silent lotus on Creativity & Writings

Interviewed by Donna Stein , publisher & editor of  Tiferet ' the voice of Miriam's Well '
and first published in the January/February  2006  issue.

I haven't studied the process of writing at all so I'm not restricted by confines or
parameters of what a writer is supposed to be. You can always play with the
terminology -talk about channeling or inspiration or something outside of
yourself.

When people say they channel a certain entity or individual, they are creating a
parameter; they are limiting it. If we go to the place of feeling holistic -- that all is
one -- then there is no need to limit wisdom as coming from one individual or
another but rather it comes from the silence. You can call it love or God or the
divine. I find it limiting when people speak about God as if God were a historical
figure rather than the source of all creation.

Silence is the source of all creation. From out of silence everything is manifested.
And if you want to interchange silence with the divine or love or God, then it
means that letting go of the mental consciousness and going beyond to the
source of all creation. Letting go of thinking and intellectualism. Intellectualism is
a mental process which I believe is not inclusive enough.

It's important to try to quiet the mind and listen to the heart. I feel that the mind is
a fabulous unique tool that should be in service of the heart. If we listen first to
the heart, to the silence, then we can use the mind to carry out and manifest that
which the heart wishes to express. So quieting the mind is not saying we need to
destroy it. For me, it is bringing it back to the natural order of things -focusing
through the heart to the silence.

I don't recommend setting aside a particular time of day for writing. What
happens for me is that I feel that I have silence as a continuum. I know it has
always been there. All the visual artwork that I did manifested in the same way:
once you learn to accept that whatever medium is being used or implemented ...
it is not of importance which medium that may be -it is like if you are clairvoyant
or clairaudient, whatever vibration you tune into, it is all the same. There's no
hierarchy of one being better than the other. Having had years and years of
visual art flow thru me -I never once sat down and created posed pieces. It is
the same process in listening for poems.

Whether I see things through my third eye or am clairvoyant or clairaudient isn't
important. It's important not to be attached to any of it. Whatever is necessary
flows through you. I hear the words. They come whenever they come. I try to
remain open and my consciousness allows what needs to flow through in the
moment. So there could be ten poems in 15 minutes or one poem in two months.
I carry paper or a notebook -without being attached to it. I am only attached to
my glasses.

I trust when it comes. So I don't sit in front of a keyboard and wait for something
to happen. It can happen on an airplane, in a Chinese restaurant, out in nature,
wherever. No effort is involved. If you have the consciousness of the heart, there
is never an effort.

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By: silent lotus

republished with permission Miriams Well