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André Duqum

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Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And, and like the Buddhist yoga contemplative practices, um, have like,

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

kind of like a roadmap to be able to deepen your levels of perception capacity and how the depth of your ability to pay attention can glean you new insights about that which you're paying attention to.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And it's cool because it's like...

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

you're going from this identity of being a material human being that is just like a happy accident that is of all these like billions of years of evolution of atoms colliding and here you are.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And you're kind of like life is predestined in front of you to like realizing that you are a creative act in and of itself, like you spoke to earlier.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And you're like in this participation of this alive universe and you get to engage with it in a much deeper way.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

So I know that was just kind of a whole lot of words at you, but does anything kind of come up in that thought?

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Yeah.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Yeah.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Yeah.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Have you ever done like a death meditation?

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Yeah.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

death meditation now what is that you can like meditate on your death essentially oh interesting you know like guided kind of

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

process to kind of like really like sink into what the experience will be like the moment you're dying.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

What you're doing in sort of your own absurdist way, tripping onto the railroads or, you know.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Yeah.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Here you are.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Still.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

There's a few things that definitely came up.