‘Freedom from’ is political… ‘Freedom for’ is artistic, creative, scientific. And ‘just freedom’ is religious.
In part 12, Shanti lets artists and poets speak: Michelangelo, Robert Frost, Rabindranath Tagore, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Miguel de Cervantes, Gertrude Stein, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ōtagaki Rengetsu, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Maria Angelou, Sappho
Osho speaks to a sannyasin in darshan, “One should always cultivate something that is purely for delight.”
Osho speaks on the subject of ‘Sannyasin’: “My sannyas is an opening, a journey, a dance, a love affair with the unknown, a romance with existence itself, in search of an orgasmic relationship with the whole.”
Osho, how to be creative while doing jobs which seem not to leave any space for creativity, like cleaning etc?
“Perhaps I am the only one in the world who is in absolute support of mechanical brains taking over the work of human intelligence,” states Osho.
“The perfect expression of art may be in worlds beyond, but it is gratifying one may not need to go so far to seek it,” expounds Anugyan in this essay.
Osho concludes his commentaries on the last stanzas: ‘With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.’
A few designers decode Satya Paul’s legacy and influence in fashion, writes Anjuly Mathai in The Week, published in the January 24, 2021 edition.
A video interview of Devakant where he speaks about music (“the queen of the arts”), his first spiritual experience, how he discovered Osho, how Osho worked on him, and about creativity and discipline.
Osho’s vision: “The new man is an absolute necessity… If we cannot produce a new human being, then humanity will disappear from the earth.”
New artwork by Siddhena and a piece of writing on creativity, on the intuitive back-and-forth flow between action and response.
Beloved Osho,
By using modern technology, I feel we are hurting this vibrating, juicy earth with the dead garbage of plastic, radioactivity, bad air and so on.
Please would you comment.
Q: Osho, when I dropped my job as a political reporter in order to come to Poona, some of my friends who are engaged in the struggle against atomic war, atomic power, destruction of the environment, the dismantling of democratic freedoms, etcetera, called me an escapist. Sometimes I wonder if they are right. Are they?
Tham Khai Meng urgently calls for children to be allowed creativity and the freedom to explore and experiment. Published in ‘The Guardian’ on May 18, 2016.
Many creative artists live on Bali with its fertile energy – Bhagawati introduces two of them: Sunder and Abir who talk about their art installations which they create by tuning into materials and letting intuition guide the outcome.
Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
In his highly inspiring article published by CNN on 4.1.2013, the inimitable Deepak Chopra says that the brain is the only organ that changes instantly according to how the mind relates to it.