We grow out of this world in exactly the same way as the apples grow on the apple tree.
Imagine the idea that, the moment you were born, you were kicked off the edge of a precipice, and you’re falling. As you fell, a great lump of rock came with you, and it’s traveling alongside you, and you’re clinging to it for dear life, and thinking, “Gee, I’ve got to hold on to this!” You see? Well, it doesn’t do a thing for you. And it’s only making you anxious. And it’s only when you understand that it doesn’t do a thing for you, that you let go and relax.
We’re all in this great stream of change which we call life. We are the stream. If you imagine you’re separate from it and you’re being carried along by it as if you were a cork, that’s a delusion. You’re a wave of the stream itself. So get with it!
It is this participation in the essential, glorious nonsense that is at the heart of the world—that isn’t going anywhere, that is a dance. But it seems that only in moments of unusual insight and illumination that we get the point of this, and find that thus the true meaning of life is no meaning, that its purpose is no purpose, and the its sense is non-sense.