popeye1945 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:25 pm
Dontaskme,
Hate is not an expression of love nor is it love's opposite, the real opposite of love is indifference and in some circumstances, it is the most violent unresponse to that of care or love. It is baren of emotions or feelings, awareness however is a prerequisite to indifference some people would attribute indifference to nature but nature is unaware of you and cares only for species.
I get what you are saying and in a sense I agree - However, Reality, or the nature of life in and of itself, never asks 'any of us' to hate or love each other. Life doesn't judge, or have any expectation or intention not to be, or to be, anything other than what it is without judgement. Nature does not ask of anything, nature just is.
Human emotion on the other hand, are reactions to external stimuli, they are knee jerk instant responses to what is in essence an indifferent non-dual reality.
Within the mental sphere of ''thought' within conscious awareness of self, is when the knowledge of opposites comes into play, where projections are superimposed onto what in reality is indifferent.
Where there becomes a love for one feeling over another, where there is favor for one feeling above and beyond another, disregarding the other in favor for the favored feeling. But these are simply 'human projections' and NOT THERE in reality itself.
I do not know if I am making any sense here pop...but I'm simply trying to put what I mean into words.
Maybe this quote helps...in describing what it is I'm trying to say...I'm not sure.
popeye1945 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:25 pm Hatred is at times care in the face of indifference, indifference violets care/love but hatred is pain, the pain only a great violation evokes with perhaps an admixture of fear for one is in a cold indifferent world and perhaps suddenly. There is a saying, love knows no pain but that is where there is mutual love, where you have love experiencing the indifference of other or others this a world of pain. Hatred is pains reaction to indifference.
COME OVER TO THE DARK SIDE, WE HAVE CANDY!!