Osho
is well-known as an enlightened Master and mystic, but he is
less well known as a painter, a painter of pure poetry. His
life and his being were art itself, and his paintings overflow
with the fragrance and beauty of enlightenment. They are unique,
mysterious, significant -- and are unlike anything the art world
has ever seen before.
The
famous Russian mystic, George Gurdjieff has divided art into
two sections, "Subjective art" and "Objective
art".
Osho talked about it as follows:
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"Every art
can be described either as objective art, or as subjective art.
Subjective art you will find everywhere. It comes from your
feelings, from your heart, from your mind: in paintings, in
poetry, in music.
But objective art
comes from the emptiness of your heart.
You just become a flute, a hollow bamboo, and the universe sings
through you. Your only credit is that you don't create any hindrance,
you simply allow the universe to flow through you. With you
being in a let-go and allowing the universe to flow through
you, objective art is created. There is not much objective art
in the world, because before objective art can be created, you
have to become a hollow bamboo -- and you are so solid, your
ego is so stubborn. Before creating objective art, you have
to be so humble, almost nobody. In your absence there comes
a great universal flood. That flood can become poetry, a painting,
music, a dance, a sculpture. Thousands of dimensions are available,
you just allow it."
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