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Zen is a way of liberation,
concerned not with
discovering what is good or
bad or advantageous; but
what is.

Alan Watts
(Image: meditating Buddha)

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l do not even style myself a Zen Buddhist.
For the aspect of Zen in which I am personally
interested is nothing that can be organized,
taught, transmitted, certified, .or wrapped up
in any kind of system. It can't even be followed,
for everyone has to find it for himself.

Alan Watts
(Image: b/w/ photo of AW smoking a pipe)

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The real concept of Zen
is to realize -- not merely rationally
but in one's bones --
that the world inside your skin
and the world outside your skin
are all one world
and one being,
one self.
And you ae it.

Alan Watt
(Image: zen garden)

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In Zen
there is neither self
not Buddha
to which one can cling'
no good to gain
and no evil
to be avoided;
no thoughts
to be eradicated
and no mind
to be purified,
no body
to perish
and no soul
to be saved.

Alan Watls
The Way of Zen.

(Image: incense sticks smouldering in holder)

“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”

– Alan Watts

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#mindfulness #meditation
#PresentMoment

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The adept in Zen is one who
manages to be human with the
same artless grace and absence
of inner conflict with which a
tree is a tree.

Alan Watts
(Image: single tree and tiny man in a snowy landscape)

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The 'you' who you think you are
does not exist.

Alan Watts

(Image: b/w/ photo of AW in kimono)

I'm reading Alan Watts, _The Way of Zen_, and he's talking about how the words, ideas etc of conventional discourse are anthetical to understanding ultimate reality. I don't have an exact quote, but he mentions many times that we "fall in love" with our ideas and conceptions and measurements, that they're "hypnotizing".

Thinking of two things:

How people love to scroll social media, especially in the case of sites like Reddit, for the well-documented dopamine hit of new information

How things like TED talks further idolize "ideas" themselves, even when they are devoid of utility.

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| am, of course, playing with words.
But that is the proper business
of a philosopher who is also a poet,
for the task and delight of poetry
is to say what cannot be said,
to eff the ineffable,
and to unscrew the inscrutable.
Alan Watts
(Image: AW speaking to a crowd in front of several microphones)

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THE BODHISATTVA IS THE FOOL
WHO HAS BECOME WISE
BY PERSISTING IN HIS-FOLLY.

Alan Watts
Nature- man and woman
(Image: a tiny man dwarfed by two elephants)

#alanwatts #zen #tao

Enlightenment or
awakening is not the
creation of a new
state of affairs but the
recognition of what
already is.

Alan Watts

#alanwatts #zen #tao

IN A CERTAIN SENSE
ZEN |S FEFLING LIFE
INSTEAD OF FEELING
SOMETHNG ABOUT LIFE
IT HAS NO PATIENCE WITH
SECOND-HAND WISDOM,
WITH SOMEONE ELSES DESCRIPTION
OF A SPRITUAL EXPERIENCE,
OR WITH MERE CONCEPTIONS
AND BELEFS.

Alan Watts
(Image: stylised desert scene)

#alanwatts #zen #tao

YOU MAY BELIEVE YOURSELF OUT OF HARMONY WITH LIFE AND ITS ETERNAL NOW; BUT YOU CANN®T BE, FOR YOU ARE LIFE AND EXIST NOW-
OTHERWISE YOU WOULD NOT BE HERE.
HENCE THE INFINITE TAO, SOMETHING WHICH You CAN NEITHER ESCAPE BY FLIGHT NOR CATCH BY PURSUIT;
THERE I§ NO CMING TOWARD IT OR GOING AWAY FROM IT; YOU ARE IT.
SO BECOME WHAT YOU ARE.

ALAN WATTS
(Image: a child before the ocrean)
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#alanwatts #zen #tao

A way of liberation can have no positive definition.
It has to be suggested by saying what it is not,
somewhat as a sculptor reveals an image
by the act of removing pieces of stone

Alan Watts
(Image: view of large moon and sky from mouth of a cave)

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In the whole universe,
within and without,
there is nothing whereon
to lay any hold,
and no one to lay any hold
‘on anything....
The very one who pursues,
who sees and knows and desires,
the inner subject,
has his existence only in relation
to the ephemeral objects of his pursuit.

He sees that his grasp upon the world
is his strangle-hold about his own neck,
the hold which is depriving him
of the very life he longs to attain.

And there is no way out,
which he can take by effort,
by a decision of the will...

But who is it
that wants to get out?

ALAN WATTS
The Way of Zen 2
Vintage Books Edition
August 1989, pp. 65-66

(Image: surf lookout on a beach)

#alanwatts #zen #tao

To have faith is to trust.
yourself to the water. When
you swim you don't grab hold
of the water, because if you do
you will sink and drown.
Instead you relax, and float:

Alan Watts
(Image: ocean waves)

🪐 The Joyous Cosmology 💫
adventures in the chemistry of consciousness

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#alanwatts #zen #tao

If you are ‘ready to wake up, you are going to
wake up. If you're not you are going to stay
pretending that you are just a poor little me.
Alan Watts
(Image: monk meditating in front of a cosmic background)

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