Maya, The World Of Illusion
Maya means illusion. Your perception of the world is based on illusion. But how does it work and why is it like that? Everything we perceive is based on personal depended observation. Knowing this fact we realize that nothing is hundred percent certain and factual and everything is only temporary. Are we the only creatures in the universe with a conscious of this illusion?
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MAYA MAYA means illusion I have chosen to use this simple Indian word over the English version,
As maya has been used for thousands of years by many experts of the mind.
Everything we perceive is based on personal dependent observation.
All our senses are the source of information we receive every day.
During our life we build a personal database in our brain of combinations where we connect information with emotions,
Events,
Actions,
Reactions and so on.
This is called memory but is not an exact copy of the observations and facts that we make in our life.
Everything we observe is placed within a cader,
We understand and we accept.
If our brain does not take this action we would be busy all the time with the question,
Is this really,
Is this true,
What do I need now,
How do I have to make my interpretation and so on.
Our senses give uncensored vision to our brain.
There we add more information to become aware of what our senses have registered.
After this we are able to react on what we became aware of.
But each perceived piece of information is temporary and based on the moment.
Everything is in a constant chains.
Krishnamurti mentioned that the only universal constant is chains.
Knowing this fact we realize that nothing is 100% certain and factual and everything is only temporary.
Every action in our life is based on time but time is a very relative truth.
Our personal clock takes 25 hours,
That is considered our biological clock.
The day to day clock that we always watch is only 24 hours.
The sun,
The star systems,
The galaxy and the universes all have different time levels and they use time completely different.
It is impossible to combine our personal time frame with these of the almighty powers around us.
Time is relative to every organism.
A smaller organism with a shorter life span than the human being will perceive this life span not equal the way that we do it.
When we look at microorganisms time is divided in seconds if refer to our time.
It is still a guess but I think that the smaller the organism the different they experience time in relation to our time.
And there is no end to time variations.
Time is a human invention and very relative to the observer but we have to work with it and to make it and use it to make our life organized.
We need time.
Now you understand that time in itself is an illusion.
Our registration of what we consider the truth is never a rock solid effect.
Maja refers to the illusion of our daily observation and experiences.
Everything we do has a direct effect on our life,
Our balance,
Our personality.
It is important we realize how we build a future on this illusion that is called our life.
Nobody wants to live in an illusion as it feels very insecure.
So how can we control it?
To understand our position we have to look into the animal world.
Each animal is born as a part of the food chain.
There seems to be no higher person for their living.
It seems to be born to continue the race and to be the source of food for others.
To continue their race.
A circle of life that continues since earth started to exist.
We do not expect consciousness from animals but is that true?
An animal knows affection,
Energy and rankings,
Knows to spot danger and act on it,
Has emotions of several kinds and many more features we humans also have.
This gives us food for thought.
When we look closer we think that animals react by instinct and not after careful consideration.
It does not look back in the past and has memories to recall events.
Animals learn to repeat actions over and over until it becomes a part of their routine or instinct.
They copy the behavior of parents and superiors in their group and never from the lower levels.
An animal sets no target in life other than multiplication and survival.
And that happens till they are killed or die of old age.
A big difference between human and animals is the fact that we are born helpless.
After birth we take years before we are able to be independent while any animal must become independent in weeks or months after birth.
We are dependent on good care otherwise we die.
During life we continue to develop some form of dependency on others and continue to do so until we die.
Our human race is poorly built without any form of physical protection against attacks.
Our flesh and blood offers no defense whatsoever.
That is why we learn fighting arts and we produce weapons to defend ourselves and become stronger.
The majority of human tribe disapprove with any form of violence and refuse the use of weapons or ways to protect themselves seriously.
Most are weak and unprotected and if in danger they are hopelessly lost in fear.
They have the illusion that they are living in a safe world protected by others and when confronted with violence they are shocked and traumatized.
But the world is ruled by nature which is uncontrolled,
Destructive and which has no mercy or fear.
Nature rules as a dictator and dominates all what is living and loving without any regards of who is who.
Violence is a part of nature,
Of the universe,
Our world and mankind for reasons of building it up and destruction.
Our world in peace is an illusion,
Harmony is an illusion and we call it Maya to show it as a part of the bigger universal system.
But we also have an internal part of Maya.
Our sleep is an important part of the Maya system.
During our sleep we organized the events of the day in a structure order unique to mankind and each person.
During the organization the weak points are spotted and sometimes reflected in your dreams.
Our brain prepares protection structures for the day to come and it does a small brain reset to wipe out useless information and memories and bring other memories to the long term storage and cleans the ready to use parts.
You can compare it with a hard drive of a computer.
When you are working on a computer it places all the information first randomly on the disk and when you start saving it,
It will organize all into a file in good order.
But it is a fact that more and more people cannot catch enough sleep and miss the important cleaning part.
When sleep is often a problem the brain becomes overloaded and dirty which results in more problems than only a sleep disorder.
The so called free organized information starts running around the brain and disturbing many processes which leads to illusions.
And on the other hand,
Maya can become a good helper or even an opponent.
Maya in fighting art is a helper and a danger.
When we practice kata or shadow fight exercises we do need the illusion of an opponent and make use of it for our own benefit.
We create opponents who does not exist and test our reflexes on never existing objects.
Each move is carefully designed to mimic a situation of the past but does not come closer to a real situation.
The theory is made to improve many skills.
It is important to use the illusion of Maya in a kata to perform well.
And on the other hand it is possible Maya becomes a danger.
When you realize that Maya is an illusion you are able to use it in full and incorporate it in your training.
Visualization is the use of Maya in practice.
The art of visualization is to bring an illusion to life by bringing memory,
Fantasy and goal together into a fantastic situation.
Being able to visualize a situation gives you advantage on others who are not able to do so.
Maya has many good and bad sides but when you realize the existence you can implement it in your life as a practical solution to many problems.
There are many situations you can apply it on and probably you do so already.
Such as in intimate situations,
Sport practice,
When you reach a school or office result,
During research and in so many other situations.
Maya is a part of our human life and it brings us a lot when we are aware of it.
Listen a few times to this podcast as there are many hidden secrets in Maya and listen will allow you to take the maximum results of it.
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