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Ep. 4 – Our Place In The Universe

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Whole Universe Depends on Me

There is a reciprocal relationship, or what we might call a transaction, between you as an organism and the universe. In buddhist philosophy, this mutual interpenetration of all things and events is called 'jiji muge' The whole universe depends on the temporal existence of every single one of its expressions. And so inso far as any manifestation of nature is symptomatic of nature, it shows us that the whole is expressed here in a i won't say a part.

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