…world is human because it depends not only on the existence of humanity in general but but on the existence of marriage, Mary Smith in particular. So the whole world is covered, as it were with your personal signature. But at that moment when you…

…a physical reality, so in just the same way the ego, the concept of I which is given a name John Doe Alan Watts, Mary Smith or whatever it happens to be is a concept, it's a method of tagging people, but it isn't real. Just as you cannot strangle…

…When we are up then we suddenly see John Doe. When we are down there's just a corpse. Then whoops it comes up again there's Mary Smith. And whoops it goes down and so it goes like the sparks in the soot on the back of the fireplace: in and out in…

…you realise this and know that you are it, you transcend, you overcome you surpass the illusion that you are simply John Doe, Mary Smith or what have you. So then the buddha, as the man who woke up, is regarded as one buddha among a potentiality of…

…you Face the same way as you did the day before and people recognize your facing so they say that's John Doe or Mary Smith. But actually the contents of your Face, Whatever they may be the water, the carbons the chemicals are changing all the time. You…

…you see that you never die, that you are the eternal thing that comes and goes, that appears now as John Jones, now as Mary Smith, now as Betty Brown and so it goes forever and ever and ever. Now then why I've made this point as an introduction to…

…you realize this and know that you are it, you transcend, you overcome, you surpass the illusion that you are simply John Doe, Mary Smith or what have you. So then the buddha, as the man who woke up, is regarded as one buddha among a potentiality of…

…a physical reality. So in just the same way, the ego, the concept of I which is given a name John Doe Alan Watts, Mary Smith or whatever it happens to be is a concept, it's a method of tagging people, but it isn't real. Just as you cannot strangle…

…hand. So the guru says to you: listen shiva, don't kid me you know that you're not shiva, but you're just this thing called Mary Smith or John Doe, etc. Ha ha. And everybody says: oh you can't admit that because you see, if I did admit that I would…

…downs. When we are up, then we suddenly see John Doe. When we're down there's just a corpse. Then whoops, it comes up again there's Mary Smith and whoops it goes down and so it goes like the sparks in the soot on the back of the fireplace in and out…

…you Face the same way as you did the day before and people recognize your facing. So they say that's John Doe or Mary Smith. But actually the contents of your Face, Whatever they may be the water, the carbons the chemicals are changing all the time.…

…All this world is human because it depends not only on the existence of humanity in general but on the existence of Mary Smith in particular. So the whole world is covered, as it were with your personal signature. But at that moment when you suddenly…

…you realise this and know that you are it, you transcend, you overcome, you surpass the illusion that you are simply John Doe, Mary Smith or what have you. So then the buddha, as the man who woke up, is regarded as one buddha among a potentiality of…

…is who are you? And in the Hebrew Christian answer we more or less say: well I'm me, I'm Alan Watts, I'm John Doe I'm Mary Smith, and I firmly believe I am, because I really oughtn't to think anything else ought I? And that me is a finite ego or a…

…you see that you never die, that you are the eternal thing that comes and goes, that appears now as John Jones, now as Mary Smith, now as Betty Brown and so it goes forever and ever and ever. Now then why I've made this point as an introduction to…

…you and you and you and you and you with all the different variations. It plays games. It plays the John Doe game the Mary Smith game, it plays the beetle game the butterfly game, the bird game, the pigeon game the fish game, the star game, just like…