"may all beings be at ease"

phrase from "metta sutta" the buddha's words on lovingkindness (which can also be translated as friendship)

While chanting these words over mealtimes at MAPLE, I found myself reflecting that beings needs to be kind of taken up a level of abstraction from simply "organisms", because a lion who is at ease is full of a gazelle.

Instead, a conception of the system that would be at ease as being an ecosystem or a certain kind of "system" more generally.

This relates to Reality is alive: don't carve it

There's a passage on p61 of The Turning Point by Fritjof Capra that connects with this