Creativity? Answers from Osho

Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love. 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 colours on a canvas. Here you go on washing and cleaning the floor. What is the difference? Talking to somebody, 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.

All the great scriptures are nothing but conversations of people who were creative. What do I go on doing here? Conversing. They will become gospels some day, but originally they are conversations. But i enjoy doing them. If you really love something, it is creative.

A man of understanding is continuously creative. Not that he is trying to be creative. The way he sits is a creative act. Watch him sitting. You will find in his movement a certain quality of dance, a certain dignity. Life consists of small things; just your ego goes on saying these are small things. You would like to do some great thing -- great poetry. You would like to become Shakespeare, Kalidas or Milton. It is your ego that is creating the trouble.

Drop the ego and everything is creative. Then everything is tremendously great. If you don't love, then your ego goes on saying, "This is not worthy of you." Cleaning is great. More

Spiritual muse: Learning from Nature - Bachi Karkaria

We think of higher things and beings only when we are down and out. This is one of the three lessons I learnt during a morning walk...

The seasons bring variety to my morning walk around Mumbai’ Five Gardens. The quality of light changes, new flowers splash across the branches, and different bird song filters out of the dense foliage

However, my eyes are usually lowered as I walk. This has little to do with my non-existent humility and everything to do with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s inability to lay and maintain a single level pavement. That and the inability of dogs, stray and pet, to keep their poo off it.

Thus it was that as I walked with downcast eyes, came upon a swathe of purple prose. No, call it poetry. The pavement and the road beyond it had been dyed like a royal robe, though not evenly Here, it was of deep rich hue, there, the fuchsia segued into a paler mauve. I marvelled over this unfamiliar beauty. The end-of summer breezes cover the pavements with the golden blooms of the copper pod tree, and the first showers do the same with the resplendent gulmohur, spreading out a red carpet which might be the envy of Cannes. But that recent morning, the night’s rainfall had changed the accustomed palette, it had brought down hundreds of jamuns .

And that’s how I discovered how many jamun trees there are in Five Gardens. I had never noticed them before. Now, as gingerly skirted the slippery purple, I looked up to behold the magnificent trees that had nestled this benevolence. A philosophical amble does not normally accompany me as I stride through this sylvan enclave, but this time I found myself pondering over the lessons that had dropped from those mystic branches. More

what is yoga?

"The word yoga is related to the English word yoke. Yoga is the union of body, mind, and spirit—the union of your individuality with the divine intelligence that orchestrates the universe. Yoga is a state of being in which the elements and forces that comprise your biological organism are in harmonious interaction with the elements of the cosmos."
: Deepak Chopra and David Simon
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga

what is 'dhyana'?

"As water takes the shape of its container, the mind when it contemplates
an object is transformed into the shape of that object. The mind which
thinks of the all-pervading divinity which it worships, is ultimately
through long-continued devotion transformed into the likeness of that
divinity."
BKS Iyengar
The Illustrated Light on Yoga