Life is a game, gardening is like playing roulette with seeds.
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The physical universe is basically playful. There is no necessity for it whatsoever. It isn’t going anywhere. That is to say it doesn’t have some destination that it ought to arrive at…
It is best understood by analogy with music, because 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. One doesn’t make the end of a composition the point of the composition. If that was so the best conductors would be those who played fastest!
Say when 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.
Alan Watts