A Zen Perspective

My thesis is mostly about this topic so I better study more about this. But not for now, lulz. The first time I have read an article about that, it seriously drove me insane. I have understood existentialist, but this? It is too abstract, but also too astonishing to marvel at.

One of the notable quotes I love from Osho, a Zen Monk, is that every great and genuine artist and creator knows and understands what this means.

They thought themselves simply vehicles, mediums of existence, only instrumental to the creativity of existence— they never (even) thought they were the creator.

The creator’s joy is in creation itself; there is no other reward. The moment you start thinking of any reward beyond your act, you are just a technician, not a creator.

The creator is not ambitious and he is not lusting for eminence. A creator has no intention of being famous… of being respectable. His whole energy is involved in only one thing: his creation.

Lovely words, isn’t it? :D

I cannot help but just to be mesmerized by it, though I am perplexed sometimes (Oh, I mean all the time), in understanding Eastern Philosophy. There is a certain mystic about the beauty of it, which Western thinkers lack.