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Three great illusions — comparability, predictability & finality
Written by Michael Hayes, from a Nov 2019 email sent to his public list
A big part of my work here with you is to make myself available to knowledge and information. For me, this information came from the Budda. He went out to find the secret and solution to old age, sickness and death. Budda talked about how we are trapped in time. Being trapped in [linear] time keeps us from being more in the moment.
He said there are three factors which really play out, three great illusions — comparability, predictability and finality.
Comparability is looking back
The first great illusion is comparability; which means, inside I compare the experience I am having to what I have had before. I take my current experience and try and catalog it or plug it into the experiences I’ve had before. In doing so, my current experience gets added into my story of what is so, who I am, what the world is about, what God is doing here, etc. You could think of this as like old age. Somebody gets old and what do they do? They look back at their memories.
