Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

Wagner said, "Because I was unhappy." He said, "If I had been happy, I wouldnot have written down a single note." He said, "People who are unhappy have tofill their lives with imagination because their reality is lacking something." Andhe is right in many ways. People who have never loved write poetry about love.It is a substitute. If love has really happened in life, who bothers to write poetryabout it? One would be a poem himself; there would be no need to write it.Wagner said, "Poets write about love because they have missed love." And thenhe made a statement which is tremendously meaningful. He said, "And I thinkGod created the world because He was unhappy." A great insight -- but theinsight is relevant to man, not to God.If you ask me, God created the world -- in the first place, He is not a creator but acreativity; but to use the old expression -- God created the world not because Hewas unhappy, but because He was so happy that He overflowed; He had somuch.The tree is flowering there in the garden not because it is unhappy. The flowercomes only when the tree has too much to share and does not know what to dowith it. The flower is an overflowing. When the tree is not well-fed, not wellwatered,has not received the right quota of sunlight and care and love, it doesn'tflower because flowering is a luxury. It happens only when you have too much,more than you need. Whenever you have too much, what will you do? It willbecome a heaviness, it will be a burden; it has to be released.;The tree bursts andblooms, it has come to its luxurious moment.The world is the luxury of God: a flowering. He has so much -- what to do withit? He shares, He throws it out, He starts expanding, He starts creating.But remember always, He is not a creator like a painter who paints. The painteris separate from the painting. If the painter dies, the painting will still live. God isa creator like a dancer: the dance and the dancer are one. If the dancer stops, thedance stops.You cannot separate the dance from the dancer, you cannot say to the dancer,"Give your dance to me, I will take it home. I am ready to purchase it." The dancecannot be purchased. It is one of the most spiritual things in the world because itcannot be purchased. You cannot carry it away, you cannot make a commodityout of it. When the dancer is dancing, it is there; when the dancer has stopped, ithas disappeared as if it never existed.God IS creativity. It is not that He created somewhere in the past and thenstopped and rested. And since then what has He been doing? No, He iscontinuously creating. God is not an event, He is a process.It is not that once He created and then stopped. Then the world would be dead.He is continuously creating, just like birds are singing and trees are floweringand the clouds are moving in the sky. He is creating -- and He need not take anyrest because creativity is not an act; you cannot be tired. It is out of Hisnothingness.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho