“This is the highest doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism, which you could call the doctrine of the mutual interpenetration of all things, or the mutual interdependence of all things. And its symbol is what is called Indra’s net, that is used in the Avataṃsaka Sutra. Imagine, at dawn, a multidimensional spider’s web covered in dew: a vast, vast spider’s web that is the whole cosmos, and is not only a kind of a flat thing, but a solid thing, and has solid in four, five, six and n dimensions—covered with jewels of dew, all of which have rainbow coloring. And every drop of dew contains in it the reflection of every other drop of dew. And since every drop of dew contains the reflections of all the others, each reflected drop of dew contains the reflections, you see, of all the others, and so ad infinitum.”