Creating and Clear Comprehension
Clear Comprehension (sampajjanna)
Creating and Clear Comprehension can describe movement of meditation or consciousness training from passive to active, from stillness to action - without ego driven doing. Clear comprehension usually refers to very subtle movement - noticing thought and intention and making choices about processes. Creating is taking consciousness and spaciousness into living and action.
Creating Your Life
This course, Robert Fritz' work, offers tools that can be used to incorporate creating as part of spiritual practice.
Combining these teachings with mindfulness, insight, and integrity we can meet Meister Eckhart's challenge of becoming co-creators - not by working hard, but through joy and play.
You can prepare yourself for a creating course by developing your mindfulness practice (though meditation practice is not a requirement of the course, it will support you in the process). If you are new to mindfulness see a
Insight and Mindfulness for our course options.
About Creating
Mary Rees
Non-doing to an extreme is Christian heresy of quietism.
Foundational teachings of Buddhist schools include 'non-doing' and 'no-self.' Creating may seem incongruent with non-doing and no-self , but this would be a misunderstanding of Buddhist teachings. The teachings of no-self are not nihilistic, but, are instead a coming to new understanding. As one recognizes more and more subtle levels of conditioning, awareness arises, recognition of greater "mind" that is limited and defined by nothing - "no thing." You could say it the 'Good News' of the Buddha; and further, that the teaching is not incongruent with the message of Jesus.
Actually, the frontier in meditation teaching, especially for lay life, where lay practice must take the lead, is in applying non-doing and no-self teachings to action in life. As we do so we begin to skillfully use the mind. We create and we enrich life, rather than leaving or denying it.
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Insight and Creating
I talk about "insight" as the natural result of holding dichotomous views or experiences. In facing the truth, or life just as it is; in learning to not act immediately from our own logic, from emotions, or from total unconsciousness; in holding wholesome intentions; we can make space for something new to arise. And it does.
The more we practice and touch this experience the greater our faith. We learn to see insight or wisdom arise over and over again. We begin to find hope in any situation. Things happen that we don't understand. Life exists in a much more mystical way than we usually dare to believe.
Robert Fritz similarly holds differences, but he does so in order to intentionally create. Initial steps of his teaching require the same kind of holding we learn to maintain in coming to insight. But to create we hold a very specific dichotomy, the difference between current reality and our visions or intentions, which is also an important spiritual practice. But with continued intentional attention and skillful alignment we can actually see results - if the alignment is wholesome the results are wholesome!
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Creating Your Life
Creating Your Life is a five week course, which meets once a week for three hour sessions. The training includes principles and tools that will lead to
A richer more satisfying life
Discovering what is most important to you
Sustained and measurable personal growth
A clear path in accomplishing results that matter
We use videos, lead exercises, and coach you toward creating the life you want. You will have a bonus of integration of insight and mindfulness instruction to further energize and focus your process.
In Creating Your Life you will learn the basics of the creative process and implement them. You will learn how to:
Conceive what you want to create
Understand your starting point
Create energy and momentum to use in the journey
Work with time, choice, focus, and involvement
Learn from your mistakes and successes and from that of others
Bring more and more of your life-spirit into what you create
The course is based on Robert Fritz’s book, Your Life as Art (a copy of the book and an accompanying workbook are included as part of this course) . Fritz is one of the worlds leading experts on the creative process and a pioneer in human development. He is an active composer and has written film scores, operas, symphonic music, and chamber music. Most recently, he has been writing and directing films.
Mary and her husband Con have been taking Fritz trainings since 1985 and are certified facilitators for the course. Mary, who is teaching current sessions, has also written a book, started a publishing company, and has several other projects in line since learning to this process. In this course she integrates Robert's teaching with short lessons in mindfulness and integrating mindfulness in all the days activities.
A Five-Week Training course created by Robert Fritz and taught by Mary Rees
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