Alan Watts

“The world doesn't really contain any serious threats in it, because it's all the basic 'you' running up behind itself and saying 'boo' to see if you can get yourself to jump out of your skin...”

“Anybody who tells you that he is in some way, leading you to spiritual enlightenment is just like somebody who picks your pocket and sells you your own watch...”

“You just don't know what you're getting...”

“The only way to handle a thing of this kind, is to bring it all out in the open...”

“Whenever confronted with a Ghost, walk straight into it & it will disappear.”

Earth: Mostly Harmless

Alan Watts: Zen Problems

Sense Of Nonsense (feat. Alan Watts)

Lets suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream,
and you would naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes.

You would have every kind of pleasure, you see,
and after several nights you would say, "well that was pretty great."
But now lets have a surprise, lets have a dream which isn’t under control.
Well something is going to happen to me that i don’t know what it’s gonna be.
Then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream, and finally you would dream where you are now.

If you awaken from this illusion,
and you understand that black implies white,
self implies other,
life implies death.
You can feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world,
not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

- Alan Watts

Alan Watts

the gestalt mind