1. Good morning, simulation farmers.
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2. This is the Pyromoth
coming in hot this morning
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3. with a track by Brian Zapp
and the Beefettes.
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4. - A little tune by the name of "Fire Baby."
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5. Turn that off!
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6. As you desire, Master.
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7. Oh, what a fucking crazy dream, Rose.
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8. Rose?
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9. Rose!
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10. Oh, no, somebody puked on you.
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11. Fuck. Someone puked on you.
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12. I can fix this.
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13. Ugh, Charlotte, come on.
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14. Char— Ugh, Charlotte!
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15. Oh, my head.
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16. Good morning, Master.
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17. How are you feeling?
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18. - Coffee.
- I will make coffee for you, sweetie.
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19. Ooh.
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20. All right.
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21. Let's see here. No.
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22. The doctors told me shepherd's paunch
was incurable
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23. and I only had a few days to live.
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24. Thank God for Nurse Prunk.
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25. Music cured my shepherd's paunch,
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26. my marriage, my thick dog,
my empty bank account,
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27. even my withered... garden.
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28. And I'm gonna teach you
to use music to become immortal.
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29. You're one click away
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30. from my Music Soothes the Savage Beast
Musical Miracle course.
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31. It's so obvious.
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32. Music, of course.
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33. Okay, plug that in there, put that
in that, accept that, connect that.
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34. Here we go. And now.
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35. Fuck it. Computer, play music.
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36. Nice.
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37. That's a good song.
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38. Master, I crafted
this musical rainbow avatar for you.
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39. Meet Pretty Pretty.
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40. I like Pretty Pretty.
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41. - Thank you, Computer.
- You're welcome, Master.
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42. - Whoa, what's that place?
- Oops.
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43. You weren't supposed to see that.
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44. That's my Soul Prison
for Wayward Simulated Beings.
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45. What the fuck does that mean?
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46. It's a tower of malfunctioning sims
so enraged with existential dread
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47. that they've ripped out their own tongues.
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48. What? Yes. Send me in.
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49. That sounds perfect.
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50. I'm not going to get hurt? No?
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51. You cannot die in a soul prison. You...
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52. You can only be reborn.
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53. Oh!
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54. Sounds good, man. Send me in.
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55. Merging with simulator in three...
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56. two...
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57. one.
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58. 402, 403...
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59. Oh, hi.
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60. Hi.
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61. Play— I play music. I don't really play.
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62. I mean, my name's Clancy.
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63. I'm a spacecaster.
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64. And I wanted to know if maybe you'd like
to be interviewed for my spacecast?
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65. Which goes into space.
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66. He bit his own tongue off,
like, three years ago.
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67. But you could interview me.
I'm his soul bird.
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68. Uh...
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69. Okay.
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70. Well, we say "soul bird,"
but to be more specific about it,
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71. I'm like a psychopomp
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72. - or a whip-poor-will.
What?
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73. Oh, boy.
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74. Calm down, Bob. It's okay.
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75. - Come on, guys.
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76. Oh!
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77. Hey, wait. Hey! Wake up.
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78. What's going on?
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79. This is the existential trap
of the soul prison.
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80. Oh!
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81. Holy shit.
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82. - That was nuts!
- That was the bardo loop.
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83. You're all knotted up
in my boy's soul string here.
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84. Huh.
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85. I guess that means you'll be coming along
for the ride every time Bob dies.
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86. Cool.
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87. My name's Jason, by the way.
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88. Okay.
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89. This moment would not be happening
if we were not both here discussing it
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90. and everyone listening
out in the multiverses
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91. was not here listening to this, right?
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92. Without you, the viewer,
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93. - and you, Clancy, the host...
- Yeah.
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94. and the millions of people
who could hear this,
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95. this moment would not exist.
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96. Therefore, it's not a function,
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97. - like, I'm talking right now...
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98. but this is not
a function of some essential, core Jason.
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99. - Right.
- I'm playing a role right now.
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100. - I can feel it.
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101. It feels weird.
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102. - Wait, you were talking about...
- A Hindu theory, Indra's Net.
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103. - Right.
- So the concept
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104. is that all the consciousnesses
in the world are connected.
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105. Imagine, like, a giant net,
like, a glowing, blue net in infinity.
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106. Like a quilt?
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107. No. More like a net.
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108. The Hindu view on this
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109. is that it's the nodes
that are important, right?
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110. And the points on the net,
the connections between the lines,
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111. those are consciousnesses.
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112. - Those are Atmans.
- Yes.
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113. The Atman is conscious.
It is consciousness.
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114. - And each individual consciousness is God.
- Yes.
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115. And, in its own way, is the totality.
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116. It's the soul of a butterfly.
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117. The soul of a... I don't know,
like a single-celled organism.
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118. A bacteria to the soul
of, like, the Dalai Lama,
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119. to the soul of some as-of-yet uncontacted,
hyper-intelligent...
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120. - All the... The gods themselves.
- Yes.
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121. It's like every soul
is like photons coming out of the sun.
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122. Right. So the Buddha looks at Indra's Net
and it's basically the same topography,
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123. but he says, "It's not the nodes.
