The Robo(egoic man)

Ego makes the Man a programmed system like a Robo.

Let go of your ego to experience bliss

True art means: if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration; if it makes you dance — whether anybody participates with you or not is irrelevant; if it becomes a bridge between you and existence — that is true art. If it becomes a meditation, that is true art. If you become absorbed in it, so utterly absorbed that the ego disappears, that is true art.

People who can’t create become critics

And don’t be bothered what critics say. Critics don’t know anything about art. In fact, the people who cannot become artists become critics. If you cannot participate in a running race, if you cannot be an Olympic runner, at least you can stand by the side of the road and throw stones at other runners; that you can do easily.

Share, don’t ask for recognition

Sharing is one thing, and asking for recognition is totally another. Share; don’t ask for recognition. I’m not saying that recognition will not come — it will come profusely. Ask for recognition and it won’t come so profusely. Even if it comes, it will limp. Because when you ask for recognition, the other becomes reluctant to give it. Because when you are seeking your ego, the other also wants to seek his own ego. Then you provoke criticism rather than recognition. And the one who recognises your art is deep down recognising, through his recognition, his own recognition.

Art can be very meditative

And art can be the most prayerful thing, the most meditative thing possible. If you can be in any art, music, painting, sculpture, dance, if any art can take a grip of your being, that’s the best way to pray, the best way to meditate. Then you don’t need any other meditation; that is your meditation. That will lead you slowly, step by step, into existence.

Music is silence between sounds

Even when you are listening to music, what really touches your heart is not the sound but the gap between two sounds. How to bring that gap to your heart is the whole art of music. But if a man can bring that gap just by his presence, and you fall into deep silence, you will know the real music. Then you will know that what you used to think of as music was only a preliminary training.

And the same is true about dancing, the same is true about every creative art. What it appears to be is not the reality; it is just a device so that you can become aware of something intangible, hidden, beyond.

Every creative art brings you to your innermost being where there is just calmness, absolute silence.

Never be a Mr pefectionist.

These two words have to be understood as deeply as possible: one is perfection, the other is totality. My emphasis is never on perfection but on totality. The old religions have been teaching you for centuries to be perfect. You cannot be perfect; nobody can be perfect because to be perfect means to be dead.
If something is perfect then there is no evolution possible anymore. Perfection means the full point has come, the cul-de-sac; the road ends. Now you are stuck, nowhere to go. You cannot come back — because how can a perfect person come back? That will be becoming imperfect again. You cannot go ahead because you have become perfect; there is nothing ahead.
Existence is imperfect and will remain so
Be total in whatsoever you are doing. Be total. If you are angry, then be totally angry. If you are in love, then be totally in love. If you are sad, then be totally sad. Don’t be half-hearted in anything. That is a totally different approach towards life.
The perfectionist will say, "Never be angry, never be sad." The person who believes in totality will say, "Whatsoever is the case, just be total in it. Don’t be half-hearted, don’t hold yourself back. Go into it totally."
Be totally angry or sad
Then even sadness is beautiful when it is total. If you can cry and weep totally, it will refresh you, it will rejuvenate you, it will unburden you. If you can be totally sad you will come to know something immensely beautiful in sadness which no joy can ever give to you, because sadness has depth; joy is shallow. And total anger also has its own beauty. It will give you the experience of boiling at 100 degrees, of intensity, of passion, of fire, of becoming aflame. And the miracle is: the person who can be angry can be compassionate too, because anger will teach him compassion. sadness will teach him to be blissful.
Perfectionist has destroyed humanity
My approach is not that of a perfectionist; I am utterly against it. It has driven the whole of humanity into a kind of madness. The whole idea has to be dropped. We have to learn a new language of wholeness. And I call a person holy when he is whole in whatsoever he does.
Let this be your foundation of life: that whatsoever you are doing at the moment, be utterly lost into it. Nothing of you should be left behind. And you will come out of it immensely benefited, enriched.

How can you become sucessful in every encounter?

Never let a problem become an excuse, put your problem in proper perspective
What is the secret ingredient of successful people that enable them to succeed?
Why do they win when others lose?
Why do they sear when others sink?
The answer is very simple its all in how they perceive their problems. They look at problem realistically and practically. They understand the six principles that pertain to all problems.
What are these principles?
If you know them, understood them and practices them, would you, too be a winner , a survivor? you bet? here they are Listen carefully and adopt them as your own.

