INTERCONNECTED
The extent to which we play a part in other people's lives and they play a part in ours, is the way in which life is interconnected.
In Zen this is called ji ji muge, the mutual interpenetration of all things and events. It is likened to a spider's web in which every dew drop reflects all the other dew drops. It is also called Indra's net, Indra's jewels, or Indra's pearls, where every gem reflects all the others.
There is a spectrum of this interconnectedness, ranging from obvious day-to-day dealings where we plainly affect others and they, us, to subtle interactions the consequences of which we may never know, especially if they are on the psychic and spiritual level.
Nothing happens but that something somewhere else in this awareness is affected.
In Zen this is called ji ji muge, the mutual interpenetration of all things and events. It is likened to a spider's web in which every dew drop reflects all the other dew drops. It is also called Indra's net, Indra's jewels, or Indra's pearls, where every gem reflects all the others.
There is a spectrum of this interconnectedness, ranging from obvious day-to-day dealings where we plainly affect others and they, us, to subtle interactions the consequences of which we may never know, especially if they are on the psychic and spiritual level.
Nothing happens but that something somewhere else in this awareness is affected.
posted by Donald L. Simons at
3:05 PM
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