The Supreme Doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism - Indra's Net

This is the highest doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism which you could call the mutual interpenetration of all things or the mutual interdependence of all things. Its symbol is what is called Indra's Net that is used in the Avatant Sakasutra. Imagine at dawn a multi-dimensional 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. This does not exist without all other such things and events so that you might say any one event implies all events and all events,. The total universe, past, present and future, depends on every single member.