Creation is commonly understood as a process of making something. Well, a process of making something is actually ‘making’, and not creating. Then, what is creation?
Creation is not a process; it does not have set rules or guidelines. Creation is neither an articulation oriented in a direction to achieve something. Creation is merely an act of manifesting a possibility into a reality. Creation can only and only happen out of nothingness.
Creation is merely an act of manifesting a possibility into a reality. Creation can only and only happen out of nothingness.
When there is a clearing, one can experience emptiness. Inside of an emptiness, one finds oneself in being in the moment – fully present to the moment. It is in the presence of this moment – one experiences (and embraces) a certain degree of slowness. One is able to see moments pass by as they come, and experience and engage with simply the way they are – without any opinions. In that moment a new possibility can arise – a possibility that is free from (and not determined by) the completed past or the anticipated future. This possibility that emerges out of the emptiness, out of nothingness is a seed for creation, which only when nurtured can be manifested into a reality.
Let us look at an example. If a painter creates a painting, how does it come out of nothingness? Actually, the paints and the canvas already existed… then what came out of nothingness? How can that be true?
If one looks a little deeper, one can find that the painting as an object is an assimilation and an assemblage of the already existing colours, textures over the canvas. So, the painting as an object is not a creation – it merely (and barely) can qualify as a craft. It is the thought – could be the artist’s vision, perception, intent, purpose, a story or just about any narrative – that forms the painting as a creation.
The artist’s clearing allowed for a creation to emerge out of nothingness only by her/ him being available to the moment. Creation, in this context, is not the painting – as an object. It is the act – the essence of the story that makes the painting.
Creation, in this context, is not the painting – as an object. It is the act – the essence of the story that makes the painting.
We are all not artists like the painter in the example mentioned above. Then why should I focus on playing a role of a creator? In the painter’s painting one is able to see the role of painter in the creation of the story. One is able to distinguish between the object and the story.
Consider you (as a physical body) as an object and your life as a story, and you (as your own identity) are making that story of your life but without being present to it. If one is not present to that story, it is only incidental – determined by circumstances and situations. And hence, it is not a possibility. The entire life, in this context, is left to be accidental – what commonly is referred to as ‘fate’.
If one is able to look deeper, if one is able to achieve a clearing and experience the emptiness. If one can, in this space, touch the slowness of each moment. And, in this moment when one creates a possibility aligned to their being (not to their own biases, reasons, considerations or even one’s ego) and acts upon that possibility – a true creation happens. Inside of this space of creation there is no scope for fate, this space only and only belongs to that artist.
Inside of this space of creation there is no scope for fate, this space only and only belongs to that artist.
A creation, therefore, is an act – an action on one’s possibilities, and that brings a transformational shift in one’s overview on life, in one’s overview on their being.
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