Creativity – Unleashing the Forces Within by Osho
I already had an idea of most of the stuff he discusses and it’s really good, I especially loved his controversial attitude. Religious fanatics will not be too please, neither would intellectuals, scientists, monks, says teachers are really torturers… hell he even disses folks like Picasso so be warned. But he does explain it all very well. The bits I learnt from this read were how violence is in the hand and mouth (eating) and so applied to how I love food lol. Even chewing gum or smoking, how it has a violent foundation and also how smoking is a form of meditation/pranayam. Like you’re still breathing in and out right. AND ALSO how things like smoking go back to breast feeding, replacing the filter for a nipple and suckling… you get the point right? Another thing I got out of this book was how places of education are making us think we know stuff because of degrees and all when really it’s making us more left brain oriented and destroying creativity which is why drugs will never disappear from these places and drugs do the opposite. How the real artists get fame after death so not to go after money and anyway fame comes easier through destruction e.g. Hitler etc. All the degrees and Nobel prizes mean nothing, more of an insult if anything else. How animals are horizontal while we’re vertical only when we’re parallel to earth can we sleep and how Freud and psychologists use this on the couch. How eyes are male and need rest, ears are feminine and don’t need rest. I feel what he feels about dying and so many other things. Learn some skill with all intensity and then forget it. And finally the greatest thing this book gave me is regret. For someone that does not know regret well I’m feeling it and really gonna enjoy it. It’s just a small regret about completing that poem for mom. He explains how incomplete ‘creation’ is most of the time complete because of the incompletion. So my regret is using inspiration from the Morning Rain spoken word poetry to complete that poem when I could have used it elsewhere.
Contents:
- Preparing the Canvas: The Three C’s (Consciousness, compassion, creativity.), Relax in Action, Act in Harmony with Nature.
- Five Obstacles: Self-consciousness, Perfectionism, Intellect, Belief, The Fame Game.
- Four Keys: Become a Child Again, Be Ready to Learn, Find Nirvana in the Ordinary, Be a Dreamer.
- Four Questions: Memory and Imagination, Postpartum Depression, Creativity and Crossbreeding, The Art of Money.
- Creation: The Ultimate Creativity, the Meaning of Your Life.
All these spiritual and inspirational books seem to have one main theme. Being in the present, awareness and breath. And how we create what we think. In this case first Don explains how everyone has a dream and that is what they manifest in their life so what your dream is, is your reality. Then there is the bigger dream of the family, then bigger of the country… and how the dream of the planet is what it is today. He touches on the Toltecs. Women and men of knowledge, scientists and artists who formed a society to explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices of the ancient ones. Stuff about Naugals and Mitote. Won’t get too into that. After explaining how we’ve brought misery into our lives he gives us 4 new agreements to replace the tons of wrong ones we have. So the first agreement is Be Impeccable with Your Word. Basically what you say is what you create. Second Don’t Take Anything Personally, self-explanatory. Third Don’t Make Assumptions, human nature but he really explains how it’s causing so many problems. Fourth is to Always Do Your Best, depending on your mood your best could be major or small time as long as it’s your best. Then he goes on to explain the Toltec Path to Freedom and ways of breaking old agreements. Over to a new dream of heaven on Earth and a lil prayer. Now through out the chapters, whatever subject it is, dude mostly gives you so many pros and cons and feels like the whole book is an affirmation. He even says he’s repeating in because he wants to install the heaven on Earth reality to you. Heaven and Hell is what we choose so what’s it gonna be? HUH?! Quick book to read, decent concept of things but one again Art of Living has it all in there ;o) Big up Sean for the recommendation.