# Buddhism *kalpa* - cosmic cycle lasting 4,320,000,000 years - has connotation of a child's repetitive play - time forgotten (time flies when you're having fun?) - results in *moksha*, "liberation" - a lived experience rather than expression of a philosophy *atma-jnana*: self-knowledge *atma-bodha*: self-awakening Who am I when no longer identified with roles, conventional definitions of personhood? Descriptions of this experience only described in mystical terms: * "I am Brahman" (*aham brahman*) * "That art thou" (*tat tvam asi*) * suggests *atma-jnana* is realization of original identity with [[God]] * does not imply that we are God in the Judeo-Christian sense