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Both the origins and occasion for
creating
Meditation Concepts and Principles for Creativity arose from
observing how the individual creative spirit was unknowingly being
bound and held captive in ways that were not obvious. As discussed
in a variety of places on the
Meditation Home Page, meditation a powerful creative tool.
However, most of us are unaware of exactly how we creates our
experiences and how meditation can keep us from accessing the
creative power and creative ability we seek to create what we
desire.
The occasion for creating
Meditation Concepts and Principles for Creativity
The occasion for creating
Meditation Concepts and Principles for Creativity arose out of
work with a client that started around mid 1998. The individual had
spend about thirty five years practicing meditation. They were quite
accomplished in meditation and had been an instructor of meditation
at various time throughout their life. However, they were having
trouble accessing the deep
inner satisfaction with life that never runs dry no matter what
is happening in their world. Quite simply meditation was unable to
fulfill their needs and what they sought in life.
In working with the individual, the author come to realize there
were various aspects of their being that they had learned to deny
and suppress early in life. Some of them involved the role of the
body as a vehicle for the experience of physical Creation. Most had
involved the denial of their own truth as a result of the pain they
experienced in life. Rather that access and live from their truth,
they listened to what they were taught by their early care givers
and those in social and religious authority. In many ways mediation
had become a vehicle for them to escape the pain of their early life
and they life they were being asked to live. Meditation kept some
sort of center and focus in their life. But, meditation was unable
to get them to recreate their life. In some ways meditation was
serving as an addiction such they could escape what they were
feeling about the life they were living.
Along with other work the author was drawn to do for the individual
such a
ritual and
metatheater to access and release creative energy
bound in the past and “coaching” the individual in creativity
principles, he was drawn to write the equivalent of a book. The
document was entitled Meditation Concepts and Principles for
Creativity. In this document the author addressed the principles of
how we create our experiences and how meditation functioned as a
powerful creative tool. The intent was to lay out in a logical
format to show where meditation was not, and could not, address the
key issues they needed to face to find that inner satisfaction.
Since they had a very powerful and well developed mind, the
intention was to give their mind reason to challenge itself and its
own thinking about mediation.
Writing such a document about mediation had been in the authors’
mind for quite some time. He himself explored a variety of different
meditation techniques and read many different authors and teachers
as to how they perceived meditation. In time, the author began to
realize how mediation was being uses actually was often binding
holding the creative spirit of the individual captive rather than
freeing and releasing it. All he needed was someone or something to
ground and focus his energy to create such a document. The occasion
was provided by this individual.
Much of what was addressed in this document about mediation is now
accessible through the
Meditation Concepts and Principles for
Creativity web page. The principles of how we create our experiences
that accompanied the discussion of mediation are discussed on the
various
applications web sites were best addressed. Hyperlinks are
provided where appropriate to these other discussions.
Origins of Meditation Concepts
and Principles for Creativity
As stated above, writing a
document about mediation had been in the authors’ mind for quite
some time. The author was aware from the very beginning of his study
of meditation that many mystics talked about creating something from
nothing through mediation. So in this regard, he was aware of the
power of meditation to create and he looked at meditation as a
vehicle for creating as opposed to only being a tool in a larger
more encompassing process. The author was also intrigued by the
concept of a nothingness out of which the mystic said creation had
arise.
What the mystics said about meditation and this nothingness began to
be shattered with the author’s experience of the Oneness/oneness of
Creation in his experience of the
Ultimate Accident. It was a
personal experience of the source of his creative power and the
Source of Creation. But rather than looking and facing what he
really knew as the truth from his own experience, he continued to
follow the programming he received. As stated in the discussion,
“The Mystical Path,” the author never saw himself as capable of
possessing an understand comparable to the mystics. For some time he
continued to believe what the supposed authorities said even when
they tended to contradict one another. He assume the contradict was
more about what he didn’t understand that what he was reading or
told.
All of that changed when he read one of the Eastern mystics who made
two statements. It wasn’t what that mystic said for the author heard
it many times before. It was the way he said it that cause a
realization to occur that explained much of what puzzled the author.
One comment concerned what arose out of pain and suffering. The
mystic said that when man was faced with pain and suffering, he
looked outward to remove the pain and suffering. The result was the
discovery of western science and medicine. However, the early
mystics realized that no matter what good fortune an individual
could obtain, without an inner satisfaction they would never be
satisfied. Consequently, the early mystics looked inward to seek an
inner satisfaction to relieve the pain and suffering. That inner
journey resulted in the discovery of God that could not be
experienced externally.
