Dislike is hate
(and hostility is violence)
There’s no such thing as ”positive dislike”
Dislike is always negative is destructive
Criticism is negative is destructive
Constructive is love
Constructive is creation of more of that which you love, more of that which is love-ly
Creation of love-ly things is not an act of disliking, antipathy
It feels like love, like love-making, like the most lovely-thing, like being in love,
There’s no attention given to what is “disliked”
To say “I dislike something” is to say “part of me is DEAD”
The part of you which could love (something) and give love and create love — that part is dead
That part is not being creative, it is not a creative entity
It’s dead
That part is instead focused on DISLIKE
That’s what is being perceived
That is the entirety of that part of you — DISLIKE, DESTRUCTION
The moment you say “I dislike X” is the moment you’re are disliking, uncreative, destructive,
At that moment, if you died, it would be written on your grave that your last words were “I dislike X”,
Your life is but a collection of moments,
Every moment you dislike something is the moment you write on your own grave what DEFINED YOU in this lifetime,
It was some of your pristine attention, focus, energy, devoted to DISLIKING
This is why there’s no such thing as a “positive” dislike
There is no such thing as a “justified” dislike
It’s not a fucking matter of “preference”, as you may naively believe
Preference is merely strategic choosing between things you love, with specific purpose in mind.
It does not necessitate any dislike taking place
I mean it literally: don’t say “I DISLIKE X”,
Don’t say it like it’s some matter of fact
You take it for granted your own negativity, violence, antipathy,
You can’t take it for granted
There’s no time! You will die soon and you must choose what you have focused on
on that which you love
or on whatever’s left, that you take for granted
There’s NOTHING trivial about saying “I dislike that”,
There’s NOTHING obvious in it,
There’s NOTHING concrete about it
Nothing real about it, nothing concrete about it — BESIDES your attention, your attitude
THAT is real. Your attention to the disliked, unwanted, unappreciated, loathed
And nothing else is real,
What is it that’s so real about your “DISLIKE” for something…?
If I asked you you wouldn’t even be able to explain it,
You’d give reasons,
“I dislike it because of this and that reason”,
I’d ask why are those reasons so important,
You’d give more reasons,
You’d give more reasons and I’d ask more questions,
You wouldn’t get very deep because there’s NOTHING DEEP about WHY you dislike something,
It’s a BAD habit. It’s a LEARNED NEGATIVITY.
You wouldn’t give a deep philosophical explanation, deep moral or spiritual explanation. And even if you would — that would be even easier to undermine — picking ANY fucking counter-theory and counter-belief, which our culture is ABOUND with
There’s nothing “real” about your DISLIKE, your antipathy — only your negative, unconstructive attitude, perception,
You have been infected by a maladaptive schema, by a malicious virus