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Celebrating with Everyone (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 7:23 p.m.

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Chapter 16 - Celebrating with Everyone
\n from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.\n

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A peaceful heart celebrates with everyone. \u201cNature\u201d is a construct, the imposition of a category over the living, vibrating, collections of atoms and molecules, shaped into hearts and minds that are swaying, flying, and yodeling around us today. When even the concept of \u201cnature\u201d is removed, rivers and bears are seen to be as consanguineous as spouses and store clerks.

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The process of impermanence and change unites the world. Nature and people have no clear demarcation. We are all tumbling on together. What we subsume under the rubric \u201cnature\u201d is the screen onto which we project our own love and compassion\u2014or lack of them\u2014and when we say \u201clove of nature,\u201d we refer to our capacity to pour out nurturant and fond delight toward all or any \u201cothers.\u201d \u201cNature\u201d is inner peace flashed back and forth between a human being and any other kind of cloud.

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Dr. Paul Fleischman
\n Massachusetts, USA
\n 2020
\n 8 minutes\n

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Copyright, 2020 Paul R. Fleischman

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