Music as an art form
Is essentially playful
We say you play the piano
You don't work the piano
Why
Music differs from say travel
When you travel you are trying to get somewhere
And of course we because
Being a very compulsive and purposeful culture
Are busy getting everywhere
Faster and faster and faster
Till we eliminate the
Distance between places
I mean with the modern jet travel
You can arrive almost instantaneously
What happens as a result of that
Is that the two ends of your journey
Become the same place
So you eliminate the distance
You eliminate the journey
Cause the fun of the journey is to travel
Not to obliterate travel
So then
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 those who play fastest
And there would be composers who only wrote finales
People go to concerts just to hear one crashing cord
Because that's the end
Same way in dancing
You don't aim at a particular spot in the room
That's where you should arrive
The whole point of the dancing is the dance
Look at the people who live to retire
And put those savings away
And then when they're sixty-five
And they don't have any energy left
They're more or less impotent
They go and rot in an old people's "senior citizens" community
Because we've simply cheated ourselves
The whole way down the line
We thought of life by analogy was a journey
Was 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
But you had to do that
You didn't let it happen
And so In this way
The human being sometimes becomes an organism for self frustration
Let's take korzybski called man a time binder
That means
That he the animal peculiarly aware of the time sequence
And as a result of this
He's able to do some very remarkable things
He can predict
He studies what's happened in the past
And he says the chances are so and so if that happening again
So he predicts
Thus it's very useful to be able to predict
Because that has survival value
But at the same time
It creates anxiety
You pay for this increased survival ability involved in prediction
By knowing in the end you won't succeed
We're all gonna fall apart
By one way or another
It might happen tomorrow
It might fifty years from now
But it all comes apart in the end
And people get worried about that
They get anxious
So what they gained on the roundabout
they lost on the swings
So then
If you see on the other hand
That existence
This is as I said my basic metaphysical assumption
Which I won't conceal from you
That  existence is musical in nature
That is to say it is not serious
It is the play of all kinds of patterns
We could look upon different creatures
As we look at different games
Chess
Checkers
Backgammon
Tennis
At The tree game
The beetle game
The grass game
Or you can look at them
As you look at different styles of music
Mazurkas
Waltzes
Sonata
Etcetera etcetera
All down the line
Theyre all these different things doing their stuff
And we're doing that
Now existence you see
Is something that is spontaneous
The Chinese word for nature Tzu-Jan
Means that which happens of itself
Your hair grows by itself
Your heart beats by itself
You breathe pretty much by itself
Your glands secrete their essences by themselves
You don't have voluntary control over these things
So we say it happens spontaneously
So when you go to sleep
And you try to go to sleep
You interfere with the spontaneous process of going to sleep
Try to breath real hard
And you find you get balled up in your breathing
So if your gonna be human
You just have to trust yourself to have bowel movements
And go to sleep
And digest your food
Of course
If something goes seriously wrong
And you need a surgeon
That's another matter
But by and large
The healthy human being doesn't
Right from the start of life
Need surgical interference
And he lets it happen by itself
So, with the whole picture that is fundamental to it
You've gotta let go
And let it happen
Because if you don't
You're gonna be all clutched up
Your gonna be constantly trying to do
What can happen healthily
Only if you don't try