All comes into existence through an assembly of causes. All things are interrelated. In accord with this principle, it is our aim to build an ideal world, step by step. This is the true teaching of symbiosis. Inorganic matter such as minerals are crucial for human life, and if even one vital mineral is lacking, we cannot survive.
Human beings live and are kept alive through their coexistence with animals, plants and minerals.
Craving is attachment to things and the delusions that arise from that attachment. Ignorance means not to know what our universe is, what our self is. The arrogant attitude that you know everything there is to know is based on ignorance. The escape from those two kinds of suffering is called liberation, and that escape is based on grasping and living the concept of symbiosis. This Buddhism of symbiosis has exerted a strong influence on me.