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Imagination
Jeroen
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlands Veteran
“Our only hope is to stop, to look, to understand, and to get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds imagination and imagination generates desire and fear.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj
Does imagination survive enlightenment? It seems to me the imagination feeds delusion and many other aspects of samsara, while insight and seeing things as they are are traits acquired on the path.
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I think we need to define the type of imagination you are specifically referring to. Imagination covers visualisation, which is often necessary, particularly while Metta meditating, for example...
While defining imagination is relatively easy, the real elephant in that sentence, in need of a description, is a non dualistic description of the enlightenment we are trying reference it to.
Do that and I think you'll soon find imagination to be just another collection of phenomena that simply arises, lives and departs, needing neither encouragement or banishment for enlightenment's sake.
Hmm where would we be without imagination...It's hard to imagine not having it...
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Livin' for today
Ah
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one