Live Today With Passion: "performing under pressure whether it's
me or anybody else is the same
you know I have the same pressures as
anyone else there's time there's
performance there's financial I mean
there you know there's deadlines my
pressures are not unique the situations
may be different or you know but but
everybody has the same kind of pressures
but what I found or what I find
fascinating is the interpretation of the
stimuli if let me let me explain so I
was watching the Olympics with the last
Summer Olympics and I was amazed at how
bad the questions were that the
reporters would ask all the athletes and
almost always they asked the same
question whether they were about to
compete or after they competed were you
nervous right and to a tee all the
athletes went no right and what I
realized is it's not that they're not
nervous it's their interpretation of
what's happening in their bodies I mean
what happens when you're nervous right
your heart rate starts to go you're you
know you sort of get a little tense you
get a little sweaty right you have
expectation of what's coming and we
interpreted that is I'm nervous now
what's the interpretation of excited
your heart rate starts to go you become
you're anticipating what's coming right
you get a little sort of like tense it's
all the same thing it's the same stimuli
except these athlete these these Olympic
quality athletes have learned to
interpret the stimuli that the rest of
us would say is nervous as excited they
also the same thing no I'm not nervous
I'm excited and so I've actually
practiced it just to tell myself when I
start to get nervous but this is
excitement yeah you know and so where
when you used to be speaking from a
large audience somebody'd say how do you
feel they say a little nervous now when
somebody says how do you feel like
really excited actually and it it came
from just sort of telling myself no no
this is excitement and it becomes a
little bit automatic later on but it's
kind of a remarkable thing to deal with
pressure by interpreting what your body
is experiencing as excitement rather
than nerves and it's really kind of
effective it makes you want to rush
forward rather than pull back and yet
it's the same experience you know people
say well you need a vacation or
something I don't for what and I love my
life I feel um healthy thank God
you know I have these incredible
directors that are interested in working
with me and I'm going to jump at that as
long as there's enough time to prep and
I feel like I can add to it you know
yeah yeah for sure has it changed in
terms I guess there's a point where you
don't have to chase quite as hard you
know it depends on the project I still
chase I wrote an email to a director
about six months ago about a project
that I just felt so connected to and
never got a response that's surprising
yeah but you know you never you know
it's yeah we just think professional
courtesy would be enough to oh not
missed is how early in life did you
you're relentless ambition begin did
this happen when you were very young you
you alluded to the fact that you sold
papers at age six or something well I
don't know it just all I don't really
feel like I'm that ambitious oh come on
I need to follow you around for a week
yeah well I'd be hard but I know already
would work hard my father worked hard
and set an example for me and all and I
know a lot of people that work hard what
does that mean working now what is your
day like artists you know
hustle all day long you know we talked
about hustlers Pete grows on the
baseball field I try and do that all day
long and that's what I think we need to
do here in America I mean the people
working in the American automobile
industry we got a fossil the Japanese we
got to get that old roll up our sleeves
and get back to work then we'll get this
country out of trouble we can do
anything better than anybody else in the
world that's your life because the but
if we got to reawaken
that spirit that's what I try and do
with the Atlanta Braves is get everybody
hustling because it's such a good
example of the people that are watching
the program now as you do this
you begin to notice a rather curious
change in your general feeling of life
you notice that there seems to be what I
would call an interruption or an
interval between your experience and
yourself you see in our ordinary way of
using our minds the chronic sense of
strain the chronic attempt to think
about and make sense of what we are
feeling is what we call our ego if you
say I experienced my own existence I am
aware constantly of a NOAA behind that
receiving all that is known then you get
this chronic sensation of their being
and I itself who has all these
experiences and that I or self is what
we call the ego and this chronic sense
of strain is our you might call it our
psychological blocking against our
experience the thing that seems to
divide us
from an external world from the whole
universe
but when in this way the interval begins
to diminish we begin to experience our
world as ourselves
there is no interval there is no
interruption between the knower and the
known just as when we are completely
absorbed listening to music or dancing
to music we are not aware of our
separation from it we go right with it
and so in the same way when the mind
responds instantly to what the senses
bring it seems almost as if the mind and
what it experiences were one same now in
a way of course this is actually true we
can understand this theoretically but we
don't ordinarily really feel it
for example do you know the old saying
if a tree falls in a forest with nobody
listening to it
will there be any noise perhaps you know
the limericks in which this problem is
posed the was a young man who said God I
find it exceedingly odd that a tree as a
tree simply ceases to be when there's no
one around in the quad and the answer
