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Alan Watts Lectures

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How to Open and Close Your Hand

The self is elusive and so if I ask you who are you really, John Doe says. You can never get to see what the self is basically it's always and forever elusive. To translate the opening and closing of your hand into an exact system of symbols would take forever because trying to understand the world purely by thinking about it is this clumsier process than drinking the Pacific Ocean out of a pint beer mug. In thinking about things you can only think one thought at a time one after another in series thinking is a linear process like writing one thought after another as we say.

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