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What if causality is just a mental pattern — a ghost we project onto reality to make sense of things?
In this rare talk, Watts explores how the concept of karma, logic, and natural necessity are not facts, but interpre... See more
There Is No Such Thing as Cause and Effect – Alan Watts Explains
may be like playing a game in which the rules are constantly changed without ever being made clear—a game from which one cannot withdraw without suicide, and in which one can never return to an older form of the game.
Alan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
He explained how the grain followed those same watercourse patterns that we admire in clouds, drifting smoke, marble, jade, and flames, and how one might so flow with one’s own nature as to live each moment of life with the same grace. When students pressed him to define all this more precisely he would sometimes shout out, “What’s the matter with
... See moreAlan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Therefore the Buddha devised the doctrine that is called the Middle Way, that is neither ascetic nor hedonistic.
Watts,Alan • Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion (Alan Watts Love Of Wisdom)
Taoism is a way of liberation, which never comes by means of revolution, since it is notorious that most revolutions establish worse tyrannies than they destroy. To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. It is to be able to use it as an instrument instead of being used by it.
Alan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
The only alternative to a life of constant progress is felt to be a mere existence, static and dead, so joyless and inane that one might as well commit suicide. The very notion of this “only alternative” shows how firmly the mind is bound in a dualistic pattern, how hard it is to think in any other terms than good or bad, or a muddy mixture of the
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