The Creative State

[Guest guest]

from BEYOND THE MIND

by David Frawley

 

Chapter 11

 

The Creative State

 

 

Thought is not creative, though the creative can manifest itself through

mental or material forms. The basis of thought is karma, which is

reaction, the continuation of the past according to lack of awareness in

the present. Therefore we cannot become creative through thought. We

may fabricate all kinds of things through thought but they will remain

artificial.

 

To become creative in consciousness, rather than in some particular

field, requires going beyond thought. This means not accepting the false

creativity of thought as legitimate. We must cease to throw our creativety

outside ourselves in the pursuit of sensation and information. Creativity

arises naturally when we are sensitive to life which no thought can limit.

This is not a matter of technique or effort, but the natural capacity and

power of attention.

 

True creativity is found not in the effort to be creative or in the cultivation

of talent. Talent itself is not creative, but a form of training, a special

conditioning arrived at through thought. True creativity does not display

itself or seek recognition. It may not even express itself at all. It reveals

itself in silence and emptiness. It finds itself in all existentence and does

not rest upon a product.

 

To live in the creative state alone brings transformation. The creative

state is consciousness is one with being itself. Any product that arises

from that state is secondary and cannot substitute for it. Awareness is

itself the highest form of creativity where there is no thought. All the

universe, all creation resides in it but cannot limit it.

 

In the surrender of thought is the opening of the floodgates of creative

reality, which takes us to the origin of time and space and beyond.

Producing something for others to respond to leads only to a

construction of energy. We need not seek to be creative, but only

cease clinging to our identity and achievement, which, as the past, matter

and time, is the denial of real transformation.

 

 

 

" If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something,

I can neither give nor receive "

 

Dorothee Solle

 

 

 

Love and Peace,

Anna