{"id":996,"date":"2010-01-15T14:18:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T14:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2010\/01\/martin-luther-king-jr-on-interdependence-buddhist-quote-of-the-day.html"},"modified":"2010-01-15T14:18:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T14:18:37","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-on-interdependence-buddhist-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2010\/01\/martin-luther-king-jr-on-interdependence-buddhist-quote-of-the-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Interdependence: Buddhist Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/martin_luther_king_jr_quotes_buddhist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"martin_luther_king_jr_quotes_buddhist.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/martin_luther_king_jr_quotes_buddhist-thumb-225x150-10768.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>posted by&nbsp;<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0861715160\/\">Ethan Nichtern<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<div><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x1L8y-MX3pg&amp;feature=related\">Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a> was born today (not Monday &#8211; we just like having Mondays off for some reason). If he was alive today, he would be 81 years old. That fact alone seems sad. And I know what you are going to say, you are going to say he wasn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.org\">Buddhist<\/a>. OK. But if you can find any difference between what comes next in this quote of the day and something, say,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plumvillage.org\"> Thich Nhat Hanh<\/a> might say, let me know.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied together into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality . . . Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you&#8217;ve depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren&#8217;t going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<br \/>1967 Christmas Sermon on Peace<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>posted by&nbsp;Ethan Nichtern Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born today (not Monday &#8211; we just like having Mondays off for some reason). If he was alive today, he would be 81 years old. That fact alone seems sad. 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