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Ep. 16 – A Coincidence of Opposites

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The One Instinct to Survive

When a creature exists, it is at the same time surviving and going on. We invent an instinct of survival to explain this - but actually you don't need that idea as unnecessary. It's all based on an antiquated notion of causality. You are not driven to survive. You don't have drives as if they were something different from you. An action is not different from its motivation. So who gets motivated by what?

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