..Listen, theres something I must tell. Ive never, never seen it so clearly. But it doesnt matter a bit if you dont understand, because each one of you is quite perfect as you are, even if you dont know it. Life is basically a gesture, but no one, no thing, is making it. There is no necessity for it to happen, and none for it to go on happening. For it isnt being driven by anything; it just happens freely of itself. Its a gesture of motion, of sound, of color, and just as no one is making it, it isnt happening to anyone. There is simply no problem of life; it is completely purposeless play - exuberance which is its own end. Basically there is the gesture. Time, space, and multiplicity are complications of it. There is no reason whatsoever to explain it, for explanations are just another form of complexity, a new manifestation of life on top of life, of gestures gesturing. Pain and suffering are simply extreme forms of play, and there isnt anything in the whole universe to be afraid of because it doesnt happen to anyone! There isnt any substantial ego at all. The ego is a kind of flip, a knowing of knowing, a fearing of fearing. Its a curlicue, an extra jazz to experience, a sort of double-take or reverberation, a dithering of consciousness which is the same as anxiety. ~Alan Watts
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:35:08 +0000
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