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That is true. The creativity that you ordinarily know is not the creativity I am talking about. Ordinary creativity is nothing but an ego trip. You want to show to the world that you are somebody: you are a painter, a sculptor, a poet, a musician. You want to show to the world that you are somebody; your creativity is not really creative, it is just a prop to the ego.

When you come to me, that kind of creativity will start disappearing because in the first place it was not real creativity. All that creativity will simply disappear from your mind. But you will become more sensitive, more open, more alive. Just wait, and out of this aliveness, sensitivity, openness, another kind of creativity will take possession of you soon. You will be possessed by something from the beyond. It will not be your ego trip; you will be just a vehicle, a hollow bamboo.

The music will flow through you; it will not be of you, it will only flow through you. You will be just a hollow bamboo, a flute. You have only to allow it. I am preparing you for that. The openness, the aliveness, the sensitivity, is nothing but making your bamboo as hollow as possible, so when God starts singing through you, you don’t hinder.

God is the only creator. The ordinary creativity comes from the ego: “I am the creator.” That’s why you see the ordinary poet and the painter so egoistic. It is difficult to find more egoistic people than the artists; they are very egoistic. Always fighting among themselves like dogs, criticizing each other and fighting and barking, and everybody pretending that he is the only authentic, original, creative person, and everybody else is just phony.

Why does this happen to artists? The reason is simple: the creativity is not yet from the beyond, it is not of the transcendent, it is very tiny. They are simply bragging about themselves. This happens here to many people every day. So many people come to me. They say, “We want to become therapists, we want to become healers, we want to become this and that.” They see that the therapists seem to be important people, healers are important people, they are doing something extraordinary; everybody who comes here sooner or later starts thinking that he has to become a therapist or a healer.

This is not creativity; this is just finding a way, a means, for the fulfillment of the ego. And if the ego is there, you cannot be a real therapist. Real therapists are rare. A real therapist is one who is ready to let God work through him, and that is also the definition of a real healer. Therapy means healing. A healer is not a healer; a healer is just a passage for the healing forces of God to flow through. He cannot claim anything.

So if you move toward healing with the idea that “I have to become a healer, so I will be somebody important, doing great miracles around,” you will never be a healer. How can you be a healer when the very condition of being a healer is dropping the ego.

It is very rare to find a healer, very rare to find a therapist. I am training my therapists, my healers, here. The whole training is that they should disappear. They should not be there, they should become absent. And through the absence of the ego, some presence, some unknown presence, starts working through you. That brings miracles to life. That is a real phenomenon, not a created, believed-in thing.

So when you come to me, whatsoever you have been doing, if it was not real, it will disappear. And it is good that it disappears. If it was real, then it will be enhanced immediately, and that too is good. But I am not here to support anything unreal.

This buddhafield is going to take everything away from you that is ego-centered, ego-oriented. Then, slowly, slowly, one day you will be surprised by the arrival of a new energy knocking on your door. The sun has risen, you are not to be found, the poetry arises and the painting happens. You cannot even sign it; you cannot say, “This is mine.” At the most, you can be grateful that “God has chosen me as a vehicle, as a medium.”