Wow! Where do I start? Words are so inadequate when it comes to explaining higher states of consciousness and the way I experience creativity. It is probably something to do with the way I reach the space I call “not knowing”. It’s as if my mind goes completely blank without thought or consideration. I am usually aware of some muscular discomfort, but that doesn’t matter and sometimes there is no discomfort at all and that is truly blissful, but the moment I start to think, “I am blissful”, the chattering mind starts again.

Creativity seems to come from nowhere. For instance, I am aware perhaps that I want to post to my blog, but have doubts that I am going to have anything worthwhile to say and may even think that I won’t make any posts at all on that day. But something comes from nowhere and I have this idea for a post. I have to be quick, or I will lose it as fast as it came. This is the way I nearly always blog. If I try and force it, I end not posting anything. Then I realize in that in Zen nothing matters, and nothing (as in the void) is where my creative potential exists.

As a musician, sometimes I may feel an urge to go and play the piano, and it’s feels as if somebody else is playing the keys and my playing style, whilst it is my own, will feel different to what it normally does. Something new has been born into my style and I seem to ingrate it on a permanent basis.

I am convinced that this all comes from my practice over the years of zazen, where I look for nothing, yet everything I have been and will be is created from stilling the mind. I don’t think creativity is something that I do, or a skill that I possess, but more like an energy that I connect with. It is available to all who are willing to seek for it and somehow, drop judgment and the analytical mind. As energy doesn’t judge or analyse, it simply exists.

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