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Anonymous Sat Apr 16 13:35:43 2022 No.20233106 [Reply] [Original]

I like the idea of Indra's net. A single blade of grass reflecting an infinitude of worlds, that kind of thing. Is there any literature that talks about this idea and has this sense of 'scale' aside from pic related?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 16 13:37:59 2022 No.20233117 >>20233106 >Is there any literature that talks about this idea and has this sense of 'scale' aside from pic related? The Yoga Vasistha, Venkatesananda's 780 page translation of it published by CUNY press is the best one

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 16 13:39:33 2022 No.20233123 >>20233117 I like how both jeetbooks on this subject are doorstoppers.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 16 13:46:14 2022 No.20233147 >>20233106 I am a Buddhabrot?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 16 15:28:46 2022 No.20233518 >>20233106 Dogen's One Bright Pearl. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Shobogenzo/004ikkam.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjNns6dqJn3AhV-VzABHeq9Dm0QFnoECBwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2HzBi7aO85ojcYHaywk6lH

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 16 15:59:43 2022 No.20233628 >>20233106 reminder that in buddhism indra is not enlightened has fuck all idea about nirvana, like any other hindu god

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 16 16:03:29 2022 No.20233640 >>20233628 Schooled

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 16 16:08:01 2022 No.20233649 >>20233628 And?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 16 20:24:31 2022 No.20234378 Fazong's Golden Rafter sutra goes over this (tl;dr you can only properly describe a rafter by simultaneously describing everything in the entire universe).

S10241875 Sat Apr 16 20:54:13 2022 No.20234469

>>20233106
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/850874.The_Treasury_Of_Knowledge_Book_1
Jamgon Kongtrul - The Treasury Of Knowledge Book 1: Myriad Worlds

There is an idea that Vairocana (Dhyani-Buddha of the perfection of space) manifests itself in any space, however small, and infinite worlds appear in the body of Vairochana. Thus, in any infinitely small volume of space, there is an infinite number of universes.

Modern physics has sometimes come up with similar ideas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_inflation
I'm not sure about the last one. Once upon a time I read "Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes" by Alex Vilenkin, methinks. Something reminded me. Although I always warn others against such comparisons.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 17 03:37:22 2022 No.20235752 >>20233628 He has a cool net though

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 17 10:51:32 2022 No.20236875 >>20233106 Leibniz monadology?

Anonymous Sun Apr 17 13:17:31 2022 No.20237404

>>20236875
yes, you can make that conection, also some people think it's a precursor to the relations based ontology of german idealism, that are no longer given being by a trascendental object but by their relationship with every other thing, each thing has on itself all other things in the cosmos but at the same time is unique, it has a unique configuration, a particular place in the cosmos

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