THE WORD IS NOT THE THING.
Minds can get root-bound and compacted with opposite thinking, devising, knowing, and concluding. But the dualizing, symbolic word-smithing mind cannot ever realize what IS. ~ The word is not the thing. The word ‘glass‘ does not hold water (the ancient metaphor for truth)
Love has no opposite; it’s not a thing, a feeling. Love, like awareness, IS. In ‘normal’ personal experiencing from duality (life as it’s apparently lived) there’s no direct knowing of what is reality; most live in their own fantasy bubble where there’s just conditioned projection of beliefs, fears and desires – sensations, thoughts, and feelings that preoccupy and veil reality; that seemingly make up ‘my‘ personally packaged ‘reality‘.
~ Q: “Even non-personal awareness still looks from somewhere.” Yes, in fact, that non-personal ‘looking’ is living awareness. Life. Energy. ~ There’s no looker/seer, nothing looked at/seen – just pure delight looking/seeing. Or, more precisely, a seeing/doing. Loving. Being. In aware acting in the unknown present, there’s a seeing/doing, thought-free response expressing what one IS – love, loving.
~ To name “what is” is to totally not see reality, to prejudicially filter and ‘name’ it something else, according to the mind’s verbal conditioning. Names posit ‘as if’ they know. Words talk ‘about’ what is real; at best, they’re totally limited to some vague or seemingly astute pointing.
~ With AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, society may be much, much more overwhelmed with giga-words that isolate with names, and become nearly completely, mechanically, verbal, such that mankind loses the ‘kind’ bit and becomes deeply dulled and reality-deficient. (I rarely speculate, but this just arose. There’s not much worth the sayin’ in speculating or storytelling. I prefer talking about non-personal facts, the relevant, the present, in fact.
Love, and be well.
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