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What weve been doing is would take the yoke for the plow and would pull it while my wife guided it.

But Im getting old now and its really difficult to plow the fields.

So if we could borrow your horse, well of course you can borrow the horse.

So three days later the fields were all plowed.

mean their daughter is very nice.

To make a long story short, ten years later theres the old man, the old woman, their daughter Mohan, and their son whos six years old.

And one day the old man whos really getting quite old is walking across the bridge over the river and he trips and he falls in the river and he drowns.

The old woman, shes just completely freaked out.

She wants to go throw herself in the river and Mohan and his wife are trying to get her settled down and shes just, you know, crying and screaming.

Little boy is upset, hes crying for his grandpa.

They finally get the old woman settled down and she cries herself to sleep and Mohan and his wife are talking and its just like so terrible.

And they look up and theres Grandma, shes headed for the bridge.

Too late, she gets to the middle of the bridge, looks back at Mohan, throws herself in the river and drowns.

He turns around and his wife is coming, shes screaming and she wants to throw herself in the river.

Hes got to drag her back and the son is all upset and hes trying to get everybody calm down and finally his wife calms down and his son is crying and hes talking to his son.

Where does his wife go Oh no.

Shes standing in the middle of the bridge looking at the water.

He goes running after her and screams, no When she looks at him, throws herself in the river and drowns.

He looks up, his son is standing in the middle of the bridge looking at the river.

Mohan screams, no, no, no, goes running towards him.

The son looks at him, throws himself in the river and drowns.

He looks down at the rushing water, puts one hand over his eyes, puts the other hand out, leans over the bridge.

Falls off and just as his hand hits the water, the magicians wife says, there you are sir, enjoy your tea.

mean, when first came to Germany you had Deutschmarks, right Pieces of paper and pieces of metal.

Now when come to Germany, you dont have Deutschmarks, you have Euros, right Those Deutschmarks, theyre worthless, right Now youve got different pieces of paper and different metal.

Is the paper any better Is the metal got more beautiful pictures on it Its just pieces of paper and metal.

mean, why do you carry the paper around What, you need to start a fire or something You want to start a fire with a piece of toilet paper

And the metal, thats not gold or silver in it, right Maybe you need to make a decision.

No, we just say its valuable.

You know, if you took something like this glasses case and you squeezed your wrist really hard, you can make the glasses case float there, wont fall off.

My cousin showed me that when was about, dont know, seven or eight, was very impressed.

It goes back to the Middle Ages, actually.

Moneys an illusion, but an even bigger illusion, thats a credit card.

You go to the store, you get a bunch of stuff, you walk out, they get really upset.

But if you go to the store, you get a bunch of stuff, you take it to the front, you give them your credit card, they give it back to you, you still got it.

They give you a piece of paper to make magic marks on, right

Or maybe you make it on a screen.

Then they give you another piece of paper that youre to take home and throw away.

And you take the stuff out of the store and everybodys happy.

Does this make any sense Whats going on here Theres illusions everywhere.

Things are not what they seem to be.

What were happy to accept and just play along.

mean, this table seems solid, right Things dont fall through, but physics tells us its mostly empty space.

You got molecules which are mostly empty space, except for the atoms, neutrons and electrons which are mostly empty space.

You got a dot box at home.

Big old box got lots of dots on it.

think you call it a television.

You know, you plug it in, the dots get all excited.

Somebody else says something, you laugh.

You ever watch guys watching sports on Theyre screaming at the dots.

Go Go Go Dots cant hear them.

Hey, how many euros do you pay for that dot box You ever go to the movies Whats it cost to go to the movies in Deutschland Ten euros, twelve euros Its cheap.

You got to give them some of these pieces of paper.

You cant do it for just a metal.

And you pay in this money for what To watch them show a bright light through a piece of plastic mean, thats all thats happening.

You know, they shine the bright light and youre like, oh, wow.

And then the ship sinks and all those people drown and youre crying.

Right But you know, it was so good.

You cried, you laughed, you go home.

Well, you had to buy the popcorn.

One of the biggest illusions that youre ever going to come across thats really hard to penetrate is the illusion of self.

And yeah, when you look for it its hard to find.

mean, we want some little guy behind the eyeballs looking out, pulling the levers, but they cant find that little guy.

And of course that raises the question, does he have eyes and does he have somebody behind the eyeballs of his eyes

And no, we dont even want to go there.

It arises because we are a sensing device that can sense the sensing device.

If this is the universe well the universe pokes up an eyeball.

And furthermore the sensing device can move around on the surface of the universe.

And the sensing device can look down and go,

me Right Its just a piece of the universe thats not tied to one place.

But because it can move around and it looks like its not really connected to the universe, even though it very much is, and because it can detect itself and it thinks its got an entity.

Change is whats going on and we make up time to try and measure the rate at which things change.

hope all of you had at least tried to do the walking practice of walking outside of time.

You can do it for a short time.

And then youre back into the past or the future.

So its even if youre fully convinced that time is an illusion, its really hard to step outside of it.

Theres another illusion that everybody likes.

And thats the illusion of the rainbow.

You gotta have sun in just the right place.

And you gotta have some observer observing it.

If theres nobody there to see the rainbow, does it exist mean, you cant detect it.

Right Only when you get the observer in the right place.

And your friend says, yeah, cool.

Your friend is actually looking at a different rainbow than you are.

Two people as close as Banti and are seeing different raindrops.

Its very much a process of light shining, sunlight, and rain falling, and light being refracted by the rain so that it bounces back and the observer sees it.

Well, it turns out were not real entities.

Were just a sensing mechanism thats part of the universe.

And this is our job is to try and penetrate that illusion.

This is how you get yourself free.

For example, lets say you go to the beach.

And youre standing there right at the edge of the water.

You can see that the world ends kilometers out.

Right You can see the edge of the world.

Sometimes the ship gets too close to the edge of the world.

Goes over the edge, right Falls off the edge.

Youre thinking theres an edge of the world.

Right Suppose youve got a friend and your friend says, Ive got a sailboat.

We fall off the edge of the world.

Youre making a decision based on an illusion.