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Within all the discussion on
creativity, there are several different dances in which we engage in
any moment. There is the inner
dance between mind and heart. There
is the
dance of inner masculine and the inner feminine. There is the
outer dance between our
creative spirit and the outer world and an
outer dance between a male and female. And, of course, there is the
dance between the
creator /Creator and its
creation/Creation.
The ultimate dance is the dance of
freedom. It is a dance between
the tension of two forces. One force is the force or influences
seeking to keep the world as it is and it is reflected in the things
to which we are attached in one way or another. The other force is
there is the flow of energy that carries the world into the unknown
and into a new Creation. This dance exists at every level.
The goal of the dance is to create what we
desire in
true freedom. True freedom is to be like the wind - coming with
nothing and leaving with nothing. However, to create we need to be
attached to the focus of our attention and awareness on whatever it
is we desire to create. The
dance of creation is to desire with all
our heart what we wish to create with the passion of a drowning
person grasping for air. Yet it is to become totally detached, as a
detached witness being only a witness to the unfoldment of our
desire and the experiences it creates. If we can stand apart from
our thoughts and our body as a
detached witness, we can being realize we are not our thoughts or
our body. Rather we are the creator of our thoughts, our body and
the experiences we have in our body. In this realization we gain the
key to freedom. It is the freedom to create whatever we wish. It is
that space of freedom that we become the
creator/Creator at one with
creation/Creation where
ever we find ourselves.
Creation is ultimately about the focus of one’s attention and
awareness to direct one’s creative life energy into a specific
outcome. Paradoxically, the
mind needs to hold focus to create what it
desires and then get out of the way and
surrender
to the flow of energy it creates for the creation to unfold. As
such, the ultimate dance ends up being controlled by the dance
between the flow of energy
symbolized by the heart, and
mind and its attachments. Who will lead our
life - our mind or our heart? Or, do we
learn to dance. Dance
between being the creator and the creation?
To do this
dance of creation, we each need to fully develop the
masculine
creative aspect within our being
to thrust out to create true to ourselves. Yet, we need to
develop and
surrender
to the
feminine
creative aspect to nurture whatever creation into which it has been
directed. The question is, “Do we thrust out with
mind in our masculinity to create we incarnated to experience or
do we create what we have been programmed to believe is important
and does not necessarily truly serve our needs?”
Mind only knows the past and what it has experienced. To do what
mind wants and/or thinks is to recreate the past to one degree or
another through our attachments to the past. Only in listening to
the heart to feel the flow of energy do we break free of the past to create the new and unseen.
It is our
creative imagination that contains the ability for mind to
step beyond itself into the unseen world to explore options and
pursue paths that mind would not otherwise take. Mind can see what
is possible based on what it has experienced and it can explore the
possibility within its creative imagination. But it must
give itself
permission to
step out of it own imposted limits and barrier in the
freedom of
creative play to spontaneously and innocently discover and explore
what is possible. If you can thinks of it, it is possible. However,
it may not be possible given the constraints of the time and place
in which you find yourself. But that not mean you cannot explore the
options within your creative imagination to create it. You may find
that there is a way within your creative power and abilities to
create to make the impossible possible and the possible probable and
even the probable a certainty.
The
creative spirit is not separate from the physical, nor does it
seek or need to transcend the physical. It is intimately tied to the
physical conditions we create and manifest every day in our life. It
is physical while simultaneously existing and permeating all of both
the seen and unseen realms of Creation. The physical is not the
source of our captivity. It is our attachments. The issue is not
that of having a physical experience. The issue is we need to learn
to detach from the experience we have no matter what it is. But this
is true for any experience our creative spirit creates at or in any
level of our being and/or dimensions of reality. We must learn to
become like the wind. The wind comes with nothing and leaves with
nothing allowing the energy within the wind to dissipate as it
passes through.
Our problem in creating tends to center on two things. One is we do
not believe our
desires are met. But they are. The issue is we do
not understand how our desires unfold. Our desires are like seeds
and unfold in the conditions that exist. Existing conditions do not
always support the growth of seeds. Usually it is unwise to plant
late in autumn or in winter. One usually waits for spring. The fact
that conditions are currently not correct for what we desire does
not mean we cannot manifest our desire. Properly planted seeds will
lie dormant until conditions are correct. Rather we need to wait
till conditions are correct, go to where the conditions are correct
or create the correct conditions whether those conditions are
internal, external or both.
The second things is we have expectations as to how we think things
should be and how we want them to be. So we often don’t see our
desire unfold because our expectations are masking their unfoldment.
Wanting things to be a certain way are only attachments to the past.
To act to not create the past is to recreate the past for your past
is the criteria for your choice. To not create the past one simply
needs to set the intention and
surrender to its unfoldment trusting
it will be different.
Each
desire, if it can grow in existing conditions, will unfold
according to the existing conditions. We may not get
what our mind
wants and what it expects but we can create the feeling of the
experience we desire to experience in any environment. A feeling of
fun and joy can be experienced in winter just as well in summer. It
is just that we may need to do things differently that want we
expect or want. Here again, our expectations may be correct but the
environment in which we plant the seed cannot support its unfoldment.
In any case the key is to become free and like the wind. Come with
nothing and leave with nothing.
Desire with all our heart and then let go trusting we will
create an experience that will satisfy the longing that give rise to
the desire. But we must be free to experience what unfolds. In that
freedom to experience what unfold, we will find what we seek.
An important note needs to be added. Our
desire and wishes are
fulfilled. However, we have both conscious and subconscious desires
and wishes. When the experience we are having is something we feel
we did not choose, we must become that detach witness. As that
detached witness we must ask ourselves, “What have I chose to
experience that has created the experience I am having” An answer
will come and we may be very surprised at the answer we get.
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