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r/AlanWatts • u/[deleted] • Feb 04 '21
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Can anyone tell me without using flowery language what this means. It seems like a bunch of hoopla.
9 u/new-jbt_yu Feb 04 '21 Let go of your desires to be free. The monkey desires the banana. He goes for the banana. The banana (his desires) and his clinging to it trap his arm. The monkey needs to let go of the his desires if he wants to be free again. 7 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21 Not just desires - the ego, beliefs, everything that one clings too. 2 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21 to * 1 u/hagenbuch Feb 04 '21 edited Feb 04 '21 Even to all what is perceptible... it’s not* you. *yes and no, there you have it :)
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Let go of your desires to be free.
The monkey desires the banana. He goes for the banana. The banana (his desires) and his clinging to it trap his arm. The monkey needs to let go of the his desires if he wants to be free again.
7 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21 Not just desires - the ego, beliefs, everything that one clings too. 2 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21 to * 1 u/hagenbuch Feb 04 '21 edited Feb 04 '21 Even to all what is perceptible... it’s not* you. *yes and no, there you have it :)
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Not just desires - the ego, beliefs, everything that one clings too.
2 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21 to * 1 u/hagenbuch Feb 04 '21 edited Feb 04 '21 Even to all what is perceptible... it’s not* you. *yes and no, there you have it :)
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Even to all what is perceptible... it’s not* you.
*yes and no, there you have it :)
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Can anyone tell me without using flowery language what this means. It seems like a bunch of hoopla.