An Aperture - Akira the Don, Alan Watts

The thing is that we have been educated to use our minds in a certain way

A way that ignores, or screens out, the fact that

Every one of us

Is an aperture

Through which the whole cosmos

Looks out

Every one of us

Is an aperture

Through which the whole cosmos

Looks out

You see, it’s as if you had a light covered with a black ball, and in this ball

were pinholes, and each pinhole is an aperture through which the light comes

out

So in that way, every one of us is, actually, a pinhole through which the

fundamental light

That is, the existence itself, looks out

Only, the game we’re playing is not to know this

To be only that little hole, which we call «me,» «my ego,» my specific «John

Jones,» or whatever

Every one of us

Is an aperture

Through which the whole cosmos

Looks out

Every one of us

Is an aperture

Through which the whole cosmos

Looks out

If, we can maintain, at the same time

The sense of being this specific John Jones with his role in life, or whatever,

and know also, underneath this, that we are the whole works

You get a very marvelous and agreeable arrangement

This is a most remarkable harmoniousness, I mean, it gives one’s life a great

sense of joy and exuberance, if you can carry on these two things at once

If you, in other words, you know that all the serious predicaments of life are

a game

Every one of us

Is an aperture

Through which the whole cosmos

Looks out

Every one of us

Is an aperture

Through which the whole cosmos

Looks out