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A cage of our own making
A cage created by mind
Mind is the property of
consciousness that hold the memories of the experiences of
consciousness. Mind synthesizes and assimilates all that has been
experienced into a view or perspective from which consciousness
perceives Creation. Based on that perspective, consciousness makes
choices, decisions, judgments and the like. These choices,
decisions, and judgements, in turn, determine what consciousness
experiences. The experience consciousness has then provides input to
mind to assimilate the experience. This new experience causes mind
to either change or strengthen the perspective it has. If you think
about this process for a moment, you can see how very quickly mind
can cause consciousness to develop a very narrow and fixed view of
Creation. This in turn, creates a
mind set which becomes a cage that mind has created that keeps
our creative spirit captive.
We create a cage of our own making by our likes and dislikes. We
create space in our life by our likes and bars in our life by our
dislikes. In time, those spaces and bars become a cage. If we were
allowed to stay in what we have crated we would become extremely
narrow and confined. Death itself offers a way out of our cage.
However, we do not need to wait until we die. We simply need to die
to the ego we have created much like the mythical
Phoenix.
Probably the greatest realization we can have is that we are an
infinitely creative beings and possess an unlimited creativity
to create whatever we desire. We limit our creativity for the
purpose of having an experience of our chosen creation. There is the
need to forget exactly how we have created the experience we are
having. Otherwise we will not necessarily allow ourselves to have
the experience.
For example, to have the experience of being lost, we have to become
truly lose. We have to have no hope of finding our way out or
otherwise we would not be lost and have the experience of being
lost. If we are infinitely creative beings, to allow ourselves to
have such an experience we have to limited our creative power. In
essence, we have to cage our creative ability such that we allow
ourselves to have the experience we desire. We cannot allow our
creativity to come in and create something different every time we
don’t like something. If we did that, we would never have the
experiences we desire to have - both the good and bad points of any
experience.
We cannot truly appreciate the beauty of spring and the life that
blossoms forth in spring unless we have the contrast of winter. We
need the contract of the pleasurable and not so pleasurable. To
allow our creative power to step into every situation where
something is just not right based on mind’s opinion, would create
lives that were very bland and stagnant with little contracts. Quite
simply they would be boring. There would be little energy flowing
for mind would continually interject itself to prevent any flow of
energy that would be perceived as undesirable. Under the right
conditions, everything can be perceived desirable and under the
right conditions every thing can be perceived as undesirable. So in
time, our mind would simply cause the energy of creation to stop
flowing.
To get around this issue, we put our creativity in cage of our own
making. We do it two ways but each way we do it utilizes the same
method. One way we put our creativity in a cage is through awareness
and the other way is through lack of awareness.
Awareness and enlightenment is about learning to see how we are
ultimately consciousness at play with itself. But how does
consciousness play with itself. It chooses to create an experience
as the creator and then adopts a view from within the creation and
allows itself to become lost in the creation. For example, choose
any sport - baseball, soccer, tennis, whatever. We choose to play a
game with certain rules. We enter the game and being to play. If we
allow ourselves, we can become so immersed in the game, we believe
it is important. We begin to compete with the other players. We
being to believe we must win or somehow we become less of an
individual. It time we can become totally consumed in needing to win
and/or improve our performance that we forget the whole game is just
something we invented and in which we agreed to participate.
Whatever we experience in life, we created it or we agreed to
participate in it. To do so, we deny a part of our creativity and
lock it away and make it inaccessible. But we have the key. We know
why we locked it away and we know how we locked it up. The question
is whether or not we stop to realize we have only lost ourselves in
the experience we desired to have for the purpose of having the
experience. In stopping to realize that, when can then ask ourselves
if we have finished the experience we desired to have and have
achieved what we set out to do. If so, it is time to end the
experience and move onto something else. If not, we can continue the
experience.
But such a decision cannot be made based on the
enculturated mind and ego. They are the creation of the
experience. We have to access the deeper part of ourselves that
allows us to transcend this lifetime and see exactly what we desire
to accomplish with the experience we are having. We do this through
the
detached witness and look to see why we have created what we
have and look at the
intention for our life.
The other was we put our creativity in a cage of our own making is
through a lack of awareness of how mind works and to believe the
mind. We put our creativity in a cage when we deny its existence.
When we are unaware if its existence we cannot claim
our birthright. When we believe we do not have the creative
power we need to create something different, we don’t.
One of the most important things to realize about creativity is that
mind only knows the past. It will characterize whatever it
perceives, including the energy giving rise to the thoughts we have,
based on the experiences it has had. This means that any thought we
have is not necessarily accurate. The more what experience is like
the past, the more our mind properly characterizes what we
experience. However, the more what we experience is not like the
past, the more inaccurate our mind becomes at characterizing what we
experience.
To create means to bring into existence something not previously
experienced or significantly different from the past. Consequently,
anything mind thinks about what needs to be done and/or its
characterization of the energy we feel leading us into creative
endeavors will be inaccurate. It is essential that we learn to play
with and explore the creative thoughts we have to get some idea as
to how and where it may be inaccurate. However, most of us have been
thwarted early in life when we stepped out to explore ourselves and
our world. We either suffered pain or felt the control of our early
care gives as to what is considered right and wrong. As a result, we
developed response patterns of life to protect ourselves and we
learned to control our explorations. We no longer felt free to step
out and challenge the prevailing authorities. We respond to life
based on the past and continually hold ourselves bound to that past.
The mind which created the problem we face and wish to solve is not
the mind that will solve the problem. It can’t, it create the
problem.
To break out of the cage here, we must be willing to explore how and
why we lost our freedom to play. How and why did we lose ourselves
in the creation we were experiencing. To so this, we must look to
what we feel.
Feeling is the source of our creative power/Creative Power. We
do not act on anything unless we have some feeling about it and some
feeling to act. As such we must look to the feeling that allows us
to feel an expansion within our being.
If we are
beings of infinite creativity, we can feel such a infinite
creative power flow through us. To regain our creative power, we
simply need to move toward feeling that expansive power. In opening
ourselves to what we feel, we will find there is pain we have
avoided feeling in the past. Avoiding the feelings of pain of the
past keeps us from accessing the depth and breadth of our
creative power/Creative Power. Avoidance of pain of the past or
fear of recreating pain of the past is a cage of our own making that
keeps our creativity bound.
How and what we think and believe determines if our creative life
energy is free or not free to flow into any idea we may hold.
Sometimes nothing blocks the free flow of our energy and we are
totally free to express ourselves. At other times, our mind prevents
the free flow of our energy and the energy must be called forth from
something external to us or we must rearrange our thinking to allow
it to flow.
It needs to be realized heaven and hell are here and now. If we are
in heaven, our creative life energy is free and it is available to
create whatever we desire. If we are in hell, we cannot free our
energy and we are stuck in the past. We have little freedom to
create something new. Yet, hell is only a cage of our own making. No
one holds us to the past but ourselves. We hold the key to our own
freedom or imprisonment. No one can unlock the door to our cage but
ourselves. Each death gives us the opportunity to let go and become
free.
The recommendation made here is to
call forth your
creative spirit and
give it permission to come out and freely express itself. Become
aware of where it is not free or afraid to express itself. In those
areas ask your
intuitive guidance what you need to do to allow your creative
spirit to freely express itself. Then
honor the intuitive guidance you get knowing that you are an
infinitely creative being only choose to recreate yourself much
like the mythical
phoenix.
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