I figured it out. Alans attachment is Zen. :)

From a biological point of view, from a physical point of view, every organism, together with its environment, is a single field or pattern of behavior.  What happens outside you is as much you as what happens inside you.  Only we don’t feel that to be so, although a scientist knows it to be so.  We don’t have a vivid physical sensation, as when you can feel something hard and you know it’s there, in that sense of the word; ordinary people don’t have a vivid physical sensation of being their whole environment out as far as the most remote galaxy, so that your organism, with its bag of skin, is something that the whole entire cosmos is doing, as the ocean is waving when it waves.  We don’t know that that is so, we don’t feel so, although it’s perfectly clear theoretically.  And the reason why we don’t know it to be so is that we have instead been conned into a sense of identity, which is a purely social institution called the ego.  There is no biological foundation for the ego, the feeling that “I am a separate source of thought, consciousness, and action.”  This is a mythology, but everybody has been taught to believe it, because when you were a baby, society defined you that way.  They told you as a child, “You are a free, separate agent.”  And you had to believe that, because you couldn’t resist the social pressure that made you believe it.  You are, in other words, compelled to define yourself as separate and free.  And they went on to say to you, “You are commanded to behave in ways that will be acceptable, only if you do it voluntarily.  You must love me.  All nice children love their mothers.  But of course I wouldn’t want you to love me because I say you should, but because you really want to.”  And so, as a result of that, the sense of “I,” the sense of ego, is experienced as a sensation of chronic frustration of being required to do voluntarily various things…”You must like doing what you are supposed to do.”

Alan Watts, "Zen" taped at Portland State College, May 3, 1966. 

Watts was a philosopher and writer  who spoke as part of "Fine Arts Festival" [Vanguard April 29 1966 p.4]

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Alan Watts, "Zen" May 3, 1966

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