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Ep. 1 - Following the Taoist Way

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Chinese Idea of Nature Is That All the Various Species Ere Mutually

To be and not to be mutually arise. This character is based on the picture of a plant, something that grows out of the ground. Light and dark arise mutually come into being. There's none is e cause and effect, not that relationship at all. It's like the egg in the hen. All those experiences are experienceable only in terms of their polar experience. So the chinese idea of nature is that all the various species arise mutually because they interdepend. And this total system of interdependence is the tao - which means 'no negative woo'

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