"p.195 [...] we come to the Buddhist image of the world as the Net of Indra. Every knot in this net, where stings cross, is an individual; and each of these individuals reflects all the others around him or her. Individuals come into awareness of themselves through their relations with each other, and not in a limbo of exaggerated self-importance to the exclusion of the needs of strangers. When we look at ourselves in the Net of Indra, we are not only the selves who inhabit our own bodies, but also a series of reflections and possibilities -all the minds we could savour, all the bodies we could transit through, all the imaginations that could enrich ours."
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