Spontaneous Creativity

Hi Friends!

It’s Rest week at Bodhisavage, where we close out the theme of the month with a guided meditation you can return to anytime. 🫠

This month we’ve been exploring the fourth of the Five Wisdoms from Buddhist psychology: the Wisdom of Effortlessness.

Sometimes called “All-Accomplishing Wisdom”, this is the radiant intelligence of spontaneity. The ability to respond to life freshly and playfully, without the tight overlay of striving.

We’ve been tracing this flavor:

• by loosening the grip of hustle culture

• by doing something for no reason at all

• by getting out of our own way at last week’s Moonlit Sit

Now, to wrap ‘er all up, here’s a (shortened) recording of last week’s live meditation.

The practice is drawn from one of my heart teachers, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and his deeply embodied approach to Dzogchen in the Bön tradition.

This method feels like throwing open the windows in a stale house and letting the breeze in. (You can learn more in his book Spontaneous Creativity.)

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So how do we practice it? By using the five energy centers of the body as a kind of somatic map to return to natural presence.

We journey from the crown of the head down to the pelvis (called the secret chakra in Buddhist frameworks), resting in each center for a few minutes to attune to the qualities that live there:

• Crown – the spaciousness of sky

• Throat – the alert clarity of awareness

• Heart – warmth, inspiration, and felt connection

• Navel – the quiet churn where ideas ripen into form

• Pelvis – readiness, groundedness, and the power to release

It’s a roadmap for moving from stuckness to openness, from overthinking to effortless flow. We don’t have to “fix” anything we find along the way, just allow spacious, warm, presence to get things melting and moving again.

The result is an emergent sense of spontaneous, intelligent responsiveness, whether in creative work, relationships, or how you show up in the world.

If you like, you can have a notebook nearby—there’s time toward the end of the meditation if free-writing/doodling/noise-making emerges naturally. But there’s no pressure to produce. This is about making space for life to move.

Drop me a comment to lemme know what you notice: Did it reveal any stucknesses? Did any opening or spontaneity emerge?

With love and mischief,

❤️ Lama Tasha