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Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life, Episode 10: Nonsense
Alan Watts
1959

Sense or meaning is a property ascribed to symbols rather than the real word. Alan Watts uses this differentiation as a prelude to the Taoist and Zen Buddhist idea of the perfectly "purposeless" life and its parallels in Christianity.
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