The Spheres of Indra
August 21st, 2024
photo taken at the recent Medicine Festival at Wasing
“One of my strongest convictions is that we are constituted by other people: the relationships we have had in our life form the very fabric of our being. This means that our parents, friends, colleagues and teachers, and all the other people with whom we have interacted, live inside us. Others are in us, we are in others: it is like the heavens of the god Indra, where glistening spheres mirror one another, and also mirror the mirroring, and so on to infinity. This means that the music we have loved, the books that have moulded us, the landscapes, paintings, movies and architecture that have impressed us, are all part of the vital substance of our existence.”