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116b. Mastering the Universe vs. Transforming the Self

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What's the Difference Between Freedom and Harmony?

In china it's much more like harmony we're going to have a harmonious society everyone's going to get on fine and everything's going to be going really well. The freedom thing is very individualistic it's all about like individuals can do what they want to do right whereas harmony is very collectivist if it is like the whole collective is working together with no problems. In this bit she makes a very important introduction to it but then manages from her cultural perspective to say how they're all a little bit different so just that fact that ability to distinguish these fine grains of meaning clearly shows how important this is to be because they must have thought about it a lot if they can distinguish things

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