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A Christian sage, in discoursing on the Apostle's Creed, says the same thing, seeing this truth of "dependent arising" true for those who worship Jesus Christ as embodying Oneness-diversifying. He, likewise, points to Christ being embodied by Jesus, this Christ being our true nature, as well.
The whole evolves through the interaction of all its parts. A closer look at any field, hedgerow, or plot of wetland will show us the “Yes!” to belonging in action. We need only allow this power, which is so obvious in nature, to flow also into human culture. What is true of a forest is also true of any society: no living creature can survive in isolation.
*David Steindl-Rast. Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed.
Steindl-Rast, seeing "Christ" to be what Jesus embodied, means "Christ" being your and my essential nature. The Buddhist points to the same, when saying we each are the Buddha. To become Buddha, to become Christ, happens in our acting in union with others from our essential, one Self. Unity is not simply a static state of being, Unity is a happening. Belonging is both an ontological fact and a pragmatic process.
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Simply, nothing arises by itself, each creation is made of many creations. This is why I have written before I am, for you are. We each arise from and as Nature, as Life, in and as togetherness. In a single birth of a single being, the entire Universe is present and active. We already belong, we cannot not belong, for belonging is our nature. The act of being included brings gratitude, for this belonging resonates with our nature as belonging. Longing arises as the expression of the felt-distance from the fact of belonging and the need to belong, to actualize our true self. We, as all in creation, seek to express our true nature, so, our true self reaches out to connect, and not just with other humans, but other forms of the one Life, seen and unseen. In this dance of belonging and longing, God is goding, Love is loving.
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We are togetherness gathering, isolation is counter to our true nature, our beings resonate in being-communion with others, each echoing the other. We live within each other. A "Yes" in acting togetherness, is Christ-becoming, Buddha-happening, Love-loving. Belonging is not only something we are, belonging is something we become, and longing finds resolution in this belonging.
Does, however, this resolution of longing become a final resolution, so that one is beyond longing? If there are increasing depths of intimacy, is there not longing that naturally arises to lead us to a closeness deeper than any particular depth, belonging and longing complementing each other?
*Copyright 2018, Brian Kenneth Wilcox
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