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Ep. 8 – Man and Nature
Alan Watts Being in the Way
What's Purposeless?
The great zen master said as his death poem, just before he died, from the bath tub to the bath tub, i have uttered stuff and nonsense. When we say something's purposeless, that's put downs, no future in it, so wash out. But when chinese say nature is purposeless, this is a compliment. We are not trying to get anything out of it. You pick up a pebble on the beach, look at it. Beautiful. Don't try and get a mon out ofIt. Sermons in stones and god and everything be damned. Just enjoy it. If you can't do that, if you can only do things because theyre
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