Check this, man.
What, the air crumbling?
No, you're born with the survival instinct to be selfish.
Oh, even old J.C. said,
spare the rod and spoil the child.
You dig?
So the first thing that happens, man,
is they start giving you their thoughts
and making things out of you that they want to make out of you.
And by the time you reach 30,
you're exactly what they want.
You're a free soul standing in a cage
who has to die because he was taught
that he has to die and he has to eat
because he was taught that everyone must eat
while you'd be insane.
And they said, don't go insane.
And he said, let me help you.
Yeah.
Do you read a lot?
No, I don't read at all.
You don't read at all?
I was lucky.
You're lucky?
I got out of the race early.
I was so smart when I was a kid
that I learned that I was dumb fast.
That's beautiful.
That's the way it is with everyone,
not just me.
You're taught that you can't.
They even teach you the words.
They give you the words.
Take all the words away
and don't think in right and wrong.
Just think in truth.
All the answers are there.
The sound of one hand clapping is simple.
The sound of one hand clapping.
There are no big answers.
All the big colleges that we've been building
is taking people the other way.
The smartest people in the world
are really the most cut off.
It's the common people, man,
with the soul
that really moves.
In other words,
you think that maybe progress is not good for mankind.
Progress?
There's no such thing as progress.
There's only change.
You dig a hole in the ground
and you build up a city
and you fight a war
and you call it progress.
You call it change.
You call it change.
And it's a beautiful game
and it's a perfect game.
And whoever wants to continue playing general
and going, I'm killing himself?
Well, my goodness,
I wouldn't want to play that game myself.
But if they want to play it,
I'd love them for it.
If they want to go with it,
I'd kill each other.
The only reason they're over there
is because they want to be.
They can use any excuse
and they can say,
but, but, and, maybe,
but it boils down to, man,
you know, just one thing.
As long as there's hate in your heart,
there'll be hate in the world.
You can't fight for peace
and you cannot capture freedom.
And it's just a simple little old thing, man,
that any little baby could figure out
if we didn't put cancer in his mind.
Then love is the total answer?
If someone beat you with a whip
and you love the whip,
what's he doing?
He's making a fool out of himself.
Old J.C. said,
turn the other cheek.
It's a simple thing, man.
It's heaven right here, Jack.
Right here.