Openness

A very natural aspect of our humanity is our ability/tendency/willingness to be inspired and transported by beauty. A truly alive/aware person interacts with their environment so intimately that this sensitive aesthetic sense is their main unconscious motivator – their main source of those constant sparks that trigger their energy. What gets in the way of this natural process is self concern, or a certain type of self concern, which we call thinking. If your past looms large in you, vibrant and accepted, as it should, then it is also a source of inspiration, another part of the reality you inhabit. The same can be said for your present and your future. They all reside in you. It is when we begin to think about things, mull them over, worry them, belabour them, that we clog up and dampen our spirit with the wrong sort of fuel – a fuel that will never ignite. The openness we must develop is not the openness that just absorbs but the openness that is always springing into action. For this our spirit must be free, light and loose so that our essence – our intensely alive creative impetus – can charge the springing response with life and beauty – can be something other than conditioned – an unconditioned response, if you like. Then the energy that comes out of the coiled spring – the unloading – is such a transformation of the source energy that all sense of that source becomes lost in the creative beauty of the expression, and the spring (coiled metal) becomes a spring (water–life). Matter and substance through this transformation become the flow of life. Our bodies too – all matter and substance – must become transformed by the energy and movement that flows through – a creative deluge that thrusts us dancing into processes of growth and celebration.