Creation is one of the most difficult things to understand. The one who writes a poem, however beautiful, thinks they are a creative being. The man and woman who breed children think they are creative. The baker who makes bread thinks they are creative. But creation is something far more. One is not creative who merely writes a book or fulfils themself in some petty, little ambition. Creation is not a manmade structure or manmade technological knowledge, which is mere invention. Creation is timeless; it has no tomorrow or yesterday; it is living timelessly. You come to it very naturally if you understand this whole problem of existence.
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A religious mind is all these things, and it knows, or rather it is in, a creative state from moment to moment. It is always acting from that extraordinary sense of emptiness.
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When you strike on a drum, it gives the right tone, but it is empty. Our minds are never empty, they are always full. Therefore, our action is always from the dreadful noise of thought, memory, despair, and so action is always contradictory, leading to great misery.
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But a mind that is completely empty, empty in the sense of observation, silence and therefore love, and the understanding of death, such a mind is creative. And a creative mind is empty all the time; it acts from that emptiness, it speaks from that emptiness. And, therefore, it will always be true; it will never bring about deception within itself. And it is only such a religious mind that can solve the problems of misery in this world.
—J.K***
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From collected works, Vol. 15
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