“Become a child again and you will be creative. All children are creative. Creativity needs
\nfreedom \u2013 freedom from the mind, freedom from knowledge, freedom from prejudices.
\nA creative person is one who can try the new. A creative person is not a robopath.
\nRobopaths are never creative, they are repetitive. So become a child again.
\nAnd you will be surprised that all children are creative; all children, wherever they are
\nborn, are creative. But we don\u2019t allow their creativity, we crush and kill their creativity, we
\njump upon them. We start teaching them the right way to do things.
\nRemember, a creative person always goes on trying the wrong ways. If you always follow
\nthe right way to do a thing you will never be creative \u2013 because the right way means the way
\ndiscovered by others. And the right way means that of course you will be able to make
\nsomething, you will become a producer, a manufacturer, you will be a technician, but you will not be a creator.<\/p>\n
What is the difference between a producer and a creator? A producer knows the right way
\nof doing a thing, the most economical way of doing a thing; with the least effort he can create
\nmore results. He is a producer. A creator fools around. He does not know what is the right
\nway to do a thing so he goes on seeking and searching again and again in different directions.
\nMany times he moves in a wrong direction, but wherever he moves he learns. He becomes
\nmore and more rich. He does something which nobody has ever done before. If he had
\nfollowed the right way to do things he would not have been able to do it.<\/p>\n
Listen to this small story:
\nA Sunday school teacher asked her students to draw a picture of the holy family.
\nAfter the pictures were brought to her, she saw that some of the youngsters had drawn the
\nconventional pictures \u2013 the holy family in the manger, the holy family riding on the mule, and the like.<\/p>\n
But she called up one little boy to ask him to explain his drawing, which showed an
\nairplane with four heads sticking out of the plane windows.
\nShe said, \u201cI can understand why you drew three of the heads to show Joseph, Mary and
\nJesus. But who\u2019s the fourth head?\u201d
\n\u201cOh,\u201d answered the boy, \u201cthat\u2019s Pontius the pilot!\u201d
\nNow this is beautiful. This is what creativity is. He has discovered something.
\nBut only children can do that. You will be afraid to do it, you will look foolish. A creator
\nhas to be able to look foolish. A creator has to risk his so-called respectability. That\u2019s why
\nyou always see that poets, painters, dancers, musicians, are not very respectable people. And
\nwhen they become respectable, when a Nobel prize is given to them, they are no longer
\ncreative. From that moment creativity disappears.
\nWhat happens? Have you ever seen a Nobel prize winner writing another thing which is
\nof any value? Have you ever seen any respectable person doing something creative? He
\nbecomes afraid. If he does something wrong, or if something goes wrong, what will happen
\nto his prestige? He cannot afford that. So when an artist becomes respectable he becomes
\ndead.
\nOnly those who are ready to put their prestige, their pride, their respectability again and
\nagain at stake, and can go on into something which nobody thinks is worth going into\u2026
\nCreators are always thought to be mad people. The world recognizes them, but very late. It
\ngoes on thinking that something is wrong. Creators are eccentric people.
\nAnd remember again, each child is born with all the capacities to become a creator.
\nWithout any exception, all children try to be creators but we don\u2019t allow them. Immediately
\nwe start teaching them the right way to do a thing \u2013 and once they have learned the right way
\nto do a thing they become robopaths. Then they go on doing the right thing again and again
\nand again, and the more they do it, the more efficient they become. And the more efficient
\nthey become, the more respected they are.
\nSomewhere between the age of seven and fourteen a great change happens in a child.
\nPsychologists have been searching into the phenomenon\u2026why does it happen and what
\nhappens?
\nYou have two minds, two hemispheres. The left hemisphere of the mind is uncreative. It
\nis technically very capable, but as far as creativity is concerned it is absolutely impotent. It
\ncan only do a thing once it has learned it, and it can do it very efficiently, perfectly; it is
\nmechanical. This left hemisphere is the hemisphere of reasoning, logic, mathematics. It is
\nthe hemisphere of calculation, cleverness, of discipline, order.
\nThe right hemisphere is just the opposite of it. It is the hemisphere of chaos, not of order;
\nit is the hemisphere of poetry, not of prose; it is the hemisphere of love, not of logic. It has
\na great feeling for beauty, it has a great insight into originality \u2013 but it is not efficient, it
\ncannot be efficient. The creator cannot be efficient, he has to go on experimenting.
\nThe creator cannot settle anywhere. The creator is a vagabond, he carries his tent on his
\nshoulders. Yes, he can stay for an overnight stay, but by the morning he is gone again \u2013 that\u2019s
\nwhy I call him a vagabond. He is never a householder. He cannot settle; settling means death
\nto him. He is always ready to take a risk. Risk is his love affair.
