Alan Watts - Bend and Survive
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00:00The more soft you become, the stronger you become.
00:05Because this is the principle of bend and survive.
00:12It's illustrated by the image of the pine tree in the willow.
00:19In the snow, the pine tree's trunk stands rigid
00:23and the snow piles up and piles up and piles up.
00:27The branch doesn't give and finally crack and it's done for.
00:31But the willow, as soon as a little snow accumulates on the branch, down it goes.
00:36The snow falls off and the branch springs up again.
00:40So this isn't quite the idea of limpness.
00:44It's not softness in the sense of being just limp and flaccid,
00:49but of being springy, of having give.