{SUMMARY} There is, in Buddhism, a teaching called sunyata, or emptiness. This teaching is tersely presented in a Mahayana text referred to as {“The} Heart Sutra.” The theme of this sutra is that all phenomena are empty of separate being, and this is the basis of resolving all apparent dualisms: in this case, referring to intellectually disabled and not intellectually disabled. Put positively, it is called interbeing, and it critiques hierarchical notions that derive from dualistic notions. This critique is explicated clearly within the context of an open and loving relationship between a person labeled ‘intellectually disabled’ and another person, the author, who does not have that label and who moves from being a support worker in the man's life to being a lifelong friend.