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30 Jul 11
Originally posted by pyxelatedI like Alan Watts on this. Just as the ocean waves, the universe peoples.
And for all that, when you say "I," both you and I know who you mean. And as long as both of us retain our mental health, this will be so.
Not only that, Hume assumes a knowledge of what happens after death that he has (had?) no way of confirming.
I think that whatever considerations we can bring to bear on the notion of the self cannot really bring ...[text shortened]... r for us all. But that it is is something that is not capable of serious dispute.
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Originally posted by JS357I'd forgotten he said that. Watts was probably my favorite writer (well, maybe second after Pirsig) back in my college days. Been a loooong time since I've read him, though.
I like Alan Watts on this. Just as the ocean waves, the universe peoples.
Well, amateur hour is over on this thread for the evening--I'm out of here. Like Soothfast, I wish you happy hypothesizing 🙂
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Originally posted by JS357Ah, Alan!—
I like Alan Watts on this. Just as the ocean waves, the universe peoples.
Behind the social construct,
I am no-somebody at all.
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But—
What is this “somebody”?
Was I “it” when I was born?
Was “I” it when I was born?
And why should “I”
be a “somebody” at all?
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This practice of being
no somebody at all
is difficult.
Often I fail, and then
there are so many somebodies
who start to think
I am a somebody too.
31 Jul 11
“I” think—“I”.
Who is the real “I”?
The”I”, or whatever
thinks “I”?
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Behind the making of the mind,
before all thoughts, concepts, words—
can you find an “I” that is not
another thought,
another making of the mind?
What you’re looking for
is what you’re looking with—
How then will “you”
“find” “it” anywhere?