Alan Watts Taoist Way

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[likeriver]

"but to the fully perfected student, mountains are-" *ends*

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

[TheMihaeli]

This is my therapy

[Dominic1293]

@devalah Why, thank you so much.

[devalah]

@likeriver ..."But for the fully perfected student, mountains are again mountains and waters are again waters."

this is the continuation :)

[MacAggy]

@Hanahleia I started checking out EgoDeath.com but was interrupted by my kids. It looks interesting. I have to go to bed because I have work tomorrow. I'll be checking out that and the watch?v=NYMVTGWl83g Ramesh video tomorrow.

[MacAggy]

@Hanahleia I agree with Ramesh on one hand but on the other hand: the entire movie 'is' both the entire movie and the can. The observer 'is' the observed. The thinker 'is' thought. So trying to put the entire movie in the can is like trying to put a box in itself. Like the very tip of the right index finger trying to touch the very tip of the right index finger.

[Hanahleia]

@MacAggy Yes, according to Ramesh, the "entire movie is already in the can," but the entire "can" exists in a higher dimension and consists of 'everything' that has happened eternally. So, in that sense, it's so vast and so complex that the human being can never understand, 'cause it consists of the 'whole.' Of course, these ideas and metaphors are indistinct ways for our minds to vaguely grasp something that's essentially incomprehensible. Did you have a chance to check out 'EgoDeath.com'?

[MacAggy]

@Hanahleia In the realm of thoughts and words everything is definitely predetermined. The alphabet and the possible arrangements of its letters already exists. All the questions you could ask yourself already have the answers that go with them. The word 'everything' isn't the actual 'everything'. For me to try and come to a conclusion about 'life' is like trying to form an opinion about a symphony when I've only listened half way through it. 'Life' is living and moving and can't be pinned down.

[MacAggy]

@Hanahleia I just checked out Ramesh Balsekar and from what I heard he was talking about how things just happen...it didn't sound fatalistic (that is unless one is caught up in the illusion that one is a separate self that is the victim of what happens). I'll be checking out more...thanks.