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Don't you see we have something here? |
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Which I will call not philosophy, |
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except in the most ancient sense |
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of basic curiosity. |
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Never remember |
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Your birthday, |
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or anything you like. |
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Sorry, so helpless, |
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so help you, |
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anyway you'd like. |
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Take your medicine. |
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Take your medicine. |
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Take your medicine. |
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Take your medicine. |
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Take your medicine. |
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Take your medicine. |
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Take your medicine. |
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The following of them does not depend on believing in anything, in obeying anything, or on doing any specific rituals |
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(although rituals are included for certain purposes because it is a purely experimental approach to life). |
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Never remember, |
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Your birthday, |
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or anything you like. |
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Sorry, so helpless, |
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So help you, |
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anyway you'd like. |
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Take your medicine. |
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Take your medicine. |
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Take your medicine. |
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Take your medicine. |
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Take your medicine. |
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Take your medicine. |
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Take your medicine. |
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This is something like a person who has defective eyesight and is seeing |
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spots and all sorts of illusions, and goes to an ophthalmologist to correct his vision. |
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Buddhism is, therefore, a corrective of psychic vision. |
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It is to be dis-enthralled by the game of Maya. |
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It is not, incidentally, to regard the Maya as something evil, |
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but to regard it as a good thing of which one can have too much, and therefore one gets |
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psychic and spiritual indigestion-from which we all suffer. |
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When I was a small boy I used to haunt that section of London |
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around the British Museum, and one day I came across a shop |
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that had a notice over the window which said: "Philosophical Instruments." |
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Now even as a boy I knew something about philosophy |
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but I could not imagine what philosophical instruments might be. |
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So I went up to the window and there displayed |
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Were chronometers, slide rules, scales, |
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and all kinds of what we would now call scientific instruments. |
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Because science used to be called natural philosophy. |
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Because, as Aristotle says, |
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the beginning of philosophy is wonder. |
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Philosophy is man's expression of curiosity about everything, |
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his attempt to make sense of the world, |
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primarily through his intellect; |
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That is to say his faculty for thinking. |
