Osho Om Bodhisattva Commune/Research Institute5

	Creativity is the highest peak of your consciousness, hence it is painful, it is arduous. You are going uphill. To be uncreative is very comfortable; it is a downward journey. You need not do anything, nothing is needed on your part; just the gravitational pull is enough. When you are coming from the hill towards the plains you can just put your car engine off, no gas is needed; the car will go on rolling down. But if you are going uphill then effort is needed, great effort is needed... Creativity needs the greatest effort because many things have to be dropped when you are moving upwards; unnecessary weights have to be dropped. And you are carrying so much luggage; it is all unnecessary, it is useless.







	Nature has brought you to be a human being; more than that is not the capacity of nature. Up to the human being there is evolution. Beyond humanity there is revolution. Evolution means that which has been happening in spite of you; you were just riding on the wave. But there comes a moment --and humanity is that moment, that boundary line-- if you don't start moving on your own you are stuck. The wave of nature has brought you to the very maximum, optimum limit. More than that is not possible. Now you have to travel, and you have to make effort; you have to be creative.







	When you come to me, that kind of creativity will start disappearing-- because in the first place it was not real creativity. All that creativity will simply disappear from your mind. But you will become more sensitive, more open, more alive. Just wait-- out of this aliveness, sensitivity, openness, another kind of creativity will take possession of you soon. You will be possessed by something from the beyond. It will not be your ego trip; you will be just a vehicle, a hollow bamboo. And the music will flow through you-- it will not be of you, it will only flow through you. You will be just a hollow bamboo, a flute. You have only to allow it. And for that I am preparing you: The openness, the aliveness, the sensitivity, is nothing but making your bamboo as hollow as possible, so when God starts singing through you, you don't hinder him.







	When man disappears, when man becomes utterly absent, a new kind of presence enters his being-- the presence of God. Then there is creativity. When God is inside you, his light that starts falling around you is creativity. The climate that arises around you because of the presence of God within you is creativity. It has nothing to do with awareness or love, although the creative person is both. The creative person is aware, the creative person is loving, but the creative person is neither a meditator nor a lover-- loving yes, but there is no lover; meditativeness yes, but there is no meditator.






	Sannyas is a commitment-- a commitment to know yourself, a commitment to be yourself, a commitment to risk everything for this exploration. It is total involvement with existence, going to the very depths of existence and to the heights of existence.







	Love is commitment! Love gone, all commitment is gone: this is my meaning.

"...Remember creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness. Whatsoever you can do can become creative...

...Creativity means enjoying any work as mediation; doing any work with deep love...

...The creativity that you ordinarily know is not the creativity I am talking about. The ordinary creativity is nothing but an ego trip. You want to show to the world that you are somebody -- a painter, a sculptor, a poet, a musician. You want to show to the world that you are somebody. Your creativity is not really creativity, it is just the prop to the ego...

... A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has even seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before -- then there is creativity...

... Humanity has come now to a crossroads. We have lived the one - dimensional man, we have exhausted it. We need now call more enriched human being -- three - dimensional. I call them there C's, just like three R's -- the first C is consciousness, the second C is compassion, the third C is creativity...

... Consciousness is being, compassion is feeling, creativity is action. My vision of the new human being has to be all the three simultaneously. I am giving you the greatest challenge ever given, the hardest task to be fulfilled. You have to be as meditative as a Buddha as loving as a Krishna , as creative as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci. You have to be all together, simultaneously. Only then your totality will be fulfilled; otherwise something will remain missing in you. And that which is missing in you keep you lopsided, unfulfilled. You can attain a very high peak if you are one - dimensional, but you will be only a peak. I would like you to become the whole range of the Himalayas , not just a peak but peaks upon peaks...

... Buddha has the beauty of being unearthly, but he does not have the beauty that Zorba the Greek has. Zorba is so earthly. I would like you to be both together-- Zorba the Buddha. One has to be meditative but not against feeling...

... Relaxation comes only when there is no 'must' in your life. Relaxation is not only of the body, it is not only of the mind, it is of your total being...

... The mind should remain alive and creative, and yet should be capable of moving into silence whenever it wants to. That's mastery. When you want to think, you can think; when you don't want to think, you can go into non - thinking. A real master is one who can do both...

... Energy is good, energy is delight, energy is divine. Once energy is released one can become creative. It brings intelligence, creativity, sensitivity, it brings all that is beautiful...

... The very effort to "become" is a barrier -- because you are already carrying your being with you. You need not become anything -- simply realize who you are, that's all. Simply realize who is hidden within you...

... Nature gives everybody energy which is creative. It become destructive only when it is obstructed. when no natural flow is allowed...

... The essence of wisdom is to be in harmony with nature, with the natural rhythm of the universe. And whenever you are in harmony with the natural rhythm of the universe you are a poet, you are a painter, you are a musician, you are a dancer..."

-- Osho

Buddha has never painted a single picture, has never taken the brush in his hands, has not composed a single poem, has not sung a single song. Nobody has ever seen him dancing. If you watch him he is just sitting silently; his whole being is silence. Yes, a grace surrounds him, a grace of infinite beauty, of exquisite beauty, but you will need to be very vulnerable to feel it. You will have to be very open, not argumentative. You cannot be a spectator with a Buddha; you have to be a participant, because it is a mystery to be participated in. Then you will see what he is creating. He is creating consciousness, and consciousness is the purest form, the highest form possible, of expression.

Be a giver. Share whatsoever you can -- and remember, I am not making any distinction between small things and great things. If you can smile wholeheartedly, hold somebody's hand and smile, then it is a creative act, a great creative act. Just embrace somebody to your heart and you are creative. Just look with loving eyes at somebody... just a loving look can change the whole world of a person.

The greater a person is the more time it takes for people to recognize him -- because when a great person is born, there are no criteria to judge him by, there are no maps to find him with. He has to create his own values; by the time he has created those values, he is gone.

It takes hundreds of years for a creative person to be recognized, and then too it is not certain. There have been many creative people who have never been recognized. It is accidental for a creative person to be successful.

The real creators know it perfectly well, that they are not the creators -- they were just instrumental, they were mediums. Something happened through them, true, but they are not the doers of it .

1. Become a child again
Become a child again and you will be creative. All children are creative. Creativity needs freedom -- freedom from the mind , freedom from the knowledge, freedom from prejudices. A creative person is one who can try the new.

2. Be ready to learn

One who is ready to learn is a disciple, and the process of being ready to learn is discipline...The creative person has to dissolve all shoulds and should nots. He needs freedom and space, vast space, he needs the whole sky and all the stars, only then can his innermost spontaneity start growing.

3. Find nirvana in the ordinary

Never allow yourself this tendency for being great, famous, someone bigger than life-size -- never. Life-size is perfect. to be exactly life-size, to be just ordinary, is perfectly as it should be. But live that ordinariness in an extraordinary way. That is what a nirvanic consciousness is all about.

4. Be a dreamer
Dreams have to be made real, not reality changed in to dreams.

Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning. Meaning has not to be discovered: it has to be created. You will find meaning only if you create it. It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a little bit and find it. It is not there like a rock that you will find. It is a poetry to be composed, it is a song to be sung, it is a dance to be danced...

... So remember, Buddha finds the meaning because he creates it. I found it because I created it. God is not a thing but a creation. And only those who create, find. And it is good that meaning is not lying there somewhere, otherwise one person would have discovered it--then what would be the need for everybody else to discover it?