…a dialogue, and this dialogue, which is an interchange between a teacher and an inquirer, as with the teachings of Socrates, is quite different from an authoritative pronouncement. There are no teachings of Buddhism. Everything you will find stated as a…

…Very simply, it depends on your supposing you're dead and we're talking about someone in the past, let's say we're talking about Socrates and I'm going to say this whole universe depends on Socrates. I may put it more exactly: it depends on Socrates…

…talking about someone in the past, let's say we're talking about Socrates and I'm going to say this whole universe depends on Socrates. I may put it more exactly: it depends on Socrates having existed. You see your parents now, some of your parents may…

…talking about Socrates and I'm going to say this whole universe depends on Socrates. I may put it more exactly: it depends on Socrates having existed. You see your parents now, some of your parents may be alive but some of your parents may be dead.…

…or if you have not yet arrived. It depends on your going to be here. So we can say, obviously going back to Socrates, that the fact that Socrates existed tells us something about the kind of world we're living in, this world once socratized, and that…

…arrived. It depends on your going to be here. So we can say, obviously going back to Socrates, that the fact that Socrates existed tells us something about the kind of world we're living in, this world once socratized, and that Socrates and his wisdom…

…that the fact that Socrates existed tells us something about the kind of world we're living in, this world once socratized, and that Socrates and his wisdom was a symptom of the kind of universe we're living in. In just the same way as I showed you…

…kind of tree, it tells us something about that tree, what it functions, how it produces things. So a world which produced Socrates, or a world which produced John Doe, who was nobody in particular and nobody ever remembered him or thought to write his…

…kind of irony, such as I once tried my hand at, to draw your halting pupil on. Oh, what a dear old optimist you are, Socrates. I only wish the picture were as pretty as you paint it. But fond wishes are one thing and cruel facts another. Lord knows…

…their actuality. What exactly is potentiality. Anyhow, does the world in that context mean anything definite at all? I think the trouble, Socrates, is that we're conversing with you across a vast gulf of time. It's not easy but I'd like to put over to…

…show that there is no evidence, you know that Julius Caesar existed not really certainly there is no evidence that jesus existed that Socrates existed there is a great deal of doubt about Plato. Probably the emperor Ashoka was a myth, and so on. You know…

…nevertheless the fact that you have existed is still a fact, and a universe in which there has been a person like Socrates is quite a different universe from a universe in which there hadn't been a person like Socrates. Socrates having existed is a…

…there has been a person like Socrates is quite a different universe from a universe in which there hadn't been a person like Socrates. Socrates having existed is a symptom of the way things are. So fundamentally we get a picture of the cosmos in which…

…has been a person like Socrates is quite a different universe from a universe in which there hadn't been a person like Socrates. Socrates having existed is a symptom of the way things are. So fundamentally we get a picture of the cosmos in which the…

…record, we've got our own experience to prove that my mother who is not alive now really did exist at one time, that Socrates, that jesus, that Alexander the great all these people really did exist and there was a past that led up to now. It's…

…or illusion. So then you might say reasoning from this that there is something going on that is history that there was Socrates and there was all these great figures and great movements and wars and all these political shenanigans that we call history.…

…Very simply, it depends on your. Supposing you're dead and we're talking about someone in the past let's say we're talking about Socrates, and I'm going to say this whole universe depends on Socrates. I may put it more exactly: it depends on Socrates…

…talking about someone in the past let's say we're talking about Socrates, and I'm going to say this whole universe depends on Socrates. I may put it more exactly: it depends on Socrates having existed. You see your parents now, some of your parents may…

…talking about Socrates, and I'm going to say this whole universe depends on Socrates. I may put it more exactly: it depends on Socrates having existed. You see your parents now, some of your parents may be alive but some of your parents may be dead.…

…or if you have not yet arrived it depends on your going to be here. So we can say, obviously going back to Socrates, the fact that Socrates existed tells us something about the kind of world we're living in, this world once socratized, and that Socrates…

…not yet arrived it depends on your going to be here. So we can say, obviously going back to Socrates, the fact that Socrates existed tells us something about the kind of world we're living in, this world once socratized, and that Socrates and his wisdom…