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To
see the World in a grain of Sand
And Heaven in a wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake
He
looked at his own Soul with a Telescope.
What seemed all irregular, he saw and shewed to
be beautiful Constellations;
and he added to the Consciousness hidden worlds
with in worlds.
Coleridge, Notebooks
 Indra's
Jewelled Net is a metaphor for the summation of
Buddhist thought. Each of us is a jewel in Indra's
Net, which replicates the whole and is the whole.
At each intersection in Indra's Net is a light
reflecting jewel and each jewel contains another
Net, ad infinitum. The jewel at each intersection
exists only as a reflection of all the others
and hence it has no self-nature. Yet it also exists
as a separate entity to sustain the others. Each
and all exist in their mutuality.
Ken Jones, The Social Face of Buddhism
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