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Ep. 3 – In Your Own Way
Alan Watts Being in the Way
The Philosophy of the Yang and the Yang
If everybody were the same, there would be nothing to talk about. They'd be just yourself echoing back at you,. And you'd feel like a madman in a hall of mirrors. So wherever you notice the difference, the difference has two sides - what it is and what it's not. This is the fundamental principle of the whole way in which ancient chinese thought developed. The jing is based entirely on this, that the universe is the interplay of difference.
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