#pardonsamourai
Alan ₿ Watts ⚡️
“The ad men have persuaded you that if you could get this kind of car, this kind of yacht, this kind of house, this kind of scene, whatever it may be, you should. That’s the thing in life. That’s what’s important. And it doesn’t make people happy at all. And then they wonder why it doesn’t, and feel cheated. And they have to go to psychoanalysts, and churches, and things like that, to be persuaded that it’s coming sometime. Somehow, the thing that is always seems to be missing. And there’s nothing missing at all. Except, I mean, supposing you’re absolutely starved, and you just don’t have the normal flow of energy through your organism. Then, of course, you need food. Or if you’re freezing, you need shelter. But in the ordinary way, when you are fed and sheltered, there isn’t anything missing. It’s all here. But nobody is here to see it. Everybody is wandering after something else in the distance.”
— Alan Watts, Ecological Awarness
“When you look at patterns on the foam of the breaking waves on the seashore, and you look at the outlines of mountains, and the grain in wood, and the markings on marble, you notice that it never makes an aesthetic mistake. Never.”
— Alan Watts, Four Ways to the Center
If a lion skulked around apologizing for its beautiful mane and feeling guilty about its physical prowess, it would cease to be majestic.
“This is in Zen parlance called the no-gate barrier, or the gateless gate. Because, it looks like a gate, a barrier, something to be attained, some entrance to a special in-group, so long as you’re standing outside it. But the moment you cross the border, the gate vanishes, so does the wall. And you see everybody at all, everybody in the world, as manifestations of the Buddha nature, or we’d say in Western terms of the divine power, and you see they’re all just behaving marvelously in their ignorance.”
— Alan Watts, Future of Religion
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The Way.
