{"id":343,"date":"2021-04-01T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/interdependence\/?p=343"},"modified":"2021-04-01T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:05:12","slug":"interdependence-reflection-maddy-zegeer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/interdependence\/2021\/04\/01\/interdependence-reflection-maddy-zegeer\/","title":{"rendered":"Interdependence Reflection- Maddy Zegeer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">When thinking about myself as a product of interdependence, I immediately think of Buddhist philosopher Thich Nhat Hanh\u2019s \u201cdependent arising.\u201d He proclaims that the whole universe can be found in a piece of paper and it can be found in us, as well. The main argument in Dependent-arising is that we suffer from the delusion that we are independent and discusses how we are intimately connected with everything else. In part, I myself have a \u201cDependent-arising\u201d formed by interconnected factors such as my biology, my culture, and my privilege.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When observing the part of interdependence that calls attention to how our choices affect others and ourselves, I particularly think about the idea of privilege. Leading a privileged life means living in a society in which the amount of energy and resources I use in a day is ten times more than my body uses to stay alive. When observing how I lead my privileged life, it becomes clear that my actions directly affect others. I must be mindful of the resources I have been given and think about where they come from and how they can be honored. If I reflect on this, it is clear to see the influence of everything on my dependent arising is quite substantial.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When thinking about myself as a product of interdependence, I immediately think of Buddhist philosopher Thich Nhat Hanh\u2019s \u201cdependent arising.\u201d He proclaims that the whole universe can be found in a piece of paper and it can be found in us, as well. The main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interdependence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/interdependence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/interdependence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/interdependence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/interdependence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/interdependence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/interdependence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/interdependence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/interdependence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/interdependence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}