So, everyone, it seems, wants to be more creative. And almost everyone says they want a deeper and more fulfilling spiritual life. What is the connection between these two?

Being in this moment, now, without the habits of mind of the previous moment is the most creative act we’re capable of. It is the supremely creative act of finding the way to not know all the things we think we know.

As our ability to be present, to have full awareness rises, our creativity, that is, our capacity to create in the moment without limit of circumstance, resources or mind, becomes ever more vast.

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The path of kindness, of emptiness, of merit, of liberation, of happiness is the very path of awareness without obstacles of the mind.

Now, using practice in order to become more creative may not bring the exact results you desire, because of the blinding aspect of that very desire. But practice itself is deeply intertwined with creativity because creativity is our nature. Once we escape from the prison of thinking we know and begin to see through our habits of mind, our experience of the world has no limits.

The Buddha’s teachings still speak to us not just because of the Buddha’s profound realisation, but because of the creativity that it unleashed. The Buddha’s words are profoundly, even, unimaginably creative. Each time you hear them, hear them for the first time and you’ll see what I mean.