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This is Japanese Ceremonial Tea
It's good on a cold day
See, our problem is, we don't really know how to stop
We got something started and we see it's going in the wrong direction
And I think the difficulty is, to borrow an old Chinese saying
That, "When the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way."
In other words, there's something wrong with the way we think
And while that is there, everything we do will be a mess
Now, what is it that's wrong?
Now, as far as I can see
The basic mistake is
That we've invented this wonderful system
Of language
And calculation
And that it is, at once, too simple to deal with the complexity of the world
And also, we are liable to confuse that system of simples with the world itself
Just as we confuse, say, money with wealth
Lot of people are in business to make money instead of wealth
When they make money, they don't know what to do with it
And no wonder we feel cut off from everything
Alienated, frightened of life and death
So, what has to happen is
We have to come back to a view of our own life
Which is the way we really are
An organism functioning in terms of the whole environment
With the whole environment
Instead of this funny, little, separate personality
But how are we going to do that?
You can't transform yourself
You can't make yourself sane
You can't make yourself loving
You can't make yourself unselfish
And yet, it's absolutely th- necessary that we be that way
If we are going to hand over the direction of nature to nature
It's absolutely necessary
I'm not going to say what we should do
But simply, that before we think of doing anything
In this critical situation
We realize the completely illusory nature of the beings that we think we are
And get back again to the beings that we really are
Which includes
All this outside world
No longer left outside