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great Zen master said as his death poem 00:00:00
great Zen master said as his death poem just before he died from the bathtub to 00:00:03
the bathtub I have uttered stuff and 00:00:08
nonsense the bathtub in which the baby 00:00:12
is washed at birth 00:00:13
the bathtub in which the corpse is 00:00:15
washed before burial all this time I 00:00:17
have said many nonsenses like the birds 00:00:21
in the trees what's it all about 00:00:25
everybody tries to say oh it's a mating 00:00:28
call purpose how to get there make you 00:00:31
know attract them to the song why they 00:00:33
have colors butterflies have eyes on 00:00:35
self-protection engineering view of the 00:00:38
universe why do that they say well it's 00:00:45
because they need to survive 00:00:47
oh why says I what's that for well to 00:00:50
survive see human beings really a lot of 00:00:53
tubes and all living creatures just 00:00:57
tubes and the tubes have to put things 00:01:00
in at one end and let it out at the 00:01:02
other then they get clever about it and 00:01:04
they develop nerve ganglia on one end of 00:01:06
the tube the eating end called a head 00:01:08
and that's then has got eyes and it's 00:01:10
got ears then it's got little organs and 00:01:12
ten on things like this and that helps 00:01:14
you define things to put in one end so 00:01:15
you can let them out the other well 00:01:18
while you're doing this you see the 00:01:19
stuff going through where's the tube out 00:01:21
and so that the show can go on 00:01:25
the tubes have complicated ways of 00:01:27
making other tubes will go on doing the 00:01:30
same thing in at one end out the other 00:01:31
and they say well that's terribly 00:01:34
serious that's awfully important we've 00:01:37
got to keep on doing this 00:01:37
but when Chinese say nature is purposeless this is a compliment it's 00:01:45
like the idea of the Japanese have a 00:01:51
word you get and they describe you again 00:01:56
as watching wild geese fly and be hidden 00:02:00
in the clouds as watching a ship 00:02:03
vanished behind the distant island as 00:02:06
wandering on and on in a great forest 00:02:08
with no thought of returns haven't you 00:02:11
done this haven't you gone on a walk 00:02:12
with no particular purpose in mind carry 00:02:16
a stick with you and you occasionally 00:02:17
hit at old stumps and wander along 00:02:20
sometimes twiddle your thumbs it's at 00:02:23
that moment that you are a perfectly 00:02:24
rational human being you learn 00:02:27
purposelessness or music is purposeless 00:02:30
is music getting somewhere if it were I 00:02:34
mean if the aim of music were in the 00:02:36
vicinity were to get to the final bar 00:02:39
the best conductor would be the one who 00:02:41
got there fastest see dancing when you 00:02:46
dance do you aim to arrive at a 00:02:48
particular place on the floor that the 00:02:50
idea of dancing the aim of dancing is to 00:02:55
dance is the present once exactly the 00:02:58
same with our life we think life has a 00:03:00
purpose 00:03:00
I remember the preachers used to say I 00:03:02
was a small boy I'd always hear it we 00:03:05
must follow God's purpose his purpose 00:03:07
for you and his purpose for me when I 00:03:10
asked these cats what the purpose was 00:03:12
they never never knew they didn't know 00:03:15
what it was they had a hymn God is 00:03:17
working his purpose out as year succeeds 00:03:19
the year God is working his purpose out 00:03:21
when the time is drawing near 00:03:24
the time when the earth shall be full of 00:03:27
the glory of God as the waters cover the 00:03:29
sea what's the glory of God well they 00:03:32
weren't quite sure I'll tell you what it 00:03:35
is in heaven 00:03:36
all those angels that gathered around 00:03:38
the glory of God that is to say the 00:03:41
which then which there is no which er 00:03:43
Catholics call it the beatific vision 00:03:44
the Jews call it the Shekinah they're 00:03:47
all those angels and they're standing 00:03:49
around it they're saying alleluja 00:03:50
alleluja alleluja alleluja means nothing 00:03:50
he's having a ball see that's what happened in the beginning when God 00:04:01
created the universe it was created like 00:04:05
all stars all planets or galaxies 00:04:07
they're vaguely spherical he created 00:04:09
this he said have a ball 00:04:09
but before before he said that he said you must 00:04:16
draw the line somewhere that was the 00:04:21
real thing you said first before let 00:04:23
there be light that came later first 00:04:26
thing was you must draw the line 00:04:27
somewhere otherwise nothing will happen 00:04:29
now you've got to have the good guys or 00:04:31
bad guys are good at this you're gonna 00:04:32
have that too black white light darkness 00:04:35
must draw the line somewhere now here's 00:04:38
the choice are you going to trust it or 00:04:41
not if you do trust it you may get let 00:04:44
down and this it is yourself your own 00:04:47
nature and all nature around you you're 00:04:50
going to be mistakes but if you don't 00:04:52
trust it at all you're going to strangle 00:04:55
yourself you're going to fence yourself 00:04:57
around with rules and regulations and 00:05:00
laws and prescriptions and policemen and 00:05:03
guards and who's going to guard the 00:05:05
guards and who's going to look after big 00:05:07
brother to be sure that he doesn't do 00:05:08
something stupid no go 00:05:10
supposing I get annoyed with somebody in 00:05:13
the audience I'm going to throw this 00:05:14
ashtray out them but I don't want to hit 00:05:16
my friend sitting next to that person I 00:05:18
want to be absolutely sure this ashtray 00:05:20
keeps that individual and so I don't 00:05:23
trust myself to throw it I have to carry 00:05:26
it along and be sure I hit that person 00:05:29
on the head see I don't throw it because 00:05:32
I can't let go of it to throw it I must 00:05:34
let go of it to live I must have faith I 00:05:36
must trust myself to the totally unknown 00:05:39
I must trust myself to a nature which 00:05:42
doesn't have a boss because of boss is a 00:05:45
system of mistrust that is why loud sirs 00:05:49
Dow loves and nourishes all things but 00:05:53
does not lord it over them 00:05:53