Audio Tapes: Los Alamos

Thought Can Never Be Creative

Q: What relationship has creativity to knowledge?

What is creation? What place has creativity in its deepest sense, in its profound activity with respect to knowledge?

In this conflict, struggle, pain, anxiety can there be creation? Must creation always be expressed, manifested?

In a science, in biology where there is great activity of thought with its own peculiar intelligence can that thought create, be creative?

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation?

Is love the only factor that is creative?

Creation Comes Out of Meditation

Q: What is meditation and how is it related to creativity?

What is implied in the whole structure and the nature of meditation? In meditation is implied the meditator and the meditation. Who is meditating? Why does one have to meditate? To become?

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration?

What is desire? That is one part of meditation - to understand the nature of desire.

Why is there violence? When there is complete attention which means you give your total energy to that fact of violence that energy dissipates the whole of violence.

Attention has no centre.