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I heard him. I felt like laughing thinking how odd the world is. In actuality what I am doing now is the real work of philosophy. I have just begun my work on philosophy. Till now what I was doing was borrowed work, the basic work. It was a purely intellectual exercise not one of the mind or the consciousness. That was a small task. The job that can be handled with the intellect, the mind and thought is a small job. In truth, philosophy is that which makes something clear. When we personify a truth, experience it, then it is philosophy. When it is not personified it is not philosophy, it is repetition. In reality we are just continuing to repeat. I repeat the matter contained in old texts. What I say is repeated by somebody in the future...this is an easy exercise, but not philosophy. A tape recorder repeats well. Man does not have that talent of being able to repeat verbatim. A computer or a tape recorder does this job easily. That cannot be called philosophy. That is simply parroting.
The first mark of philosophy
The philosophers who have crossed the boundaries of the mind, the nervous system, the glandular
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