Imagine a multidimensional spiderweb covered in dew in the morning, and every single drop of dew on this web contains in it the reflections of all the other drops of dew. And, of course, in turn, in every drop of dew that one drop reflects, there is the reflection of all the others again. And they use this image to represent the interdependence of everything in the world. So, you see—always—the meaning of the word is in relation to the context. Now, in exactly the same way, the meaning—as well as the existence—of an individual person, an organism, is in relation to the context.
You are what you are, sitting here at this moment, in your particular kind of clothes, and with the particular colors of your faces, and your particular personalities, your family involvements, your business involvements, your neuroses, and your everything —you are that precisely in relation to an extremely complex environment.
Now, believe me, this is true: you can see that has little nubbles on it, and so on. If it were not the way it is, you would not be the way you are. The line of connection between what it is and what you are is very, very complicated. See, for example, the floor is underneath you all the time.
If you become insensitive you stop thinking about it. But there it is. Also our plain existence, but that gets way down. But the fundamental thing is: existence is relationship. So, you see, it takes two. It takes two. But duality is always—secretly—unity. Take the contrast between the words we use: explicit and implicit. We have a fight. Explicitly, in public, this has to be a big fight. These two ways of life, these two ideologies, are opposed.
You bet it has. But there are a lot of people who get taken in by the propaganda, and they should be taken in, because that makes the thing work. And everything works this way. I had a long talk about this with C. Underneath opposition there is love. That Tweedledum and Tweedledee agreed to have a battle. That things hold together by over-under, under-over, over-under, under-over, over-under, under-over, and that creates a stuff , it creates a fabric, it creates clothing, it creates shelter, it creates what we call matter.
The world as a marvelous illusion. Look at another form of the thing: you can play it not only by two as one , but you can play it by three as one. Now, the way these rings are interlocked is such that they are joined only if the three of them are present. If you take one away, the other two fall apart. This is a very interesting phenomenon, but it can be created physically, with steel rings. Their cohesion depends on all three of them being present.
Now, we have tried, scientifically, to understand the world and explain its mysteries by analyzing the smallest, smallest particles of things that exist. Inquiring down, down, down: what is this thing we call flesh, or call steel, or stone—what is it made of?
Go down into the midst of it. But only half of the understanding. Equally important is not what is the tiniest particle, but in what context is the tiniest particle?
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