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I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point — namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the centre. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the centre, to individuation.

— Carl Gustav Jung

Notice how life flows of its own accord.

Nothing here is chaos, but harmony.

We are already inside this flow…

— Mooji 「無極」

Awakenings happen to the living.

A man can wake up, see the prison he has made, and decide to choose freedom.

— Don Miguel Ruiz

The Net of Indra is a profound and subtle metaphor for the structure of reality. Imagine a vast net; at each crossing point there is a jewel; each jewel is perfectly clear and reflects all the other jewels in the net, the way two mirrors placed opposite each other will reflect an image ad infinitum. The jewel in this metaphor stands for an individual being, or an individual consciousness, or a cell or an atom. Every jewel is intimately connected with all other jewels in the universe, and a change in one jewel means a change, however slight, in every other jewel.

—  Stephen Mitchell, The Enlightened Mind

इन्द्रजाल Indra's net (also called Indra's jewels or Indra's pearls, Sanskrit Indrajāla refers to “creating illusions”. It is a सिद्धि, Siddhi “perfection” ‘supernatural power’ described in chapter one of the कक्षपुटतन्त्र Kakṣapuṭatantra, a manual of Tantric practice from the tenth century) is a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of शून्यत, “void” Śūnyatā (emptiness), प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद pratītyasamutpāda ( “twelve-membered dependent origination”, dependent origination), and interpenetration in Buddhist philosophy. It is used to describe युगनाध the interpenetration (युगनद्ध, yuganaddha, congruous; harmonious; connected to a yoke) of microcosmos and macrocosmos, especially in 華嚴五教止觀, T1867.

I do not need any promise of eternity to be happy. My eternity is now. I have only one interest: to fulfil my purpose here where I am.

This purpose is not given to me by my parents or my surroundings. It is induced by some unknown factors. These factors make me a part of eternity.

—  Albert Einstein