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What are the basic teachings in Buddhism concerning interdependence?
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That all phenomena arise from causes -- nothing comes into existence without cause (with the possible exception of the state of nirvana -- which isn't really a phenomenon so much as the natural state of the mind when it is free of all our pre-conceived notions about the nature of reality).
The Buddha did not actually teach that all things are interdependent -- that we are all connected by the causal chains -- only that nothing arises independently. The view that "we are all one" is a later view.
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