1.Every living human being has problems.
What is your problem? Are you unemployed> If you're an impossibility thinker you probably think that a job would solve all your problems.
Nobody is free from problems. A problem free life is an illusion a mirage in the desert it is dangerously deceptive perception, which can mislead, blind and distract . To purpose a problem free life is to run after an elusive fantasy; it is a waste of mental and physical energies. Every living human person has problems .Accept that fact and move on to the second principle.
2. Every problem has a limited life span.
Every mountain has a peak. Every valley has its low point. Life has its ups and downs, its peaks and its valleys. No one is up all the time, nor are they down all the time. Problems do end. they do go away they are all resolved in time.
3.Every problem holds positive possibilities.
I t is the glory of God to conceal a thing. Every problem contains secret ingredients of some creative potential either for yourself or some else.
There are two sides to every coin.
What may be a problem to some one can be a profitable business for others.
Every problems holds possibilities for some willing to look for them.
4.Every problem Will change you .
Problems never leave us the way they found us. Every person is effected by the problems. No one emerges from a problem untouched by problems.
5.You can choose what your problem will do to you
You may not be able to control the problems but you can compose your response. You can turn your pain into profanity or into poetry. the choice is up to you. The choice is up to you. You may not have chosen your tough time, but you can choose how you will react to it.
when you control your reaction to the seemingly uncontrollable problems of life, then in fact you do control the problems effect only you. Your reaction to the problem is the last word!
That's the bottom line. what will you let this problem do to you?
It can make you tender or tough. It can make you better or bitter. It all depends on you.
6.There is a negative and a positive reaction to every problem.
In the final analysis the taught people who survive the tough times do so because they 'll chosen to react positively to their predicament. This is not always as easy as it sounds.
When you can't solve the problem manage it.
Twelve principles for Managing Problems positively
If you have a problem today any problem, I can help you if you'll let me. I offer to you the principles.
1.Don't Underestimate.
Don't underestimate the problem or your potential power to cope with it creativity! Unquestionably many problems are never resolved or managed effectively because they are not taken seriously enough.
2.Don't exaggerate
Instead of underestimating the problem, your instinctive reaction is to exaggerate it. The one battle most people lose is the battle over the fear of failure, try start begin and you'll be assured. You won the first round.
3. Don't wait
There is a time and place for patience. After you have breed every avenue possible and have planted as many seeds of solutions as you can . Patience is not virtue if you sit back and wait for your problems to solve itself.
4.Don't aggravate
We have the power to make any problem better or worse. We do this when we react positively or negatively. The Normal reaction would be to feel threatened by the problem, Threatened people become angry people. Fearful people reflect hatred. Hatred and anger only aggravate the problem they are not positive reactions. They will not help solve the problem.
5. Illuminate
I illuminate your mind. Get smart and then get smarter/ Ask yourself some questions.
6. Motivate
when you consider all of the positive reactions, you will be motivated to positive action
7.Bait
Need a job? Go to where the jobs are and then throw out the bait. Put in your application. Put ads in the paper. Let people know you are available.

8.Sublimate
Every problem , even yours is loaded with possibilities. you can turn your mountain into a gold mine. try "possibilities". Be live that every time one door close another will open. Sublimate your problem. That means believing that every adversity holds with in it the seeds of an undeveloped possibility.
10Now Dedicate
Most people fail , not because they lack intelligent, ability opportunity, or talent, but because they haven't given their problem all they have got.
Any one can succeed if he can get enthusiastic about life . even when life seems empty. Doors will open to the enthusiastic person first.
11. communicate.
manage your problem by remembering that often times the solution lies in help from other source. Do you need help Then ask for it. Don't be too proud to tell people you need help.
12.insulate
Don't isolate yourself from help but do insulate yourself from negative forces and negative personalities.
Maintain a positive mental attitude becomes a near impossible task if we allow ourselves to be bombarded by the negative tough ts that constantly. Surround as
Gods delays
are not
Gods denials

creative mind creates innovation

Innovation the new catchy word in the world whether it's the IBM Add or the business companies every one wants innovation. But from where the innovation comes?

The paradox of art is that first you have to learn its discipline and then you have to forget it totally. If you don’t know its ABC you will not be able to move very deep into it. But if you know only its technique and you go on practising the technique your whole life you may become very skilful technically, but you will remain a technician; you will never become an artist.

Learn the technique and then unlearn it

In Zen they say, if you want to be a painter, for 12 years learn how to paint and then for 12 years forget all about painting. Just completely forget — it has nothing to do with you. For 12 years meditate, chop wood, carry water from the well. Do anything, but not painting. And then one day you will be able to paint.

Let the technique be part of you

Twenty-four years of training. 12 years training in learning the technique and 12 years training in forgetting the technique. And then you can paint. Now the technique has become just a part of you; it is no longer technical knowledge, it has become part of your blood and bones and marrow. Now you can be spontaneous. It will not hinder you, it will not imprison you.

Creativity is being innovative

Innovate new ways, new means. Try something new that nobody has ever done. The greatest creativity happens in people whose training is of some other discipline.

For example, if a mathematician starts playing music he will bring something new to the world of music. If a musician becomes a mathematician he will bring something new to the world of mathematics. All great creativity happens through people who move from one discipline to another. It is like crossbreeding. And children that come out of crossbreeding are far healthier, far more beautiful.

Creative person may not be famous

One thing has to be remembered: if you are really creative you may not become famous. A really creative person takes time to become famous because he has to create the values — new values, new criteria, only then can he be judged. If you want fame, then forget all about creativity.

Whenever you bring something new into the world you are bound to be rejected. The world never forgives a person who brings anything new to the world. The world appreciates the uncreative but skilful person, the technically perfect person, because technical perfection simply means perfection of the past. And everybody understands the past. To bring something new into the world means nobody will be able to appreciate it. It is so new that there are not any criteria against which it can be valued.