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people are always asking is it necessary to know yoga breathing is it necessary 00:00:18
to do Tai Chi is it necessary to I don't 00:00:25
know what the hell to be psychoanalyzed 00:00:27
and I would ask necessary for what where 00:00:31
are you going what do you want yes sure 00:00:34
if you want to get to New York it's 00:00:36
necessary to take the highway but where 00:00:40
are you going 00:00:40
what do you mean necessary well is it 00:00:43
necessary for becoming a Buddha anybody 00:00:48
want to be a burden you know what it 00:00:55
means to be a Buddha how do you know you 00:00:58
want to be a Buddha if you don't know 00:00:59
what a Buddha is people think well it 00:01:05
would be nice to be people have peace of 00:01:07
mind to be serene to be calm be 00:01:10
undisturbed by this that and the other 00:01:14
but you see so long as you make all 00:01:16
those things objects of desire you are 00:01:20
defining yourself as lacking them and a 00:01:27
person who is looking for peace is 00:01:28
obviously in turmoil a person who is 00:01:32
looking to end conflict is in conflict 00:01:34
and so the more you strive to stop the 00:01:42
interior commotions the more you are 00:01:44
stirring them up you are smoothing the 00:01:46
waters with Flatirons 00:01:48
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so then we might the then comes up the 00:01:55
people who say all right now if you are 00:01:57
going to tell us that meditation is not 00:01:59
necessary and that it's all here and now 00:01:59
then why do you meditate why do you have religion at all why do you have rights 00:02:16
why do you chant why do you do this that 00:02:22
and the other why do you even talk about 00:02:23
it and my answer to that is there is no 00:02:29
good reason for it whatsoever 00:02:29
this is a form of joyous energy and it's a form of dance 00:02:43
it's a groovy thing to do though all kinds of groovy things to do and to 00:02:51
everybody according to his taste 00:02:55
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if you've cost you 00:02:59
you were you you can make anything whatsoever any human activity into 00:03:07
meditation simply by being with it and 00:03:15
doing it completely to do it in other 00:03:22
words when you're say swimming if you 00:03:31
really enjoy swimming you're not 00:03:33
swimming to get to the other side of a 00:03:36
river or to swim so many yards or any 00:03:40
competing with yourself or with other 00:03:42
people like that you're swimming to 00:03:45
experience the water rippling past you 00:03:50
the floating sensation to line your back 00:03:55
and look at the blue sky and the gulls 00:03:57
circling it you are doing that every 00:03:59
moment of it 00:04:00
you are simply absorbed in this ripoli 00:04:05
luminous world looking at the patterns 00:04:08
and lid shifting net of sunlight 00:04:10
underneath you and the sand way down see 00:04:13
that's it that's what it's about that's 00:04:15
what swimming is about so you're not 00:04:18
going anywhere 00:04:18
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getting together and chanting together is what a lot of people do when they 00:04:37
don't have television to look at in the 00:04:47
jungles on the steps in mountain 00:04:52
communities since as long as anyone can 00:04:55
remember people got together and do a 00:05:01
thing I call digging sound and played 00:05:08
with the sonic energy of the universe in 00:05:10
just the same way as I described 00:05:12
somebody playing with the water while 00:05:13
swimming and these people when they do 00:05:18
that they don't worry about where 00:05:20
they're going or what their destiny is 00:05:22
or any nonsense of that kind because 00:05:25
they're completely aligned 00:05:27
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so to understand all that I'm trying to 00:05:35
say I would like to see if you could 00:05:42
change on basic notions of economics and 00:05:45
I mean the economics of energy we are 00:05:54
always scrimping and saving because our 00:05:58
economics are based on scarcity rather 00:06:00
than exuberance but notice that the 00:06:03
economics of nature are allegedly 00:06:05
wasteful they're based on exuberance 00:06:09
many more scenes than are necessary for 00:06:12
trees many more spermatozoa than are 00:06:16
necessary to people many more stars than 00:06:20
anybody could conceivably want galaxies 00:06:24
galore nature is a vast celebration of 00:06:30
energy but if you complain about this 00:06:35
and say oh dear me it's all running out 00:06:39
that means you see that you are looking 00:06:43
for fulfilment in time and you say if 00:06:45
there is not enough future we won't get 00:06:49
the golden goodie we are looking for at 00:06:51
the end of the line see there is that 00:06:55
feeling there is the great golden goodie 00:06:55
but [Music] 00:07:01
that flower that golden goodie isn't at 00:07:07
the end of the line you're in it the 00:07:12
radiating petals the mandala the great 00:07:15
circle of the flower is the galaxy in 00:07:19
which you live it is the whole universe 00:07:26
radiating around you in which you are 00:07:26
and this radiation is also cycling it's the dance in which you're involved if 00:07:38
you'd only realize that the purpose of 00:07:43
life is not in the future and if you 00:07:47
think it is you'll go on and on and on 00:07:49
looking for it there and never find it 00:07:51
because the future in its own way fades 00:07:54
out in the same way as the past fades up 00:07:54
you get older and older and older and if you don't come crash you just peter out 00:08:03
it wasn't there and you may feel vaguely 00:08:11
cheated about the whole thing 00:08:13
you were given the comma that there was 00:08:17
something coming there was that thing at 00:08:19
the end of the line the golden goodie 00:08:21
but you've been sitting in the middle of 00:08:22
the golden goodie all the time 00:08:22
you 00:08:37