10:30 Humanity & life as one

• see critique on individualism (Alan Watts has similar critique)

• ego as illusion
• not I, but we? (relate to concept of environments/ extending mind/extending self)
• awareness to what is (all of our experience, surroundings, organisms)
• body "I?" as part of a greater nature, Allah, and everything else (part of oneness we participate in)
• ego as construct (things we tell ourselves, beliefs)
• ego as illusion (are we a center of consciousness/energy? it causes opposition)
• we are the body, as part of the natural environment
• no self, as system (organs)
• self as organism that goes together with other organisms/see extended mind as extended self, maybe different phrasing)
• I as organism/environment, but ego as opposing it
• confusing symbols with reality of the world itself (see Tolle on interpretation as removing from present)
• caused by stories to ourselves, by others, looking at mirror/listening etc. "creating of image of self/mask" (persona), as a social institution (construct of self/ego), it is useful (helpful for navigation, but it is abstract)
• hides of ourselves, entirely unconscious, to external world etc. (things that are essential to us, we don't perceive, bec of the ego)
• sensations of "I" is false (cutting off your complete experience, all organisms, everything in ones awareness, not closed off)
• forcing the mind/concentrate is thinking to ourselves (for example, how we ought to read thst difficult book)
• distracting ourselves from reality
• destroying environment as destroying the body
• "you can't rid of it" (that is the ego, trying to get rid of the ego, a circle) answer: do nothing (ego asking the question)
• you can't control anything, like thoughts, feelings, other organisms, they are as they are, so you don't do anything, you see, you feel, observe, you are not "you" , you as the whole world (and creator), as experience

• Empty the cup: start from beginning (see Alan Watts on this), let go of what you know, let new things come by removing the old
• calling out fire energy/good aggression from within
• create balance to this energy, by meditating etc.

• Wu wei as not forcing
• Lao Tzu: man who isn’t conscious of his superior virtue, is this virtuous
• Watts: Wu Wei as not intentional Wu Wei, and is thus Wu Wei
• Doing opposite of society is not spontaneity (you are trying)
• go back to your childhood, realise the grandness of the universe

• condemnation as oppressing oneself, not liberating: accept as it is (others, and ultimately, of accepting oneself)