I'd love to hear your thoughts in this podcast Musings on the phases of the creative process and how, although the mind loves expansive open territory free from limitations, it's actually the limitations that allow the walls of the river to flow, the shape of the thing to be felt, and the fizz of the thing to be communicated with a distinct energy that we can feel our participation within. . In modernity we are sometimes plagued by the concept of infinite anything. But this is the mind taking over. Infinity is essentially a concept. Reality isn't infinite. Contrarian , I know. Legend says that even the enlightened yogis described reality as such 'My mind is vast as the sky, and my attention is as fine and subtle as a grain of flour.' . Our actual moment by moment experience has a distinct texture to it. Roast chicken cannot suddenly quantum leap into beef shin stir fry. A person can radically cha he their lives, we can choose, heal, reimagine and re-emerge. But the possibilities are not infinite. . I feel a sense of destiny in life, which is half of what's here, the other half I sense as chaos. The unknown, what cannot be put into any divination system. So we work with both, chaos and order, destiny and freedom. . So much of artistic success , and I would say any success on our own terms , as defined by us, is in choosing the parameters for our work to happen within, then giving all we've got, and more, to the efforts of what those parameters require. . Becoming a frenzy of devotion and commitment to a very specific thing. Then, the thing , in its previously seeming narrowness, becomes the experiential infinity we seek. . Because expanse is a human desire, and I feel the need for it like anyone else, but it has always been found for me within the safety and constraint of a container with edges, boundaries and repetitive visiting. . Through the practice we repeat throughout our lives, we can taste the infinity the mind dreams of, but it's not a disembodied abstracted infinity. It's the fractal and interconnected nature of things we actually reach with focus, attention and repetition. . I hope this is helpful, and to anyone reading this will a brilliant mind full of desire and ideas. I've been there too, I still am there, but I observe how my discipline and continuity in a few crafts and practices create a narrower channel for the passion to be funnelled into. I no longer feel I want or need to do everything, but try to bring artful sensitivity to the smaller amount of things I do. . There's nothing wrong with being multi passionate , just make sure we develop the capacity to focus within the tornado of wild passion that can sweep us up onto a frenzy. All of your desire to explore will strangely be satiated when you stay with something and let go of peripheral practices, for a time. . Keep going , you wild , embodied miracle. ❤️
