“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.”
“So the thing is the same way if you’re caught in a torrent, and you try to get out of it by swimming against it, you’ll just wear yourself out and you’re still carried along with it. So the sensible thing to do is to turn around and swim with it. And if you want to get out of it, swim towards the edge. But go with it. So it’s this way, you know: 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.”
