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Life is not a trip 00:00:00
Life is NOT a Journey 00:00:02
Life is NOT a Journey 00:00:03
Text and voice of Alan Watts 00:00:11
Text and voice of Alan Watts 00:00:12
The existence in the Physical Universe is basically playful 00:00:14
There is no need for her at all 00:00:17
He is not going anywhere 00:00:20
I mean that it has no destination 00:00:22
It may be better understood by analogy with music 00:00:30
because music as an art form is essentially playful 00:00:37
It is said that "you interject" the piano, not that you work the piano 00:00:40
because? 00:00:44
Music differs say travel 00:00:48
When trips try to get somewhere 00:00:49
When trips try to get somewhere 00:00:52
While the objective of musical composition is not to reach the end 00:00:55
While the objective of musical composition is not to reach the end 00:00:57
If that were the case, the best directors would be those who do the piece faster 00:01:02
If that were the case, the best directors would be those who do the piece faster 00:01:05
and would have composers who would only write the final part of the work 00:01:08
and would have composers who would only write the final part of the work 00:01:10
You could go to a concert to hear only the final agreement, which is when it is over 00:01:12
You could go to a concert to hear only the final agreement, which is when it is over 00:01:16
It's like when you dance, 00:01:18
You do not have as an objective to go to a specific point in the room 00:01:19
You do not have as an objective to go to a specific point in the room 00:01:23
The whole objective of the dance is to dance 00:01:26
But they have not taught us this 00:01:29
throughout our education as a form of habitual behavior 00:01:34
throughout our education as a form of habitual behavior 00:01:37
we have a system of schooling 00:01:40
It works by levels 00:01:43
And what we do is put the children in the hallway 00:01:45
of this system of levels 00:01:50
and we say to them: Come on, come on, come on, come on 00:01:52
And we have the nursery school and when we finish we have primary education 00:01:56
and come, let's go, and when we end up we have high school that goes up to the highest degree 00:02:00
and come, let's go, and when we finish we have high school that raises you a higher degree 00:02:02
and so on until you reach the institute 00:02:07
And so successively more and more until the University arrives 00:02:09
and you make a career to get a degree 00:02:12
and you make a career to get a degree 00:02:15
And finally you graduate 00:02:18
And when you finish the race, you leave to integrate into the world 00:02:20
And when you finish the race, you leave to integrate into the world 00:02:21
And when you finish the race, you leave to integrate into the world 00:02:22
and then you come to some corner to sell insurances 00:02:25
and then you come to some corner to sell insurances 00:02:26
And you have to get a figure and you have to get it 00:02:29
and all the time the thing is arriving 00:02:30
and all the time the thing is coming, it's coming, it's coming, 00:02:32
the success for which you are working so much 00:02:35
Then when you go up one day around 40 years 00:02:38
God has arrived! 00:02:40
I'm there and no 00:02:42
I'm there, and you're not very different from how you felt 00:02:45
I'm there, and you do not feel very different from how you felt according to expectations 00:02:46
Look at the people who live thinking about retirement 00:02:49
and place your savings apart and then 00:02:52
and places your savings apart and then, when they are 65 years old 00:02:54
When they are 65, they do not have energy, they feel more or less powerless 00:02:57
They do not have energy, they feel more or less powerless 00:02:59
and they are recognized as old and old citizens of their community 00:03:02
ha ha! 00:03:05
because we simply have deified ourselves all the way 00:03:07
We thought life as an analogy 00:03:13
An analogy with a trip: 00:03:15
An analogy with a trip: 00:03:16
with a hairdo with a serious purpose in the end 00:03:19
that was to be obtained in the end, success or whatever that purpose was 00:03:22
maybe the sky 00:03:25
after death, though 00:03:27
We lost the target along the way 00:03:30
It was music and we were supposed to sing or dance while the music sounded 00:03:33
Life is NOT a Journey 00:03:52
Life is NOT a Journey 00:03:54