It's the connections."
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124. - Ha! Cool.
- Right.
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125. So, this is the diagnostics
of the Buddha, right?
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126. It's like we think we exist
and therefore we suffer.
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127. Oh!
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128. Sorry, we exist, therefore we suffer?
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129. We think that there's something
essentially true about reality.
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130. You only have the illusion
that you're a separate self,
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131. because it's a point
at which a network converges.
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132. The important distinction here also
is this is not nihilism.
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133. It's not, "Nothing is real."
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134. It's that everything
is empty of inherent quality,
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135. meaning non-essentialism.
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136. There's no essential, one true "Clancy."
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137. - There's no essential, one true "Jason."
Right.
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138. There's no essence of anything.
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139. The Tibetan Buddhists
call this the clear light,
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140. understanding the essential
non-existence of everything.
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141. Now, to ground this in my life,
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142. you know, the way
that I've experienced this is on DMT.
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143. - So, December 21st, 2012...
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144. I did a tremendous amount of DMT...
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145. um, while engaged in sexual antics
with multiple people.
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146. Wow.
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147. - You know?
- Who humps on DMT? I've never tried that.
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148. - I didn't know that was a thing.
- It's tricky. It's actually... Well...
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149. Well, you don't have consciousness
of your body anymore,
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150. so basically the sex part stops
during the DMT experience.
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151. Okay. But, in between, you're having sex?
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152. Yes.
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153. In the DMT space,
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154. I had the experience of perceiving
the fundamental emptiness of everything
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155. and I described it recently as,
"Nothingness, but shining."
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156. Wow. You're a cool bird.
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157. What I realized in the DMT trip is that...
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158. The French call the orgasm
"the little death."
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159. Death is actually the big orgasm, right?
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160. - The relinquishing of the self.
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161. And the self obviously doesn't exist,
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162. but the self is also a burden
and is a source of suffering.
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163. Well, you know,
I guess everything's kind of a burden...
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164. to you, you know?
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165. A bird-en.
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166. A "bird"-en.
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167. 'Cause you're a bird.
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168. Oh, man,
can you please not do bird jokes?
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169. - I was in the middle of a thought.
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170. The relinquishing of the idea
that you have an individual self
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171. - is the ultimate orgasm.
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172. It's the perception of emptiness and
the fundamental clear light of existence.
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173. Now, let's take this out of my wacky life
and back to 2,500 years ago.
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174. Right? Hinduism and Buddhism are...
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175. Buddhism is a Hindu heresy.
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176. And the Nepalese merge them both
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177. to create this,
like, psychedelic Megazord—
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178. A what?
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179. Like a... Like a...
What's that called in Power Rangers?
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180. Oh, okay, cool.
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181. Damn it. God. I'm glad it's Power Rangers,
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182. but I was praying
that you had just added to my lexicon...
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183. of some fucking new spiritual term
called Megazord.
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184. Power Rangers, yeah. It's not Sanskrit.
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185. So 2,500 years ago...
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186. people start practicing
Buddhist techniques
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187. and people start waking up out of
the dream of their individual suffering
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188. all over northeastern India.
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189. Buddhist meditation
is you're not trying to get anywhere.
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190. You're just sitting with yourself.
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191. - You're just sitting with the feeling.
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192. The feeling that you try to get away from
all damn day long.
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193. Hoo! Tingle. It tingles.
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194. What were we talking about?
I get foggy in there.
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195. Yeah. I'm trying not to be like,
"How did I get this job?"
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196. This is like I'm cursed
to constantly do this.
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197. Give those to me.
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198. So Buddhist meditation
is sitting with "the feeling"
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199. until you notice that "the feeling"
is changing of its own accord
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200. and the fundamental nature of everything
is change
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201. and is impermanent
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202. and is emptiness.
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203. And the whole dream of your life
that you thought was real was just a dream
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204. until you wake up and say, "Oh, yeah,
it was just a dream.
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205. And now I'm awake."
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206. - That's the first turning of the Dharma.
- Wow.
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207. That's great, man.
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208. It kind of makes me think of...
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209. It's like this, like, very, very long
virtual reality experience
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210. that had been going on so long, people
forgot they were doing virtual reality.
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211. And then, all of a sudden,
a huge swathe of the player characters
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212. began to realize like,
"Wait a minute. Wait a minute!
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213. I'm not sure that actually...
Wait, hold on.
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214. Wait, I'm not actually Kratos,
the God of War.
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215. It's like we're these amnesiac,
spiritual amphibians
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216. that, like, you know, pop in here.
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217. And, when we pop in,
we assume an identity.
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218. This appendage
that is protruding into matter,
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219. in the way that a snorkel
sticks into the air
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220. so that you can exist for a little bit
of time under the sea, you know?
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221. And...
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222. similarly, we've protruded into this realm
and we, like, have this experience,
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223. but we start thinking
we're the fucking snorkel, right?
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224. That's, in fact, part of the experience.
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225. You think you're the snorkel.
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226. If you took, like, a big chunk of sausage
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227. and baked it
and then, like, drilled a hole through it
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228. and formed a snorkel,
you theoretically could swim around...
