By ALAN WATTS
Spiritual shouldn’t be separated from material nor the wonderful from the ordinary. We need, above all, to disentangle ourselves from the habit of speech and thought which set this two apart making it impossible for us to see that THIS – the immediate, everyday and present experience – is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
by Alan Watts
We have been brought up in a religious tradition, that to a great extent has taught us to mistrust the nature around us and to mistrust our own selves as well. But the irony here is that if u cannot trust your own basic nature, then how can you trust your own mistrusting ? Isnt your mistrusting a part of your nature ? How do u know that your mistrusting is not wrong as well ? If you do not trust your own nature, you become as tangled up as anyone can be.
Confucius was the first to say that he would rather trust human passions and instincts than trust human ideas about what is right, for like the Taoists he realized that we have to allow all living things to look after themselves.
THE WISDOM OF INSECURITY : PART 2
BY ALLAN WATTS
The proper meaning of the word ‘theory’ is not idle speculation but vision. Vision in this sense means ‘clarity’ .. proper understanding of who you are and where you want to go. Without such vision all talk of being practical is useless. It is like walking busily in a fog and going nowhere.
If we have contradictory wants for example sovereign borders and world peace, then their results however practical we may be about getting them will be further contradictions.
THE WISDOM OF INSECURITY : PART 1
BY ALLAN WATTS
Essential realities of religion and metaphysic are vindicated in doing without them and manifested in being destroyed.
Human beings appear to be happy just so long as they have a future to which they can look forward. Man seems to be unable to live without the myth that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear of this life have some meaning and goal in the future.
