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4 WISDOM

INTERBEING IS A TERM INVENTED by Thich Nhat Hanh to describe the profound interconnectedness of all things: that nothing can exist by itself alone; it can only ever inter-be with everything else.

So when in Buddhism we speak of “no self” or “emptiness,” what we actually mean is that there are no such things as permanent, separate, self-entities. Everything is a composite—made entirely

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