Ep. 16 – A Coincidence of Opposites

Ep. 16 – A Coincidence of Opposites

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• Author: Alan Watts Being in the Way
• Full_Title: Ep. 16 – A Coincidence of Opposites
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• Last Highlighted Date: 2024-08-08 09:03:02.861173+00:00

Highlights

• Life is a Dance of Vibration Summary: All sensory experiences are fundamentally vibrations, characterized by their dual nature of being on and off. These vibrations propagate in waves featuring crests and troughs, reflecting the inherent rhythm of existence. Life mirrors this principle, alternating between presence and absence, akin to sound’s rapid interplay of sound and silence. The inseparability of crests and troughs emphasizes that both aspects are essential in understanding the nature of our experiences. Transcript: Speaker 1 So if i may start by insulting your intelligence with what is called the most elementary lesson, the thing that we should have learned before we learned one, two, three and a, b, c, but Somehow was overlooked. Now this lesson is quite simply this, that any experience that we have through our senses, whether of sound or of light or of touch, is a vibration. And a vibration has two ets, one called on and the other called off. Vibration seems to be propagated in waves. And every wave system has crests, an it has troughs. And so life is a system af now you see it, now you don’t. And these two a ts always go together. For example, sound is not pure sound. It is a rapid alternation of sound and silence. And that’s simply the way things are. Only you must remember that the crest and the trough of a wave are inseparable.
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• The Cost of Focus: Ignorance in Specialization Summary: Specialization in conscious attention leads to a significant ignorance of everything outside a chosen field. When one concentrates on a specific aspect, they inherently disregard the broader context, resulting in a fragmented view of the world. This focus can lead to the misconception that isolated events and phenomena possess an independent existence, whereas they actually derive meaning from an individual’s interpretation. Ultimately, the physical world is a complex system where all elements are interconnected, highlighting the need for a more integrated perspective. Transcript: Speaker 1 The price which we pay for specialization in conscious attention is ignorance of everything outside its field. I would rather say ignorance than ignorance, because if you concentrate on a figure, you tend to ignore the background. You tend, there to see the world in a disintegrated aspect. You take separate things and events seriously, imagining that these really do exist, when actually they have the same kind of existence as an individual’s interpretation of roshack Blood. They’re what you make out of it. In fact, our physical world is a system of inseparable differences everything exists with everything else,
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