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That in this universe, there is one great energy, and we have no name for it. People have tried various names for it, like God, like *Brahmin, like Tao, but in the West, the word God has got so many funny associations attached to it that most of us are bored with it. When people say God, the father almighty, most people feel funny inside. . . But according to Buddhist philosophy, all this universe is one dadada. That means ten thousand functions, ten thousand things, one suchness, and were all one suchness. And that means that suchess comes and goes like anything else because this whole world is an on-and-off system. As the Chinese say, its the yang and the yin, and therefore it consists of now you see it, now you dont, here you are, here you arent, here you are, because that the nature of energy, to be like waves, and waves have crests and troughs, only we, being under a kind of sleepiness or illusion, imagine that the trough is going to overcome the wave or the crest, the yin, or the dark principle, is going to overcome the yang, or the light principle, and that off is going to finally triumph over on. And we, shall I say, bug ourselves by indulging in that illusion. Hey, supposing darkness did win out, wouldnt that be terrible! And so were constantly trembling and thinking that it may, because after all, isnt it odd that anything exists? Its most peculiar, it requires effort, it requires energy, and it would have been so much easier for there to have been nothing at all. Therefore, we think well, since being, since the is side of things is so much effort you always give up after a while and you sink back into death. But death is just the other face of energy, and its the rest, the not being anything around, that produces something around, just in the same way that you cant have solid without space, or space without solid. When you wake up to this, and realize that the more it changes the more its the same thing, as the French say, that you are really a playing of this one energy, and there is nothing else but that that is you, but that for you to be always you would be an insufferable bore, and therefore it is arranged that you stop being you after a while and then come back as someone else altogether. And so when you find that out, you become full energy and delight. And you suddenly see through the whole sham thing. You realize youre That--we wont put a name on it-- youre That, and you cant be anything else. So you are relieved of fundamental terror. That doesnt mean that youre always going to be a great hero, that you wont jump when you hear a bang, that you wont worry occasionally, that you wont lose your temper. It means, though, that fundamentally deep, deep, deep down within you, you will be able to be human, . . .in the pains, difficulties and struggles that naturally go with human existence . . . but to have no hang-ups, that is to say, to be able to drift like a cloud and flow like water, seeing that all life is a magnificent illusion, a plane of energy, and that there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of. Fundamentally. You will be afraid on the surface. You will be afraid of putting your hand in the fire. You will be afraid of getting sick. But you will not be afraid of fear. Fear will pass over your mind like a black cloud will be reflected in the mirror . . . Darren Tyson Rick Mike Chad Shawn Brandi Tena Allisa Jennifer Desiree Mei Dawn Kitty Julie Mary Mark Mark Greg Christina Christian Wayne Darwin Ben Vivien Jace Mary Kellie Jean-Paul Ron Randy Caroline Dwight Milene Denton Chris Chris erowid.org/culture/characters/watts_alan/watts_alan_article4.shtml
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 16:48:10 +0000

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