Tonight I spent some time looking over some of the papers I wrote from my first summer at Naropa. While there are only a couple that I can "pull" from to use in my thesis work, I was awed a bit by my writing.
That first summer we wrote a lot - a lot more than the second summer, and with little time. We also had quite a bit of reading, as I recall, and being that it was the first summer and our introduction to Naropa, it was intense. It was the intensity, however, and the urgency to meet deadlines that - I believe - kept me more present to the work at hand. I have a feeling that's why my papers were so clear...and so raw.
I'm wondering how I can bring some of that intensity, some of that raw-ness and some of that urgency to the draft writing of my thesis...
Two things I thought of utilizing: the Wisdom Energies (which have been encouraged all along) and the paramitas. I remember last Spring in Richard Brown's Compassionate Teaching class, how much the paramitas impacted me. I recall that I seemed to always practice the opposite of each to their full-blown counter-parts in order to really understand the true meaning of each of them (I don't know that that is a necessity for most people, it just seemed to be my experience all the time).
At any rate, with the work I've done this weekend, I am thinking I need to keep both the paramitas and the Energies in clear sight of me while I work. I also think I need to add an element of urgency to my writing.
I have a creative writing book that encourages writing with the assistance of a timer. I think that might be a good exercise for me for awhile. Just set the timer for a small amount of time: 10 - 15 minutes, and write furiously, and see what comes. It may produce some terrific results...and, if not, well, at least I will have given my right hand some good exercise!
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