Metaphors For Nondualisms
- Jewel Net of Indra, Avatamsaka Sutra
- Blind men and an elephant
- Eclipse
- Hermaphrodite, e.g. Ardhanārīśvara
- Mirror and reflections, as a metaphor for the continuum of the subject-object in the mirror-the-mind and the interiority of perception and its illusion of projected exteriority
- Great Rite
- Sacred marriage
- Marriage
- Sexual union, as well as orgasm
- Water-and-wave, Awakening of Mahayana Faith
- Nonduality of rays-of-the-sun or sunrays from the Sun, Lankavatara Sutra
- A lamp that self-illuminates as it illumines, for apperception or reflexive awareness
- A lamp and its light, Platform Sutra a metaphor for Essence-Function where Essence is lamp and Function is light
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