The Hustle Economy: Transforming Your Creativity Into a Career by Jason Oberholtzer

Author:Jason Oberholtzer [Oberholtzer, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: ebook, QuarkXPress, epub
ISBN: 9780762460274
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 2016-04-05T06:00:00+00:00

Disconnecting from culture may be foolish, may be backwards, may be a way of living in a narcissistic past. But these are the things I say to myself on a daily basis to admonish myself for not doing something relevant with my life—like writing for a TV show like Community or pounding the ground in Iraq to make brilliant, insightful CNN stories. These things feel exciting, culturally relevant, and inviting. You are part of a world of people who are passionately pursuing ideals and comedy and entertainment and information.

Meanwhile, I have been pursuing personal truth.

The Zen monks I train with are very clear, loving, gentle people. They live near Woodstock, NY, and read the New Yorker and sit in meditation anywhere between three and eleven hours a day, every day. They are living an isolated, maybe backwards, ancient lifestyle in a very modern world, and I am infinitely grateful they exist. They share with me something that I find literally nowhere else—a spiritual path. They inspire me to sit with my inner restlessness, my lack of peace; they inspire me to love myself despite my gluten fixations, my obsessive-compulsive work habits, and my failures at intimacy; and they ask me to challenge myself to be radically open.

This is also what artists do.

Sometimes, after a particularly clarifying session, I ask Ryushin, “Why go back out there? Why not just stay here forever?” And he says, “We train here. Here, we become clear, and when we are clear, we can go out into the world and be a mirror for what it is. We can go out into the world and reveal to the world what is happening, what we see, just by being clear.”

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