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life is spontaneous it happens in the 00:00:19
life is spontaneous it happens in the words of the Daoists and Zeron which 00:00:22
means of itself so that's their Chinese 00:00:27
expression for nature what happens by 00:00:31
itself 00:00:32
what isn't pushed but it just pops up 00:00:34
you see like do you I'll never forget 00:00:39
there was a great Zen master I knew once 00:00:41
in New York he was giving a lecture one 00:00:44
evening and he was dressed in his gold 00:00:46
ceremonial robes and he was sitting in 00:00:49
front of an altar like was the sort of 00:00:50
thing and but he had a table in front of 00:00:52
him with very formal the candles on it 00:00:55
and the sutra scripture on a little desk 00:00:58
and he was lecturing on the sutra and he 00:01:03
said dumb fundamental principle in 00:01:08
buddhism is no purpose poposaurus nests 00:01:14
when you drop fart you don't say 00:01:18
at nine o'clock I drop thought it 00:01:21
happened of itself you know all these 00:01:28
pious Western devotees you know kind of 00:01:32
put their handkerchiefs in their mouths 00:01:34
and tried not to laugh so but that's the 00:01:41
meaning of something that happens of 00:01:43
itself like drop drop fart or have 00:01:45
hiccups or just you came into being you 00:01:50
know it happens in a kind of a plop way 00:01:52
like that see now you can't tell that 00:01:56
process you ought to happen you must 00:02:01
happen because that puts a bind on it in 00:02:06
the same way as when you have a little 00:02:08
child and all the relatives that come to 00:02:09
a party on Thanksgiving and you put the 00:02:11
child into the middle of all the 00:02:13
relatives and say now dear play see and 00:02:17
absolutely 00:02:17
bugs the child to do it like that and so 00:02:21
this is the problem for every artist 00:02:25
because an artist is a man who makes his 00:02:27
living by playing but he's dancing or 00:02:30
painting or playing music or whatever it 00:02:32
is and he has to overcome this problem 00:02:35
he has to know how to play in public at 00:02:38
a given time on an appointment see and 00:02:43
that's not an easy thing to learn but 00:02:45
when you catch on to the trick of it you 00:02:47
can do it to play on demand that's the 00:02:54
hardest lesson of life to contrive what 00:02:57
is called by my Japanese artist friend 00:03:01
Sabra Hasegawa a control accident the 00:03:08
thing is that we have been educated to 00:03:16
use our minds in a certain way a way 00:03:22
that ignores or screens out the fact 00:03:27
that every one of us is an aperture 00:03:34
through which the whole cosmos looks out 00:03:34
you see it's as if you had a light covered with a black ball and in this 00:03:44
ball were pinholes and each pinhole is 00:03:53
an aperture through which the light 00:03:54
comes out so in that way every one of us 00:03:58
is actually a pinhole through which the 00:04:01
fundamental light that is the existence 00:04:06
itself looks out only the game we're 00:04:11
playing is not to know this to be only 00:04:18
that little hole which we call me my ego 00:04:21
my specific John Jones or whatever 00:04:21
if however you see we can maintain at the same time the sense of being this 00:04:32
specific John Jones with his role in 00:04:37
life or whatever and know also 00:04:40
underneath this that we are the whole 00:04:45
works you get a very marvelous and 00:04:49
agreeable arrangement this is a most 00:04:54
remarkable harmonious Ness I mean it 00:04:56
gives one's life a great sense of joy 00:04:58
and exuberance if you could carry on 00:05:01
these two things at once if you in other 00:05:07
words you know that all the serious 00:05:09
predicaments of life are a game now I 00:05:17
want to put it two ways I'm not saying 00:05:23
that it's a bad thing something to be 00:05:26
condemned to take your own individual 00:05:31
life seriously in dead earnest and to 00:05:35
have all the problems that go with that 00:05:35
do you understand that being that way that being a real mixed-up human being 00:05:43
is a manifestation of nature that is 00:05:53
something just like them the patterns on 00:05:57
the waves out here or like a seashell 00:06:01
you know we pick up shells I always keep 00:06:04
one around it's a lot of an example for 00:06:07
many things and say my goodness isn't 00:06:10
that godless there's not an aesthetic 00:06:13
Fault in it anywhere it's absolutely 00:06:15
perfect now I wonder I wonder if these 00:06:20
fish look at each other's shells and say 00:06:20
don't you think she's kind of fat oh my those markings aren't really very 00:06:27
well spaced cuz that's what we do see we 00:06:42
don't realize that all of us in our 00:06:44
various goings-on and behavior and so on 00:06:48
and just as much in more marvelous much 00:06:51
more complicated much more interesting 00:06:52
all these gorgeous faces that I'm 00:06:55
looking at you know every one of them 00:06:57
some does supposedly pretty some are 00:06:59
suppose you do not separately but 00:07:01
they're all absolutely gorgeous and 00:07:03
everybody's eyes is a piece of jewelry 00:07:06
beyond compare 00:07:08
Buhl 00:07:08