UNITY AND ONENESS
The recognition of the unity and oneness of humankind is the foundation for the practice of all spiritual life. Those who are “bound by racial prejudices” (jati-vada-vinibbaddha) as well as those who are “bound by caste prejudices” (gotta-vada-vinibbaddha), says the Buddha, “have strayed far from the way of salvation (araka anuttaraya vijja-carana-sampadaya).
— Y. Karunadasa, Early Buddhist Teachings