According to Osho, Crete matters because, through Kazantzakis’s Zorba, it symbolizes the exuberant, uninhibited life-force that powers creativity. Zorba, the Cretan, lives totally and intensely—the essential first half. Yet creativity is fulfilled only when Zorba becomes “Zorba the Buddha”: raw instinct flowering into awareness, compassion, and meditation—earth and sky joined in a complete, creative being.
Crete matters because Zorba, from there, shows that living joyfully and fully sparks creativity, which then needs mindfulness and love to become whole.