because it's all become clear it's all become clear that there is no puzzle about this universe
what makes you think there are puzzles about this universe? very simple reason
you're trying to explain it
and when you explain things what you would what do you mean by explanation?
there are several meanings of explanation there's really one basic meaning but first of all to be
able to translate what is happening into terms of words or numbers in other words to describe
but a real explanation is not just a description it's a description which enables us to control
what we're describing but didn't we see
in the last session that to control the world is not really what we want to do
so that if all explanations have as their function enabling us to control things
then maybe an explanation isn't what we wanted
and furthermore you can very simply see that what makes things complicated is explaining
when somebody explains to you how a flower works and he's a great botanist
and analyzes all the innards of the flower and shows the channels the fibers the processes of
reproduction and so on that go on in it everybody stands fascinated
how complicated that is how clever god must have been to create that flower to have all that
complexity going it isn't complicated at all it's only complicated when you start thinking about
because the vehicle of words is a very clumsy one and when you try to talk about the processes of
nature what is complicated is not the processes of nature but trying to put them into words
that's as complicated as trying to drink up the ocean with a fork
takes forever and so this intense complexity that we see in everything
is created by our attempt to analyze it all
and so what we do is you see when we analyze we use our eyes and ears
as scalpels and we dissect everything and we have to put a label on every piece we chop off
and so we scalpelize and we get it right down to atoms getting finer and finer we suddenly
thought well we got to the end of it because the word atom means what is not cuttable atomos
uh but then he found he could cut the atom
and lo and behold big fleas had little fleas upon their backs to bite them
and it goes on forever there is no end to the minuteness which you can unveil through physical
for the simple reason that the investigation itself is what is chopping things into pieces
and the sharper you can sharpen your knife the finer you can cut it
and the knife of the intellect is very sharp indeed
and the sophisticated instruments that we can now make well there's probably no limit to it
but in a way all that is vain knowledge
in a way because you see it what it does is it gives you the illusion that you've solved
your problems when you have control certain things and you have solved certain problems
practical problems you say fine more of that please let's go on solving problems
and then you do you create a world of people
as we are today far more comfortable than people who lived in the 19th century
just remember the troubles of going to a dentist when you were children
or some of you when you were children of uh medicine of uh badly heated homes
of uh all sorts of things that we don't put up with anymore but the problem is we
keep running into this thing that all constant stimulations of consciousness become unconscious
and when we take it as a matter of course to have certain comforts
then we switch the level on which we worry
when you solve a whole set of problems people find new ones to worry about
and after a while you begin to get that haven't we been here before feeling
aren't we just going around on a cycle and doing the same old thing
over and over and over again because we don't realize that we're chasing our own tales
by an eternally recurrent process
of not knowing who you are that is the hide and seek that is the nature of what the hindus call
the manvantara and the pralaya the period of the manvantara in which the worlds are manifested and
the period of the pralaya in which the worlds are withdrawn from manifestation in and out in and out
evermore came out by the same door as in i went the thing is to get to the point where you can see
that you are doing that in every moment of your existence with every tiny little atom of your body
you now at this minute you see
are the whole
the whole system
of eating and outing in other words you often think perhaps
um maybe a long long time ahead i shall reach the point where i wake up from manifestation
and overcome the world illusion and discover that i am the supreme reality
behind all this diversification my friends there is no diversification
in other words what you call diversification is your game
in the same way as you chop the thing and then you say it is made of pieces
but you forget that you cut it and so when you see the world is complicated and that there
are life problems and that uh you might one day succeed see hundreds and hundreds of people are
running like mad after something that they call that is success and they have no idea what it is
now then there's something else when you understand that and when you realize that
there's nothing to realize and it's all here then what are you going to do
it's like when a child is pestering father or mother with all sorts of questions they
finally get down to the deepest metaphysical problems they say oh shut up and eat your donut
and um i wouldn't say that you see at this point because
uh life as one looks at it you see is in fact a celebration of itself
when you look out at night at the stars and you really wonder good god what is all that about
well it's a firework display and it's celebrating high holy day
it's whoopi and the whole world is whoopee
it's a kind of exuberance and therefore you realize what a great thing it is
and what a great thing it is not to dissect the world with your analytical intellect to be able
to look out at the water or the trees or the floor the light on it in front of you without calling it
light or floor or trees or thinking that it has parts or thinking that it's complicated it isn't
you