“[IT] IS ONE THING to study the texts ..

[Michael Grove]

  OR to DO various practices or come on a retreat to learn the Dharma

  tradition, but the most important kind of communion is to experience it;

  to embody it and discover it in your own heart, mind and being. Of course,

  the essence of the Buddha’s teaching is that of liberation, that the heart

  and mind can be free wherever we are and under whatever circumstance.

  To be liberated in this human incarnation means also to recognise that

  LIFE [IT]self IS this CREATIVE ACT and YOU ARE this CREATIVE ACT.

 

  EveryTHING IS BORN out of EMPTINESS. Through creative spirit, we can

  move and shape our lives. Not always our circumstances, we have our   

  karma, we were born into a certain culture and body, but given the palette

  you can do anything; that’s really the Third Noble Truth – the non-clinging

  of becoming the loving-awareness that is free.

  Our education is a very rote system, it doesn’t really teach us to think or

  be ourselves so well. WE FORGET that CREATIVITY IS what WE ARE.

  WE ARE loving-awareness EXPRESSED through THIS LIFE.” 



 

                                                                                  Jack Kornfield

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