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I was talking a great deal yesterday 00:00:00
I was talking a great deal yesterday afternoon about the Buddhist attitude to 00:00:01
change to death to the transience of the 00:00:09
world and were showing that preachers of 00:00:15
all kinds stir people up in the 00:00:19
beginning by alarming them about change 00:00:24
that's like somebody you know actually 00:00:26
raising an alarm just in the same way as 00:00:29
if I want to pay you a visit I ring the 00:00:31
doorbell and then we can come in and I 00:00:35
don't need to raise an alarm anymore so 00:00:38
in the same way it sounds terrible you 00:00:42
see that everything is going to die and 00:00:44
pass away and here you are thinking that 00:00:48
happiness sanity and security consists 00:00:54
in clinging on to things which can't be 00:00:56
clung to and in in any case there isn't 00:00:58
anybody to Klinker them the whole thing 00:01:00
is a weaving of smoke so that's the 00:01:07
initial standpoint but as soon as you 00:01:11
really discover this and you stop 00:01:14
clinging to change then everything is 00:01:19
quite different it becomes amazing and 00:01:25
not only do all your senses become more 00:01:31
wide awake not only do you feel almost 00:01:38
that you're walking on air but you see 00:01:43
finally that there is no duality no 00:01:47
difference between the ordinary world 00:01:53
and the Nirvana world they are the same 00:01:58
world but what makes the difference is 00:02:02
the point of view 00:02:02
and of course if you keep identifying yourself with some sort of stable entity 00:02:09
that sits and watches the world go by 00:02:17
you don't acknowledge your Union your 00:02:20
inseparability from everything else that 00:02:23
there is you go by with all the rest of 00:02:27
the things but if you insist on trying 00:02:29
to take a permanent stand on trying to 00:02:31
be a permanent witness of the flux then 00:02:36
it grates against you and you feel very 00:02:39
uncomfortable but it is a fundamental 00:02:47
feeling in most of us that we are such 00:02:51
witnesses we feel that behind the stream 00:02:56
of our thoughts of our feelings and our 00:02:59
experiences there is something which is 00:03:02
the thinker the feeler and the 00:03:05
experiencer not recognizing that that is 00:03:10
itself a thought feeling or experience 00:03:13
and it belongs within and not outside 00:03:16
the changing panorama of experience it's 00:03:22
what you call a cue signal in other 00:03:26
words when you telephone and your 00:03:32
telephone conversation is being tape 00:03:35
recorded it's the law that there shall 00:03:37
be a beep every so many seconds and that 00:03:41
beep cues you in to the fact that this 00:03:44
conversation is recorded so in a very 00:03:47
similar way in our everyday experience 00:03:50
there's a beep which tells us this is a 00:03:53
continuous experience which is mine 00:03:58
beep in the same way for example it is a 00:04:06
cue signal when of the composer arranges 00:04:09
some music and he keeps in it a 00:04:12
recurrent theme but he makes many 00:04:17
variations on it 00:04:18
or more subtle still he keeps within it 00:04:23
a consistent style so you know that it's 00:04:27
Mozart all the way along because it 00:04:29
sounds like Mozart but there isn't as it 00:04:33
were a constant noise going all the way 00:04:38
through to tell you it's continuous 00:04:40
although in Hindu music they do have 00:04:44
something called the drone there is 00:04:48
behind all the drums and every is kind 00:04:51
of singing something it goes and it 00:05:00
always sounds the note which is the 00:05:01
tonic of the scale being used but in 00:05:06
Hindu music that drone represents the 00:05:10
eternal self the Brahman behind all the 00:05:13
changing forms of nature but that's only 00:05:18
a symbol and to find out what is eternal 00:05:24
now you can't make an image of it you 00:05:27
can't hold on to it and so it's 00:05:31
psychologically more conducive to 00:05:35
liberation to remember that the thinker 00:05:43
or the Fela or the experiencer and the 00:05:48
experiences are all together they're all 00:05:53
one but if out of anxiety you try to 00:05:53
stabilize keep permanent the separate observer you are in for conflict 00:06:08