(Translation of Buddhism in Daily Life, SGI Quarterly No. 17, July 1999)
Buddhism teaches that all life forms are interrelated. Through the concept of "dependent origination", explains that there is nothing isolated, independent of other life. The Japanese term for engi dependent origination is literally "arise in relationship." In other words, all beings and phenomena exist or occur only because of its connection with other beings or phenomena. Everything in the world comes into existence in response to a cause and prerequisite. Nothing can exist completely independently of other things or arise on its own.
Shakyamuni used the image of two bundles of reeds supported each other, to explain the origin dependent. He described how the two clusters could remain in place pending support against each other. So that, due to the existence of one, there may be another. If one of the two bundles is removed, the other will fall.
particular, Buddhism teaches that our lives are constantly in a dynamic development in cooperative interaction causes in our life (our personality, experiences, perspectives on life and so on) and external conditions and relationships around us. Each individual existence helps create the environment that sustains all other stocks. All things that are mutually supportive and which are interdependent, are a living cosmos, an integral uniqueness alive.
When we realize the vast number of interconnections that link us with all the other lives, we realize that our life becomes meaningful only through our interaction and relationship with others. By engaging with others, our mature identity, developing and expanding. That is when we realize that it is impossible to build our own happiness on the unhappiness of others. Also, we see that our actions uplifting impact on the world around us, just as Nichiren wrote, "If you light a lamp for another, light your own path." There
intimate and reciprocal interconnection network in nature, in relations between humanity and its environment and also between the individual and society, between parents and children, between husband and wife.
If, as individuals are able to adopt the criterion of "due to that, there is this," or, in other words, "because that person, I can develop myself, "then we need not ever experience meaningless conflict in human relations. In the case of a young married woman, for example, its current existence is tied to her husband and her mother, despite the class of persons that may be. Someone who comes to understand this, you can turn around all things, good or bad, promoting personal growth.
Buddhism teaches that we "choose" the family and the circumstances in which born, to learn, grow, and be able to fulfill our role and our respective irreplaceable mission in life.
At a deeper level, we are connected and related not just those physically close to us but to all living beings. If we can understand this, the feelings of loneliness and isolation that cause so much suffering, begin to fade at the same time we realize we are part of a dynamic whole interconnected reciprocally.
Daisaku Ikeda has written that an understanding of the interconnectedness of life as a whole, can move towards a more peaceful world: "We are all human beings who, through a mystical bond, we were born to share the same limited range of life on this planet, a small green oasis in the vast universe. Why fight and sacrifice each other? If we could all keep in mind the image of the vast heavens, I think it would go toward resolving conflicts and disputes. If our eyes are fixed on eternity, we realize that the conflicts of our little egos are actually sad and insignificant ".
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