to get into the unitive world
 underneath, underlying and supporting the everyday practical world
 there have to be certain alterations in one's common sense
 now there are certain ideas
 and beyond these ideas certain feelings
 that are difficult to get across
 not because they're intellectually complicated
 not at all because of that, but because they're unfamiliar
 they're strange
 we haven't been brought up to accommodate them
 in exactly the same way that in past times
 people knew that the planets
 were supported in the sky because they were embedded in spheres of crystal
 and if they weren't embedded in spheres of crystal and of course you could see
 them because you could see through them
 they would fall down on the earth
 and now when astronomers finally suggested that there were no crystal
 spheres
 people felt unbelievably insecure
 see? they had a terrible time
 assimilating this idea. now do you see what it involves
 to assimilate a really new idea? you have to do quite a flip
 for example there are some people whose number systems
 only account for
 quantities one, two, three
 many. so they don't have any concept of four corners to a table
 see a table has many corners and a
 pile of pebbles is in that sense equivalent
 in manyness to the four corners of a table
 now they have difficulty you see
 in beginning to assimilate the idea of counting through
 and numbering all those corners or all those pebbles
 but we've done that and so to us that is perfectly simple
 but imagine the kind of mentality the kind of person
 to whom that is not simple at all. now in exactly the same way
 there is here what I'm trying to explain
 a new idea
 that most people don't assimilate
 and that is the idea of
 the total interdependence of everything in the world
 the Buddhists
 in Japan call it "jiji-muge"
 between thing and thing, between event and event there is no block
 and they represent this imagistically
 as a net work
 imagine a multi-dimensional spider web
 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. In other words
 if we give this dew drop image
 if we put it into a linguistic analogy we would say this
 words have meaning only in context
 the meaning of any word
 depends upon the sentence or upon the paragraph in which it's found
 so
 that if I say this tree has no bark
 that's one thing and if I say this dog has no bark
 that's another thing. So you see always
 that 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. So much so
 that if, let's take for example this piece of wood
 that forms a support to the beam out here. 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 is
 it is and you are is very very complicated.
 Also we could say if a given star
 that we observed didn't exist you would be different from what you are now
 I don't say you wouldn't exist but you would exist differently
 but you might say the connection is very faint
 is something that you don't ordinarily have to think about
 it's not important but basically it is important
 only you say I don't have to think about it because
 it's there all the time. See for example the floor is underneath you all the time
 some sort of floor, some sort of earth and you really don't have to think about it
 it's just always there, it's always around
 if you become insensitive you stop thinking about it
 but there it is
 and so in the same way our
 subtle interdependence with, mind you it's not just
 our plain existence it's the kind of existence we have
 is dependent upon all these things also our plain existence but that gets way down
 but the fundamental thing is existence
 is relationship in other words if my finger up here
 is all alone and the wind doesn't move
 and nothing touches it, it stops knowing that it's there
 but if something comes along and does
 immediately it's aware that it's there. So
 ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
 you see it takes two, we could have so much fun
 but it takes more than one, and she don't want to
 but in this way you see what we call
 duality, you can see can't you how duality is fundamental
 it takes two but
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