[Intro] [vinyl crackle, syncopated breakbeat enters, deep sub bass] [Verse 1] [spoken male vocals] And uh, so all the way around Everything is pattern of energy And I don't want you to think of the word pattern of energy as if the pattern were one thing and the energy another As if a pattern were a thing made of something called energy Energy and pattern are the same thing [muted electric guitar stabs enter] Because you will never find energy not in a pattern or a pattern that is not energy And if these things are inextricably associated, you can be sure there's some sort of conspiracy underneath the whole thing and that they're really one [Verse 2] So then, the course of the world is a constant flow I used the analogy last night of each person being like a whirlpool in the stream Now you see the form of a whirlpool as you watch it remains fairly constant But the water never stays in it, you see So in exactly the same way are all things and all people, all plants and whatsoever there is Is a form of constant change It's changing perpetually, but it's changing in a certain dance And the form of the dance remains constant until it gets bored with it or it falls apart [Verse 3] Now we are sort of hypnotized by our social institutions and conventions Into thinking that any given form of energy is by itself And that for example that I am a tremendously important person that has to be looked after and watched and kept from dying and all that sort of thing Going broke and uh, you know So I have to protect this thing as if somehow or other if I fail in protecting this particular display of energy, all is lost You see what it is? But we're taught to think that way And you can be untaught In other words, your mind can be wiped clean And you can experience yourself as a whirlpool of energy in a stream which is the Tao Which is the total course of nature, the energy field of the whole cosmos [Verse 4] And so the objective, if you might call it that, of the Taoist way of life, the Taoist discipline, is to enable people to feel that way But to become transparent to yourself To feel in other words that you are just like anything else around you Something through which life is flowing and you're sort of transparent and you don't constitute a block in it Like you know you swallow something that's stuck in your throat, well that constitutes a block in the alimentary tract Or if you take a worm and bruise it, the worm wiggles both sides of the bruise but it can't make a wave wiggle through the whole length of the worm And there was a very strange man called Wilhelm Reich who said that most people have a thing like the worm's bruise across their diaphragm So that they find difficulty in wiggling all the way through So in exactly this way, Taoism teaches you to wiggle all the way through Not only from foot to head, but from one end of space to the other And you are a wiggle in the middle of that, but just let it happen you see And so this then to learn how to be with the wiggle is to be in the Tao
