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	The Net of Indra

abailart

6-11-2008 1:44 PM

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6-12-2008 10:03 AM

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6-13-2008 6:20 AM

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      attributed to an ancient Buddhist named </A><A href="http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bodhisattva/tu-shun.html"><B><U>Tu-Shun</U></B></A> (557-640
      B.C.E.) who asks us to envision a vast net that:
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<FONT size="4" face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, san-serif">         <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">at each juncture there lies a jewel;</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">each jewel reflects all the other jewels in this cosmic
         matrix.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Every jewel represents an individual life form, atom,
         cell or unit of consciousness.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Each jewel, in turn, is intrinsically and intimately
         connected to all the others;</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">thus, a change in one gem is reflected in all the
         others.</LI></FONT></UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geocities.com/the_wanderling/awakening101.html">The moral of Indra's net is that the compassionate and the constructive  interventions a person makes or does can produce a ripple effect of beneficial action that will reverberate throughout the universe or until it plays out. By the same token you cannot damage one strand of the web without damaging the others or setting off a cascade effect of destruction.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/47551AA5-581A-49E2-A5AD-0DE0D94BAC9B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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