For some reason this world famous nursery rhyme came to my mind.
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream
I always wondered about the phrase Life is but a dream. It suddenly struck me that this must be what in Mahayana (great vehicle, sometimes boat) buddhism is called śūnyatā – void, unreal or non-existent. It’s kind of a peculiar thing to teach to children that everything you see is really non-existent. On the other hand, for children this might just not be so very strange after all. Children are curious and crave the answers to questions most adults stopped asking a long time ago.
I grew up in the countryside, far away from the disturbing pinkish city lights. The sky were as black as black can be. In winter people living in the northern regions do not see very much of the sun, but that didn’t use to bother us. We went for long walks only guided by the light from the distant stars above. I remember when my dad once pointed at the sky and told me that when we look into space we look back in time because the light that hits the human eye on Earth has been travelling for so long that we only see ancient pictures of stars that existed millions of years ago and might even ceased to exist by now.
I thought about this for a while and just made it part of my view of the world. A creature standing today on a planet far far away, about 4.5 billion light years away looking in our direction with a high tech telescope would be able to see the astonishing birth of our solar system. In the beam of light information is stored for eternity unless something is blocking it’s way. Amazingly enough there are such gaps in space reaching back almost to the birth of the universe. The Hubble telescope was directed towards a spot like this and was able to see 13 billion years back in time. This is a concept that is best if understood in an early age otherwise difficult philosophical questions appear. What am I in all of this? Is my contribution to the universe information in a hand full a light beams rushing through the universe bearing witness of my existence millions of years ago? Merrily, merrily. Life is but a dream.
How does this relate to one of the previous posts? Maybe I’m slow… because I could’ve been on a differnet blog. lol Nevermind. At any rate, it was a solid post. Cya
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. (С) Twain
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