The Buddha Project Reply To: Y2Q18) Individual and collective karma
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Thanks for the explanation about the role of language in creating a collective environment. In a way quite obvious but I never looked at it that way. There is always a strong feeling that there is a world out there apart from my mind designating ‘wholes’. Such a world could never create a shared experience as it would be independent, in fact it could never exist. By sharing the same labels using our similar human senses we create this world together!