Lets start from beginning, Maya-We know the word. WE know that it is regularly defined
as illusion. But what is the illusion? Albert Einstein Believed That a “Deeper,
more complex theory” of reality would one day emerge from his equations, that
the intuitive reality we define with our senses, memory and mental ability is
reality that is limited by that intuition.
The fact that most people believe in the afterlife, and/or
undiscovered laws underlying reality, confirms our expectation of deeper
meaning-a greater and more profound reality than the one we presently live in.
What we call “life” by this measure is a mere fragment of living, and why do we
persist in living extraordinarily small lives?
1. Greater Vision
Wouldn’t it be to
our benefit escape Maya’s tentacle grip and emerge refreshed with a greater
vision of our individual and collective potential- a visual of life and reality
free of contradiction, Accident and deceit?
Indeed, it would
be to our benefit, but the motivation needed to cross Maya’s ready but unseeded land is a
difficult separation to accommodate. To give less attention to who and what
we are, and more attention to what we are not, can become- to recklessly disclaiming association with ego myopia(can see closer object only, not able to see far away object) and all its attendant identities-requires a persistence recognition
of identity insignificance.
But no one wants
to think of himself as not existing, as having little or no value. And we need
not to do so because our value is in rejecting the myopic of ego constraints,
not embracing them. To think we are given greater value by what we are than by
what we can become is an error of perception that can be corrected by minimizing
fear of insignificance the fear of individual dissolution.
2.Identity Attachment
However, minimizing
fear of insignificance, even in its most simplified forms, requires persistent
effort. To see through ourselves into a world without us in it is not a vision
sculpted by the faint of heart. But fear of a loss of “I” is as much as
illusion as “I” itself .For this reason we can minimize identity attachment to “I”.
To ego myopia-we can evolve beyond identity limitations-beyond the mechanics of
man.
3.Thought Experiments
One method, or exercise,
we can use to expand perception, while minimizing attachment to perception,
derives from “thought experiments”, imagining what ifs. Consider, for example,
a counter intuitive point of view-that of the human species near the end of its
life, eons from today.
After all
present-day definitions of humanness are forgotten, Will individuals within the
species, near the end of human existence, see themselves as human?
Would we define
ourselves as human today if we had no need to sleep, eat or remove waste from
our bodies, if we were made more of parts made by man than parts made by
nature?
4.Artificial intelligence
Just as we are
creating artificial intelligence below us, is the human species creating artificial
intelligence below it? Are we that artificial intelligence, the artificial
intelligence we believe we are creating/ Can we define Maya as human
intelligence?
Maya free means viewing
ourselves from a point of view which provides the means of seeing ourselves and
through us simultaneously, one that is free of Attachment. It is an incremental
step away from the oppression of ego myopia.
"Noting goes beyond one's own created illusions-by J.S."If You like this please share, or you can tell your review by commenting below.
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