the Pieces

[David Bowie]

yes it was
it was a Zen uh a zen teacher
at a temple that I
I like a lot in in Kyoto
and he’s not he’s not often there
I usually see the
the sort of the uh
a lot of the other Masters
who were there but that we had
we were fortunate enough to have lunch with them last time
we were there
and it was most peculiar out of nowhere
he suddenly said religion is over
and it lies in the Arts that the information
the spiritual life will be in the vessel of the visual
and the musical art which
I thought was quite a stunning comment
from this 70 year old zen master
I think we have to find the focus of where our religious
strength lies in an entirely different area
I think we have to find and develop a new kind of discipline
I think there is no real sense of purpose
without a shaping of fragments
I think we have the fragments
and the pieces of a new way
a new a new way
but I think we have to construct
a path out of those pieces
I think we have the bits of concrete
and it’s merely crazy paving at the moment
but it will it we have to develop a form presumably
that’s what we’ll be doing in our new millennium is developing
the form we have the material