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Ep. 24 – Myth of Myself

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Myth of the World

Western man has for many centuries been under the influence of two great myths. The image of the world as an artifact, like a carpenter's table or a jar made by a potter. And it is therefore natural for a Western child to say to its mother, how was I made? That would be quite an unnatural question for a Chinese child because they do not think of nature as something made. They look upon it as something that grows and the two processes are quite different.

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