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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture VIII: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions.
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  • creatures such as the saurians and water-tortoises, which were really
• Title: Warmth Course: Lecture I
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  • you the problem of Achilles and the tortoise, a problem I have often
  • we have the tortoise (s), who has a start on Achilles. Let us take
  • the moment when Achilles gets to the point marked 1. The tortoise is
  • every point covered by the tortoise, the tortoise will always be a
  • problem all right, but Achilles would soon catch the tortoise. The
  • same path as the tortoise and the tortoise is ahead, he will never
  • catch the tortoise. Although people would say this is absurd,
  • Achilles will soon catch the tortoise. And in doing this you uproot
  • never catch the tortoise. And why not? Because when we apply our
  • follows the tortoise that he passes through each point that the
  • tortoise passes through. Ideally this is so; in reality he does
  • nothing of the kind. His stride is greater than that of the tortoise.
  • He does not pass through each point of the path of the tortoise. We
  • whether Achilles can catch the tortoise, you may indeed begin by
  • tortoise and can never catch it.” This may be strictly
  • demonstrated. Then you can make an experiment. You place the tortoise
  • tortoise is soon caught.
  • reasoning about Achilles and the tortoise. It is simply not as it is