Illusions, illusions...

[Unbound]

The "illusion of maya" represents the the archetype of insanity as insanity is, I believe, defined as continuing to do the same thing while expecting different results. Therefore, it is our attachment to our own patterns of personality and bias which keep us locked in the illusion, and we enter the illusion again and again in this manner. That is why some traditions such as Buddhism talk about release from the cycles of samsara and reincarnation because until we are conscious enough to choose our own manner of incarnation or conscious embodiment we are perpetually drawn in to our 'karmic patterns' which really are our patterns of choosing.

If we keep making the same choices in the same way we develop a habit. Some habits are healthy and empowering, others drain us on a day to day basis. It is the attachment to unhealthy (health comes from a word meaning 'whole', so unhealthy means fragmentation or self-separation, not whole) habits which keep us continuously confusing ourselves.

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I think what most people would call insanity I would actually think of as "pure spontaneity". Insanity isn't about chaos or lack of control, its about the perpetuation of a cyclic pattern without awareness.

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From one trap to the next but traps are for the mind and the mind in its natural state is empty, so the trap is not really a trap at all except when considered to be a trap, which becomes a thing in the mind and it is no longer empty and is therefore trapped in itself, by itself.

In terms of individual subjective perception, yeah lol
I'm an INTP as well by the way, *hi five*

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