The Game

from Alan Watts Dub by Alan Watts Dub

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There is a sense in which, the universe is purely game, but not in the sense of a one-up-manship game, but in the sense of music.
In music, though, one doesn't make the end of a composition the point of the composition. If that were so the best conductors would be the ones who played fastest, and there would be composers who wrote only finales.
People would go to the concert to hear one crashing chord, cause thats the end.
Same way in dancing, you don't aim at a particular spot in the room, and thats where you should arrive.
The whole point of the dancing is the dancing.
It is this participation in the essential glorious non-sense that is at the heart of the world.
That isn't going anywhere, but is a dance.
But it seems at only in moments of unusual insight and illumination 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 its sense is nonsense.
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, with a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, or maybe heaven, after you're dead, 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.