If everything is imaginary, is Love also imaginary?

[FlowerNote]

If  we are talking non duality Love should then also be imaginary? Or am I getting lost in the semantics.

[electroBeam]

1 hour ago, FlowerNote said:

If  we are talking non duality Love should then also be imaginary? Or am I getting lost in the semantics.

 

[Marianitozz]

Everything is the manifestation of love. The essence of love is mysterious. you can say it exists or not but you can t prove it, just experience it.

[Leo Gura]

No!

Love is the process of Infinite Imagination itself.

[traveler]

2 hours ago, FlowerNote said:

If  we are talking non duality Love should then also be imaginary? Or am I getting lost in the semantics.

Non duality points to the end of real duality, but you don't become something called non dual, it is non dual because it points to the unknowability of what is when it is not dual. Unconditional love fits well.

Edited August 15, 2020 by traveler

[Exystem]

1 minute ago, Exystem said:

Love is the joy of reproduction and reunification, the realization of something/everything beeing part of the Self, the unconditional acceptance of all the appearances, the wishless bliss of infinite beauty and intelligence, the benevolence towards one Self.
On the "highest" nondual metalevel there is no Love towards anything, since Love is an expression of this fundamental reality. Love is kind of part of the highest level itself, so it's more a property than a function. At the same time there is Love towards everything, since everything is unconditionally accepted and everything "within" it reproduces and reunites, everything is part of it, everything is an expression of infinite beauty and intelligence.
Love is insofar imaginary as you are talking about ego-love which implies the opposite, hatred/ignorance/fear or however you like to call it. This little love is only what your bodymind is capable to embrace, which is a little slice of existence. It is an imaginary distinction within consciousness.
But Love has no opposite. It's the same with Life. The opposite of death is birth, Life has no opposite.
Death and birth are imaginary, Life is not.

 

[Ellenier]

2 hours ago, FlowerNote said:

If  we are talking non duality Love should then also be imaginary? Or am I getting lost in the semantics.

If love would be just an emotion happening inside a human being, then yes, love would be imaginary as every other emotion and every other sensation as well. 

Thankfully love is not an emotion of a human being, it's actually the reason and the "engine" of creation(=imagination) itself.

The love you might feel for another person is just a tiny sliver of this infinite love and you just misinterpret it as the experience of an emotion, while it's actually your true nature.

[James123]

2 hours ago, FlowerNote said:

If  we are talking non duality Love should then also be imaginary? Or am I getting lost in the semantics.

Love is infinite forms except formlessness. Non duality (formlessness) nothing is exist except you, because you are nothing, therefore nothing or you does not exist at the same time. Love is still a form of nothingness. You are nothing in the fist place and still, therefore absolute, and because of that love or infinite love. By the way, if you never learn what human,  life, enlightenment, universe, and love, you can never know what they are. But only thing that you can not learn and know is you, because you are already you. 
 

 

[SoonHei]

@FlowerNote you can understand it this way:

 

Everything is like Sandcastles.

Love is the Sand which the sandcastles are made out of.

 

And saying "Everything is imaginary" is really saying Everything is temporary (not permanent) so,

Sandcastles are temporary... a huge wave comes and wipes them away... Leaving behind only Love/Sand.

 

Love/Sand is permanent/real.

Everything/Sandcastles is imaginary/temporary/unreal.

[Inliytened1]

10 hours ago, FlowerNote said:

If  we are talking non duality Love should then also be imaginary? Or am I getting lost in the semantics.

imagination is second order.  Love with a capital L is first order.  The container.  It is identical to Being/Actuality/Infinity.

Imagination is duality as it is comprised of distinctions or differences.  Love is non-duality or the container of duality.  Imagination spawns from Love - or form spawns from formlessness.   And yet the second order is made of the first order - making it indistinguishable once you are conscious of both.

[Danioover9000]

@FlowerNote

10 hours ago, FlowerNote said:

If  we are talking non duality Love should then also be imaginary? Or am I getting lost in the semantics.

   As it is, it isn't imaginary, until the mind creates stories around non-duality love, which is most of the time. 

   Yes, you're lost, I'm lost and everyone's lost in semantics. 

[Johnny5]

What else is there but semantics to be lost in...

[anaj]

"Imaginary" just means that those perceptions that seem to represent something objectively real aren't really representing anything external at all, since objective reality is merely fictional. Love however, is subjective to begin with; it doesn't appear to reference something external to us in the first place, so the notion of "imaginary" doesn't really apply. 

[Danioover9000]

 @anaj 

4 hours ago, anaj said:

"Imaginary" just means that those perceptions that seem to represent something objectively real aren't really representing anything external at all, since objective reality is merely fictional. Love however, is subjective to begin with; it doesn't appear to reference something external to us in the first place, so the notion of "imaginary" doesn't really apply. 

   If anyone here hasn't studied and done practices with Tulpamancy, then there's already a high chance of getting .lost.

[Forestluv]

@FlowerNote  If everything is imaginary, then there is no longer any thing imaginary or non-imaginary. . . There would be nothing to contrast imaginary with and that concept would collapse. 

[Johnny5]

If everything is imaginary, maybe it means that we simply love to imagine stuff.