Spotlight On Kindness: Indra's Net

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Within the Buddhist/Hindu philosophies, there is a concept known as the Indra's net. Imagine a spider's web on a winter morning, covered with dewdrops, each drop containing the reflection of all others, and interconnected with the whole. A metaphor for the universe revealing that anything that we do to one part affects the whole web. This week's stories kick off virtuous ripples to that web. -Guri
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Editor's Note: Within the Buddhist/Hindu philosophies, there is a concept known as the Indra's net. Imagine a spider's web on a winter morning, covered with dewdrops, each drop containing the reflection of all others, and interconnected with the whole. A metaphor for the universe revealing that anything that we do to one part affects the whole web. This week's stories kick off virtuous ripples to that web. -Guri
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