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so we are living as it were on many many 00:00:00
so we are living as it were on many many levels of rhythm this is the nature of 00:00:03
change if you resist it you have dukkha 00:00:18
you have frustration and suffering but 00:00:21
on the other hand if you understand 00:00:24
change you don't cling to it and you let 00:00:28
it flow then it's no problem it becomes 00:00:33
positively beautiful which is why in 00:00:36
poetry the theme of the Evanescence of 00:00:40
the world is beautiful when Shelley says 00:00:45
the one remains the many change and pass 00:00:49
heavens light forever shines earth 00:00:52
shadows fly life like a dome of many 00:00:56
colored glass stains the white radiance 00:00:58
of eternity until death shatters it to 00:01:02
fragments now what's beautiful in that 00:01:07
is it heavens light that shines forever 00:01:10
or is it rather the dome of many colored 00:01:13
glass which shadows see it's always the 00:01:19
image of change that really makes the 00:01:22
poem 00:01:22
tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps on life's petty pace from day to 00:01:37
day somehow you know the poet has got 00:01:48
the intuition the fact that things are 00:01:50
always running out the things are always 00:01:53
disappearing has some hidden Marvel in 00:01:57
it the Japanese have a word you again 00:02:02
Yug en which has no English equivalent 00:02:08
whatsoever and you again is in a way 00:02:08
diggin change its described poetically you have the feeling of you again when 00:02:25
you see out in the distant water some 00:02:32
ships hidden behind the far-off Island 00:02:37
you have the feeling of you again when 00:02:39
you watch wild geese suddenly seen and 00:02:43
then lost in the clouds you have the 00:02:47
feeling of you again when you look 00:02:50
across Mount Tamalpais 00:02:52
and you've never been to the other side 00:02:54
and you see the the sky beyond you don't 00:03:00
go over there to look and see what's on 00:03:03
the other side 00:03:04
that wouldn't be you again you let the 00:03:08
other side be the other side and it 00:03:11
evokes something in your imagination but 00:03:14
you don't attempt to define it to pin it 00:03:15
down uvn so in the same way the coming 00:03:22
and going of things in the world is 00:03:24
marvelous they go where do they go don't 00:03:30
answer because that would spoil the 00:03:32
mystery they vanish into the mystery but 00:03:39
if you try to pursue them you've 00:03:43
destroyed you again 00:03:43
it's a very curious thing but that idea of you again which in Chinese characters 00:03:53
means as it were kind of at the deep 00:04:01
mystery of the valley there's a poem in 00:04:05
Chinese which says the wind drops but 00:04:10
the petals keep falling the bird calls 00:04:15
and the mountain becomes more mysterious 00:04:15
wasn't that strange there's no wind anymore and yet petals are dropping and 00:04:25
the bird in the canyon cries and that 00:04:35
one sound in the mountains brings out 00:04:38
the silence with a wallop like I 00:04:42
remember in the when I was a almost a 00:04:46
child in the Pyrenees in the southwest 00:04:49
of France we went way up and this 00:04:51
gorgeous silence of the mountains but in 00:04:53
the distance we could hear the bells on 00:04:55
the cows clanking and somehow those tiny 00:04:59
sounds brought out the silence and so in 00:05:06
the same way 00:05:06
slight permanence --is bring out change 00:05:10
and they give you this very strange sense you again the mystery of change 00:05:22
you know in Eliot's poem the Four Quartets where he says the dark dark 00:05:36
dark they all go into the dark 00:05:41
distinguished families members of the book of the director of directors 00:05:49
everybody they all go into the dark life 00:06:00
is life you see because just because 00:06:05
it's always disappearing 00:06:07
supposing suddenly by some kind of 00:06:10
diabolical magic I could sage it and 00:06:13
every one of you would stay the same age 00:06:16
forever you'll be like Madame Tussauds 00:06:21
waxworks you'd be awful 00:06:21
in a thousand years from now what beautiful hags you would be so 00:06:34