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The Secret Contributors to Your Achievements #shorts

20 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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A brief reflective monologue arguing that individual achievements are supported by many unseen contributors. The speaker uses the example of a pair of spectacles to illustrate interdependence and invokes the concept of Ubuntu — 'I am because we are' — to show that grounding in collective being can reduce suffering and resistance.

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Even something as simple as a pair of spectacles. There are millions of hands that are part of us getting that glasses that we're seeing. And we live in this false illusion that everything we have done, I have done. It is me. It is not. We fundamentally are a we, Ubuntu. You are so. I am. We are living in a state of inter being. And once we ground ourselves in that, so much of our suffering, the resistance, the fight against the world, goes away.