Raw Diamonds
Being Changed With Every Breath…
by Mary Sojourner
“… the Jeweled Net of Indra, a metaphor from the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, which portrays how all beings are interconnected across time and space. The image, a vast net of inter-connecting threads, describes how at all intersecting nodes there is a diamond-
like jewel that represents all sentient beings — human and other — that exist in the universe. Each jewel reflects every other jewel in the vast net. Whenever suffering occurs anywhere in the great, luminous net, a tear appears. In times of trouble, people respond, and their compassionate response helps the net to reweave around the places of suffering.” — Olivia Hoblitzelle, “Get Your Dyin’ Done Early,†Inquiring Mind, Fall 2008
An older friend is afraid for his mind. I am seventy-two and have been afraid of losing my mind since I was eighteen. Olivia Hoblitzelle’s husband, Hob, had intended to give a talk on Indra’s Web at the Cambridge Insight and Meditation Center. He was more than qualified. He’d trained in Buddhist meditation and was a lay monk in the Tiep Hiep Order. He’d taught for fifteen years. (more…)
