John offered two vows that are taught to children by Thay:

to understand people, animals, plants and minerals

to be compassionate, to protect people, anikmals, plants and minerals

Discernment
Learning


Kindness
Practice

Coincidnetally, one meaning of discernment is to identify differences,
In this dimension of interbeing, we discern (discover) that we are interconnected, that in fact the differences are not differencdes at all.