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本帖最后由 curry0000 于 3-1-2019 19:50 编辑
Life is a musical thing
By Alan Watts
Existence, the physical universe, is basically playful.
There is no necessity for it whatsoever. It isn’t going anywhere. It doesn’t have a destination that it ought to arrive at.
But it is best understood by analogy with music, because music, as an art form, is essentially playful.
We say you play the piano, you don’t’ work the piano. Why? Music differs from, say, travel. When you travel you’re trying to get somewhere. And, of course, we, being a very compulsive and purposive culture, are busy getting everywhere faster and faster until we eliminate the distance between places…what happens as a result of that is the two ends of your journey became the same place. You eliminate the distance, you eliminate the journey.
The fun of the journey is travel, not to obliterate travel. So then, in music, one doesn’t make the end of a composition the point of the composition. If so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest and there would be composers who only wrote finales. People would go to a concert just to hear one crackling chord because that’s the end! Same way with dancing. You don’t aim at a particular spot in the room because that’s where you will arrive.
The whole point of dancing is the dance.
But we don’t see that as something brought by our education into our everyday conduct. We have a system of schooling which gives a completely different impression. It’s all graded and what we do is put the child into the corridor of this grade system with a kind of, “Come on, kitty, kitty,” and you go to kindergarten and that’s a great thing because when you finish that you get into first grade…then you’ve got high school, and it’s revving up, the thing is coming, then you’re going to go to college…you go out to join the world, then you get into some racket where you’re selling insurance, and they’ve got that quota to make, and by god you’re going to make that, and all the time the thing is coming, it’s coming! It’s coming! That great thing. The success you’re working for.
Then you wake up one day about 40 years old and you say, “My god, I’ve arrived. I’m there.”
And you don’t feel very different from what you’ve always felt and there’s a slight letdown because you feel there’s a hoax.
And there was a hoax! A dreadful hoax. They made you miss everything by expectation…we’ve cheated ourselves the whole way down the line.
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is. But we missed the point the whole way along.
It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
我们的“存在”，物理的宇宙，基本上是有可玩性的。
“存在”不是必要的。我们的存在，宇宙的存在，都没有什么地方要去，没有一个需要抵达的目的地。
把它比作音乐就比较好理解了，因为音乐，作为一种艺术形式，本质上是可玩的。
我们说你弹奏（play）钢琴，你不说你做（work）钢琴。
为什么？举个例子，音乐和旅行是不同的。当你旅行时，你是想要去到什么地方。
在我们这个心急又充满目的的文化里，我们总是忙着让自己更快更快的赶到目的地，直到我们消除了起点和目的地直接的距离… 导致的结果是两个端点成了一个地方。你消除了距离，你就消除了旅程。
旅程的乐趣是旅行，而不是消除旅行。
音乐里，没有人会说乐曲的结尾是作品的意义。
如果是的话，那最优秀的指挥家会是那些演奏得最快的人。会出现只写尾声的作曲家。
人们到音乐会去，只是为了听一声噼里啪啦的弦声，因为那是尾声。
跳舞也是一样的，你不会瞄准房间里的一个特定的点，把它当你舞蹈的目的地。
跳舞的意义是跳舞本身。
但是这个知识没有被我们所收到的教育输入到我们的日常生活。
我们的教育体制，教会我们完全相反的事情，它把所有事情都归了级。
我们把孩子送到学校体制中，哄着他们到幼儿园，说这是好事情，因为走完幼儿园，你就可以到小学了；然后又用同样的态度把孩子们送到中学；那个重要的东西来到了，高考，然后到大学，接着进入真实世界；你进入到某个框框里去卖保险，他们给你任务去工作，你完成了那个任务，那个重要的东西要来了要来了。
要来了！
那个伟大的目标，你的成功，你的目的，你辛苦工作的意义。
然后四十岁左右的一天你醒过来说，天哪，我到了，我实现了，我在目的地了。
可是你没觉得和以前感觉没什么不同，你有些失望觉得被坑了。
这的确是个骗局！一个悲伤的骗局，给了你不合适的期望，让你错失了一切…
我们一路上都在欺骗自己。
我们用旅程的比喻来思考人生，一个征程，一场远征，有个严肃的目的在终点等着我们。
就好像是在说，人生的意义就是达到目的地，在目的地有成功，或其他的。
眼里只有目的地，一路上我们错过了所有的意义。
可是人生、我们的存在、宇宙的存在都没有“目的地”。
人生是一个音乐般的东西，在音乐播放时你应该跳舞歌唱。 |
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