Buddhist psychology has long taught that nothing exists independently. Everything affects everything else. We exist in a complex web of life that is interconnected and continually changing. We now have a lowly virus awakening us to deep truths about our interdependence. Now, with the coronavirus, we can’t pretend we exist as an independent ego that is separate from the world around us. We intimately affect each other. We don’t live as a separate self, disconnected and impervious to what is happening around us. If we imagine or insist that we’re an independent entity, we imperil all of us.
The Coronavirus Awakens Us to Our Interconnectedness
John Amodeo, PhD, MFT
John Amodeo. PhD, MFT (MFC14453), holds graduate degrees in both Clinical and Transpersonal Psychology has been a licensed marriage and family therapist for 39 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in San Rafael and the Sebastopol area. He is the author of four books and was a writer and contributing editor for Yoga Journal for ten years. He is a Certified Focusing Trainer and Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist.
