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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