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Alan Watts - Who is it who knows there is no ego

Alan Watts Lectures

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Is the World Broken Up in the Way That Language Breaks It Up?

A plant is understandable as something growing out of the earth because it's rooted, but human beings wander about on legs. We don't seem so stuck to things as plants do and therefore we have delusions of separation. But what about the seed that comes from the plant? It's fascinating how plants have different methods of seeding themselves. And this is difficult for people to understand because of our method of motion. This is a misuse of the word vegetable. Vegetables must be respected. People who do respect vegetables and who talk to them and love them somehow those vegetables respond. So I think that we are living in an intensely interconnected universe. Only our language system has broken it up for purposes of

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