Connectedness

"When you take refuge in Buddha, when you go back to being fully yourself, you begin to see how you are connected to and depend on everybody, and how everybody depends on you... In fact, the practice of taking refuge in Buddha opens your eyes to all the other precepts. Not killing, not stealing, right conduct, and working to help other beings: all these come from the condition of you being you. the condition of you being you is the source of peace and the source of love."

Tenshin Reb Anderson, Roshi
Excerpt | Being Upright (Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts)