[Chooriwrocaey]

Hi Element, can you elaborate more about this sutta and the interbeing issue... I can't find the meaning

hi Kaarine

I suppose, correctly or incorrectly, i am focusing on the term 'being' and am thus using a mundane quote

the quote means, in our lives, we have been & continue to be the recipients of gifts, offerings & sacrifices; that we have benefactors (such as mother & father)

the Buddha taught, in terms of benefactors, there are 'six directions'

the contrary, namely, 'wrong view', is we believe we are 'self-made' persons, like many wealthy or successful people, who declare: "I did it all myself!". "I do not owe anyone anything!"

kind regards



And how, young man, does the noble disciple protect the six directions? These six directions should be known: mother and father as the east, teachers as the south, spouse and family as the west, friends and colleagues as the north, workers and servants [or employer] as the lower direction and ascetics and Brahmans as the upper direction.

Sigalovada Sutta