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Ep. 1 - Following the Taoist Way

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Consciousness of Life

S we are all a constant flux, and the continuity of the person from past through present to future is as illusory, in its own way, as the upward movement of the red lines on a revolving pole. So this kind of philosophical argument says that our seeming to go along in a course of time doesn't happen. The buddhists say, suffering exists, but no one who suffers. Deeds exist, but no doers are found. And nirvana is but noone who attains it.

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