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there is a principle called Lulay and 00:00:01
there is a principle called Lulay and this means wu means none or not 00:00:11
no negation Wei has a combination of 00:00:26
meanings it can mean action making but 00:00:32
the best translation I have found for it 00:00:34
is forcing and so Lu a is the principle 00:00:42
of not forcing in anything that you do 00:00:46
now we know when we watch any 00:00:48
performance of an artist be it a dancer 00:00:51
or a an actor or a musician we know 00:00:56
immediately when the performance is 00:00:58
forced and we say it doesn't ring true 00:01:01
it's too artificial it doesn't seem to 00:01:04
be natural many people who study the 00:01:09
taoist doctrines think that will way 00:01:11
means do nothing in the sense of 00:01:15
laissez-faire be lazy always be passive 00:01:20
it doesn't mean that there is a time for 00:01:26
actions when you study judo you use 00:01:31
muscle only at the right moment when 00:01:33
your opponent is hopelessly overextended 00:01:37
and off-balance and you add a little 00:01:38
muscle to it and you throw him across 00:01:40
the room but only then you never use 00:01:47
muscle at the wrong moment for a 00:01:51
Shakespeare knew perfectly well there is 00:01:54
a tide in the affairs of men which taken 00:01:55
at its flood leads on to fortune and so 00:01:59
lui is based on knowledge of the tide 00:02:04
the drift of things get with it will way 00:02:09
is the art of sailing rather than the 00:02:12
art of rowing 00:02:12
so if you say now one of the most famous sayings of lower in the loser book his 00:02:20
superior virtue has no intention to be 00:02:30
virtuous and thus is virtue 00:02:35
inferior virtue cannot let go of 00:02:39
virtuosity and thus is not virtual so 00:02:45
one could also say the real way is not 00:02:52
intentionally away and so his will way 00:02:56
but inferior will way so tries to be 00:03:02
will way that it isn't in other words 00:03:08
this is say lui is not a matter of 00:03:12
cultivated passivity or even have 00:03:16
cultivated spontaneity because there are 00:03:20
people who think that they are released 00:03:24
that they have realized that they are 00:03:28
the DAO as all of us in fact are or that 00:03:33
you are to put it into Vedanta terms 00:03:35
every one of us is the Brahman the 00:03:38
eternal self of the universe beyond all 00:03:41
description or classification or thought 00:03:44
they say okay baby I'm that now I'm 00:03:48
gonna have a ball well what kind of a 00:03:52
bowl do they have well what they do is 00:03:55
they look up the rules on which society 00:03:59
runs and do the opposite well that's 00:04:03
still running by the rules of society 00:04:04
and it's the mirror image in Reverse 00:04:07
that's not spontaneity you have to be 00:04:12
able to realize that you don't know what 00:04:15
you really want to do until you are very 00:04:20
quiet and it tells you 00:04:20
so to quote Jesus unless you become again as a child you cannot enter the 00:04:34
kingdom of heaven and if you read their 00:04:41
Bible incidentally which is a very 00:04:44
dangerous book as I'm going to be 00:04:45
demonstrating in Playboy this December 00:04:48
[Laughter] 00:04:51
but understand heaven in a very literal 00:04:55
sense space see we are in heaven now 00:05:02
because the earth is a spaceship and 00:05:05
heaven is space what is called in 00:05:10
Chinese come Japanese gooo the void 00:05:10
that's what is important that we most of us don't know this even Shakespeare has 00:05:29
one of his characters saying oh that 00:05:37
this all too solid flesh would melt but 00:05:41
do you know you are much more space than 00:05:42
you are anything else 00:05:45
if the ponderable I won't say matter the 00:05:50
ponderable whatever in your bodies were 00:05:54
condensed and all put together it would 00:05:56
be smaller than the point of a pin and 00:06:00
anyway somebody once said even a bishop 00:06:04
is 80% water Hey we are Airy nothing's 00:06:15
so space is somehow very very 00:06:19
fundamental we're going to this infer 00:06:22
the way but you understand that heaven 00:06:26
is space 00:06:26
and all those references in those Nursery Rhymes that we learned as 00:06:36
children which were the hymns about 00:06:38
heaven always we're talking about Thrones and crowns and harps and streets 00:06:45
