Alan Watts , Don't Force Anything , Wu Wei

that's all true, and when i cannot see lines to follow i can go away, isn't it?

and leave any attempt of doing what i intended to do.

when the axe hits back from a hard piece of timber: stop.

i enjoy zen without too much buddhism or christianity in its pure way, and i enjoy

the  way of the dao.

Alan Watts , Answering the Koan

Alan Watts, Eastern & Western Zen, Zen Tales and Legends

Alan Watts , Zen Koans

me..deeply not buddhist nor christian...no system of beliefs..no dogma

..spirituality cannot be institutionalized..

no church or religion has the only and one way..

i don't need to learn Sanskrit or Hindu terminology ..

what cannot be said in german or English to me needs not be said..

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Zen is beyond all words.

it is practice.

a way to see the truth , the one which is ineffable.

Alan Watts , Any Dream You Want (Unique Rare Footage)

Alan Watts , Facing Your Own Shadow

Alan Watts, The Power Of Trusting The Universe

Alan Watts, head of a dead cat, Zen

A Zen master was once asked, "What is the most valuable thing in the world?"
He answered, "The head of a dead cat!" "
"Why"
"Because no one can put a price on it!"

from:
Alan Watts: On Nature, Man and Woman

Alan Watts, How Zen Traps You

this is one wonderful lecture, i appreciate and like it a lot for long parts.

to get rid of hang ups....yes.

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Alan Watts , We Are All Hypnotized

Alan Watts , How to Figure out What you really Want

IT ALL MAKES SENSE, Alan Watts Inspiration

stolen today but saw it before, Watts..always enlightening

Alan Watts , We Have To Stop Blaming The Past

Alan Watts, Comparing Buddhism And Christianity

Alan Watts, The Game Of Desires

i accept myself as i am and i can leave without one more word..it is ok.

i learned not to think, for long not to give a shit for all intellectual constructions and interpretations

and i will severely cut down all i see as stress as far as i can.

of course i am not rid of karma.

desire is not more a game than i am in the eyes of a buddha.

i do not forbid playing but i remember to wake up in time.

i listen in many ways and spheres.

i will not forget that all memory is chewing gum formed and reformed

and formless and tasteless at the end: no use chewing on it like a cow.

there is no story but the one i or you invent.

smoke on the water...

Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity,quotes

"There is a world of difference between an inference and a feeling. You can reason that the universe is a unity without feeling it to be so. You can establish the theory that your body is a movement in an unbroken process which includes all suns and stars, and yet continue to feel separate and lonely. For the feeling will not correspond to the theory until you have also discovered the unity of inner experience. Despite all theories, you will feel that you are isolated from life so long as you are divided within.

But you will cease to feel isolated when you recognize, for example, that you do not have a sensation of the sky: you are that sensation. For all purposes of feeling, your sensation of the sky is the sky, and there is no “you” apart from what you sense, feel, and know."

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"The sense of unity with the “All” is not, however, a nebulous state of mind, a sort of trance, in which all form and distinction is abolished, as if man and the universe merged into a luminous mist of pale mauve. Just as process and form, energy and matter, myself and experience, are names for, and ways of looking at, the same thing — so one and many, unity and multiplicity, identity and difference, are not mutually exclusive opposites: they are each other, much as the body is its various organs. To discover that the many are the one, and that the one is the many, is to realize that both are words and noises representing what is at once obvious to sense and feeling, and an enigma to logic and description.

[…]

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, “I am all this.” There is simply “all this.” "

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"So long as the mind is split, life is perpetual conflict, tension, frustration, and disillusion. Suffering is piled on suffering, fear on fear, and boredom on boredom… But the undivided mind is free from this tension of trying always to stand outside oneself and to be elsewhere than here and now. Each moment is lived completely, and there is thus a sense of fulfillment and completeness.

[…]

When … you realize that you live in, that indeed you are this moment now, and no other, that apart from this there is no past and no future, you must relax and taste to the full, whether it be pleasure or pain. At once it becomes obvious why this universe exists, why conscious beings have been produced, why sensitive organs, why space, time, and change. The whole problem of justifying nature, of trying to make life mean something in terms of its future, disappears utterly. Obviously, it all exists for this moment. It is a dance, and when you are dancing you are not intent on getting somewhere… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance."

Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity,brainpickings

Alan Watts, Silence , Reality

.."if i think all the time i have nothing to think about than thoughts"..

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.."the real world is not an idea"..

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.."the past is caused by the present"..

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..."language keeps creating ghosts"...

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delicious is his answer on "free will" towards the end,
it melts on my tongue so to speak...

Christianity installed guilt as a virtue, Alan Watts

"..because what happened is that Christianity installed guilt as a  virtue.."

Alan Watts, Physical, Spiritual, CONCEPTS

the TITLE in the video is WRONG!

don't confuse concepts with  body/physical world  and spirit (being one)

Alan Watts , Stop ACTING Like Yourself - Really BE Yourself !