Buddhism
…to hold on to fleeting pleasures, or avoid inevitable difficulties. 3. [[Nonduality|no-self]] (_anatta_): there is no unchanging, permanent self "inside…
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The understanding that The self and the world are not two different things but one. An extended definition.
Alan Watts:
Wherever you notice a difference, the difference has two sides: what it is and what it’s not. And these two sides, since you can’t have the one side without the other side, they are really one. Because they go together, inseparably. So when you get this extreme sense of your own existence, as a rather painful fact, in the middle of everything else, the “everything else” feeling and the “you” feeling are two poles of one and the same process. So that the real you is what lies between these poles and includes both of them. This is the fundamental principle of the whole way in which ancient Chinese thought developed: the philosophy of the yang and the yin.