http://www.gentleaction.org/blog/2009/02/07/hello-world/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:06:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.gentleaction.org/blog/2009/02/07/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Bonnie Fri, 01 May 2009 17:15:16 +0000 http://www.gentleaction.org/blog/?p=1#comment-77 I have been reading "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki and it made me realize the similarities between Creative Suspension and Beginner's Mind (or the secret of Zen practice, as Suzuki says.) He says, "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few." It seems so many of us are going around claiming we are experts and attempting to solve problems, when a much better approach would be to become child like again - to hold creative suspension - to return to Beginner's Mind. As Suzuki states, "But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves, we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized." I have been reading “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind” by Shunryu Suzuki and it made me realize the similarities between Creative Suspension and Beginner’s Mind (or the secret of Zen practice, as Suzuki says.) He says, “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.” It seems so many of us are going around claiming we are experts and attempting to solve problems, when a much better approach would be to become child like again – to hold creative suspension – to return to Beginner’s Mind. As Suzuki states, “But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves, we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.”

]]> http://www.gentleaction.org/blog/2009/02/07/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-4 ron ritter Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:28:33 +0000 http://www.gentleaction.org/blog/?p=1#comment-4 hi , well just finished reading the book congratulations and i am encouraged by your belief in the human condition. of course i am a believer to. all things have levels and the wise man looks on levels as a way of understanding our world, if you go down another layer you come to the consciousness of humans and you understand that we are all connected. if we are then all connected on a consciousness level we are then interdependant on each others actions so that any change in our actions has a responding effect on the rest of humanity.we are truely our brothers and sisters keepers. so gentle action becomes the outwards sign of an interaction with our consciousness. that in fact one person can change all humanity and all life on earth by just changing his/her reality. creative suspension is also the outward motion of abstracting the mind and accessing and allowing the consciousness to manifest itself. by allowing ourself to access the universal consciousness by suspending thought we allow reality to act on another level and so change can be brought about. i hope i have added something to the conversation. the future is to be aware of our consciousness from the cellular level to the macro level and therefore produce real effect in a difficult world. hi , well just finished reading the book congratulations and i am encouraged by your belief in the human condition.
of course i am a believer to.
all things have levels and the wise man looks on levels as a way of understanding our world, if you go down another layer you come to the consciousness of humans and you understand that we are all connected. if we are then all connected on a consciousness level we are then interdependant on each others actions so that any change in our actions has a responding effect on the rest of humanity.we are truely our brothers and sisters keepers. so gentle action becomes the outwards sign of an interaction with our consciousness. that in fact one person can change all humanity and all life on earth by just changing his/her reality.
creative suspension is also the outward motion of abstracting the mind and accessing and allowing the consciousness to manifest itself. by allowing ourself to access the universal consciousness by suspending thought we allow reality to act on another level and so change can be brought about.
i hope i have added something to the conversation.
the future is to be aware of our consciousness from the cellular level to the macro level and
therefore produce real effect in a difficult world.

]]> http://www.gentleaction.org/blog/2009/02/07/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-2 F. David Peat Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:27:11 +0000 http://www.gentleaction.org/blog/?p=1#comment-2 We welcome your comments on "Creative Suspension" with examples or particular case histories. We welcome your comments on “Creative Suspension” with examples or particular case histories.

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