\nBut this is the right-side hemisphere. The right-side hemisphere is functioning when the
\nchild is born; the left-side hemisphere is not functioning. Then we start teaching the child \u2013
\nunknowingly, unscientifically. Down the ages we have learned the trick of how to shift the
\nenergy from the right hemisphere to the left hemisphere; how to put a stop to the right
\nhemisphere and how to start the left hemisphere. That\u2019s what our whole schooling is. From
\nkindergarten to university that\u2019s what our whole training and so-called education is. It is an
\neffort to destroy the right hemisphere and to help the left hemisphere. Somewhere between
\nthe ages of seven and fourteen we succeed and the child is killed, the child is destroyed.<\/p>\n
Then the child is no longer wild \u2013 he becomes a citizen. Then he learns the ways of
\ndiscipline, language, logic, prose. He starts competing in the school, becomes an egoist,
\nstarts learning all the neurotic things that are prevalent in the society, becomes more
\ninterested in power, money, starts thinking how to become more educated so that he can
\nbecome more powerful, how to have more money, how to have a big house, and all that. He
\nshifts.
\nThen the right hemisphere functions less and less \u2013 or functions only when you are in
\ndream, fast asleep. Or sometimes when you have taken a drug.
\nThe great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in
\ncompletely destroying the right hemisphere because of compulsory education. The West has
\nbecome too educated \u2013 that means it has gone to the very excess, to one side. It has become
\nextreme. Now there seems to be no possibility. Unless you introduce some ways which can
\nhelp the right hemisphere to be revived again in the universities and colleges and the schools,
\ndrugs are not going to go. There is no possibility of prohibiting drugs by law alone. There is
\nno way to enforce it unless the inner balance is put right again.
\nThe appeal of the drug is that it immediately shifts gear \u2013 from the left hemisphere your
\nenergy moves to the right hemisphere. That\u2019s all the drug can do. Alcohol has been doing it
\nfor centuries, but now far better drugs are available \u2013 LSD, marijuana, psilocybin, and even
\nbetter drugs will be available in the future.
\nThe criminal is not the drug-taker, the criminal is the politician and the educationalist. It
\nis they who are guilty. They have forced the human mind into one extreme \u2013 into such an
\nextreme that now there is a need to revolt. And the need is so great! Poetry has completely
\ndisappeared from people\u2019s life, beauty has disappeared, love has disappeared\u2026money,
\npower, pull, they have become the only gods.
\nHow can humanity go on living without love and without poetry and without joy and
\nwithout celebration? Not for long.<\/p>\n
The new generation all over the world is doing a great service by showing the stupidity
\nof your so-called education. It is not a coincidence that drug-takers almost always become
\ndrop-outs. They disappear from the universities, colleges. It is not a coincidence \u2013 this is part of the same revolt.
\nAnd once a man has learned the joys of drugs it becomes very difficult for him to drop
\nthem. Drugs can be dropped only if better ways can be found which can release your poetry.
\nMeditation is a better way \u2013 less destructive, less harmful than any kind of chemical. In fact,
\nit is not harmful at all, it is beneficial. Meditation also does the same thing: it shifts your
\nmind from the left hemisphere to the right hemisphere. It releases your inner capacity of creativity.<\/p>\n
A great calamity that is going to be in the world through drugs can be avoided by only
\none thing \u2013 that is meditation. There is no other way. If meditation becomes more and more
\nprevalent and enters peoples\u2019 lives more and more, drugs will disappear. And education must
\nstart to be not so absolutely against the right hemisphere and its functioning.
\nIf the children are taught that their minds are both, and if they are taught how to use both,
\nand if they are taught when to use which\u2026 There are situations when only the left-side brain
\nis needed, when you need to calculate \u2013 in the marketplace, in the everyday business of life,
\nand there are times when you need the right hemisphere.
\nAnd remember always, the right hemisphere is the end and the left hemisphere is the
\nmeans. The left hemisphere has to serve the right hemisphere. The right hemisphere is the
\nmaster \u2013 because you earn money only because you want to enjoy your life and celebrate
\nyour life. You want a certain bank balance only so that you can love. You work only so that
\nyou can play \u2013 play remains the goal. You work only so that you can relax. Relaxation
\nremains the goal, work is not the goal.
\nThe work ethic is a hangover from the past. It has to be dropped. And the educational world has to go through a real revolution. People should not be forced, children should not
\nbe forced into repetitive patterns.
\nWhat is your education? Have you ever looked into it? Have you ever pondered over it?
\nIt is simply a training in memory. You don\u2019t become intelligent through it, you become more
\nand more unintelligent. You become stupid. Each child enters the school very intelligent,
\nbut it is very rare that a person comes out of university and is still intelligent \u2013 it is very rare.
\nThe university almost always succeeds. Yes, you come with degrees, but you have purchased
\nthose degrees at a great cost: you have lost your intelligence, you have lost your joy, you
\nhave lost life \u2013 because you have lost the functioning of the right-side hemisphere.
\nAnd what have you learned? \u2013 information. Your mind is full of memory. You can repeat,
\nyou can reproduce \u2013 that\u2019s what your examinations are. The person is thought to be very
\nintelligent if he can vomit all that has been thrown into him. First he has to be forced to
\nswallow, go on swallowing, and then in the examination papers, vomit. If you can vomit
\nefficiently you are intelligent. If you can vomit exactly that which has been given to you,
\nyou are intelligent.
