
Alan Watts - Who is it who knows there is no ego
Alan Watts Lectures
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The Japanese Are a Victim of the Calendar
Children are poisoned by adult conceptions and have no antibodies against them. They resent tremendously being called something, so if I say Johnny's a sissy he calls me a sissy. And children are absolute victims of the calendar - they want to know when it's going to happen. Go to a beach in Japan: The tide line is full of plastic cast-offs. You would think they would appreciate wonderful stretches of sand and rocks. But almost anywhere around the island is a complete mess of plastic cast offs. When you travel in Japan on the underground in Tokyo, one also was imagined the Japanese were very polite. In their own setting and in their own cultural context they indeed are. But
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