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About Me

"You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here."-Alan Watts "If we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality."- Alan Watts, The Way of Zen "The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions...the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them." -Mark Rothko .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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"This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."-Alan Watts "We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless."-Alan Watts"When you come to see that you can do nothing, that the play of thought, of feeling, etc. just goes on by itself as a happening, then you are in a state which we will call meditation." -Alan Watts

My Blog

YIN CHIH WEN: The Tract of the Quiet Way

The Lord says: For seventeen generations I have been incarnated 1 as a high mandarin, and I have never oppressed my people nor maltreated my subordinates. I have helped them in misfortune; I have resc...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:08:00 GMT

Lecture on Zen by Alan Watts

Once upon a time, there was a Zen student who quoted an old Buddhist poem to his teacher, which says: The voices of torrents are from one great tongue,the lions of the hills are the pure body of Buddh...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:06:00 GMT

Alan Watts on Taoism

Taoismby Alan WattsIn order to go into Taoism at all, we must begin by being in the frame of mind in which it can be understood. You cannot force yourself into this frame of mind, anymore than you can...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:01:00 GMT

A Translation of the Tao Te Ching (Chapter I)

I have attempted to translate the first chapter from the Tao Te Ching. Going from Ancient Greek to Chinese and expecting a similar outcome was a bit unrealistic, as words in classical Chinese carry an...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:29:00 GMT

That Art Thou

"Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really us than I. And the more you become aware of the unknown selfif you become aware of itthe mo...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:52:00 GMT

The Joyous Cosmology, by Alan Watts (1962)

The Joyous Cosmology by Alan Watts, 1962T0 BEGIN WITH, this world has a different kind of time. It is the time of biological rhythm, not of the clock and all that goes with the clock. There is no hurr...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:03:00 GMT

Jung's Septem Sermones ad Mortuos - Sermon V

In the Fifth Sermon to the Dead Basilides speaks of the Heavenly Mother and the Earthly Father - spirituality and sexuality - as the mighty daemons or archetypes whose energies flow through us and to ...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:12:00 GMT