Indra’s Net and the Cosmic Christ

Thich Nhat Hanh needs no introduction. He is my favorite Zen master, who has a talent for expressing very complicated ideas in simple, poetic form. In a short piece called Paper and Clouds, he wrote:

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow: and without trees, we cannot make…