Change-Sappheiros

[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]‭