There's a beautiful metaphor in Buddhist writing about Indra's Net. In the stories, it's a large (possibly infinite) net hung over Indra's palace that has a multifaceted jewel at each intersection. Each of these jewels reflects back every other jewel. It's a powerful illumination of the Buddhist approach to interconnection. That each of us has an impact on and is a reflection of the world around us. And this interconnection is on full display during a global pandemic. Not only in the spread of the virus but in our ability or inability to counter it. The Interconnected Global System Not only have we seen how interconnected we are, … [Read more...]