Friday, 12 September 2025

Threes

Rereading There Will Be Time, we come again to the Maurai Triad which we have compared to:

the Hindu Trimurti
the Christian Trinity
the Three of Ys
the Triple Goddess

We should also mention:

the three Norns or Fates
the Buddhist Triple Body
the Buddhist Three Jewels
the Hindu Sat Cit Ananda (corresponds to one interpretation of the Christian Trinity)

The Three Jewels are neither three beings nor one triple being but Buddha, Dharma and Sangha but it has been pointed out to me that, in their broadest senses, the Buddha is all reality, the Dharma is all experience and the Sangha is all beings. I am getting with that right now.

This has taken us away from Poul Anderson's text, of course, but Anderson's texts do that, bring up every other subject.

Tomorrow will be a day trip from Lancaster to London, time-consuming and tiring. Expect no posts.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Do you take trains going to London or a bus? I used trains going to Birmingham and York.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

I prefer train. I have never in my life driven to or through London and nowadays no longer have a car. However, tomorrow I will be with a bunch of people in a hired coach.

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

For fairly long journeys trains make sense. And if you are not familiar with the layout of London I can see it being a nightmare driving thru it. And I used the Underground, most times, to get around London.

I think what you called "coaches" is what we call "buses" in the US.

No flying cars yet, of the kind we see in Chapter 1 of ENSIGN FLANDRY. Pity!

Ad astra! Sean

Ad astra! Sean