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Ep. 8 – Man and Nature

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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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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