Trying to see them as one is practice. Can you guess what you were like five hundred years ago, before you were born into this world? Can you say that what you were like was different from what a flower, or a bird was like five hundred years ago before it came into existence as a flower, or a bird? What do you think that you, the flower, and the bird will be like five hundred years from now?
No matter what you may be like, and no matter how different you may appear to be from the others in the world at the moment, you are one with them in essence as the earth, or as the universe. The purpose of Buddhism is to realise the truth in person through practice.
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