Now, existence, you see, is something that is spontaneous.
 The Chinese word for nature, "zijian," means that which happens of itself.
 Your hair grows by itself.
 Your heart beats by itself.
 You breathe pretty much by itself.
 Your glands secrete their essences by themselves.
 You don't have voluntary control over these things.
 So we say it happens spontaneously.
 So when you go to sleep and you try to go to sleep, you interfere with the spontaneous
 process of going to sleep.
 Try to breathe, you know, real hard, and you find you get balled up in your breathing.
 So if you're going to be human, you just have to trust yourself to have bowel movements
 and go to sleep and digest your food.
 Of course, if something goes seriously wrong and you need a surgeon, that's another matter.
 But by and large, the healthy human being doesn't, right from the start of life, need
 surgical interference.
 And he lets it happen by itself.
 So with the whole picture, that is fundamental to it.
 You've got to let go and let it happen, because if you don't, you're going to be all clutched
 up.
 You're going to be constantly trying to do what can happen healthily only if you don't
 try.
 But we have a strange anxiety in us that if we don't interfere, it won't happen.
 And that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.
 But the basis of it all is this, then.
 If we say, "You must survive," or "I must survive," "Life is earnest, and I've got to
 go on," then your life is a drag and not a game.
 Now it's my contention, my personal opinion, this is my basic metaphysical axiom, shall
 we put it that way, that existence, the physical universe, is basically playful.
 There is no necessity for it whatsoever.
 It isn't going anywhere.
 That is to say, it doesn't have some destination that it ought to arrive at.


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