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Ep. 21 – Joyous Cosmology

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Is There a Deeper Self Than the Ego?

In our ordinary everyday awareness yes we all are a self which observes what goes on and feels different from it and criticizes it. We like it or we don't like it. So the way in which I tried to solve this problem was by saying I have another deeper self than the one I'm ordinarily aware of. And that deeper self wants everything that happens and is really in control of it. That was the solution. Now then I criticize the solution and say it may have in it an unnecessary step. The unnecessary step of a self different from standing away from and observing what actually happens and goes on. But now we can see that there is another possible solution which achieves the same result.

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