Creativity and absent mindedness- Two sides of the same coin

Disconnection= Intuition, creativity, absent mindedness.

An old gentleman who was very absent minded would visit us once in a year. He was an epitome of absent mindedness. He would forget all that he could forget. Towel while going for a bath, glasses on his forehead, his wallet, his handbag, his cap (topi) and any small or big thing that he can forget.
One thing as a child that I never liked about this loving uncle was that he used to forget my gift at home. Then when he would return home he would forget something at our place which he remembered till his next visit.
One fine morning when he was with us I found him very uneasy. He was looking for something very desperately. He had lost his wrist watch. I tried to search and help him but in vain. That was not the first time that he had lost something but he was very upset on loosing his wrist watch. By then it was about an hour that we were searching for the lost property and everyone in the house was looking for it. Now this was becoming a very odd situation. He was looking uncomfortable on loosing his watch.
I said, “Uncle you keep loosing things and then you get it back too because you just happen to misplace it. Why are you so upset today?”
He explained, “Yes, I know I misplace things and so I am always assured of getting it back. But today I have not misplaced my watch. Because I keep forgetting things here and there I have placed it in a very appropriate place and now I am unable to remember that place.”
The day was wasted in looking for the watch. The old fellow did not get out of the house the whole day. The next day he said, “Now I quit, it is not possible for me to solve this problem of absent mindedness.” And he walked out of the house to do some gardening. He liked gardening a lot he was very good at landscaping. He enjoyed gardening but due to this short episode he did not get out of the house for one day and now he did not want to waste his time.
The moment he stepped out of the house he started laughing and we all gathered to know what was happening. In no time we all started laughing. This old gentleman had devised a creative solution to his absent mindedness. Because he always forgot to wear his wrist watch while going out he had kept it on his shoes.

Mind your own business

Doing what you ought to do and not doing what you ought not to do -Same or different?

When one requires an external force to avoid doing what one is not supposed to do then this person is lacking self discipline. He does what he is not supposed to do. He can indulge into indiscipline. He won't have respect for rules and regulations.

When one requires an external force to do what one is supposed to do then this person lacks focus on his goals. He might indulge in things which he is allowed to do but these things don't take him towards his goal.

So there is a definite difference between Doing what you ought to do and not doing what you ought not to do - and this difference is the difference between self discipline and focus.
Know this and be blissful!

Experience Vs Hope

When you know it doesnt work- it is experience. Yet if you feel that it might work - it is hope.

You have been driven towards many things in search of happiness. You have taken many actions which could not make you happy. Remember, the last time you shut that alarm and went back in your cozy bed. For a few moments, you felt you were the happiest person on the Earth. But when you woke up, you felt guilty and robbed by yourslef. This was not the first time you did it. Your experience said it does not work. But your hope said that it might work- this time.

Happiness lies in believing your experiences more than your hopes. Learning from the past means overcoming your hopes

Floating Upstream is Negative.

Acknowledgement: Following is an excerpt from the discourse given by Osho on 23 January 1973 pm in Woodlands, Bombay.

Existence cannot be forced to go according to you; it flows in its own way. If you can flow with it, you will be positive. If you fight with it, you will become negative and the whole cosmos around you will turn negative. It is just like a person who is trying to float upstream: then the stream is negative.

If you are trying to float upstream in a river, then the river will seem negative and you will feel that the river is fighting you, that the river is pushing you downwards. The river is trying to move you downstream, not upstream, so it will seem as if the river is fighting you. The river is completely unaware of you, blissfully unaware. And it is good; otherwise the river will have to go into a madhouse. The river is not fighting with you; you are fighting with the river. You are trying to float upstream.

I will tell you one anecdote... A great crowd gathered around Mulla Nasrudin’s house, and they said, “What are you doing? Your wife has fallen into the stream and the river is in a flood. Go immediately; otherwise the stream will take your wife to the sea.” The sea was just near. So Mulla came running to the bank, jumped into the stream, and started swimming upstream to find where his wife was. The crowd screamed, “What are you doing, Nasrudin? Your wife couldn’t have gone upstream. She has gone downstream.” Mulla said, “Do not disturb me. I know my wife very well. If anyone else had fallen into the stream, he would have gone downstream. Not my wife, however. She must have gone upstream. I know my wife well; I have lived with her for forty years.”

The mind is always trying to go upstream, to move upstream. Fighting with everything, you create a negative world around you. Obviously, this has to happen. The world is not against you, but because you are not with the world, you feel it is against you. Float downstream, and then the river will help you to float. Then your energy will not be needed. The river will become a boat, it will take you. You will not lose any energy by floating downstream, because once you float downstream you have accepted the river, the current, the flow, the direction – everything. Then you have become positive to it. When you are positive, the river is positive to you.

- Osho

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