Synopsis of
‘What is Zen’
by Alan Watts
The mundane too is sacred
Zen has always believed that the mundane and the sacred are one and the same.
Ask not and you will get
The transformation of consciousness is not a question of how much time you put into it as if it were all added up on some sort of quantitative scale and you got rewarded according to the amount of effort you put into it. Nor is it that simply by avoiding the effort and wanting it instantly would you get it. The only thing that your effort or ‘no effort’ can teach you is that this approach doesn’t work. You can only get it when you discover that you do not need it. You can only get it when you don’t want it. That is the secret.
