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Ep. 5 – Zen Bones

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Five Colours Make a Man Blind

When you don't name things any longer, you start seeing them. If you force sound into five tones, you force colour into five colours, you are blind and deaf. That's why lautze said, the five colours make a man blind, the five tones make a man deaf. You see ifyou. weren't thinking, you wouldn't notice the passage of time. And as a matter of fact, far from being boring, the world, when looked at without chatter, becomes amazingly interesting.

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