\nNow this is something to be understood: you can vomit the same thing only if you have
\nnot digested it, remember. If you have digested it you cannot vomit the same thing,
\nsomething else may come. Blood may come, but not the same Vrindavan bread. That will
\nnot come. It has disappeared. So you simply have to keep it down there in your stomach
\nwithout digesting it. Then you are thought to be very, very intelligent. The most stupid are
\nthought to be the most intelligent. It is a very sorry thing, a sorry state of things.
\nThe intelligent may not fit. Do you know Albert Einstein could not pass his matriculation
\nexamination? Such a creative intelligence \u2013 it was difficult for him to behave in the stupid
\nway that everybody else was behaving in.
\nAll your so-called gold medalists in the schools, colleges, universities, disappear. They
\nnever prove to be of any use. Their glory ends with their gold medals. Then they are never
\nfound anywhere. Life owes nothing to them.
\nWhat happens to these people? You have destroyed them. They have purchased the
\ncertificates and they have lost all. Now they will be carrying their certificates and degrees.
\nThis kind of education has to be totally transformed. More joy has to be brought to the
\nschoolroom, more chaos has to be brought to the university \u2013 more dance, more song, more
\npoetry, more creativity, more intelligence. Such dependence on memory has to be dropped.
\nPeople should be watched and people should be helped to be more intelligent. When a
\nperson responds in a new way he should be valued. There should be no right answer. There
\nis none. There is only a stupid answer and an intelligent answer. The very categorization of
\nright and wrong is wrong; there is no right answer and there is no wrong answer. Either the
\nanswer is stupid, repetitive, or the answer is creative, responsive, intelligent. Even if the
\nrepetitive answer seems to be right it should not be valued much because it is repetitive. And
\neven though the intelligent answer may not be perfectly right, may not fit with the old ideas,
\nit has to be praised because it is new. It shows intelligence.
\nYou ask me: \u201cI want to be creative. What should I do?\u201d Undo all that the society has done
\nto you; undo all that your parents and your teachers have done to you; undo all that the
\npoliceman and the politician and the priest have done to you \u2013 and you will again become
\ncreative, you will again have that thrill that you had in the very beginning. It is still waiting
\nthere, repressed. It can uncoil.
\nAnd when that creative energy uncoils in you, you are religious. To me a religious person
\nis one who is a creative person. Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.
\nIt is for you to come out of the trap \u2013 you can. Of course you will need great courage,
\nbecause when you start undoing what the society has done to you, you will lose respect. You will not be thought to be respectable.<\/p>\n
You will start becoming bizarre; you will look bizarre to people. You will look like a freak.<\/p>\n
People will think, \u201cSomething has gone wrong with the poor man.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the greatest courage \u2013 to go into a life where people start thinking you are bizarre.
\nThere will be difficulties. You can ask Indivar. He has come from Australia. He was a
\nrenowned psychoanalyst there for twenty years and now he is in much difficulty. His wife
\nthinks that he has gone mad; his children have become suspicious that \u201cDad has gone mad\u201d;
\nhis colleagues are no longer in sympathy \u2013 there is no question of respect, even sympathy is
\nmissing. The bosses where he works in the clinic are ready to throw him out any moment.
\nAnd for the first time he is happy and for the first time he is doing something that he enjoys
\n\u2013 and for the first time something from the right hemisphere is released in him.
\nJust the other night he was there, and when I touched his head I could feel the shift. It is
\nno longer the left hemisphere, it is the right hemisphere where more energy is moving. His
\npoetry is coming back. He is becoming a child again.<\/p>\n
But naturally you have to risk. If you want to be creative you will have to risk all. But it
\nis worth it. A little creativity is more worthwhile than this whole world and its kingdom. The
\njoy that comes by creating something new, whatsoever it is \u2013 a small song, a small painting,
\nanything\u2026 When you create something new you participate with the creator because God is
\nthe creator. When you create, you are in tune with God. When you create, really God creates
\nthrough you \u2013 that\u2019s why great joy arises. When you repeat, you repeat alone. God is not
\nthere. You are a desert, you are a machine. When you create, God simply enters your heart.
\nYou become a hollow bamboo and he starts playing on you and you become a flute. Great song is possible.
\nEverybody is carrying that song, and unless that song is sung you will never feel fulfilled.
\nMy sannyas is nothing but an initiation into creativity, initiation into danger, initiation
\ninto a new kind of life that has not been taught to you \u2013 in fact, against everything which has been taught to you.
\nMy whole struggle is against this so-called neurotic society. I would like you to become uneducated again.”<\/p>\n
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\n“Naturally you have to risk. If you want to be creative you will have to risk all. But it
\nis worth it. A little creativity is more worthwhile than this whole world and its kingdom. The
\njoy that comes by creating something new, whatsoever it is \u2013 a small song, a small painting,
\nanything\u2026 When you create something new you participate with the creator because God is
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