Indestructible Innocence – A H Almaas

Everything you see, whatever you think, wherever you go—there is creativity; something new is being created. There are three dimensions, three levels to the journey of this Work, and we can look at the question of creativity from these three levels. The first dimension is that you are in the world and are of it. In the second dimension, you are in the world but not of it.

And in the third dimension you are part of the world but not of it. The first level—you are in the world and of it—is the conventional perspective. Most people experience themselves in the world and of it. How is creativity seen from this perspective? Creativity is seen as someone doing something new: whenever there is a creation, an idea, or production such as a painting, sculpture, design, poem, music, that hasn’t been done before.

From this perspective, the more you are different from other people the more creative you are. Sometimes the weirder you are, the more creative. Many artists fall into this category. But often in art, creativity is nothing but the expression of the unconscious. Something is inside you that you’re not aware of, so you express it by a creative act.

The creativity brings out the unconscious and expresses it through some artistic production. In that sense it is good, in that it allows your unconscious to come out and be seen and expressed. The second dimension has to do with being in the world but not of it. Creativity here means expressing the part of you that is not of the world. This means the part of you that is really you, that is not part of the conventional world of human conditioning—the expression of this is the process of creativity.

If you are self-realized, you are in a constant process of creativity. The true self is always being lived out. You are being your true self and just living. And living yourself out is a creative act, it is creativity, because who you are is always new (always new, but not necessarily different). You might simply be sipping a cup of tea, but you are being creative, because it is like the first time you have done it, very new, fresh, very clean. So there is creativity in it.

For instance, you make yourself an egg in the morning, and because you are what is really you, you are artistic and creative in the way you do it. You do it delicately, precisely, with great beauty. You are there, you’re aware, and everything is perceived in a very delicate way. Being yourself means being present.

Creativity is the living out of your presence.

We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty. But most of us seldom participate in this real world, being focused rather on the parts that are mostly strife, suffering, or meaninglessness. The situation is basically due to our not realizing and living our full human potential. This potential can be actualized by the realization and development of human essence. The human essence is the part of us that is innate and real, and which can participate in the real world.

The Diamond Heart series of books comprises transcriptions of talks given by A. H. Almaas to inner work groups in Colorado and California. A. H. ALMAAS is the pen name of Hameed Ali, the Kuwaiti-born originator of the Diamond Approach, who has been guiding individuals and groups in Colorado, California, and Europe since 1976. He is the author of Spacecruiser Inquiry, The Pearl Beyond Price, Facets of Unity, and other books.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Almaas, A. H. Indestructible innocence / A.H. Almaas—1st Shambhala ed. p. cm.—(Diamond heart; bk.4) Originally published: Berkeley, CA: Diamond Books, 1997. eISBN 978-0-8348-2383-9 ISBN 978-0-936713-11-3 (alk. paper) 1. Self-realization. 2. Self 3. Awareness I. Title BJ1470 .A465 2000 158.1—dc21 00-040025 OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Preface Introduction to Book Four 1. Clarification of Personality 2. Being and the Search 3. Human Maturity 4. Maturity and Truth 5. The Integrated Human Being 6.

Oneness and Human Life 7. Realization of Absence 8. Bare Bottoms on Ice 9. The Creative Now 10. The Two Realities 11. The Courageous Heart 12. Our Knowledge Is the World We Live 13. Inside and Outside 14. Concepts and Thinking 15. Physical Reality and Nonconceptual Reality 16. The Universal Mind 17. Selflessness E-mail Sign-Up OceanofPDF.com PREFACE We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty.

But most of us seldom participate in this real world, being aware rather of a world that is mostly strife, suffering, or meaninglessness. This situation is basically due to our not realizing and living our full human potential.

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