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I'm fascinated by water droplets ;-)) Today it was drizzling and I just had to make some shots. Hope you like them too ;-))

From Keith Simmons I got this interesting information;-))
Indra's net (also called Indra's jewels or Indra's pearls) is a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of emptiness, dependent origination, and interpenetration in Buddhist philosophy.
"Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image." – Alan Watts
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Himanshu Agrawal told me that Indra is considered to be the god of rain and thunder in Indian mythology!
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  • Taken: Nov 2, 2013
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  • Updated: Sep 13, 2020