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Ep. 8 – Man and Nature

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Three Theories of Nature

We're supposed to be living in what's called the kali yuga, the age of darkness. It began on friday february 20 third, three thousand, 123 b c. And it has five thousand years to run. So you see, that's a theory of nature as a drama. It's a play. Now there's a third theory of nature, which is chinese. And this is very interestinggThe word for nature they call zran means of itself. That's what they mean by nature. The poem says, sitting quietly doing nothing, spring comes and grass grows of itself. Their principle of nature is called a tao. You can't describe it

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