[MD] understanding pattern

[MarshaV]

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"Evil and suffering, that is, are the unintended yet inevitable consequences of our tendencies to reify relationships and processes into unchanging things, to abstract characteristics and qualities in terms of fixed essences or natures, and, most egregiously, to identify ourselves as singular, substantive selves in contrast to and standing apart from our surrounding, sustaining environments."


    (William S. Waldron,'Common Ground, Common Cause: Buddhism and 
           Science on the Afflictions of Self-Identity')


Marsha:
I understand granite, dog, family and zero all to be relationships and processes (patterns).