and in order to go into Taoism at all we must begin by being in the frame of mind
which can understand it you cannot force yourself into this frame of mind
any more than you can smooth disturbed water with your hand
but let's say that our starting point
is that we forget what we know I think we know
that we suspend judgment about practically everything returning to what
we were when we were babies when we have not yet learned the names or language
and although we have extremely sensitive bodies very alive senses we have no
means of making an intellectual or verbal commentary on what is going on
now can you consider that as your state
just plain ignorant but still very much alive
and in the state you just feel what is
without calling it anything at all you know nothing at all about anything
called an external world in relation to an internal world
you don't know who you are you haven't even got the idea of the word you or I
it's before all that
nobody has taught you self-control so
you don't know the difference between the noise of a car outside and a
wandering thought that enters your mind they're both something that happens you
don't identify the presence of the thought which might be just an image of
a passing cloud and your mind's eye and the passing automobile they happen
your breath happens
light all around you happens your response to it by blinking happens
so you simply are really unable to do anything there's nothing that you're
supposed to do nobody's told you anything to do you're unable completely
to do anything but be aware of the buzz the visual buzz the audible buzz the
tangible buzz the smellable buzz all buzz it's going on watch it
don't ask who's watching it fuel flow information about that yet that it
requires a watcher for something to be watched for somebody's idea you don't
know that it loud sir says the scholar learned something every day
the man of Dow unlearned something every day until he gets back to Nam doing
that's what we are in at the moment
just simply without comment without an idea in your head be aware what else can
you do don't try to be aware you are
you'll find of course that you can't stop the commentary going on in your
head but at least you can regard it as interior noise
listen to your shattering thoughts as you listen to the singing of a kettle
we don't know what it is we were aware of
especially when you take it all together and there's this sense of something
going on
I won't even say that this thing yes
well I said it was going on that's an idea
stephane words obviously I wouldn't know if anything was going on unless I could
say something else wasn't I know motion by contrast with rest so while I am
aware of motion I'm also aware of at rest so maybe what's at rest isn't going
on and what's motion is going on so I won't use that concept because I got too
into it both
if I say well here it is that excludes what isn't like space
if I say this it excludes that I've deduced asylum
but you can feel what I'm talking about don't you that's what's called Dao and
Chinese
that's why we begin
thou means basically way and so course the course of nature
of which loud sir says dull fat young which means the ha ha ha means the way
of functioning of the Dow the young is of itself so that is to say is
spontaneous
what again what's going on
if you approach it with this wise ignorance you will see that you are
witnessing a happening in other words in this tribal way of looking at things
there is no difference between what you do on the one hand and what happens to
you on the other it's all the same process
just as your thoughts happen the car happens outside
the clouds the Stars
when a westerner here is that he thinks our fatalism or determinism
that's because he still preserves in the back of his mind two illusions one is
that what is happening is happening to him
and therefore he is the victim of circumstances but when you are in primal
ignorance there is no you different from what's happening and therefore it's not
happening to you it's just happening so is you you know what you call you what
you later call you is part of the happening you're part of the universe
although the universe strictly speaking has no part we only call certain
features of the universe parts of it you but you can't disconnect them from the
rest without causing them to be not only non-existent but never to have existed
so
when you have this happening the other illusion that a westerner is liable to
have is that it's determined in the sense that what is happening now follows
necessarily from what happened in the past
but you don't know anything about that in your primal ignorance cause and
effect why obviously not hahaha because if you're really naive you see that the
past is the result of what's happening now it goes backwards into the past
like a weight goes backwards from a ship
all the echoes are disappearing finally go away and away in a way and it's all
starting now what we call the future is nothing the great void and everything
comes out of the great void that's the way a naive person and the as I
explained if any of you were at my lecture last night if you shut your eyes
and contemplate reality only with your ears
you will find that the background of silence and all sounds are coming out of
it they start out of silence if you close your eyes let's just listen
you see the Bell came out of nothing floated off off off off and then stop
being a sonic echo and became a memory which is another kind of echo awake it's
very simple it all begins now and therefore it's spontaneous
it isn't determined that's a philosophical notion nor is it
