My math teacher once explained problems like the gentleman Tu-Shun does, and by the time he got around to the answers, all of the students were either completely confused or asleep. And this metaphor holds.
Tu-Shun's explanation of the jewels is so complicated that it's actually simple. He takes the position that Everything is Everything, and Everything is part of the whole, which is Everything. It seems to me that the example of the jewel reflecting all jewels, and that all jewels reflect this one jewel is like going through a maze. Isn't there an easier and less complicated way of getting to the point by saying what he means, such as one is All and that All is one, which is everything?
About Me
- UnderwoodTwo
- My life now is about being a college student. Were I to be 17 again (and know then what I know now), I would spend a lifetime in academics. What a joy to learn to think new thoughts! I hope to learn new languages, travel the world, and immerse myself in my life-long interest; learning about the world's religions. A belief in *something* beyond ourselves is the one commonality we share with each other, no matter *what* that belief may be.
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