Phillozofee�s Kōan #2 � Imagination

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Phillozofee’s Kōan #2 �" Imagination

Imagination is the ability of forming images or concepts in the mind that are not actually present to the senses. It helps provide a meaning to experience; an understanding to knowledge and is a fundamental facility, which allows us to make sense our existence and to coalesce into a picture, the things that we touch, see and hear.

It enhances our perceptions, be they novel, hypothetical, curious, fantastical, rousing, inventive, creative, technical, psychological, metaphorical, productive, entertaining or constructive.

It is a multifaceted innate ability which takes partial or complete personal realms within the mind and produces great works of inspirational inventions, stories or fantasies.

Is it our 'Mind's Eye'?

Phillozofee @2008

Author's Note

A koan is a story, dialogue, question, or statement in the history and lore of Ch�n (Zen) Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet may be accessible to intuition. A famous koan is: "Two hands clap and there is a sound; what is the sound of one hand?" (Oral tradition, attributed to Hakuin Ekaku, 1686-1769, considered a reviver of the koan tradition in Japan).

Reviews

[Gandré]

I like to see with eagle's eye....I often write about it, what might have the same purpose your koan is about... the imagination reveals what the world could be but not is....it is a sum of comparitions we experienced before, it is an outlook what the world could be but isn't at the moment. Imagination is essential for every poet. Great statements. Thanks for remembering me. loved this.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

A good description of the imagination. Or a well imagined description, I might say.