Writing Across The DharmaBridge

There are many who approach writing in a way that simply digs the trenches of old suffering deeper.

But there's a way to approach writing that pulls confusions out of our inner spaces and turns them into something readily digestible. Like good therapy, the writing process itself can illuminate what the mind touches, instead of simply recycling old traumas... The process can reinforce new mental habits that ultimately bring illumination to everything we perceive.

This is not straightforward.

But neither is a life of recurring sufferings!

So a therapeutic approach to a creative path is well worth the effort.

What do I mean by this?

Sometimes, when we turn toward creative practice, we can end up getting blended with aspects of ourselves that hold undigested traumas. Basically, we can get mired in the characters that hold the suffering, as we hold the pen.

Just as a therapy session with an unskilled therapist can go wrong and generate an uncomfortable recapitulation of the very issues one is seeking to relieve, writing can stir up very unpleasant places inside of us—or sometimes traumas that feel impossible to get through.

So, how do we invoke something from the mystic that breaks apart the rigidity of our mind space and allows us to think more freely? How do we open ourselves to the beyond so we can feel more freely through our histories and become available to radically open futures?

Can a "method" support this, or do we leave it up to luck and fortune?

I believe there is a methodology that can support a therapeutic writing practice and in a few days I’ll begin a program dedicated to unpacking it. Writing Across the Dharma Bridge is deeply influenced by the work I've done as a therapist and inside of the DharmaBridge container, to help people walk through stuck traumas and forge new paths forward.

Through creative exploration and meditative insight, and simply being exposed to mystically inspired poets, thinkers and dharma teachings, we can catapult the mind into luminosity. And we can play, and expand, and our voice in writing as well as in our lives can become much more rich and interesting.

How we "language" things changes how we see things. And can bring great delight to the mundane! Take, for instance, this snippet from W.S. Merwin..

.Look at how fresh meanings are generated anew, breaking apart taxonomies that are usually held so stubbornly in place. Look how the poet, even with his dry mouth, finds a way to turn thistles into something that could spring from a fountain. Look at how he simultaneously, opens to light, and prepares to break into song!

Poems are the meaning shifters. All conditioned realities can spring out of their little cages and give us back to the wide-open field of possibility that we fundamentally are.

If bells are ringing for you, go on over to this page for more information and get ready to cross the bridge.