Up: [[Experiencing Time]] Related: [[Metaphor]] Created: 2022-06-13 A **kalpa** is a term used in Hindu writing to mean a period of four billion three hundred and twenty million years, which is a world cycle. Buddhists refer to a **maha kalpa** which is ten thousand times as long as a kalpa. A couple of examples of kalpas. These are great [[Metaphor]]s, making apparent [[Our Time in the Cosmos]]. Time it takes a dove to wear down an enormous granite mountain by passing over it every hundred years dragging a silk handkerchief in its beak Time it takes for a Himalayan buzzard to wear away Mount Everest brushing it once a century with its wing feather. > [!User] Stephen Levine, *A Year to Live*, p. 135