Playing at Being You - Akira the Don, Alan Watts

This you see is not a pessimistic attitude

Therefore, at all to be able to realize that this world is simply a dream

A dancing play of smoke

Fascinating, yes

But don’t lean on it

«Life is a bridge.»

Says one of the Hindu sayings

«Pass over it but build no house upon it.»

And so immediately you see that

This is responsible for the enormous gaiety of certain Hindu sages

This a thing that often puzzles Westerners

They expected that anybody who’s an ascetic or a sage or something

To be rather miserable

With a glum face

But on the contrary

You take this

Character who’s going around these days

Maharshi Mahesh

He’s always laughing

Because

He sees through it

He looks on every side

And there is the face of the beloved

Of the divinity in everybody in every direction in everything

Playing at being you

Playing at being you

And you can look down into a person’s eyes

Way-way in

And you see the self

The eternal divine

And what is so funny when it puts on an expression

Saying;

«What me?»

And the Guru, the teacher

When people go to a Guru

They get all sorts of funny ideas

They think oh he’s looking right through me

He sees me through and through

He knows how awful I am

Reads my most secret thoughts

Cause he has a funny look in his face

He isn’t even interested in your secret thoughts

He’s looking straight at the Godhead in you

With a funny expression on his face that is saying

Why are you trying to kid me

Come off it Shiva, I know who you are

And therefore, you see his role

Is to gently

Humor you

Into waking up

As to your true nature