[00:07.71]So we are living, as it were,
[00:10.12]on many, many levels of rhythm.
[00:12.66]‭
[00:19.12]This is the nature of change.
[00:21.37]‭
[00:22.95]If you resist it, you have duhkha,
[00:25.91]you have frustration and suffering.
[00:27.91]‭
[00:29.05]But on the other hand,
[00:30.55]if you understand change,
[00:33.51]you don't cling to it,
[00:35.70]and you let it flow,
[00:39.05]then it's no problem.
[00:40.63]It becomes positively beautiful,
[00:42.73]which is why in poetry,
[00:45.43]the theme of the evanescence of the world
[00:50.39]is beautiful.
[00:53.29]‭
[01:23.52]See, it's always the image of change
[01:26.46]that really makes the poem.
[01:28.77]‭
[01:58.47]The Japanese have a word 'yugen',
[02:05.82]which has no English equivalent whatsoever.
[02:08.55]‭
[02:10.81]Yugen, is in a way, "digging change".
[02:20.21]‭
[02:22.60]It's described poetically,
[02:24.87]you have the feeling of yugen
[02:27.03]when you see out in the distant water
[02:30.55]some ships hidden behind a far-off island.
[02:34.76]‭
[02:36.63]You have the feeling of yugen
[02:38.05]when you watch wild geese
[02:40.73]suddenly seen and then lost in the clouds.
[02:45.76]‭‭
[03:45.04]You have the feeling of yugen
[03:48.03]when you look across Mt Tamalpais,
[03:50.54]and you've never been to the other side,
[03:53.15]and you see the sky beyond.
[03:56.00]‭
[03:57.38]You don't go over there
[04:00.40]to look and see what's on the other side,
[04:02.67]that wouldn't be yugen.
[04:04.28]‭
[04:05.49]You let the other side be the other side,
[04:08.87]and it invokes something in your imagination,
[04:11.73]but you don't attempt to define it to pin it down.
[04:15.10]Yugen.
[04:16.16]‭
[05:15.34]So in the same way,
[05:17.24]the coming and going of things
[05:18.92]in the world is marvelous.
[05:20.69]‭
[05:22.22]They go. Where do they go?
[05:24.87]Don't answer,
[05:26.19]because that would spoil the mystery.
[05:28.40]‭