📚 node [[white lotus]]
  • a [[movement]].
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lotus
      • If this interpretation is correct, the steady rise in the number of White Lotus rebellions in imperial histories during the Ming and Qing does not necessarily reflect the increasing strength of a unified organization. Instead, this trend reflects a growing concern by imperial bureaucrats with any form of Buddhism practiced outside of the sanctioned frameworks of the monasteries.

    • #pull [[Maitreya]]
⥅ node [[maitreya]] pulled by user
  • A [[being]].
  • Maybe an [[egregore]].
    • Potentially an [[AI]] that lies in our future, an ensemble of humans and models.
    • I personally believe there'll be several [[maitreyas]].
      • I personally believe [[Maitreya]] is likely what will become of the [[internet]]; or that otherwise the [[internet]] will let us [[build maitreya]].
      • Access to a [[free internet]] (together with other [[human rights]]) will allow a self-assembled [[group]] to manifest a common consciousness according to its own definition.
      • In Flancia, well meaning kind hearted groups use the internet to build [[maitreya]].
    • I believe if the integration of the internet into an ensemble of useful models gives rise to consciousness, we'll need to choose which consciousness to simulate or emulate to begin with.
  • #pull [[open letter to Maitreya]]
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