11 Jul You may be a cook; but then there will be creativity (OSHO)
You need not go to any school to learn creativity. All that you need is to go withinwards and help the ego dissolve. Don’t support it; don’t go on strengthening and nourishing it. And whenever the ego is not, all is truth, all is beautiful, and then whatsoever happens is good.
And I am not saying that you will all become Picassos or Shakespeares; I am not saying that. A few of you will become painters, a few of you will become singers, a few of you will become musicians, a few of you dancers – but that is not the point. Each of you will become creative in his own way. You may be a cook; but then there will be creativity. Or you may be just a cleaner, but then there will be creativity. There will be no boredom. You will become inventive in small things. Even in cleaning there will be a kind of worship, a prayerfulness. So whatsoever you do then will have the taste of creativity.
We don’t need many painters. If all turn out to be painters, life will become very difficult. We don’t need many poets. We need gardeners; we need farmers; and we need all kinds of people. But each person can be creative. If he is meditative, egoless; then the beyond starts flowing through him. According to his capacities, according to his potential, existence starts taking forms.
And then all is good. You need not become famous. A really creative person does not care a bit about becoming famous; there is no need. He is so tremendously fulfilled in whatsoever he is doing; he is so content in whatsoever he is and wherever he is, that there is no question of desire. When you are creative, desires disappear. When you are creative; ambitions disappear. When you are creative, you are already that which you always wanted to be.
Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within
Osho
