Dependent Origination, everything, including the psychophysical compound that we call individual, exists only in relation to other beings and things and undergoes constant changes responding and reacting to them. There is a plural causality of all things whereby each thing arises in relation to all others, and can therefore be said to be conditioned by all others.
The Buddha often gave important pragmatic advice to his Lay followers on how to live a life of well-being and happiness.
As we have explored meditation instructions and doctrinal perspectives as taught by the many apophatic spiritual teachers over time and across different cultures, we now know that we can attain awakening and know No-Thing. We can give up our suffering and the harmful consequences of dualistic alienation for a life of well-being, contentment, wisdom, and compassion. We now know that via negativa is, in fact, a positive path of spirituality and of experiencing the Transcendent that results in a firm understanding of the interconnectedness, interbeing, and continual transformation of all existence. Let us all assert the apophatic way and accomplish knowing the “unknowable”—the No-Thing. God is No-Thing An Apophatic Assertion: An Introduction for
Humankind’s Transpersonal Actualization– revised -. Copyright Rodger Ricketts
Psy.D.,2023
We are all Interconnected even with the Universe 