[ Featuring Alan Watts ]
The sense that you just have to go on living
See?
That life is a 'must'
When you say to anything spontaneous
See, life is spontaneous
It happens-in the words of the Taoists
Zìrán (自然)
Which means "of itself so"
That's the Chinese expression for nature
What happens by itself
What isn't pushed
But it just pops up, you see?
You came into being
It happening in a kind of a - plop -way
Like that, see?
Now, you can't tell that process
"You ought to happen! You must happen!"
Because that puts a bind on it
In the same way as when you have little child,
And all the relatives have come to a party on Thanksgiving,
And you put the child in the middle of all the relatives
And say, "Now, dear, play!"
Now, dear
Play
Now, dear
Play
Play on demand
Play on demand
Play on demand
Play
Now, dear
Play
Now, dear
Play
Play on demand
Play on demand
Play on demand
Play
See?
It absolutely bugs the child to do it like that
And so this is the problem for every artist
Because an artist is a man who makes his living by playing
Whether he's dancing, or painting, or playing music
Or whatever it is
And he has to overcome this problem
He has to know how to play in public
At a given time on an appointment
See?
And that's not an easy thing to learn
But when you catch on to the trick of it
You can do it
To play on demand
That's the hardest lesson of life
To contrive
What is called by my Japanese artist friend Saburo Hasegawa
A controlled accident
Now, dear
Play
Now, dear
Play
Play on demand
Play on demand
Play on demand
Play
Now, dear
Play
Now, dear
Play
Play on demand
Play on demand
Play on demand
Play
