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Ep. 10 – Veil of Thoughts: Money, Relationships & Desire

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Trouble With You Is Your Old Words

I am not talking at all about something you should do. All i am doing is explaining a situation. You cannot lift yourself up by your own bootstraps, however hard you try. And i am merely pointing out that it can't be done. In religious rituals, words are used musically for the sake of sound. This is a method of liberating oneself from enthralment with words. When you say any ordinary word, just take a word like body, see, and you it once, and it seems to be quite sensible. But say it four or five times, body, body,. body, body,body, body, and you think, what a funny noise.

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