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The essence of creativity and
creation is duality. It is the choice of options. If you haven’t
notice, there is always a choice between two options. This choice is
the essence of creativity. There is a never ending dance of duality
between two states or choices.
As a minimum there is the choice to go or not to go on the journey
to explore our creativity. There is the choice to be different and
to be an original or to be the same as everyone else. There is the
choice to deny or not to deny the information that challenges our
beliefs about the world and how it works. There is a choice to deny
or not to deny the energy and feelings within our being. We have a
choice as to how we will tell
our story or not to tell our story. We then have the choice as
to how we can tell our story. We can tell it is as a victim or as
the creator. We always have the choice for or against.
People like to think things are not
black and white and that there are gray areas and there is
always an option which exists between the black and the white.
However, that is not really true. There is only the illusion that
there is a gray area and we are not moving in one direction or the
other.
In actually there is only being in the duality of separation. We are
choosing “either this,” “or that.” However we choose to be in the
duality or out of the duality in oneness and choosing “neither.”
Most of our choices cause us to live in separation moving between
opposites. However, do have the choice to live in such a way that we
either move towards separation or away from separation toward
oneness.
In duality, there is only an instant in time where we are not going
away or toward something It is that moment, that instant, where we
are changing directions between going toward and going away. All
that a gray area is is a position in between going towards or away.
Buy our choice will always have a direction associated to it. That
direction is more essential than people are aware for it determines
what side of the duality we favor.
Everything of the physical plane and of Creation, is a dance between
the “either” and “or.” It is the tension between the “either-or”
that supplies the energy that keeps the flow of life in motion. It
is like
the way we walk in life. We go into and out of balance. If we
are too far out of balance we fall. If we don’t go out of balance at
all, we remain stationary. To walk is to be in the gray area. The
gray area is the walk. It is the dance between the two opposites of
going into and out of balance.
It is the tensions between the opposites that give the motion to the
universe and it is the tension between the opposites in our life
that give motion and direction to our life. If we look carefully at
dance between “either” and “or,” and realize that we need to walk or
dance between the “either” and “or,” we can find creative solutions
to any problem or issue we face.
Every creation creates its opposite or an opposite. Every creation
has its mirror image that which is a reflection of the creation.
Each thought will have a opposite thought. Each physical form will
have its mirror. The reason for this is that every creation starts
with a choice, the choice to choose to create, but it also creates
the condition of not choosing.
As discussed in the phenomenon of
Pair
production, the manifestation of a creation causes a “hole” to
exist from that which the creation manifested. Even if you take a
cup of water from an infinite sea and the sea fills the hole, there
is something missing from the infinite sea. The sea is no longer
whole until you put the cup of water back into the sea. The
wholeness exists with the sea and the cup together no matter how far
apart we separate the sea and the cup of water.
In realizing the existence of the duality of ever creation, we only
need to realize from which position of the duality we are viewing
the creation. We are always viewing the issue form one side or the
other of the duality. For example, the individuation of “I” creates
that which is “not I.” The identification or claiming “that which is
mine”or what we possess creates “that which is not mine” or that
which we do not possess. Good creates evil. Right creates wrong.
Anything you name we create that which is not contained within the
name or outside the name. Anything you can “be” we create “not be.”
Once we created the duality, we can then view the creation from one
of three views. We can view it from within the creation, from within
its opposite or mirror, or you can transcend the creation and its
opposite and look at the pair. For example, in the “I - not I”
duality, we can view from the first position of “I” or “this is me.”
Or we can view it from the second position of “not I” or this is
“not me.” Or, there is the third position of transcendence above the
duality and look at the pair “I - not I” or ”me-not me.” This third
position, the transcendent position is to realize we the “I” or “me”
is only a role within the duality. How we define the “I” or “me” is
really arbitrary. There are an infinite number of possibilities that
we can choose from. However, we normally choose to define ourselves
based only on what we have experience and then a limited set of
those experience. Rarely do we look what the composite of all that
we have experienced and all that humanity has experience as
representative of the essence of which each of us are. We forget
that we could play any role that any human has played.
The
creative/creation process that we experience as a human in the
physical world can be reduced to a two step process. It starts in
the mind and we can see this process when we tell
our story. Think back to how we viewed the
story of our life. Do we view it as the circumstances of life
happening to us personally or did we see ourselves as a player in a
larger drama such that what happened to us was not so much personal
but rather we were just part of the hole scene?
For example, when we were tell our story and we feel someone hurts
us, were they hurting us personally with the intention of hurting is
as the person we are, or were they so frustrated and angry with life
and we were only a convenient scapegoat that they could point to as
the cause of their anger and frustration? All anger and frustration
comes from within the individual. Any time any one points to someone
outside themselves they are only looking for a scapegoat for the
disarray of their own internal state. We do have the choice as to
which view we will take. The question is which view do we take.
To access the necessary creativity for what we desire to create, it
is essential to know where we are in the
creative/creation process at any point in time for the aspect we
wish to change. We need to look to see if we have somehow placed
ourselves in our current situation or has something external to us
caused our current situation. In looking at an external cause we do
need to realize of course, the seeds that we planted for how we
wanted our life to unfold may not be recognizable in its fruit
.
The two key steps in any creation are as follows. First, there is
the creation or formulation of the thought or seed which starts the
process. Unless we have created that though in the transcendental
view discussed above, that thought will causes the formation of a
duality which consists of the though that we have and it opposite.
Both will manifest in our life. Unless we are aware of that fact, we
will find ourselves facing an external duality
The second part of creation is the execution and unfoldment of the
thought which will mean the opposite of that thought also manifests.
What we often fail to consider is the unpleasantness of life that we
face is only be the manifesting of our original thought meeting its
counterpart that we created. Of ten the unpleasantness in life is
only the two
coming together to annihilate each other. What the unfoldment of
any thought will actually look like will depend from which view we
choose to watch or experience the unfoldment. We need to remember
there are
multiple perspectives from which to view the
creative/creation process. Some view are more pleasant than
others. The recommendation made here is that we choose our thoughts
and a perspective that allows us to create
a life worth living and something that
truly serves who and what we are.
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