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Originally Posted by hybrid
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That is a pretty good link, thank you.
In parables such as that of the net of Indra, each part of the net depends
for its existence and nature on the other parts, and each small part of the
net in a sense contains in miniature the characteristics of the net as a
whole. This idea of interdependence or interpenetration of parts and
whole could be considered the philosophy of totality.
I see it as the individual is a part of the whole and the whole is part of the
individual. What I see as illusion is the idea that things are static, or that
anything has an intrinsic reality apart from its relationship to the whole.
And of course the whole could not exist without its components.
Really, a car cannot be steered without a steering wheel,
and a steering wheel without something to steer would not be very useful.
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