interbeing - TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE

This paper offers a trans-traditional synthesis of two sacred texts — the Heart Sutra of Mahāyāna Buddhism and the Resurrection narrative of the Christian Gospels — as archetypal blueprints of regenerative coherence. It explores their shared revelation: that emptiness is not negation but the matrix of interbeing; that death is not an end but a transfiguration; and that wholeness arises through the dissolution of separate identity. Drawing from integral nondual philosophy, systems science, quantum theory, and mythopoetic insight, this paper reinterprets these teachings not only as theological doctrines, but as transformational design patterns for a civilization in crisis. In this convergence, emptiness becomes the tomb that births form anew, and resurrection becomes the embodiment of relational emptiness made radiant. From silence and surrender, a new coherence is born — one that heals the fragmentation of soul, society, and science through the logic of interbeing.

This white paper explores the Heart Sutra, a core Mahāyāna Buddhist text, not only as a profound spiritual teaching but as a conceptual Rosetta Stone for contemporary science and regenerative social transformation. We integrate its central doctrine of śūnyatā (emptiness) with developments in quantum physics, systems theory, biosemiotics, and complexity science, arguing that it prefigures a paradigm of interdependence, emergence, and coherence. We then trace the implications of this ontology into domains of ecological governance, regenerative economics, and compassionate policy design. The Heart Sutra’s vision of nonduality, liberation, and interbeing provides a moral and metaphysical compass for evolving human civilization beyond fragmentation, domination, and alienation — toward a living society grounded in coherence, compassion, and relational flourishing.