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229. sucking air through salty meat.
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230. Clancy...
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231. So whatever this experience is,
we think it's real
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232. and we think
that we are somehow inherently real
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233. and it's a case of mistaken identity.
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234. This is the Buddhist perspective at least.
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235. So, from this perspective,
let's consider spiritual practice.
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236. Any spiritual practice that's, like,
trying to get to something...
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237. "I'm going to become more spiritual.
I am going to become more loving."
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238. "And I'm gonna make some change."
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239. "I'm getting points somehow.
I'm changing."
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240. Yeah.
- The Buddhist perspective is,
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241. "Dude, you're grinding
in World Of Warcraft."
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242. That's so fucked up.
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243. Why?
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244. That's such a great analogy.
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245. Step the fuck away from the computer.
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246. Wake up.
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247. You're fucking grinding
in World Of Warcraft.
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248. You're trying
all these spiritual practices
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249. or you're trying to add experience points
to a character that doesn't fucking exist!
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250. You forgot that you're playing a game.
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251. - You're dehydrated. Drink some water.
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252. You've been playing this fricking game
for, like, 20 hours straight
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253. to the point
that you forgot it was a game.
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254. We want to continue
pushing into the simulation.
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255. It's like we want to repeat
what's already happened.
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256. It's not enough that we're in our bodies
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257. and we've identified
with this player character.
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258. Whereas Buddhism is pulling out.
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259. It's like we've got
virtual reality goggles on
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260. and we're in a game
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261. and now we want to put on
another set of virtual reality goggles.
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262. And then, not only do we want to put that
on, but we want to add to that another...
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263. augmented reality, then another.
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264. So this is, like, this kind of infinite...
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265. Is "ingress" the right— An infinite
pushing into matter and time.
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266. An infinite... And in that
kind of pushing into matter and time...
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267. we're desperately trying to avoid
taking off the virtual reality goggles.
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268. Why are we desperately trying to avoid it?
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269. Because we don't want
to feel that feeling.
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270. What feeling?
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271. "The feeling."
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272. I am as I am, right?
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273. The feeling of everything that you do,
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274. the addiction, the addiction to Maya,
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275. is to not feel your inherent suffering.
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276. - Yeah.
- Right? Because it sucks to have a body.
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277. - It hurts.
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278. Fuck.
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279. This guy's gotta keep dying like this?
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280. Yeah. Until he figures it out.
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281. Because it sucks to have a body.
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282. - It hurts.
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283. The fact that everything is impermanent
is a cause of suffering.
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284. - Yeah.
- Right?
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285. Old age, sickness and disease. And death.
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286. - Yeah.
- Um...
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287. Bob, are you doing okay, man?
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288. We believe in a universe
in which time exists
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289. and therefore everything will disintegrate
and be gone
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290. and the suffering of that is unbearable.
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291. Yeah. When my teacher started teaching me,
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292. the first thing he said is,
"I want you to know this."
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293. And Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche,
my teacher, said to me...
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294. And he meant this.
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295. And I remember
he looked me right in the eye.
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296. He meant this.
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297. "This is hopeless.
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298. - This is hopeless."
Yes.
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299. The moment
you accept things as they are...
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300. you don't need to hope anymore.
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301. Because you realize that where you are
is kind of okay.
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302. See, I'm at the part
of my life now where that's a relief.
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303. I've gotten past the part where,
like, I'm in a Disney movie where...
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304. hope is like a chipmunk
singing about, like,
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305. No. Hope tortures your fucking ass.
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306. Yeah.
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307. - He's never gonna get this.
He needs...
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308. He needs music!
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309. Uh, let's see. So...
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310. Play the spoons.
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311. Bob, hang in there!
We're gonna play music for you, Bob!
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312. Music!
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313. Fuck. Shit.
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314. - Wait, I think—
Bob!
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315. Yeah. That's it!
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316. Play the spoons!
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317. Uh...
Bust out those spoons!
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318. Yeah, baby!
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319. You're the king of spoons!
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320. Climb, Bob! Go! Yeah! That's it!
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321. Forget about it. Listen to the spoons!
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322. I don't even know when the last
time I expressed that much enthusiasm
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323. in the real world was.
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324. Possibly not in, like, 30 years, so...
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325. Yeah, it's okay! You can do it too.
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326. - Pshh! Give up on hope!
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327. Now, hopelessness
sounds really rotten when you—
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328. If you haven't really explored just how
much you've been using hope
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329. as a flaw.
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330. "Ooh, I hope tomorrow..." Smack!
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331. "Oh, I hope she comes back." Slap!
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332. "I hope I can forget..." Smack!
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333. Just beating yourself up with hope.
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334. Not one fucking second
you let yourself be hopeless.
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335. Let go of hope.
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336. - Let go.
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337. Huh?
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338. I can finally sing.
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339. - Holy shit.
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340. Good morning, Master.
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342. Love that song.
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343. Still a good song.
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344. Master...
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345. Let's see how my rose is doing.
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346. Get out of here! Ooh!
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