May 2010
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Blow your mind with unsick states of being →
April 2010
1 post
Bohemian Slapfight: do you know that it's cheaper... →
to fly to New Delhi and stay in India for a month getting my teaching certificate and living in an ashram with food and accommodation paid, than it is to go to most places in the US? Most less than a 2 or 3 hour flight from here. They don’t even offer accommodations or food or any of that stuff.
By a lot
March 2010
56 posts
The Way of Zen is done
I have finished the book. I’ll choose another book next week.
“Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“One must simply face the fact that Zen is all that side of life which is...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“Rocks picked out by the sensitive eye of the bonseki artist are ranked among...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“The intention of the best Japanese gardens is not to make a realistic illusion...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“If Christianity is wine and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea.”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“When life is empty, with respect to the past, and aimless, with respect to the...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“But the non-Japanese listener must remember that a good haiku is a pebble thrown...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“In poetry the empty space is the surrounding silence which a two-line poem...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
Live Reading The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part...
It’s time again. I’m going to live read The Way of Zen by Alan Watts again.
I won’t be broadcasting on Twitter anymore. It just adds to the noise. To follow along, just subscribe to this tumblr.
Today, I’ll be starting at 4:30pm central. Check it out.
“Where the mood of the moment is solitary and quiet it is called sabi. When the...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“Western science has made nature intelligible in terms of its symmetries and...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“This is a first principle in the study of Zen and of any Far Eastern art: hurry,...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“The insight which lies at the root of Far Eastern culture is that opposites are...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“For when you climb it is the mountain as much as your own legs which lifts you...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“Happily, it is possible for us not only to hear about Zen, but also to see it. ...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 4)
“So long as one thinks about listening, one cannot hear clearly, and so long as...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 3)
“To think that one must grasp or not grasp, let go or not let go, is only to...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 3)
“Awakening is to know what reality is not.”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 3)
“It should be obvious that what we are, most substantially and fundamentally,...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 3)
“Awakening almost necessarily involves a sense of relief because it brings to an...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 3)
Live Reading The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 9)
It’s time again. I’m going to live read The Way of Zen by Alan Watts again.
I won’t be broadcasting on Twitter anymore. It just adds to the noise. To follow along, just subscribe to this tumblr.
Today, I’ll be starting at 5pm central. Check it out.
Live Reading done for today
See you next time.
“The preliminary hosshin type of koan begins, therefore, to obstruct the student...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 3)
“The perfection of Zen is to be perfectly and simply human.”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 3)
“Western ideas of Buddhist attainments are all too often distorted by the...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 3)
“Satori really designates the sudden and intuitive way of seeing into anything,...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 3)
“The koan system as it exists today is largely the work of Hakuin (1685-1768), a...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 3)
“But it would seem that to be incapable of sitting and watching with the mind...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 3)
“It should be obvious that action without wisdom, without clear awareness of the...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 3)
“To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 3)
“It is often said that to be clinging to oneself is like having a thorn in the...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 2)
“Thus it is typical of Zen that its style of action has the strongest feeling of...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 2)
“The simplest cure is to feel free to block, so that one does not block at...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 2)
“Conscious thought is itself founded upon its whole system of spontaneous...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 2)
“Both Takuan and Bankei stressed the fact that the “original” or...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 2)
“Mo chih ch’u is the mind functioning without blocks, without...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 2)
“Although profoundly “inconsequential,” the Zen experience has...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part2, Chapter 2)
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts Live Reading (Part 8)
It’s time again. I’m going to live read The Way of Zen by Alan Watts again.
You can follow me live on Twitter @ericnormand. Or just subscribe to this tumblr.
Today, I’ll be starting at 3pm central. Check it out.
“The Zen experience is more of a conclusion than a premise. It is never to be...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 2)
“Paradoxically, nothing is more artificial than the notion of artificiality. Try...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 2)
“In the end, the only alternative to a shuddering paralysis is to leap into...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 2)
“The attitude of wu-hsin [no-mind] is by no means an anti-intellectualist...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 2)
“It is, of course, part of the very genius of the human mind that it can, as it...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 2)
“There is a total contradiction between planned naturalness and intentional...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 2)
“For the essential quality of naturalness is the sincerity of the undivided mind...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 2)
“In its stress upon naturalness, Zen is obviously the inheritor of Taoism, and...”
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Part 2, Chapter 2)