So, can thought be creative?
As we said, thought is limited
because it's based on knowledge,
and knowledge is the result of vast experience.
So we're asking a really very fundamental question:
whether thought can ever be creative.
It can invent,
it can produce new weapons of war,
the surgery, medicine and so on.
And in our relationship with each other, man, woman,
what place has thought in that?
Is thought love?
I know we say not,
but if we look at ourselves and our relationship with each other,
husband, wife, and boy and girl and so on,
our relationship is based on the image
you have built about her and she has built about him.
That relationship is based on thought.
So thought
has been extraordinarily capable of certain things,
and thought has also brought about the destruction of man,
of human beings like ourselves,
dividing them into ideologies,
the Russian ideology, democratic ideology and so on.
So please,
thought can never be creative
because what it can manifest must be limited.
And where there is limitation there must be conflict,
between man and woman, between ideologies,
between the Arab and the Jew,
between the American and the Russian,
this division,
geographically, nationally, religiously.
And conflict can never under any circumstances
bring about a creativity of creation.
So, if thought is not the ground of creation,
then what is creation, when does it take place?
Baking bread is also creation of a certain kind,
having babies, also creation
and so on, all the way up.
Surely, creation can only take place
when thought is silent.
You may totally disagree with this.
I hope you do.
I'm sure you do.
Because to us thought is extraordinarily important,
which means the intellect,
which is only part of a human being.
So, the speaker says
creativity can never take place
where there is the activity of thought.
The question then arises:
can thought be quiet,
can thought be put aside for a while?
Then who is it that helps thought to put it aside?
It is still thought.
I don't know if you are following all this.
So it's a very complex process.
They have tried every method to quieten thought,
drugs, tranquillisers,
and also they have tried every form of meditation,
the Zen meditation,
the Tibetan,
the Hindu, the Buddhist,
and all the latest gurus with their nonsense,
they have tried everything to quieten the thought.
Because thought has its place.
But psychologically, inwardly,
can there be a certain silence, quietness?
Love is that silence,
is that quality of great strength,
quiet energy.