Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion (Alan Watts Love Of Wisdom)
Buddhism is not really a religion—a way of obedience to someone else’s rules, a regula vitae—but a method for clarifying and liberating one’s state of consciousness. I had found myself in agreement with Lucretius
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Buddhism envisages a transformation, a very radical transformation, of the way in which ordinary people feel themselves and the surrounding world. And so, in this sense, I have coined for Buddhism a special term to contrast it with a religion. I would call it a “way of liberation,” a way of liberation from the ordinary way in which most civilized a
... See moreAlan Watts • Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969
Zen Buddhism is a way and a view of life which does not belong to any of the formal categories of modern Western thought. It is not religion or philosophy; it is not a psychology or a type of science. It is an example of what is known in India and China as a “way of liberation,” and is similar in this respect to Taoism, Vedanta, and Yoga. As will s
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