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Ep. 2 – Dropping Out From Karma

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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I Alone Am Mild, Like One Unemployed, Like a New Born Babe

The fool has always been used as a kind of analogue of the sage. Appearing stupid, he goes about like one who has lost his way. He drinks and eats just enough and does not know where the food comes from. This is the demeanour of the man of character. The hypocrites are those people who regard as good whatever the world acclaims as good,. When you tell them that they are men of dao, then their countenances change with satisfaction. But when you call them hypocrites, then they look displeased. All their lives they call themselves men of tao, and all their lives they remain hypocrites. They tell appropriate anecdotes in order to attract

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