I Don’t Imagine...
Imagination is thinking about something that is not real, not here now … Imagination, pleasant thoughts, worry - they are all the same. You might be imagining nice, pleasant things but they are things that are not here now. Worry is thinking about unpleasant things that are not here now either.
I do not worry, for my mind is straight and clear; and the reason is that I don’t imagine anything. I don’t use imagination; but I am creative. If I go to write something, I write. If I make love, I love. If I go to do anything I am creative. I don’t think about whatever I am going to do. I just do it. Or I look inside myself to see what arises.
Looking is not thinking. I don’t think. When I look to see what’s arising, it’s like looking into a room to see what’s there. I’m not thinking. Thinking makes my mind discursive. Looking makes it straight.
True creativity has no imagination. All creativity is in the body. Nobody has ever done anything creative outside the body and no-one ever will. The creative genius works in the moment, now, without any imaginative thinking. The creativity of the body is always now.
Imagination is the creativity of the self, the unhappy part of every individual that holds on to past hurt and wants life to be other than it is.
Extract from Raising Children in Love, Justice and Truth
The Child’s Imagination