The idea was that in looking at the external world one could
experience a creation coming into existence, experience its
existence and experience its death and destruction. However, looking
outward at Creation and the external world we could not experience
what lies behind creation. Although looking at the external world
may cause one to see or believe there was an intelligence behind
Creation, that intelligence could not be experience directly by
looking outward. The argument of this mystic was that by going
inward by looking within, one could experience the what lied behind
Creation. In looking behind Creation, one could then seen and
experience the God that gave rise to Creation and lied behind
Creation.
The other comment made was that as the early mystics focused inward
in their quest they gradually began to convert their concept of God
into perceptions of Him. In reading that statement, the author
suddenly became aware of exactly what the early mystics were doing.
They were simply becoming the creator of the experience they had.
That is, they were not experiencing the true essence of Creation and
what lied behind Creation. Rather, they were experience their
concept of what lied behind Creation. The author’s awareness was
reinforced when the mystic he was reading when on to say that we
must do the same. The mystic said that if we wanted to know God we
had to do the same and the early mystics who had gone before us.
The mystic said we had to have a concept of God to which we could
relate and form a personal relationship. Then we had to concentrate
our consciousness, our attention and awareness, into that concept of
God until that mental concept became an actual perception. It is
then we would both know Him and experience Him. It is then God would
come to us. The mystic said our problem was that we did not stay
long enough at what we desired to create. Rather than persisting
until we created what we desired, we would lose the focus of our
attention and awareness.
What the author realized was that all the early mystics were doing
was making their thought manifested. That is, by concentrating their
attention and awareness into a particular concept at the exclusion
of all else they were creating an experience of that on which they
focused. They in fact become the creator of the experience they were
having. Although they experienced God coming to them, in reality
they were in fact creating an experience of God as they saw God. But
they were not recognizing their own creative power and their role in
the creative process of what they were experiencing.
The author realized that God, or better said, the Creator, did come
to them. But what was experienced as coming to them was what they
understood God to be. They could not see the
creator/Creator for
who/Who it was. The Creator/creator came to them in a way that they
could not see Him/him. They could not see because they were trying
to escape pain and find inner happiness. They could not believe, or
even comprehend, that they were the creators of their pain and their
own unhappiness let alone the creator of an experience of what they
perceived to be God.
Quite simply the first issue we all face is realizing our creative
power is that we are in fact the creators of our own pain even when
the pain appears to come outside ourselves. This is true simply
because we do not understand the creation process that we are using.
As such, these early mystics could never see that they were the
creator of what they were experiencing. It would be simply
too much
for them to believe even thought it was true. They were simply the
Creator/creator experiencing its
Creation/creation. This is, of
course, true for all of us. It is our birthright to create such
things. However, what we create we do so subconsciously rather than
consciously.
When the author made that realization, he was on the verge of having
the answer to
the question he asked at age twenty-one.
That question was, “ Is there one way to view Creation such that we
can manifest an experience of any belief we hold no matter what it
is? An experience such that, because of the experience one has, one
would be willing to go to war and kill another because of the
experience they had?” However, it took he a little while longer to
put all the pieces together. He had to come to the realization about
the
trap of mind and the problem of mind and its experience of the
experience of the Source of Creation.
In that realization of the trap of mind there was the awareness as
to why we live in the illusion of mind. The author realized that
until the individual had another way to view Creation where our mind
had a way to understand how it is possible that it is the creator of
the experiences it is having, we would be always missing the mark.
We would always be looking outside ourselves and fail to look inward
and know we have the creative power and ability to create whatever
we desires. It is just that we are currently experiencing a creation
that we ourselves have created and there are parts of it that are
not as enjoyable as we thought they would be. But we do have the
power to change that, if we want to do so. We only have to hold the
focus of our attention and awareness long enough on what we desired
to create. Or, as an alternative way to do this as the author has
come to learn, we simply need to create a significant passion and
flow of energy to create what we desire and then ride that flow of
energy for energy follows the path of least resistance such that we
create what we desire in a shorter time. The author came to discover
there are alternatives to mediation as the author asked in the
dream
meditation on sexuality years earlier.
The author knew he would have to write about mediation as a tool and
how to use it more effectively in our creative endeavors. The only
question was when and what would be the occasion to do so.
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