strings: Surely our diffculty is that most of us have lost this sense of creativeness. To be creative does not mean that we must paint pictures or write poems and become famous. That is not creativeness it is merely the capacity to express an idea, which the public applauds or disregards. Capacity and creativeness should not be confused. Capacity is not creativeness. Creativeness is quite a different state of being, is it not ? It is a state in which the self is absent, in which the mind is no longer a focus of our experiences, our ambitions, our pursuits and our desires. Creativeness is not a continuous state, it is new from moment to moment, it is a movement in which there is not the K me', the 'mine', in which the thought is not focused on any particular experience, ambition, achievement, purpose and motive. It is only when the sclf is not that there is creativeness—that state of being in which alone there can be reality, the creator of all things. But that statc cannot be conceived or imagined, it cannot be formulated or copied, it cannot be attained through any system, through any philosophy, through any discipline ; on the contrary, it comes into being only through understanding the total process of oneself.