth?”? It is true that everyone has his or her own mind, but at the same time it is also an undeniable fact that we are one as the earth, or the universe.
Whether we are one, or separate, depends on our perspective. The problem is that we can see everything only in one direction; all things are separate and different from each other, but not in the other direction; all things are the same and one. Buddhism is a religion that helps people to see all things in both directions.
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