Hey, thanks for opening this one, and happy Christmas to you and yours…
At Christmas we often reflect on our creative practice, and can feel pressure to make goals for the new year based around outcomes and expectations. Well-meaning friends and family, can say things to us that might make us focus on measurable goals, or lose sight of the purpose we have for our work, which we’ve fought to define all year.
So as we sit in this gap before the new year, I wanted to offer over some ideas which can help us stay on the right path. And how, in a world obsessed with measurable outcomes, we can sit within a more deeply nourishing model, one which offers the space for truly transcendent creative work and experiences within our journey.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few. Shunryū Suzuki
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The book I’ve been reading on this recently, is called Zen Mind, Begginer’s Mind - by Shunryū Suzuki (audiobook link | PDF link). This short text is an absolutely amazing intro to what Zen can offer creatives, in a model based on habitual practice, openness to discovery, and non-attachment to expectations.
I’m not the first person to recognise how the focus and approach offered in a Zen model, can overlay across the life of the artist and creative too, and in this newsletter and podcast, I want to hand over an introduction to this relationship for you.
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