was young man your astonishment odd I'm
always around in the quad so the tree as
a tree never ceases to be since observed
by yours faithfully God but this is a
great philosophical puzzle for the
Western world does what we know depend
on their being in our now in a way
obviously it does because when a tree
falls in the forest it certainly makes
vibrations in the air but those
vibrations in the air do not become
noise unless they vibrate an eardrum so
in the same way the light from the Sun
does not become light unless it falls on
an eye and eyeball
and two we could say the the external
world is full of hard things but nothing
is hard except in relation to the soft
surface of the human skin
nothing is heavy except in relation to
human muscles so if there is not a human
organism the world does not appear to us
at all as having many of the
characteristics which we attach to an
external world in other words we could
say the Sun is light but only because of
eyes rocks are hard but only because of
soft fingers falling rocks are noisy but
only because of sensitive human ears
we cannot form any idea at all
of what the world would be like without
an observing mind even such things as
duration the span of time depend upon
the human mind to appreciate them
States depends on a human mind to
observe the world from a particular
position and so know that there are
things which are distant from without
this mind there could not be any world
that we could think about or conceive or
imagine in any way whatsoever and so
this shows in a very clear way that our
mind and the external world go together
they are inseparable differences taking
the cigar which has two distinct ends
but you cannot separate those in if I
would want to take one of these ends off
and break the thing and throw it away it
would still have another end there would
still be two ends there I could never
get rid of the situation of it having
two ends so you see that although the
two ends are different there is just one
object and so in the same way although
there is a difference in a way between
the knower and the known between
man and the world nevertheless these two
go together and they are fundamentally
inseparable
and therefore when our consciousness is
responding instantly without any
interval or interruption without any
shall we say stopping to think about it
then we have a situation in which we are
actually realizing we are actually
feeling the true physical relationship
which exists between man and his
environment and this we could call the
experience of oneness or unity with the
universe which is the function of
meditation now I think it's not
difficult to see some very obvious
values and this because
well if we live entirely in a world of
thought all the things that we pursue in
life tend in a way to become arid and
unsatisfactory because we are living in
an abstract world in other words nobody
in his senses is going to eat and menu
instead of dinner nobody in his senses
is going to try and get a satisfactory
diet of dollar bills and yet you see
dollar bills and menus stand in the same
relation on the one hand to wealth on
the other hand to dinner the same
relation in which thought stands to
reality they represent it they symbolize
reality but they are in no sense
substitutions for it yes you can do a
great deal of things if you have a lot
of dollar bills but unless you exchange
those dollar bills into real concrete
worth they are of no value to you
and so in the same way if we try to live
in the world of pure thought we begin to
feel a strange unsatisfactory quality to
the world and this living in pure
thought is not something that is only
done by you know professors and
intellectuals and thinking people
perfectly ordinary people often live in
the world of pure thought as for example
when we pursue certain goals in life
when we say I want to be successful I
want to be happy these are really
abstractions because supposing you
become enormously wealthy and you're
able to afford three cars and six houses
you can't drive in three cars at once
you can't live in six houses at once
you have a symbol which we call prestige
of your status but that is an abstract
symbol you can't really you can't eat
prestige you can't eat success and so to
overcome that kind of beguilement by the
santoses
of thought not thinking is an important
adjunct to thought to be able every so
often to cease the hubbub going on
inside one's head and to let talking to
oneself stop and come to stones you
didn't of course sit in the meditation
posture to do it this is simply the way
it's done by Buddhists Hindus you could
walk and sit in the ordinary way design
the bathtub and dirt you can lie on your
back in bed before you get up in the
morning to do it just let your mind
alone and stop trying to make sense of
the world so that there is really
something to think about
other than thought itself it's like if
we wrote books about nothing but books
this is I'm afraid what a great deal of
scholarship is books about books about
books so in this way through meditation
we come to that kind of profound peace
which is exhibited in the faces of the
Buddhists I remember particularly some
words by Lafcadio Hearn in which he
gives a marvelous description of the
whole attitude which these faces
represent
each idolan shaped by human faith
remains the shell of a truth eternally
divine and even the shell itself may
hold a ghostly power the soft serenity
the passionless tenderness of these
Buddha faces might yet give peace of
soul to a West weary of Creed's
transformed into conventions eager for
the coming of another teacher to
proclaim I have the same feeling for the
high as for the low for the moral as for
the immoral for the depraved as for the
virtuous for those holding sectarian
views and false opinions as for those
whose beliefs are good
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