...One of the images used to illustrate the nature of reality as
understood in Mahayana is The Jewel Net of Indra. According to this
image, all reality is to be understood on analogy with Indra's Net.
This net consists entirely of jewels. Each jewel reflects all of
the other jewels, and the existence of each jewel is wholly
dependent on its reflection in all of the other jewels. As such,
all parts of reality are interdependent with each other, but even
the most basic parts of existence have no independent existence
themselves. As such, to the degree that reality takes form and
appears to us, it is because the whole arises in an
interdependent matrix of parts to whole and of
subject to object. But in the end, there is nothing
(literally no-thing) there to grasp....
Source: Sunyata ('Emptiness')
