Consider Death - Akira the Don/Alan Watts.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Alan Watts/Adam Narkiewicz
[00:01.000] 作词 : Adam Narkiewicz/Alan Watts
[00:08.468]So, this is a view of the world
[00:12.973]As a system of mutual exploitation
[00:16.230]And of maximal selfishness
[00:19.679]Now it's a very profitable deal to explore
[00:23.440]
[00:26.450]Everybody should do in their lifetime sometime (lifetime sometime)
[00:31.467]Two things
[00:32.720]
[00:33.222]One
[00:34.726]Is to consider death
[00:37.235](Consider death)
[00:39.246]To observe the skulls and skeletons
[00:43.258]Consider death
[00:44.512](Consider death)
[00:47.770]And to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up
[00:52.032]Never
[00:52.783][00:52.308]
[00:53.034]That
[00:54.290]is a very gloomy thing for contemplation
[00:58.300]But it's like manure
[01:01.305]Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on
[01:05.823]So the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death
[01:09.579]Is very highly generative with creative life
[01:14.340]You get wonderful things out of that
[01:16.346]And the other thing to contemplate is to follow the possibility of the idea that you are totally selfish
[01:24.366]That you don't have a good thing to be said for you at all
[01:27.374]You are a complete, utter rascal
[01:31.385]You are a complete, utter rascal
[01:35.646]Now, the Christians have avoided this
[01:39.157]Because although they say in their Episcopalian form of confession
[01:42.416]That “We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep
[01:45.678]and we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts”
[01:49.188]Too much, you know?
[01:51.194]“We have offended against they holy laws.
[01:53.449]We have left undone those things we ought to have done,
[01:55.708]and done those things which we ought not to have done,
[01:57.963]and there is no health in us.”
[02:00.970]But,
[02:03.229]it ought to be different
[02:06.241]And we're gonna do our best to amend
[02:08.501]with the help of God's grace
[02:12.017]That is a real con act
[02:16.528]If you equate health with genuine love and perfect unselfishness
[02:21.791]Then in that sense there is no health in us when we look at ourselves from this point of view
[02:26.803]
[02:30.326]Consider death
[02:32.764](Consider death)
[02:34.770]To observe the skulls and skeletons
[02:39.282]Consider death
[02:40.035](Consider death)
[02:43.295]And to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up
[02:47.554]Never
[02:48.057]
[02:48.307]Consider death
[02:49.308](Consider death)
[02:52.064]To observe the skulls and skeletons
[02:56.328]Consider death
[02:57.581](Consider death)
[03:00.843]And to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up
[03:05.103]Never