I want to talk a little bit about Oneness . Oneness is such a great thing because it is so ambiguous. We don't know what it is so we can talk a lot about it.
Some words are so broad they mean a lot of things.
Oneness is a major teaching is one of these. When groups come to visit from different religious backgrounds, we strike a bell and tell them we start our services by hitting this bell. Sometimes I joke and say we call this our energizer bunny bell it just keeps going and going. I talk about its' psychological function to empty out so we can hear the Dharma. More important than what we are going to get is what we let go.