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Alan Watts talk on language and māyā

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"And so you have to realise to what an enormous extent we are all utterly bewitched by words and are trying all our lives long to solve problems which only words create because the human being has gotten himself into a very funny bind." 


Hark ye yet again — the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough.

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Yes. This. This is why we say enlightenment is a very simple thing, and that the challenge we face in trying to explain it to others is that it's a very simple thing. The human mind has the tendency to complicate things to oblivion. All it has to do is to shut up for a minute and then it will see. 

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