"Debasing" what we touch...(2)

How do we do this?. To debase is to "lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade."  Every time we take things or persons for granted, just for the service they give or the utility we may obtain from this service. By doing so we disconnect, disengage or detach from anything or everything else. We loose connection and extricate ourselves from what is the true nature of things. This separation makes us use without taking into consideration the broader nature of everything that surrounds us and establishes the artificial separation that exists only in our minds.  Classical science promoted this kind of lack of relationship in the world we live in. And a century later quantum science rescued us from this error. In just one sentence we can sum the insight of all our inter-relations, the observer affects the observed. There's no way to separate them, one and the other are part of the whole. And by separating ourselves the door is opened to debase and to degrade, to devalue by categorizing some things higher and more worthy than others. 

The final result is the paradoxical and unknowingly  result that by separating , categorizing and classifying we are devaluing and debasing none other than ourselves in the process. Because when we see one bigger than others. Been that one ourselves...somebody else is also measuring us in the same way.

Sensei Myriam 

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