Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society

by Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Today our diversity is something to be shared and exchanged with others freely. Each culture and religion is no longer the property of any single community but is available to all who live on this planet to learn from. This is simply a feature of the twenty-first-century world we live in, and it is time we recognize this and adopt the attitudes appropriate to this shift in our way of sharing the world. This means learning to truly value one another and to recognize diversity as highly productive and beneficial. Previously, due to limitations in our education and outlook, we automatically privileged our own views and unthinkingly deemed others’ as inferior. This sort of judgmental approach has no rightful place in a century of sharing.