It seems that everyone is feeling an urge toward creativity that is not only about "Art". This is from another wonderful teacher, Edward Espe Brown. He is describing an upcoming retreat. It's another one of those bits that I didn't want to get lost. I'm not going to the retreat so I'd normally just delete the email but there was something about the language that made me want to bring it here.UNLEASHING CREATIVITY
From Beyond Creation A Guest Appears
A moment arises—not previously
revealed! never before happened!—
Still we aim to get it right,
so we look good.
Or...
could something appear
from beyond creation?
(Wind high in the pines)
Creativity weaves through the fabric
of consciousness—the gateway opens
and closes—we'll look at some of the
pivotal elements which inhabit or invite
the guest to appear.
Doing the same old same old,
Doing what we already know,
Or...
choosing to welcome the
inconceivable, to move past
the familiar to finding out how.
(whose hands are these)
Can we make things behave
the way they should? Come
out the way we want?
Or...
is there picking up what
comes to hand? And
using it? imaginatively...
(soft light through the curtain)
We'll study what awakens our
creative vitality.
(with sitting, talk, walking...)
The weekend retreat is at Green Gulch Farm in California. If you want to be spontaneous, drop everything and go...here's a link.
