How to increase creativity?

[How to be wise]

@okulele is that a reliable way? How long does that usually take? 

[How to be wise]

@cetus56 but you need creativity to find a way to use nature. So it isn’t a solution for how to be more creative. 

[How to be wise]

@Faceless do you really think that enlightenment will turn you into a highly creative person. I mean, there are many enlightened beings, and not all of them seem very creative. 

[Faceless]

6 minutes ago, How to be wise said:

@Faceless do you really think that enlightenment will turn you into a highly creative person. I mean, there are many enlightened beings, and not all of them seem very creative. 

I would get enlightenment out of the brain. It’s just holding one back. 

What I am referring to is creativity at it’s essence. To be empty of the old implies creativity. In that all expression is creative. 

Otherwise we are talking about being inventive. Quite different. 

Edited June 5, 2018 by Faceless

[How to be wise]

@Faceless when I say creativity, I mean ‘out of the box’ thinking. Is that what you’re talking about? 

[Saumaya]

13 minutes ago, How to be wise said:

@Faceless when I say creativity, I mean ‘out of the box’ thinking. Is that what you’re talking about? 

Creativity and 'out of the box' thinking are different things

[Faceless]

16 minutes ago, How to be wise said:

@Faceless when I say creativity, I mean ‘out of the box’ thinking. Is that what you’re talking about? 

All thinking is determined by the stream of thought. Ones personal experience, collective (as in subcultural, tradition) and so on. 

Usually the way we express is we use thought (knowledge, past experiences, memory) and we act according to all that. If we act according to the stream of thought that we are conditioned into, then that thought is all within the BOX. 

All conditioned thought is within the box. It’s only when we are free of that, that there is a truly creative movement and therefore action/expression. 

Its only in freedom without the shackles of thought that one can think differently. 

 

Start with seeing that time, “psychological becoming”, the entity with its volition/desire is why one is perpetually limited within that BOX(conditioned thought/expression/ and then action)

 

But creativity cannot be cultivated. Cultivation is the very limiting factor to remaining in the BOX

 

Edited June 5, 2018 by Faceless

[Faceless]

3 minutes ago, Saumaya said:

Creativity and 'out of the box' thinking are different things

I think @How to be wise is referring to creative expression. 

[Faceless]

To ask how to be creative is very contradictory indeed.

[Saumaya]

@How to be wise I mean a lot of it depends upon the nature of activity you are going to do. Different activities require different tools for creativity

Edited June 5, 2018 by Saumaya

[How to be wise]

@Faceless it seems like you’re talking about enlightenment. But is there a way of increasing your creativity further? Is enlightenment the best way for it?

[Faceless]

2 minutes ago, Saumaya said:

@How to be wise I mean a lot of it depends upon the nature of activity you are going to do. Different activities require different tools for creativity

Do you mean technique?

 

[pluto]

The more interested and passionate you are about something will naturally shift your vibration to a higher level(so to speak), this in turn will explode creativity the more and more you do what you love and what excites you the most.

[Faceless]

4 minutes ago, How to be wise said:

@Faceless it seems like you’re talking about enlightenment. But is there a way of increasing your creativity further? Is enlightenment the best way for it?

There is nothing more creative than consciousness/mind with no-thing in it, followed by action/expression. 

[Saumaya]

1 minute ago, Faceless said:

Do you mean technique?

 

Kinda. Like engineer will use different tools for creativity than a writer

[cetus]

39 minutes ago, How to be wise said:

@cetus56 but you need creativity to find a way to use nature. So it isn’t a solution for how to be more creative. 

@How to be wise The Tao is a natural flow of creativity within itself. One doesn't use the Tao but flows with it. 

[Faceless]

1 minute ago, Saumaya said:

Kinda. Like engineer will use different tools for creativity than a writer

Of course that would fall under technique(knowledge, experience, memory) 

That would fall under utilizing the movement of time/thought.

 

[Faceless]

8 minutes ago, cetus56 said:

@How to be wise The Tao is a natural flow of creativity within itself. One doesn't use the Tao but flows with it. 

I’m not really familiar with tradition, but this relates to what I am referring to. 

If one is bound by time, then communion with tao is not. Then creativity is not. 

It’s the cessation to the user/entity that makes for creativity. 

Edited June 5, 2018 by Faceless

[Saumaya]

4 minutes ago, Faceless said:

Of course that would fall under technique(knowledge, experience, memory) 

That would fall under utilizing the movement of time/thought.

 

There are internal methods of increasing creativity and external methods. External methods may vary from profession to profession but internal methods stay the same. Things like observation, inspiration, curiosity about life virtuality help increasing creativity regardless of the activity being performed.

[Faceless]

6 minutes ago, Saumaya said:

Things like observation

Indeed. Observation free of the knower.

6 minutes ago, Saumaya said:

inspiration

This to me would fall under time/cultivation/the movement of duality(an entity and its conditioned movement)

 

Do you see what I mean? 

Edited June 6, 2018 by Faceless