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Don’t you see we have something here?

Which I will call not philosophy

Except in the most ancient sense

Of basic curiosity

Never remember your birthday

Or anything you like

Sorry so helpless

So help you

Anyway you like

Take your medicine (7x)

The following of them does not depend on believing in anything, in obeying

anything, or on doing any specific rituals

(although rituals are included for certain purposes because it is a purely

experimental approach to life)

Never remember your birthday

Or anything you like

Sorry so helpless

So help you

Anyway you like

Take your medicine.

(7x)

This is something like a person who has defective eyesight and is seeing

Spots and all sorts of illusions, and goes to an ophthalmologist to correct his

vision

Buddhism is, therefore, a corrective of psychic vision

It is to be dis-enthralled by the game of Maya

It is not, incidentally, to regard the Maya as something evil

But to regard it as a good thing of which one can have too much,

and therefore one gets

Psychic and spiritual indigestion-from which we all suffer

When I was a small boy I used to haunt that section of London

Around the British Museum, and one day I came across a shop

That had a notice over the window which said: «Philosophical Instruments.»

Now even as a boy I knew something about philosophy

But I could not imagine what philosophical instruments might be

So I went up to the window and there displayed

Were chronometers, slide rules, scales

And all kinds of what we would now call scientific instruments

Because science used to be called natural philosophy

Because, as Aristotle says

The beginning of philosophy is wonder

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything

His attempt to make sense of the world

Primarily through his intellect;

That is to say his faculty for thinking