It Takes Two

The Buddhists in Japan call it jiji muge
 Jiji muge: "between event and event, there is no block."
 And they represent this, imagistically, as a network
 Imagine a multidimensional spiderweb
 Covered in dew in the morning
 And every single drop of dew on this web
 Contains in it the reflections of all the other drops of dew
 And, of course, in turn, in every drop of dew that
 One drop reflects, there is the reflection of all the others again
 And they use this image to represent the
 Interdependence of everything in the world
 You see, it takes two
 We could have so much fun
 But it takes more than one
 You see, it takes two
 We could have so much fun
 But it takes more than one, and she don't wanna!
 In other words, if we give this dewdrop-image
 If we put it into a linguistic analogy
 We would say this: "Words have meaning only in context."
 The meaning of any word depends upon the sentence,
 Or upon the paragraph in which it's found
 So that, if I say, "This tree has no bark," that's one thing
 And if I say, "This dog has no bark," that's another thing
 So, you see always
 The meaning of the word is in relation to the context
 Now, in exactly the same way, the meaning,
 As well as the existence of an individual person,
 An organism, is in relation to the context
 You are what you are, sitting here at this moment,
 In your particular kind of clothes, and with the
 Particular colors of your faces, and your particular personalities,
 Your family involvements, your business involvements,
 Your neuroses, and your everything
 You are that precisely in relation to
 An extremely complex environment
 You see, it takes two
 We could have so much fun
 But it takes more than one
 You see, it takes two
 We could have so much fun
 But it takes more than one, and she don't wanna!
 If a given star that we observe didn't exist,
 You would be different from what you are now
 I don't say you wouldn't exist, but you would exist differently
 But you might say the connection is very faint,
 Is something you don't ordinarily have to think about,
 It's not important
 But basically, it is important, only you say, "I don't
 Have to think about it, because it's there all the time."
 See, for example, the floor is underneath you all the time
 Some sort of floor, some sort of earth,
 And you really don't have to think about it
 It's just always there; it's always around
 If you become insensitive you stop thinking about it
 But there it is
 And so, in the same way, our subtle interdependence with
 Mind you, it's not just our plain existence,
 It's the kind of existence we have is
 Dependent upon all these things
 Also our plain existence, but that gets way down
 But the fundamental thing is: existence is relationship
 In other words, if my finger, up here, is all alone,
 And the wind doesn't move, and nothing touches it,
 It stops knowing that it's there
 But if something comes along and does
 Tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch; immediately,
 It's aware that it's there
 So... (Laughter)
 You see, it takes two
 We could have so much fun
 But it takes more than one
 You see, it takes two
 We could have so much fun
 But it takes more than one, and she don't wanna!
 But in this way, you see, what we call duality
 You can see, can't you, how duality is fundamental
 It takes two
 But duality is always secretly unity
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 Duality is always secretly unity
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