silence shared in words
presents
Creativity is almost like pregnancy.
The mother goes
for nine months
into deep
troubled waters,
and even after the birth of the child
she is not free of responsibility.
All creativity
is a deep suffering,
unless your creativity
does not come out of the mind,
but out of meditation.
When it comes out of meditation,
creativity is
sharing the joy,
sharing the blissfulness that you have.
Mind has no joy
it is really a wound,
very painful.
Paul Gauguin had no idea of any meditation,
but he had
a tremendous passion,
almost a madness to create.
And just to create,
he dropped out of society,
forgot all about his wife and children and responsibilities.
He was possessed
by the idea of creating.
The possession was so total
that he could not allow any distraction.
But when you are possessed by something,
you are working almost as a slave,
and slavery cannot bring blissfulness.
All the creators in the West
have passed through long years of suffering.
Many of them have been
forced to live in madhouses,
and many of them have committed suicide.
The suffering became too much,
unbearable;
hey had to end their own life.
But still
the Western creator,
either of meditation or of music,
of painting or of dance,
has not become aware
of why he has to suffer.
In the East, the situation is totally different
not a single creator has suffered.
In fact only the creators
have enjoyed life to its fullest.
Not a single creator has been put into a madhouse,
not a single creator has committed suicide;
but creators have moved deeper into meditation,
and many of them have become mystics.
From painting,
from music,
from dance,
they have moved deeper into their own being.
Western society lives under an affliction
their ignorance about meditation;
hence, whatever they do is out of the mind.
And mind is
not the source of joy.
It can only create agony,
but never ecstasy.
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