Humans are conscious beings. We are able to both analyze the creative spirit, discuss it intellectually — and also experience it. When we meditate, we come home to our own creative fount, a sense of oneness that evaporates the ego-centred perception that we are separate beings adrift in a phenomenal world, doomed to die. In meditation, we experience how humans are both creations and creators, and also how creator and the created are inseparable, one and the same. That we are about as separate … [Read more...] about Going Creative – Meditation and Creative Consciousness
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To Take the Posture is the Purpose of the Practice
"These forms are not a means of obtaining the right state of mind. To take this posture itself is the purpose of our practice. When you have this posture, you have the right state of mind, so there is no need to try to attain some special state. When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here." ~Shunry Suzuki in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind … [Read more...] about To Take the Posture is the Purpose of the Practice



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