So you have this process which is quite spontaneous going on we call it life. It's controlling itself
 It's aware of itself. It's aware of itself through you. You are an aperture through which the universe looks at itself
 and
 Because of it's the universe looking at itself through you. There's always an aspect of itself that it can't see
 So it is like that snake you see that is pursuing its tail
 Because the snake can't see its head like you can't
 We always find as we investigate the universe
 Make the microscope
 Bigger and bigger and we will find ever more minute things
 Make the telescope bigger and bigger and bigger and the universe expands because it's running away from itself
 It won't do that if you don't chase it
 So it's a game of hide-and-seek
 Really when you ask the question who is doing the chasing
 You
 Are still working under the assumption that every verb has to have a subject
 That when there is an action there has to be a doer
 But that's what I will call a grammatical convention
 Leading to what Whitehead called the fallacy of misplaced concreteness
 Like the famous it in it is raining
 So when you say there cannot be knowing without a Noah
 This is merely saying no more than there can't be a verb without a subject and that's a grammatical rule and not a law of nature
 Anything you can think of as a thing as a noun
 Can be described by a verb
 And there are languages which do that
 It sounds awkward in English
 But
 Face it
 When you look for doers as distinct from deeds
 You can't find them
 Just as when you look for stuff
 Underlying the patterns of nature. You can't find any stuff. You just find more and more patterns
 There never was any stuff it's a ghost
 What we call stuff is simply patterns seen out of focus
 And it's fuzzy. So we call it stuff
 So, you know, we have these words energy matter
 Being reality even Tao
 And we can never find them
 They always elude us entirely
 Although we do have the very strong intuition that all this that we see is connected or related
 So we speak of a universe although that word really means one turn
 It's your turn now
 Like you make one turn to look at yourself
 But you can't make two turns and see what's looking
 So
 It's very simple therefore
 You only have to understand that you can't do anything about it
 And
 As they say in Zen you cannot take hold of it, but you can't get rid of it and
 In not being able to get it you get it
 So all these trials that gurus put their students through
 Have as their ultimate object convincing you that you can't do anything
 Only
 It's convincing you very thoroughly it's convincing you in more than a theoretical way
 Now perhaps I shouldn't tell you that
 But you see I'm not a guru in that I don't give individual spiritual direction to people
 And I give away the gurus tricks
 That might may not be very good. But on the other hand
 Those tricks are only necessary in the sense that I would say to someone it's necessary for you to go to a psychiatrist if you think
 you must
 And if you are not going to be satisfied without going to Japan and studying Zen Buddhism from an Roshi, okay, you better go
 It isn't necessary unless you say it is
 If that's the only thing that will satisfy you and you feel that deep down inside you if you've got that yin
 Therefore you've got that yen
 But if on the other hand you haven't you haven't
 And I'm not going to put you down on that account you see
 The point is what do you want to do?
 What is it in you to do?
 But there it is
 that you can struggle and struggle and struggle and
 Indeed will do so
 As long as you have the feeling inside you that you're missing something
 And
 People your friends all sorts of people will do their utmost to persuade you that you're missing something
 Because they are missing something and they think they're getting it through a certain way and therefore to assure themselves
 They'd like you to do it, too
 So
 There's this thing and you see a clever guru
 Beguiles his students
 By letting them have the feeling of success and accomplishment in certain directions a guru gives people
 Exercises a that are difficult, but can be accomplished and be that are impossible
 You will always be hung up on the impossible ones
 But the possible ones you will feel get a feeling of making progress
 So that you will double your efforts to solve the impossible exercises
 And then
 They range things in many many ranks and levels
 Through which you can advance this stage of consciousness that state of consciousness or think of the degrees of masonry or so on
 Ranks in learning things the different belts you get in judo and all that kind of jazz
 You can do that
 And it gives people the search of competing with themselves or even with others
 Because of the feeling inside that there is just something I'm missing
 And of course if you are learning any sort of skill and
 You haven't perfected the skill. There is indeed something you're missing
 But in this thing that we're talking about
 That isn't true
 Because you as the Buddhists say our Buddhas from the very beginning
 And all that searching is like looking for your own head
 Which you can't see and therefore might conceivably imagine that you had lost
 So
 That indeed is the point that we don't see what looks and therefore we think we've lost it
 And so we're in search of the self the art man
 Well, that's the one thing we can't find
 Because we have it we are it
 But we confuse it with all these images
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