It Takes Two

The Buddhists in Japan call it jiji muge
Jiji muge: “between event and event, there is no block.”
And they represent this, imagistically, as a network
Imagine a multidimensional spiderweb covered in dew in the morning
And every single drop of dew on this web contains in it the reflections of all the other drops of dew
And, of course, in turn, in every drop of dew that one drop reflects, there is the reflection of all the others again
And they use this image to represent the interdependence of everything in the world

[Chorus]
You see, it takes two
We could have so much fun
But it takes more than one
You see, it takes two
We could have so much fun
But it takes more than one, and she don’t wanna!

In other words, if we give this dewdrop-image
If we put it into a linguistic analogy
We would say this: “Words have meaning only in context.”
The meaning of any word depends upon the sentence, or upon the paragraph in which it’s found
So that, if I say, “This tree has no bark,” that’s one thing
And if I say, “This dog has no bark,” that’s another thing
So, you see always
The meaning of the word is in relation to the context
Now, in exactly the same way, the meaning, as well as the existence of an individual person, an organism, is in relation to the context
You are what you are, sitting here at this moment, in your particular kind of clothes, and with the particular colors of your faces, and your particular personalities, your family involvements, your business involvements, your neuroses, and your everything
You are that precisely in relation to an extremely complex environment

[Chorus]
You see, it takes two
We could have so much fun
But it takes more than one
You see, it takes two
We could have so much fun
But it takes more than one, and she don’t wanna!

If a given star that we observe didn’t exist, you would be different from what you are now
I don’t say you wouldn’t exist, but you would exist differently
But you might say the connection is very faint, is something you don’t ordinarily have to think about, it’s not important
But basically, it is important, only you say, “I don’t have to think about it, because it’s there all the time.”
See, for example, the floor is underneath you all the time
Some sort of floor, some sort of earth, and you really don’t have to think about it
It’s just always there; it’s always around
If you become insensitive you stop thinking about it
But there it is
And so, in the same way, our subtle interdependence with
Mind you, it’s not just our plain existence, it’s the kind of existence we have is dependent upon all these things
Also our plain existence, but that gets way down
But the fundamental thing is: existence is relationship
In other words, if my finger, up here, is all alone, and the wind doesn’t move, and nothing touches it, it stops knowing that it’s there
But if something comes along and does tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch; immediately, it’s aware that it’s there
So… (Laughter)

[Chorus]
You see, it takes two
We could have so much fun
But it takes more than one
You see, it takes two
We could have so much fun
But it takes more than one, and she don’t wanna!

But in this way, you see, what we call duality
You can see, can’t you, how duality is fundamental
It takes two
But duality is always secretly unity
Unity
Duality is always secretly unity
Unity
Unity
Unity
Unity