Creativity & Pondering are Linked

This is a very creative process; pondering and creativity are linked together.  One may free their creative spirit by pondering on different subjects that you wish to investigate.

How to Ponder

Let your mind wander.  If you need a seed idea to start with, then the thought “what is the Tao” should suffice.  Others use more esoteric concepts, such as “what is purple” or “describe red” or “what is heavy”.  Abstract ideas that have no apparent answers are good for this exercise.

A quite and pleasant location helps but is not necessary.

As you progress or learn you do not feel constricted or constrained.  This reduces frustration.  By meditating and pondering and receiving intuitive feelings and thoughts you are learning.

Pondering can be done on a constant basis, but it is during time alone you may be most receptive.  Once an insight is given to the mind, it can quickly fade and therefore should be trapped as quickly as possible either through intense memory training or by writing.

Once an idea attracts your attention, the concept is not to closely focus on it but to allow it to generate further.  If a true intuitive thought has been obtained, then the future intuitive thoughts will clarify the subject.  Simply allow them to come.  They will build a mental picture which I call an insight.  Once this is complete you may wish to record the thought.  Do not be upset or discouraged if you can not capture the thought as eloquently as presented for you should only try to capture the essence or the core insight.  If you try to capture the total thought process, our mind during the process will become activated, then block the transmission of the intuitive feeling.