Nirvana

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LIFE KEEPS GROWING. Nothing ever is perfect -- or whenever something is perfect

it disappears, it goes into annihilation. The Buddhist word is nirvana. Nirvana

means annihilation, nirvana means cessation. Literally, nirvana means "blowing

out the candle." Just as you blow out a candle and suddenly the light is gone,

gone forever, has disappeared into nothingness -- that is nirvana. All the

buddhas say whosoever becomes perfect moves into nirvana, goes into

annihilation.

 

Don't hanker for a perfect painting, otherwise the painter will die. And you

have yet to sing many songs.

 

And the painting cannot be perfect, the song and the dance cannot be perfect,

for a few more reasons. One: when you visualize it in the deepest core of your

heart, it is a totally different thing. When you start painting it, you are

translating it from the subtle to the gross. In that very transforming, in that

very translation, much is lost. ...

 

So go on painting, go on creating. Yet I tell you again and again, you will

never be satisfied. I bless you that you should never be satisfied, but let each

moment of your creativity be a great contentment. But when something is

finished, move ahead. You have infinite capacities to create; you are unlimited,

you don't have any limits to your potential. You are not aware what you can do,

and you will never be aware unless you do it!

 

Hence the greatest creators are aware how poor has been their creation, because

they become aware, more and more aware, how much more is possible. The ordinary

person who has never created anything is not aware what he can do. There is no

other way to know what you can do unless you do it. And while doing it you can

see that what you wanted to do, what was very clear in your inner world, has

become very dim and ordinary when it has been brought to the outer.

 

You will try again. Each effort will become better and better and better, more

and more perfect, but never perfect.

 

Osho - The Book of Wisdom, Discourse 20