| In my vision..... CREATIVITY |
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| In my vision..... CREATIVITY |
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In my vision, the creators are more religious than the people who go to the churches, to the temples, to the mosques, the people who do long fasts, the people who torture their bodies, the people who go through many kinds of austerities: these are a little bit crazy type of people - off center. If the whole world becomes religious in their way, you will find it turning into a madhouse. It has almost turned!
from: Zarathustra, a god that can dance
HOW TO BE CREATIVE WHILE DOING JOBS WHICH SEEM NOT TO LEAVE ANY SPACE FOR CREATIVITY, LIKE CLEANING, ETC.?
This question is from Krishna Radha. She cleans. But I also do the same thing: every morning, every evening, twenty-four hours -- cleaning your mind, cleansing. But I never feel that there is any need for any other creativity.
Cleaning a floor can be a tremendously creative act. Remember, creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness. Whatsoever you do can become creative. Whatsoever you do can become creative if you know what creativity means.
Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love. If you love me and you clean this auditorium, it is creative. If you don't love me then of course it is a chore, it is a duty to be done somehow, it is a burden. Then you would like some other time to be creative. What will you do in that other time? Can you find a better thing to do? Are you thinking that if you paint, you will feel creative?
But painting is just as ordinary as cleaning the floor. You will be throwing colors on a canvas. Here you go on washing the floor, cleaning the floor. What is the difference? Talking to somebody, a friend, and you feel time is being wasted. You would like to write a great book; then you will be creative. But a friend has come: a little gossiping is perfectly beautiful. Be creative.
from: Nirvana: The last nightmare
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In the video "The Birth of Creativity" Japanese Artist Meera shows how creativity can be discovered and expressed through painting. Meera leads several courses in the Osho Meditation Resort in Pune every year, where she shares her overflowing energy to support creativity to be born. From the recent Osho Times, we publish an interview with her here. |
You paint a picture or you write a song. What do you think - you are the creator? In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning. So it is not a question of the past. Wherever and whenever creativity happens, it is always through Him. Ask all the great poets. They will say that whenever great poems have descended on them, they were, at the most, passive receivers. It happened; they were not the creators.
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The idea that you can
create is simply your illusion. All creativity belongs to Him. Even
through you, whatsoever is created, He is the creator. To understand this
is a great illumination. To understand this the ego disappears; to
understand this is to allow Him to take total possession of you. You
become an instrument, and in small things, great things become possible.
Then He moves through you. If you dance, He dances. You are, at the
most, the field where He dances. When you sing, He sings. You are, at
the most, the flute, the empty flute, which just becomes a passage to
it. At the most you can allow - it is always He who is doing things. |
Existence is a continuous creativity.
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