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Insight and Ecstacy by Alan Watts

Alan Watts Lectures

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Is There a Ghost in a Noun?

In recent philosophy it's become more and more clear to us that we can use verb language or process language or operational language to discuss almost anything we want any natural phenomenon can be described as doing rather than being. In this way we have created a thing behind the act which is a sort of ghost according to Buddhist discipline. We are all concerned with this image the doer the agent which has become our image of ourselves you might call it our self image if you speak in psychological jargon.

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