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Tao Stoic 58

"Master, when seeds are all individuals and are not different from each cell in our body, are not these cells individuals too [5?"

"Indeed they are. They are co-operative parts of a whole yet not as enslaved as the wheels of a car are. They co-operate so well with the whole ego that they live as we all ought to do in a sane society, in self-accepted bondage, freedom that gives freedom through self-restraint. Read in Hoyle's 'Black Cloud' how even the quality of communication between cells, is determinate for calling them individuals/parts of individual. Notice that such cell-individuals in a body, have three tasks in their life, critical for the whole's happiness and survival. First they should stay alive and well. Second they should work as designed to do, (liver-cells as liver). Third they should keep an eye on their neighbours, so that the malfunction of it, can speedily be repaired or else the one be dismantled.

Be like one of these cells. But forget part of the third task." [5]


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