Avalokiteshvara

Yet another religious linguistic incarnation of teshara

Apparently, as I have just discovered -by accident-, my surname Teshara is a part of the word used to describe the bodhisattva of wisdom and compassion, Avolokiteshvara, widely revered in both Mahayana and Tibetan forms. It links my name to Loki, a Norse god, and avav, a word in Idiom Neutral, a language with 22 letters, meaning loved.

That is, to quote from the 1902 dictionary: ".(b) pluperfect the imperfect of avar, eg mi avav am«/, I had loved. (c) future perfect the future of a\ar, eg mi a\ero amed, I shall have loved. § 41. Also, used in: mi avav esed amed, I had been loved. Future : mi esero amed, I shall be loved. Future Perfect : mi avero esed amed, I shall have been loved."

The world never ceases to be amazing, and intimately personal.

I hope I live up to my name. Maybe it's part of why I am how I am. Anyhow.

Regarding "wisdom," the bible says in Ecclesiastes 1:18 "For in much wisdom is much grief. And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow." I don't buy this. I've always liked learning. Perhaps at the expense of greater joys, who's to say. But if you don't know certain things (i.e. medical information, for example), ignorance can be miserable. If there is an omniscient God, he must be the most miserable person alive. They say God wants us to be happy. Why then, for a Buddhist, is the ultimate goal making yourself free from suffering (at the expense of helping others, a bodhisattva)? Perhaps all is, as the "the Preacher" says, vanity, absurdity, frustration, futility, nonsense: What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered." This statement is itself nonsense. I'll devote my next post to it.