capricious that's another philosophical notion as
we distinguished between what is orderly and what is random because we don't
really know what randomness is if you talk to a mathematician about randomness
you'll make you feel quite weird what is so of itself Sooey generous in
Latin that means coming into being spontaneously on its own accord the real
meaning of virgin birth Sooey generous
and that's the world that is the doll that makes us feel scared perhaps
because we say well if all this is happening spontaneously who's in charge
I'm not in charge that's pretty obvious but I hope there's God or somebody
looking after all
but why should they be someone looking after it because then there's a new
worry that you may not have thought of like who takes care of the caretakers
daughter while the caretakers really taking care who guards are the guards
who supervises the police
who looks after God I'm going to say God doesn't need looking after
Oh father not is this Dow
because Dow
is a certain kind of order
and this kind of order is not quite what we call order when we arrange everything
geometrically in boxes or in rows that's a very crude kind of order but when you
look at a plant it's perfectly obvious that this bamboo plant has order we
recognized at once that that is not a mess
but it is not symmetrical and it is not geometrical looking
it looks like a Chinese drawing
because the Chinese appreciated this kind of order so much that they put it
into their painting non-symmetrical order in the Chinese language this is
called Li and the character for Li means originally the markings in Jade also
means the grain in wood and the fiber and muscle we could say to that clouds
have li marble has leave the human body has leave and we all
recognize it and the artist copies it whether he is a landscape painter a
portrait painter or an abstract painter or a non objective painter they all are
trying Forli and the interesting thing is that although we all know what it is
there's no way of defining it
but because Dow is the course we can also call Li the watercourse
because the patterns of Li are patterns of flowing water and we see those
patterns of flow memorialized as it were in sculpture in the grain in wood which
is the flow of SAP in marble in bones in muscles all these things are patterned
according to the basic principles that is the far dowel for the dowels
principle of flow
there is a book called sensitive chaos by Theodor strength with many many
photographs and studies of flow patterns and they're in the patterns of flowing
water you will see all kinds of motifs from Chinese art immediately
recognizable including the s-curve in the circle the yang in like this
so Li means then the order of flow the wonderful dancing carbon is liquid
because loud sir likens doubt water the great Dow he says flows everywhere to
the left and to the right like water I'm interpolating that it loves and
nourishes all things but does not lord it over them because he says else well
water always seeks the lowest level which men abhor because we're always
trying to play games of one-upmanship and be on top of each other
aloud sir explains that the top position is the most insecure everybody wants to
get to the top of the tree but then if they do the tree will collapse that's
the fallacy of American democracy
you two might be president the answer is no one but a maniac would want to be
president who wants to be put in charge of a runaway truck so loud so says the
basic position is the most powerful
and this we can see at once in judo or in Aikido which are wrestling arts or
self-defensive arts where if you always get underneath the opponent and so he
falls over you if he attacks you the moment he moves to be aggressive you go
either lower than he is or in a smaller circle than he is moving and you have
spin if you know Aikido you're always spinning and you know how something
rapidly spinning exercises centrifugal force so somebody comes into your field
of centrifugal force he gets flung out but by his own bounce it's very curious
so therefore the watercourse way is the way of Dow
now that seems to white anglo-saxon Protestants into Irish Catholics
lazy spineless acid and I'm always being asked when I talk about things if people
did what you suggest wouldn't they become terribly passive
well from a superficial point of view I would suggest that a certain amount of
passivity would be an excellent corrective for our kind of culture
because we are always creating trouble by doing good to other people
you know we wage walls for people's benefit and educate the poorer for their
benefit so that they desire more things which they can't get I mean that sounds
rather callous but our rich people are not happy whereas the poor people of
Haiti are to judge by the way they laugh
and we think we're sorry really not for the poor but for ourselves
guilty
so a certain amount of doing nothing and stopping rushing around would cool
everything but also it must be remembered that passivity is the route
of action where do you suppose you're going to get energy from just by being
energetic no you can't get energy that way that is exhausting yourself to have
energy you must sleep but also much more important conceit is what I showed you
at the beginning
passivity of mind mental silence not you can't as I tried to explain be passive
as an exercise that's good for you you can only get to that point by realizing
there's nothing else you can do so for God's sake don't cultivate passivity as
a form of progress that's like playing because it's good for your work you
never get to play
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