What Do You Want To BE With This?

Very often, we complete a creative feat, break through on an idea, reach a pinnacle of our spiritual progress, or any other number of valuable achievements during our journey…

And then immediately, before we even have a chance to savor the magic of what actually happened, right away, we or someone around us is asking “What are you going to do with this?”

There is no doubt there is great value in sharing our gifts with others, what rolls of the tongue easily for one, sticks persistently in the labyrinth of obscurity for another and so we help one and other live more clearly by sharing our gifts.

There is a danger however that this “what shall I do with it” habit of thought can get us into being short-sighted about our potential, we can be snatching the buds off the tree before they form into flowers that can be picked and shared for sheer enjoyment and pleasure between loved ones…

We see the golden goose lay one egg, and knowing what it is capable off we sit insistently, intently watching it, day and night, checking it, guarding it, somehow imagining this helps the process that is happening naturally any way, that is after all what the golden goose does, it lays golden eggs, no amount of greed, planning, or insisting is going to alter that fact.

This is how I see a lot of business’s operating, especially in the arts, and it is wearing and distracting, and in the end counter productive to the real gold that is available to be enjoyed by all involved.

This is about as useful as erecting a fence around the ocean to contain it :) It is contained as it is, resting between the natural living sculpture that are the continents and islands of our planet earth.

And so our bodies and our minds are contained as they are, resting as they do, natural living sculptures also, channeling energies and discovering the transitioning gifts of form.

And so from that perspective we express things, works of art, music, business, ideas, teachings, thoughts, endless possibilities are ours to bring forth into reality…

This is brilliant, a natural ability of ours, though it can also be as distracting as it is truly useful if we get carried away in our abilities to create without prior orientation in what is true.

So from this creativity comes plenty of doing, where most of us are focused, yet doing is an odd beast, it is potentially endless if we break it down, finer and finer it can become, rather mind boggling and distracting, and we can easily get caught up in the illusion of separate acts, and so experience this stop start action instead of fluid motion though life as one continuous act.

Like the ticking clock is to the flowing stream of time, divided and broken we become rather than complete.

So if we ground our worth in doing, you see it can become quite unsettling rather quickly, as we tend not to see the one continuous flow, and instead break it down into smaller and smaller pieces, attempting to manage the unmanageable, and so one act becomes mistakenly judged as better than another, set out of context of the whole, and like a centipede wrestling with its many legs it rolls into an unfathomable knot…

If the centipede were to simply move with its natural flow, all would soon resolve and it would be up and running again, though while it wrestles with its nature, disorientated, it suffers.

There is a level of awareness we can focus on where the doing takes care of itself, for instance as I type this, I have no idea really where it will go next, I have no plan, just an inspired flow to share, the idea then is doing me, there is no doing as such, and the quieter I become, the more relaxed and clearer I am, the easier and more effortlessly it flows.

This is counter to how I have been taught, what has been insisted, impressed upon me by those who appear to be cleverer or wiser or in some way more important than I am, but I followed my own sense of what is true, and so I arrived at this insight myself, without a plan it flows as naturally as does anything else I care to observe.

So I have direct experience, and you will too when you care to notice for yourself from where and how it flows, rather than through the filters of your beliefs, and the layers of that which has been impressed upon you, then you will feel without a doubt the truth of this flow…

And when you do, forget doing, you know that is taken care of, it happens anyway, simply ask…

What do I want to BE with this?

It can take you anywhere you want to go so long as you remember from where and how it comes, when you orientate yourself on the source of it and not the appearance of it, then action is automatic, requiring no extra thought or concern of yours.

Focus on the source, your source, be the source, and THEN create, that is the best way…

Ciao For Now
Sean