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 Unity Duality is always secretly unity Unity Unity Unity Unity