Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word "water" is a noise that symbolizes … - Alan Watts

Все такие избыточные законы (законы, регулирующие нравственность человека и уличающие в преступлениях там, где нет невольно пострадавших) являются попытками сделать жизнь человека свободной от риска, или “защищенной от дурака”. Тем самым индивид не несет больше ответственности за свою собственную жизнь и не может по своему усмотрению рисковать для достижения политических, социальных, атлетических, научных и религиозных целей в том случае, когда такой риск кажется ему оправданным.

We can hardly begin to consider this problem unless it is clear that the craving for security is itself a pain and a contradiction, and that the more we pursue it, the more painful it becomes.

The world outside your skin is just as much you as the world inside: they move together inseparably, and at first you feel a little out of control because the world outside is so much vaster than the world inside. Yet you soon discover that you are able to go ahead with ordinary activities — to work and make decisions as ever, though somehow this is less of a drag. Your body is no longer a corpse which the ego has to animate and lug around. There is a feeling of the ground holding you up, and of hills lifting you when you climb them. Air breathes itself in and out of your lungs, and instead, of looking and listening, light and sound come to you on their own. Eyes see and ears hear as wind blows and water flows. All space becomes your mind. Time carries you along like a river, but never flows out of the present: the more it goes, the more it stays, and you no longer have to fight or kill it.