I am the walrus
John Lennon wrote many amazing lyrics. None impressed me more than this verse from I am the Walrus:
I am he
As you are he
As you are me
As we are all together
Drug induced nonsense? I think not. It sounds more like a man who has had a glimpse of reality, who has seen what the Buddha taught - that "I" am not an integral autonomous entity; that the individual self is better thought of as a by-product of our consciousness and perceptions. He also scores highly in my book for his other significant lyric:
All you need is love
Which is a proposition that, once grasped, makes the world a very different place to be in.
Last night I was reading about Rene Descartes "Meditations" and his attempts to pin down that elusive "I" - interesting.
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ReplyDeleteThe thing I take from Descartes is his acknowledgement that he had acquired all sorts of mistaken ideas and that he needed to re-create his belief system from scratch. (This is on very sketchy reading on my part.)