Creative Energy ( 15 june 2006)

Now the question is: Is there an energy which is not within the field of thought,which is not the result of self-contradictory, compulsive energy, ofself-fulfillment as frustration? You understand the question? I hope I am makingmyself clear. Because, unless we find the quality of that energy which is not merelythe product of thought that bit by bit creates the energy but also is mechanical,action is destructive, whether we do social reform, write excellent books, be veryclever in business, or create nationalistic divisions and take part in otherpolitical activities and so on. Now, the question is whether there is such anenergy, not theoretically—because when we are confronted with facts, to introducetheories is infantile, immature. It is like the case of a man who has cancer and isto be operated upon; it is no good discussing what kinds of instruments are to beused and all the rest of it; you have to face the fact that he is to be operatedupon. So, similarly, a m ind has to penetrate or be in such a state when the mind is not a slave to thought.After all, all thought in time is invention; all the gadgets, jets, therefrigerators, the rockets, the exploration into the atom, space, they are all theresult of knowledge, thought. All these are not creation; invention is notcreation; capacity is not creation; thought can never be creative because thoughtis always conditioned and can never be free. It is only that energy which is notthe product of thought that is creative.

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