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Presence will be appearing in concert at the New Theatre in Friars Gate
as part of the Exeter Autumn Festival on Friday, 2nd November at 7:30pm, and
One Hand Clapping, at
the Dartmouth Healing Arts Festival, where they will play for the Mahamudra Meditation on Sunday
9th December at 9:00am.
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Osho on Creativity
"The highest value in existence is creativity, and it is creativity that brings you close to the creator, nothing else; there is no other bridge. Only a creative person comes to know something of god. And it is always only something, because god is infinite: the more we know the more there is to know.
Religion, to be real, should consist more and more of creative acts. In the past it has been just the opposite: religious people have remained very uncreative. That's why they have remained dull, dead, and they have not contributed anything to existence. In fact they have been an unnecessary burden. Only once in a while a Buddha, a Krishna, a Lao Tzu, a Christ, has contributed something. Otherwise so many saints, the long chain of saints, have just been unfertile.
Art of any kind has to become prayer and creativity has to become worship. It is only in the moments of deep creativity that the ego disappears, time disappears, space disappears. And it is only in the moments of total absorption in a creative act that one merges into the whole. It is ecstatic to be creative.
What you create does not matter, the product is not important but the act of creation is. It is not a question of whether you become a Picasso or you remain an unknown painter. It does not matter whether you create great sculpture or you are just a poor potter; it doesn't matter at all. The product is valuable in the market; but when I am saying to be creative my whole emphasis is on the very act of creativity, not on what it produces. Whatsoever is produced becomes a commodity, it can be sold in the marketplace. If people like it they will pay more, if they don't like it they will not purchase it; that is a totally different phenomenon, a by-product. But the act, the very act of being in creativity, is prayer."
excerpt from OSHO, The 99 Names of Nothingness, Chapter 9
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