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Alan Watts - 02 01 - Philosophies of Asia - Relevance of Oriental Philosophy II

Alan Watts Lectures

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The State of Mysticism

The state of mystical illumination, although it may in its sudden onset be accompanied by a sensation of tremendous luminescence and transparency. As you get used to it, it's just like everyday life. Here are the things that you formerly thought were separate individuals. And here is you who you formerly thought was merely confronting these other people. They are two aspects or poles of the same process. You must understand the principle of what are called identical differences. Take a coin, the head side is a different side from the tail side, and yet the two are inseparable. This attitude towards nature, seeing the fundamental unity of the self which manifests it all, is not an attitude as a mission or

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