Tricycle Daily Dharma January 22, 2014
Imagination and Reality
Imagination
draws its energy from a confrontation with desire. It feeds off desire,
transmuting and magnifying reality through desire's power. Fantasy does
the opposite; it avoids desire by fleeing into a crude sort of
wish-fulfillment that seems much safer. Fantasy might be teddy bears,
lollipops, sexual delights, or superhero adventures; it also might be
voices in one's head urging acts of outrage and mayhem. Or it might be
the confused world of separation and fear we routinely live in, a
threatening yet seductive world that promises us the happiness we seek
when our fantasies finally become real. Imagination confronts desire
directly, in all its discomfort and intensity, deepening the world right
where we are. Fantasy and reality are opposing forces, but imagination
and reality are not in opposition: Imagination goes toward reality,
shapes and evokes it.
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- Norman Fischer, "Saved from Freezing"
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