Tend Your Creative Garden
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| doorway to Vien Thuc's temple garden |
“An artist needs a garden”, Vietnamese monk and painter Vien Thuc told me when I visited him in 1993. We spent the day hanging out with him in the garden surrounding his temple in Dalat – the outdoor haven where he meditates and then creates abstract paintings with Zen like sayings. He creates his art quickly, like a bursting from within him, not carelessly but with all the energy that has accumulated from the stillness of sitting in his garden. His art grows there in tandem with nature, just as plentiful.
Get Fired Up:
*What puts you into a creative space?
*How do you bring yourself to focus your energy on a creative or artistic endeavor?
*What are the ways to harness your creative energy (such as meditation, getting outside in nature, attending to your physical well-being)?
This is all about setting the stage for your muse to show up.
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