"If you want to know what Buddhists really teach on this matter, put in a very simple way, you get a book by Alexandra David-Neel called, 'The Secret Oral Teachings.' [...] I call it the 'I told you so' book because I've often been accused of inventing my own unique brand of Buddhism and foisting it off on the public as being the real thing. I just have to point them to this book and say, 'You see?'"
— Alan Watts, The Power of Space
“Thus to the question, ‘How shall I escape from the Wheel of Birth and Death?’ a master replied, ‘Who puts you under restraint?’”
— Alan Watts, The Spirit of Zen