We see, don't we, all that we experience is understandable as a spectrum of vibrations.
 There are different kinds of spectra.
 There's the spectrum of light, there's the spectrum of sound.
 We can also think of spectra of smells, of tactile feelings, of emotions, and so on,
 all down the line.
 We are, as it were, living in the midst of a woven tapestry of many dimensions in which
 the warps and the woofs are all these different spectra of various kinds of vibrations.
 And as on the loom, the warp crosses the woof, and if you didn't have one, you wouldn't
 have the other, it takes two to reveal the pattern.
 So see yourselves as patterns in a weaving system.
 You wouldn't be here if it weren't for the interlocking of all these different spectra
 of dimensions.
 So then, here they go, and these things are vibrating.
 Now when it reaches a certain point, you say, "Oh, that's too much."
 When it reaches another point, you say, "It's not enough.
 Why there's nothing here?
 I don't feel a thing.
 Now I'm going to go to sleep."
 But on the other end, you say, "No, no, no, no, you're going far enough.
 If you go any further, that's going to tear things apart.
 I can't withhold this tension."
 See?
 Now so some people will say, "All right, now relax, relax, relax, take it easy, take
 it easy."
 But often you see the point is you can't do that.
 So then, what I would say to the person who cannot relax, I will stress his tension.
 Go the other way.
 In other words, go with the line of least resistance.
 Say, "Okay, you're tense about all this.
 Now let's say you're really tense.
 Let's scream, 'No, no, no, no, no.'"
 See?
 You get violent inside.
 This is not to happen.
 But so that one way or the other, you see, it doesn't matter which you go, you'll begin
 to get into this thing, which is what is happening when the boat of life begins really to rock.
 Get rocking with it by whatever way is open.
 But you are not going to force the issue here.
 Instead of saying to you, "You should be doing it another way than you're doing it," I will
 be saying, "Now find out the way you must do it and go that way."
 Now this is a general principle of an art, and we will find there is a kind of--there
 are limits to this art and how it can be used and so forth.
 But once the general principles are clear, there aren't many serious problems left.
 If you begin to look at it in that way, you will begin to realize that ecstasy by one
 road or another is inevitable.
 That indeed ecstasy is in a way the nature of existence.
 There is a universe for the simple reason that it's ecstatic.
 What else is all this fireworks about?
 It is just like music in this ecstatic thing going off.
 And you have to be certainly careful in a little way here that any initiation into a
 deep wisdom is apt at first to demotivate you.
 You think, "What the hell am I doing?
 All these projects and building this up and that up, or doing something to save the world,
 or so on and so forth.
 Why?
 That whole thing is nonsense."
 Yes.
 If you stick there, that's what they call in Mahayana Buddhism the Pratyekabuddha.
 That means the private Buddha, as distinct from Bodhisattva, who comes back into everyday
 life, as they say, for the liberation of all other sentient beings.
 Because when you know that all this is all right anyway, and that the situation is inevitable
 ecstasy, I mean, you're going to get it one way or another.
 You see, well, what was all the fuss about?
 The fact remains that a lot of people just don't know that, and are really hating life,
 not knowing how to handle hate.
 And if you are at a certain point, you know those other people are you.
 They're like, you had an extended body and all these nerve ends on the end of it, you
 see.
 However, you know also that you can't really show them anything they don't already know,
 and won't be able to show them anything else until they know it.
 But then the question, what shall I do, has now disappeared.
 It should have disappeared in the beginning, because there wasn't any real I, there was
 just the happening.
 And so that question brings us back again to the experience itself, see.
 And that's the only way that you can answer the question, is from the experience.
 You could say, what would happen if?
 The answer is only, you must feel it, then you will know.
 And the people who hear about this and say, well, wouldn't that, I mean, wouldn't everybody
 become totally callous and impassive?
 How can you assure me that that wouldn't happen?
 I say, I can't.
 But you must get into this state, then you'll find out.
 There's just no you to get into it anyway.
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