ご縁: Goen
“Fortuitous Encounters”
In Japanese Goen refers to fortuitous encounters.
“Go” at the beginning of “en” is an honorific suffix.
“En” commonly translates as “meeting,” “encountering,” "chance,” "connectedness,” and “relationship.”
We all have some kind of relationship with the things and with people around us which, according to the Buddhist belief system, are happening due to karmic connections. We move and live in this network of connections. This belief can be elaborated to include everything arising from multiple causes and conditions; because nothing exists as a singular, independent entity. --Kimiko Gunji
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