of glass crystals transparencies space 00:07:00
it comes down to space always space 00:07:05
which nobody can define nobody can 00:07:07
imagine appears to be nothing is the 00:07:11
foundation of the universe but you have 00:07:20
to become again as a child to see that 00:07:23
how do you know go back to your 00:07:25
childhood what were the fascinating 00:07:27
things what's out there what's beyond 00:07:33
the stars how long does it go on and 00:07:37
mama said it goes on always and always 00:07:41
and always the child wanders he's 00:07:47
excited that this is something that 00:07:50
never ends then the child asks about 00:07:52
time how long ago as long ago well the 00:07:59
Bible says that in the beginning God 00:08:01
created the heaven and the earth 00:08:02
well what did God do before he did that 00:08:05
well as one person said he set up 00:08:08
thinking punishments in hell for people 00:08:10
who are silly questions but still that 00:08:15
there's only a joke and that the the 00:08:17
child thinks of God going back never 00:08:23
beginning so in the same way we think 00:08:26
about death go to sleep and never wake 00:08:31
up 00:08:31
never 00:08:31
why it would be as if you never had existed not only you but everything else 00:08:40
which is across the way things were before you were born 00:08:46
you just turn it back it's you know 00:08:52
about how about waking up after having 00:08:55
never gone to sleep 00:08:57
that's quite a fraud something's fishy 00:09:01
about it all exes jaysus Christoph's the 00:09:10
us of here the fish so we get a funny 00:09:21
feeling when we think those questions 00:09:23
really through very funny feeling and 00:09:32
children you see love to get into that 00:09:35
funny feeling children knew all kinds of 00:09:37
weird things they like to spin around as 00:09:40
fast as possible so they went to the 00:09:41
sudden of the hopper crown goes tilting 00:09:43
rid of this thing to give you give you 00:09:45
give you with their eyes and make faces 00:09:54
and test out their bodies and all sorts 00:09:56
of funny ways because they know from the 00:09:59
beginning that the world is weird the 00:10:05
strange thing because everybody knows 00:10:10
what it's all about only they won't 00:10:12
admit it being brought up is being 00:10:16
taught not to admit it if you know very 00:10:19
well what's going on but in order to 00:10:25
find out once more as an adult you have 00:10:27
to be coming in as a child so what does 00:10:29
that involved means ladies and gentlemen 00:10:32
would you please check your ideas and 00:10:34
opinions at the door first of all all 00:10:38
your philosophical and religious views 00:10:40
all your logic 00:10:40
because I say check it at the door advisedly because you can pick it up 00:10:46
again when you go out if you feel unsafe 00:10:50
without it I'm not trying to argue you 00:10:55
out of your opinions and views I'm 00:10:59
merely suggesting that for the sake of 00:11:02
an experiment you temporarily suspended 00:11:06
and view what is as if you didn't even 00:11:13
know how to talk red is not red blue is 00:11:20
not blue hard is not hard soft is not 00:11:25
soft 00:11:26
male is not male female is not female 00:11:29
there is just this jazz 00:11:29
it will not be possible to compel yourselves into this way of looking at 00:11:43
things 00:11:45
because what Buddhists call habit energy 00:11:48
is going on on on and as I talk to you 00:11:52
you will find yourselves thinking in a 00:11:55
compulsive and habitual way this is red 00:11:58
this is green this is something this is 00:12:02
nothing this is solid this is space all 00:12:04
right but treat those thoughts that are 00:12:07
going on in your head in exactly the 00:12:10
same way as if they were little they 00:12:13
need to be made immediately see it's all 00:12:16
they are like shapes in the spray as the 00:12:18
sea breaks on the rocks now please don't 00:12:25
get agitated that this is an anti 00:12:28
intellectual point of view this is 00:12:30
undermining the value of logic and 00:12:32
reason and so on just that we will bring 00:12:34
all that back later when we need it but 00:12:36
just for the time being let's simplify 00:12:36
close your eyes listen 00:12:42
what is what do you really and truly honestly here don't name it just as if 00:13:03
it were music classical music 00:13:12