Thursday, December 22, 2005

Creativity

There is a very fine line between chaos and creativity. Infact, creativity can be produced from chaos.
Ok. I've got a good idea. Our mind is like the surface of a lake, and thoughts are like stones thrown onto it. Now, when the mind is filled with thoughts, the surface is shattered and there are too many ripples coinciding with each other. Now, imagine a calm mind...a still surface. Now throw just one stone onto it... you get some beautiful ripples. This is creativity.
Now imagine a lake with many stones being thrown onto it.. too many ripples with no clear or beautiful effect. Just a big mess. This is chaos.
A thought free mind, when stimulated only to a certain degree, produces some amazing things, and we call it creativity. After some amount of stimulation, the creative capacity of the mind gets exhausted, after which it must be calmed down again. It is to be noted that a thought free mind can be produced by several methods, including drugs. However, very few of these methods are sustainable. Sustainable methods are methods that require discipline. And anyway, the concept of creativity is an inferior concept when compared to the concept of peace. In fact, creativity can be a product of peace, but it reduces the degree of peace.