Green is not my color: how we embrace our differences

Excerpt from the teaching "1/2 Dependent arising. [EN-DE] Todtmoos 10.2024": https://youtu.be/5ipIBAmnTc0

For example, you may know that there are some colors you never wear. You don’t wear green. I just don’t. It doesn’t mean that green is a terrible color. You might even admire someone else wearing green, but you don’t wear green. So, it’s kind of like that. It’s not saying this person is not a good person. It’s… it’s like seeing that we don’t want to make a vertical hierarchy of “very wonderful person” and “shit person.” But on the other hand, if you collapse the vertical axis and you say, “Well, we’re all people, we’re all in it together, it’s just nice to meet you, nice to meet you…”

But it’s quite warm today. There’s no real connection. That is something in phenomenal. Some plants go well together. If you’re cooking, some ingredients go well together; some other ingredients wouldn’t go well. That’s not a comment on the quality of the ingredient—it’s about compatibility. So, not being artificial, you know, we can work with these circumstances and just note, “Oh, it flows easily with this person and not with that person.” The implication of this is: the connection is not done by my agency. I’m not going to make it happen. It depends—depends on factors. So, this is an aspect of dependent origination. If we remain sensitive to these, uh, pulsations of possibility, we try to follow—follow a subtle middle way, not becoming artificial and not giving up on the situation, but seeing: What’s the growing edge here? Where? What is possible? And that is co-determined, co-emergent. It lies between you.

~ James Low

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