change and everything is changed nothing can be held on to
 to the degree that you go with a stream
 you see you are still you're flowing with it
 but to the degree you resist the stream
 then you notice that the current is rushing past you and fighting with you
 so swim with it, go with it
 and you're there, you're at rest
 and this is of course particularly true
 when it comes to those moments when life really seems to be going to take us away
 and the stream of change is going to swallow us completely
 the moment of death and we think
 oh this is it, this is the end
 and so
 at death we withdraw, say no no no not that, not yet
 please
 but actually
 the whole problem is
 there really is no other problem for human beings
 than to go over that waterfall when it comes
 just as you go over any other waterfall, just as you go on from day to day
 just as you go to sleep at night
 be absolutely willing to die
 now I'm not preaching, I'm not saying you ought to be willing to die
 and that you should
 muscle up your courage and somehow put on a good front
 when the terrible thing comes, that's not the idea at all
 point is that you can only die well
 if you understand this system of waves
 if you understand
 that your disappearance as the form in which you think
 you are you, your disappearance as this particular
 organism
 is simply seasonal
 that you are just as much
 the dark space beyond death
 as you are the light interval
 called life
 these are just two sides of you
 because you is the total wave
 see you can't have half a wave
 nobody ever saw waves which just had crests
 no troughs, so you can't have half a human being
 who is born but doesn't die, half a thing
 that would be only half a thing, but the propagation of vibrations and life is
 vibration
 it simply goes on and on but its cycles are long cycles and short cycles
 space you see
 is not just nothing, if I could magnify my hand
 to an enormous degree so that you
 could see all the molecules in it, I don't know how far apart they would be
 but it seems to me they would be something like tennis balls
 in a very very large space
 and you look
 when I move my hand like this, and say for God's sake, look at all those tennis balls
 they're all going together
 crazy, and there are no strings tying them together
 isn't that queer? no but there's space
 going with them, and space is a function of
 or it's an inseparable aspect of whatever solids are in the space
 that is the clue probably to what we mean by gravity
 we don't know yet, so in the same way
 when those marvelous sandpipers come around here, the little ones
 while they're in the air flying they have one mind
 they move all together, when they're light on the mud they become individuals
 and they go picking around for
 worms or something, but one click of the fingers and
 all those things are going zoom into the air, they don't seem to have a leader
 because they don't follow when they turn, they all turn together
 and go off in another direction, amazing
 but they're like the molecules in my hand, so then you see here's the principle
 when you don't resist change
 I mean over resist
 I don't mean being flabby, when you don't resist change
 you see that the changing world, which
 disappears like smoke, is no different from the nirvana world
 nirvana as I said means breathe out
 let go of the breath, so in the same way don't resist change, it's all the same
 principle
 so the bodhisattva saves all beings
 not by preaching sermons to them
 but by showing them that they
 are delivered, they are liberated, by the very fact of not being able
 to stop changing, you can't hang on to yourself
 you don't have to try not
 to hang on to yourself, it can't be done
 and that is salvation, memento mori
 be mindful of death, Gurdjieff
 says in one of his books that the most important thing for anyone to realize
 is that you and all you
 every person you see will soon be dead
 it sounds so gloomy to us
 because we
 have devised a culture fundamentally resisting death
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