Speak to Us of Work

TrackReflections on Khalil Gibran's The Prophet

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"In these words, Almustafa is giving the deepest experience of creativity. Life belongs to those who are creative because life is nothing but a long, eternal procession of creating more beauty, more truth, of creating..."
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"In these words, Almustafa is giving the deepest experience of creativity. Life belongs to those who are creative because life is nothing but a long, eternal procession of creating more beauty, more truth, of creating..."

Osho continues:
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Then a ploughman said, Speak to us of Work.
And he answered, saying:
You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
"Have you observed? – all around you, the whole existence is continuously creating. The biblical story is absurd, that God created everything in six days and then rested on the seventh day. And since then, nothing has been heard about it; he's still resting. What kind of rest is this? He must have died! The very idea that God created existence and all that it contains in six days is sheer nonsense.

"I used to travel all over the country, for almost twenty years continuously. I had an old tailor who prepared clothes for me. I told him, 'I am in urgent need – this time, please don't behave like a tailor! I need my robes prepared in six days because on the seventh day, I'm leaving the city.'

"That old tailor looked at me and said, 'I have no objection. They will be prepared. But just look at the world: God created it in six days, and what a mess it is in! The same will be the case with your robes; then don't tell me about it.'

"In six days, this whole existence? I say unto you that creativity is a continuity, the seventh day never comes. Have you seen trees on holiday, rivers on holiday? On Sunday, which is the day for the sun, he should not rise; it is a holiday. Even God rested, why should the poor sun rise and go on and on?

"Existence is a continuous creativity. It has not been created by anyone, it itself is divine. So I would like you to replace it in your minds and in your hearts: the word God does not mean the creator, it means creativity. And it is my experience that the most blissful people in the world are those who can create something. The most miserable are those who are uncreative because the more uncreative you are, the farther and farther you are from nature – from earth, from the sky, from the stars – whose dance knows no beginning and no end."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 116 mins
File Size 26.35 MB
Type Conversa Individual