"A cloud never dies. It becomes rain, becomes river, becomes ocean, becomes cloud again. This is not poetry. This is the structure of all things. Nothing arises alone. Everything arises in coordination with everything else."
Vietnamese Buddhist monk, poet, and peace activist who taught that all phenomena inter-are — each arising only in coordination with every other. His concept of interbeing is not metaphor but ontology: the self is not a node, it is a coordination event. His Plum Village community and Engaged Buddhism movement applied this insight to social and political transformation.