
Maps of Meaning 7, 8, & 9
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Buddhist Story - The Origin of Adam
A good father makes his child fall in love with life by enticing that child into a direct relationship with all that life has to offer. The lure of what's outside the walls is something that human beings just can't keep their mangy little paws off, right? We are absolutely uncontrollably curious. So because buddha is a consciousness developing in a healthy manner, he immediately becomes curious what lies beyond the limits that have been established with him. But then again, we have the troublesome notion of the original sin of adam, right? Which is that if any of you are offered a forbidden fruit again, under circumstances mythologically equivalent to those that obtain in the beginning, you'd immediately reach
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