Buddhist psychology has long taught that nothing exists independently. Everything affects everything else. We exist in a complex web of life that is interconnected and continually changing. We now have a lowly virus awakening us to deep truths about our interdependence. Now, with the coronavirus, we can’t pretend we exist as an independent ego that is separate from the world around us. We intimately affect each other. We don’t live as a separate self, disconnected and impervious to what is happening around us. If we imagine or insist that we’re an independent entity, we imperil all of us.