Convention brings about a comparison between the creative 'elite' and ordinary people. There is an absolute division between those who comprise the consuming audience of 'non-performers', passive recipients of arts and entertainment ( either not capable of performing, or waiting their turn to perform ), and those who are 'on'.
The effect of the 1960's experiments in street theater, was to intentionally erase the line between what is the performance and what is not.
In Zen, we are called upon to discover the root source of creativity, and to apply it to the greatest, broadest and deepest medium of all - life, or existence itself. Artistic activity in Zen is simply pointing at the creativity of the mind itself. In creative exercises, there is a built-in duality-a subject and an object. The problem we are solving in design, the content of the work, is the object of the exercises; and we are the subjects. We apply methods of defining the problem, generating solutions, and identifying the most fitting of our choices. We then proceed to implement the solution. But the object of the exercise for the true artist is not the resulting work of art. It is more the engagement with the process itself. Thus, it is said that good drawing is simply good seeing. The object of drawing as a creative act, is not the drawing produced, but the experience of the act of drawing.
Through the practice of Zen, we re-fresh our experience of the world. We re-learn it. First, we must un-learn previous opinions and misconceptions, after which, in their stead a fresh view emerges.
In Zen, the most important thing is to come to experience creatively. This creativity is innate in us, and inherent in ordinariness.
Atlanta Soto Zen Center
Salam,
Cherine
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