hmm? child? mahamaya? I don't get it... :( Are you saying that it was easier when you were a child, and you're trying to not forget how to dream, and harness that strength to face today's challenges? No clue :|
actually i meant sitting beside a literal child - as in, being around kids, realizing that humanity came in waves before you and will continue to come after you, that our subjective individual experiences seem like the be-all and end-all of everything, but we lose track of that which can be shared across generations, or simply across the gaps that separate people from one another.
it was kind of a personal meditation, i just posted it on a whim because it was simultaneously more positive and less detailed than most of the stuff that usually comes out when i sit down to write. "mahamaya" is a buddhist/hindu concept meaning "great illusion" and refers to the idea that the material world is illusory, meant to distract us from the divine reality that we are all one, and one with the universe. in buddhism, the "self" is part of that mahamaya, and is cast away when you reach enlightenment... but it gets very complicated because "illusory" doesn't necessarily mean "unreal" and indeed, to anyone trapped in illusion, the illusion is very real
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it was kind of a personal meditation, i just posted it on a whim because it was simultaneously more positive and less detailed than most of the stuff that usually comes out when i sit down to write. "mahamaya" is a buddhist/hindu concept meaning "great illusion" and refers to the idea that the material world is illusory, meant to distract us from the divine reality that we are all one, and one with the universe. in buddhism, the "self" is part of that mahamaya, and is cast away when you reach enlightenment... but it gets very complicated because "illusory" doesn't necessarily mean "unreal" and indeed, to anyone trapped in illusion, the illusion is very real ( ... )
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