the undivided mind |
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music," you are not listening. To understand joy or fear, you must be wholly and undividedly aware...
Posted by Alan Watts on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:36:00 PST |
What we have forgotten |
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. We all read the Bible nowadays, for example, as if its substance were scienc...
Posted by Alan Watts on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:16:00 PST |
on meditation |
"We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we ...
Posted by Alan Watts on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:48:00 PST |
The Game of Black-And-White |
When we were taught 1, 2, 3 and A, B, C, few of us were ever told about the Game of Black-and-White. It is quite as simple. but belongs to the hushed-up side of t...
Posted by Alan Watts on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:35:00 PST |
What to Tell Children About God |
Myth . . . is the form in which I try to answer when children ask me those fundamental metaphysical questions which come so readily to their minds: "Where did the world come from?" "Why did God make t...
Posted by Alan Watts on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 05:07:00 PST |
What's the problem? |
This whole sensation that we're brought up to have, of being an island of consciousness locked up in a bag of skin, facing outside us a world that is profoundly alien to us in ...
Posted by Alan Watts on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:56:00 PST |
a serious and dangerous hallucination |
"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a ci...
Posted by Alan Watts on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:28:00 PST |
