Indra’s Net “In the heaven of Indra, there is said to be a network of pearls, so arranged that if you look at one you see all the other reflected in it. In the same way, each object in the world is not merely itself but involves every other object and in fact IS everything else.” —Charles Eliot, quoted in “The Cosmic Metabolism of Form,” by Christian Werterbaker, PARABOLA, Fall 2011. “Imagine a multidimensional spider’s web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.” —Alan Watts explaining the Hindu teaching of Indra’s net from Wikipedia. Photo Credit: Fir0002 on Wikipedia. From parabola-magazine.

Indra’s Net

“In the heaven of Indra, there is said to be a network of pearls, so arranged that if you look at one you see all the other reflected in it. In the same way, each object in the world is not merely itself but involves every other object and in fact IS everything else.”

—Charles Eliot, quoted in “The Cosmic Metabolism of Form,” by Christian Werterbaker, PARABOLA, Fall 2011.

“Imagine a multidimensional spider’s web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.”

—Alan Watts explaining the Hindu teaching of Indra’s net from Wikipedia. Photo Credit: Fir0002 on Wikipedia.

From parabola-magazine.