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Shifting the child's brain, killing creativity

And remember again, each child is born with all the capacities to become a creator. Without any exception all children try to be creators but we don't allow, them. Immediately we start teaching them the right way to do a thing - and once they have learned the right way to do a thing they become robopaths. Then they go on doing the right thing again and again and again, and the more they do it, the more efficient they become. And the more efficient they become, the more respected they are.

Somewhere between the age of seven and fourteen a great change happens in a child.

Psychologists have been searching into the phenomenon... why does it happen and what happens?

You have two minds, two hemispheres. The left hemisphere of the mind is uncreative. It is technically very capable but as far as creativity is concerned it is absolutely impotent. It can only do a thing once it has learned it, and it can do it very efficiently, perfectly; it is mechanical. This left hemisphere is the hemisphere of reasoning, logic, mathematics. It is the hemisphere of calculation, cleverness, of discipline, order.

The right hemisphere is just the opposite of it. It is the hemisphere of chaos, not of order; it is the hemisphere of poetry, not of prose, it is the hemisphere of love, not of logic. It has a great feeling for beauty, it has a great insight into orginality - but it is not efficient, it cannot be efficient. The creator cannot be efficient, he has to go on experimenting.

The creator cannot settle anywhere. The creator is a vagabond; he carries his tent on his shoulders.

Yes, he can stay for an overnight stay, but by the morning he is gone again - that's why I call him a vagabond. He is never a householder. He cannot settle. Settling means death to him. He is always ready to take a risk. Risk is his love affair.

But this is the right-side hemisphere. The right-side hemisphere is functioning when the child is born; the left-side hemisphere is not functioning. Then we start teaching the child - unknowingly, unscientifically. Down the ages we have learned the trick of how to shift the energy from the right hemisphere to the left hemisphere; how to put a stop to the right hemisphere and how to start the left hemisphere. That's what our whole schooling is. From kindergarten to university that's what our whole training and so called education is. It is an effort to destroy the right hemisphere and to help the left hemisphere. Somewhere between the ages of seven and fourteen we succeed and the child is killed, the child is destroyed.

Then the child is wild no more - he becomes a citizen. Then he learns the ways of discipline, language, logic, prose. He starts competing in the school, becomes an egoist, starts learning all the neurotic things that are prevalent in the society, becomes more interested in power, money, starts thinking how to become more educated so that he can become more powerful, how to have more money, how to have a big house, and all that. He shifts.

Then the right hemisphere functions less and less - or functions only when you are in dream, fast asleep. Or sometimes when you have taken a drug.

OSHO - Sufis The People of The Path Vol. 1: A Certain Milieu

I want to be creative. What should I do?

I WANT TO BE CREATIVE. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

Become a child again and you will be creative. All children are creative. Creativity needs freedom - freedom from the mind, freedom from knowledge, freedom from prejudices.

A creative person is one who can try the new. A creative person is not a robopath. Robopaths are never creative, they are repetitive. So become a child again.

And you will be surprised that all children are creative; all children, wherever they are born, are creative. But we don't allow their creativity, we crush and kill their creativity, we jump upon them. We start teaching them the right way to do things.

Remember, a creative person always goes on trying the wrong ways. If you always follow the right way to do a thing you will never be creative - because the right way means the way discovered by others. And the right way means that of course you will be able to make something, you will become a producer, a manufacturer, you will be a technician, but you will not be a creator.

OSHO - Sufis The People of The Path Vol. 1: A Certain Milieu

how to be happy ...

Many people come to me and they ask how to be happy, where to find happiness. They cannot find it unless they become creative. Happiness cannot happen to them, it happens only to creative souls. Create something. Become more spontaneous. Drop repetitions. Let every morning be a new morning and let every experience be a new experience. Don't think that all is old. Robopaths think there is nothing new under the sun - it is all the same so why bother? 

OSHO, Sufis the People of The Path Volume 1: From Robopathology to Enlightenment

Tenangkan fikiranmu dan belajarlah berenang ...

“You will perhaps find a benefit in distress which you have not been able to find in fasting nor in prayer; therefore when it descends upon you, defend yourself no longer and do not be concerned with searching for some remedy, lest you drive away the good which comes toward you freely, and give up your will entirely to your Lord; then you will see marvels.” Our Master used to say when someone was overcome with dismay: “Relax your mind and learn to swim.”

