OP Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIEqh3uRTsI
In the old days National Teacher Hsien Shou set up a demonstration using mirrors and a lamp. He placed ten mirrors around the circumference (of a room) and put a lamp in the center. If you observed any one mirror, you saw nine mirrors mirroring the lamp, mirrors and lamp all appearing equally and perfectly clearly.
Some context provided by Yuanwu:
As for the net of jewels; in front of Indra's Dharma Hall of Goodness, there's a net made of jewels. Hundreds of thousands of jewels are reflected in every individual jewel, and each jewel is reflected in hundreds of thousands of jewels. Center jewel and surrounding jewels reflect back and forth, multiplying and remultiplying the images endlessly. This is used to illustrate the Dharma realm of no obstruction among phenomena.
Hsueh Tou uses Indra's jewel net to impart the teaching of the Dharma realm of no obstruction among phenomena. The six aspects are very clear; that is, the all-inclusive, the separate, the sameness, the difference, the formation, and the disintegration. Raise one aspect and all six are included.
BCR, Case 89
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Xiánshǒu's demonstration story is a cool piece of history.
Submitted September 05, 2020 at 12:23AM by madewithsticks https://ift.tt/2EStVJ8
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