diff --git a/content_blog/algorithmancy/theravada.mkd b/content_blog/algorithmancy/theravada.mkd index ec83e53..ec04d52 100644 --- a/content_blog/algorithmancy/theravada.mkd +++ b/content_blog/algorithmancy/theravada.mkd @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ episteme: :speculation Just realized something listening to a [Bhikkhu Bodhi talk][Bodhi talk]. -Theravada Buddhism has a fundamental Big World cosmology, a multiverse full with an enormous numbers of worlds, existing for enormous time periods, all condemned to suffering until a Buddha arises and liberates that particular world (or rather, only a small subset of it). +Theravada Buddhism has a fundamental Big World cosmology, a multiverse full with an enormous number of worlds, existing for enormous time periods, all condemned to suffering until a Buddha arises and liberates that particular world (or rather, only a small subset of it). Previously, I thought that's just a weird bit of mythology, or a claim to authenticity (we go back to the rare Buddha, you don't) dressed up in sci-fi terms. But I'm getting the impression it's weirder than that.