TU-SHUN

TU-SHUN was very confusing to me when I first read it, but when I opened my mind and read it the second time more slowly I began to make connections. It was really interesting and profound what this person had to say.
To me TU-SHUN was talking about how we are all interconnected in everyway possible, “because the jewels are clear, they reflect one another’s images.” Each one of us is a jewel in the imperial net of jewels. We all have an effect on each other whether we realize it or not. It could be something big like WWI or WWII, or something small like Pay it Forward. If you do something for someone and then they do something for someone else pretty soon it will have an affect on the whole community; there is a bigger picture out there and the universe does not revolve around us, we just play a small part in that bigger picture. It may have started somewhere but we may not have a clue as to where, “the ‘universal eye’ is the union of knowledge and reality” it has to do with believing even if we ourselves don’t see it. It could be history repeating itself like how Gandhi helped obtain India’s independence from Britain peaceful and without violence and how Martin Luther King Jr. obtained freedom for all without the use of violence. I think that the jewels are a symbol for our being or our spiritual belief and if we try leaving that jewel we will lose ourselves that is the reason for being able to see all the other jewels but if we try leaving we would be lost. I also think that the one main jewel described in the question: “If there is only one jewel, how can you speak of tying it into a net” is a symbol of the universe and God or a creator because without them there would be no us, we are a result of the universe and God.