Hello Beautiful Heart,

Today’s note will be brief, an outpouring of offerings from my heart to yours.

I’m still processing a challenging experience that happened last week on the first day of retreat at Mt Madonna, above Santa Cruz, California with Shakti Caterina Maggi . I was in a car accident that left me shaken but able to attend the retreat. Gratefully, this experience led to healing and deeper Self-Realization. I’ll share more details and what I learned that could be of interest to you, once this body-mind has integrated more fully. In the meantime of here are a few offerings from the retreat for your illumination and enjoyment:

The image of "Indra's net" is used to describe the interconnectedness of the universe. Francis H Cook describes Indra's net thus:

Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra, there is a wonderful net which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions. In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each "eye" of the net, and since the net itself is infinite in dimension, the jewels are infinite in number. There hang the jewels, glittering "like" stars in the first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number. Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurring. 

Wikipedia, "Indra's Net"

 

Georgette Star MA, D.Min.