Jeff Krasno

I think the next sort of like part of the Rubik's Cube for me was also very much kind of within the Buddhist mindset. I mean, around... my body and my organism as being completely interconnected and interwoven with the environment. And you've probably come across this before, but the Buddha had this wonderful analogy through an image for the interconnected universe, and he called it Indra's net.

So he saw the universe as this endless cobweb They went on forever. And at every juncture of that cobweb was a crystalline diamond that reflected every other juncture. Sometimes it's a dewdrop, you know. And this is just a beautiful image for the nature of the universe. And it gave birth to this concept of dependent origination or in Sanskrit, I believe it's like pratitya sumat pada.

So he saw the universe as this endless cobweb They went on forever. And at every juncture of that cobweb was a crystalline diamond that reflected every other juncture. Sometimes it's a dewdrop, you know. And this is just a beautiful image for the nature of the universe. And it gave birth to this concept of dependent origination or in Sanskrit, I believe it's like pratitya sumat pada.

So he saw the universe as this endless cobweb They went on forever. And at every juncture of that cobweb was a crystalline diamond that reflected every other juncture. Sometimes it's a dewdrop, you know. And this is just a beautiful image for the nature of the universe. And it gave birth to this concept of dependent origination or in Sanskrit, I believe it's like pratitya sumat pada.

But that everything is reliant on everything else. And to be alive is actually to be alive. in relationship. That you cannot separate the function and behavior of an organism from the function and behavior of its environment. And again, this violates our sense of identity, because I won't put you, I won't say Andre feels this way, but I'll say I feel this way.

But that everything is reliant on everything else. And to be alive is actually to be alive. in relationship. That you cannot separate the function and behavior of an organism from the function and behavior of its environment. And again, this violates our sense of identity, because I won't put you, I won't say Andre feels this way, but I'll say I feel this way.

But that everything is reliant on everything else. And to be alive is actually to be alive. in relationship. That you cannot separate the function and behavior of an organism from the function and behavior of its environment. And again, this violates our sense of identity, because I won't put you, I won't say Andre feels this way, but I'll say I feel this way.

Most of the time, I feel like I'm this singular locus of consciousness, like crouching like a tiger somewhere behind here, somewhere in between my eyes, like separate from you, separate from the rest of humanity, separate from nature, often in competition with it, right? But again, any look remotely

Most of the time, I feel like I'm this singular locus of consciousness, like crouching like a tiger somewhere behind here, somewhere in between my eyes, like separate from you, separate from the rest of humanity, separate from nature, often in competition with it, right? But again, any look remotely

Most of the time, I feel like I'm this singular locus of consciousness, like crouching like a tiger somewhere behind here, somewhere in between my eyes, like separate from you, separate from the rest of humanity, separate from nature, often in competition with it, right? But again, any look remotely

excavation of human physiology completely dispels any notion of us being kind of these separate selves. I mean, you have plants in this room at the very, very most basic level. I'm in an interdependent relationship with these plants. They're creating oxygen. I do not create my own oxygen, sorry. I create their carbon dioxide. We're in this beautiful carbon cycle together.

excavation of human physiology completely dispels any notion of us being kind of these separate selves. I mean, you have plants in this room at the very, very most basic level. I'm in an interdependent relationship with these plants. They're creating oxygen. I do not create my own oxygen, sorry. I create their carbon dioxide. We're in this beautiful carbon cycle together.

excavation of human physiology completely dispels any notion of us being kind of these separate selves. I mean, you have plants in this room at the very, very most basic level. I'm in an interdependent relationship with these plants. They're creating oxygen. I do not create my own oxygen, sorry. I create their carbon dioxide. We're in this beautiful carbon cycle together.

But we see it everywhere as part of our daily experience. You have a very, very steep driveway. It is pretty steep. It is pretty steep, right? If I was going to walk up that driveway, I'd walk much slower as if I was walking on this sort of flat ground right here. I cannot separate my function from the function of the environment.

But we see it everywhere as part of our daily experience. You have a very, very steep driveway. It is pretty steep. It is pretty steep, right? If I was going to walk up that driveway, I'd walk much slower as if I was walking on this sort of flat ground right here. I cannot separate my function from the function of the environment.

But we see it everywhere as part of our daily experience. You have a very, very steep driveway. It is pretty steep. It is pretty steep, right? If I was going to walk up that driveway, I'd walk much slower as if I was walking on this sort of flat ground right here. I cannot separate my function from the function of the environment.

My walking is completely dependent on the topography of your particular driveway in this case. But, you know, and these are very anodyne sort of proteic examples, but once you start to think about like our relationship with the air and environmental toxins, or our food and our food system, or our loneliness and our separation from each other,

My walking is completely dependent on the topography of your particular driveway in this case. But, you know, and these are very anodyne sort of proteic examples, but once you start to think about like our relationship with the air and environmental toxins, or our food and our food system, or our loneliness and our separation from each other,

My walking is completely dependent on the topography of your particular driveway in this case. But, you know, and these are very anodyne sort of proteic examples, but once you start to think about like our relationship with the air and environmental toxins, or our food and our food system, or our loneliness and our separation from each other,

and you realize that you are completely interdependent with the world, then the light goes off. Where it's like, if your environment is shaping your experience of reality, then you need to adopt the behaviors and shape the environment that fosters health and well-being.