Daily Quote, Monday May 25, 2009.

Good sunny morning!

Here are my reflections on today's quote:

What are the conditions of creativity? We come back agin to this question but perhaps from another angle. If we are not going through simply rearranging the past in our mind or the furntiure in our house to relieve temporary boredom, then what is creativity? I think creativity is the same as education, insofar as forgetting is intrinsic to learning. When we stop trying to measure something, to immortalise it, then it is not created 'as such'; it does not enter the known. Instead, without meaurement great attention arises and in this great attention to what is, which is all there is when measurment is removed, learning and fogetting walk together, faciltating the innocence of which K is speaking today. So to be educated is to be innocent.

You need an innocent mind.

You need an innocent mind, a fresh mind, a mind which is not cluttered up with the known. An innocent mind is a mind which functions in the unknown, and dying to the known is the door to the unknown. The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end. But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable. And, when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.

So, it is only a mind that has listened to and understood the challenge of death - it is only such a mind that can die to its own miseries and therefore be in a state of innocency. And, from that state of innocency, there is a totally different action altogether. Such action is always in the present; it is the active present....Only the mind that lives completely in the silence of the active present is open to receive the unknowable, and it is only such a mind that can bring about a new world because only such a mind is in a state of creation.

Collected Works, Vol. XI - 368