Alan Watts on What Reality Is and How to Become What You Are

—Alan Watts, The Way of Zen

When we are no longer identified with the idea of ourselves, the entire relationship between subject and object, knower and known, undergoes a sudden and revolutionary change. It becomes a real relationship, a mutuality in which the subject creates the object just as much as the object creates the subject. The knower no longer feels himself to be i

Shinzen Young, a Vipassana teacher I studied with online, describes this as “learning to live as the wave, instead of the particle.”

This is because the so-called self is a construct of words and memories, of fantasies which have no existence in immediate reality.