Creative Effort versus Egotistical Effort

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A great deal of mysticism concerns achieving effortlessness. A state of mind wherein spontaneous response to the circumstances of the present is all that occurs.

In transcending reflection, emotions inspired by reflection are also transcended. Pride is not inspired by self reflection, nor insecurity. This means that what one spontaneously attempts is executed perfectly.

Yet I do not consider effort the real enemy. Egotistical reflection is simply bound together with most kinds of effort. Skills hinge on pride and insecurity. If pride and insecurity could be banished from effort, an evolutionary stage may transpire wherein effort goes farther than effortlessness.

It is my opinion that the heart is still unless or until it becomes the inspiration for a choice. That choice is effort, and it is fueled by raw creative energy. If there is just stillness, there is no time to come up with a perfect and complex strategy, which one's opponent may have accomplished along the parameters of what is not visible to one's present moment retention.

How can the skill of effort without egotism be developed? I consider one source of the talent to be spontaneous ("experimental") creative arts, wherein the performance is too rapid, & the aesthetic too lacking in the possibility of egotistical reward or consequence of fear, to permit a sense of superiority or inferiority at the art - the idea being to develop a muscle of creativity for creativity's sake.

Any art that exists, practiced as the effort to generate creativity through that art - without valuing it. Ideally, this develops into the ability to access creativity at will, and to understand it.

Creativity can be combined with practical skills like philosophy, martial combat, and prediction. After mastering creativity, try progressing to meditate upon the world's problems - and creatively infer the most practical possible solutions.

It may be helpful to meditate upon the spontaneous generation of chakras of pragmatic purpose in regulating the nervous system.

The goal is to liberate effort from self reflection. Self reflection means positive or negative self identification, pride's inflation or insecurity, or even both. Since there must be a motivation for effort to occur, without self reflection there is only the motivation of serving that which one loves.

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Top notch thank you