Artinya kurang lebih begini:

"Engkau mungkin akan menemui suatu kebaikan dalam penderitaan yang tak dapat kau temukan dalam ibadah puasa atau sholat; dengan demikian, apabila penderitaan itu menemuimu, jangan kau pertahankan egomu dan jangan pula terlalu fokus mencari penawarnya, biarkan dirimu melewati 'kebaikan' yang mendatangimu itu dengan leluasa, dan pasrahkan kehendakmu sepenuhnya pada Tuhanmu; lalu kau akan melihat keajaiban." Guru kami sering berpesan kepada seseorang yang sedang ditimpa kesusahan: "Tenangkan fikiranmu dan belajarlah 'berenang'."

Sabar itu ...

Sabar itu bukanlah duduk dan menanti, sabar itu menduga. Sabar itu menatap duri namun melihat mawar, menatap malam namun melihat siang. Orang yang jatuh cinta adalah penyabar dan ia tahu bahwa rembulan perlu waktu untuk menjadi purnama.

~ Shams-i Tabrizi (w. 1248 M) ~

Rumi #8

Tuhan Sang Maha Tinggi mencipta malaikat dan memberi mereka akal,
Dia mencipta binatang dan memberi mereka hawa nafsu, dan
Dia mencipta anak turun Adam dan memberi mereka akal dan hawa nafsu.
Jadi, dia yang akalnya menguasai hawa nafsunya lebih tinggi dari malaikat, dan
dia yang hawa nafsunya menguasai akalnya lebih rendah dari binatang.

~ Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, Mathnawi ~

Rumi #7

Tak satupun ciptaan Tuhan itu sia-sia,
Apakah itu kemarahan atau kesabaran, nasihat atau tipu muslihat.
Tidak satupun hal ini yang mutlak baiknya, tak pula mutlak jahatnya.
Keuntungan dan bahaya tiap hal ini bergantung pada situasinya.
Karena itu, pengetahuan sangatlah diperlukan dan berguna.

~ Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, Mathnawi ~

Rumi #6

Ketika Sulaiman meninggalkan istana,
Jin mengambil alih sebagai raja:
Ketika kesabaran dan akal telah sirna,
egomu merayu berbuat jahat

~ Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, Diwan-i Shams Tabrizi ~

Rumi #5

Apabila cermin dalam hatimu jernih dan jelas
Dirimu akan melihat gambar selain air dan tanah
Bahkan tak hanya gambar
Tapi juga Sang Pelukisnya

~ Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, Mathnawi ~

Rumi #4

Apabila manusia adalah orang menurut bentuknya,
Muhammad dan Abu Jahal akan samalah saja.
Lukisan di dinding itu seperti manusia,
Lihatlah bentuknya.
Apa yang tidak ia punya?
Lukisan indah itu tak punya ruh.
Pergi, carilah ia mutiara berharga!

~ Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, Mathnawi ~

Rumi #3

Manusia melihat sebab sekunder dan berfikir bahwa
itulah asalmula segala peristiwa.
Tapi telah diilhamkan pada para wali-Nya bahwa
sebab sekunder itu tak lebih dari sekedar hijab (penghalang).
Sebab sekunder ini adalah hijab pada mata,
Karena tak setiap mata cukup layak memandang mahakarya-Nya.

~ maulana jalaluddin rumi

Rumi #2

Bila segala sesuatu yang nampak pada kita adalah sebagaimana aslinya,
Sang Nabi, yang dianugerahi pandangan ghaib, yang tercerahkan dan mencerahkan, tak akan pernah menangis berdoa:
"Wahai Tuhan, tunjukkanlah kami tentang segala sesuatu itu sebagaimana aslinya!"

~ maulana jalaluddin rumi

Rumi #1

Jendela menentukan seberapa banyak cahaya masuk ke rumah,
walau andaikan bulatnya bulan memenuhi timur dan barat.
~ rumi

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Inilah gerangan suatu madah
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Membetuli jalan tempat berpindah
Di sanalah i'tikad diperbetuli sudah

Wahai muda kenali dirimu
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Hasilkan kemudi dengan pedoman
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~ Hamzah Fansuri rahimahullah
Aceh, c. 1590 M

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Pada dunia nin jangan kau amin
Lenyap pergi seperti angin
Kun kanzan tempat yang batin
Di sana  da`im yogya kau sakin

Lemak manis terlalu nyaman
Oleh nafsumu engkau tertawan
Sakarat al-mawt sukarnya jalan
Lenyap di sana berkawan-kawan

Hidup dalam dunia upama dagang
Datang musim kita `kan pulang
La tasta`khirunna sa`atan lagi kan datang
Mencari ma`rifat Allah jangan alang-alang

~ Hamzah Fanshuri (rahimahullah)
Aceh c. 1590 M
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