2009 08 23

Recovery Time

As purveyors of attention we float the continuum from passive observing to active creator.

Today I create as a writer; as a house painter, and all day long I create my emotional experience.

On occasion I get caught in a creation.

My attention becomes fixed. I loop over, under, around and am magnetized to the creation.

In the Gurdjieff work we called it identification. In Buddhism it is called attachment. 

My mind and my experience won’t let go.

How long to get out of a creation? Discreation can seem like an event of epic portions. 

Novels often follow the format of being trapped in one’s creation.

If there is a lie involved it becomes a drama. 

If its life, it escalates to war.

How long will the Jews and Palestinians stay in their animosity creation?

How long will the USA stay in its police creation?

How long can I stay attached, upset, confused, undecided?

As long as us creators decide too!

In the 1980’s Ron Smoothermans book, Winning Though Enlightenment,

One message was that forgiveness was choosing to make your life work.

In the movie Garden State, brilliant writer, director, actor Zach, struggles thru the anti-depressants that have fogged his being.  His love interest, the Former mother of Luke & Lela Skywalker, Galactic Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman), catches Zach in a creation.

“You’re in it aren’t you?” She asks a checked out Zach.

You can see from the flat feel of his face he checked in to a memory.

It is a fantastic tender moment, when consciousness reveals itself. As one human being helps another become whole again, not that we are EVER ANYTHING but whole, but here was an incomplete memory trapping Zach. The memory in need of being experienced and completed. And with the help of Natalie, she acknowledges where he is (or isn’t-present) and cajoles with the truth. He responds, awakens and recovers.

Time is an illusion, and time trapped in a creation can seem an eternity.

Recovery time is sped by the freedom to decide recover and the help of another.

May this week be full of the quick recovery of all our attention.

Namaste