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A story about enlightenment.

Alan Watts Lectures

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You Cannot Stop Desire

The ego exists because we go on paddling desire, says Buddha. The jump ahead of yourself creates the ego - it is like a mirage that consists only of desire and nothing else. You cannot stop desire; you can only understand it in the very understanding is the stopping of it. Remember, nobody can stop desiring. And the reality happens only when desire stops.

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