We have to learn – we dont have to, you dont have to do anything, you dont have to go on living –but its a great idea, its a great thing if you can learn what the Chinese call purposelessness. They think nature is purposeless. When we say something is purposeless, thats put down, no future in it, its a washout. But when they hear the word purposeless, they think thats just great...as wondering on and on in a great forest with no thought of return. Havent you done this? Havent you gone on a walk with no particular purpose in mind? Carry a stick with you and you occasionally hit at old stumps, wander along and sometimes twiddle your thumbs. Its at that moment that you are a perfectly rational human being, youve learn purposelessness. You pick up a pebble on the beach – look at it – beautiful. Dont try and get a sermon out of it – sermons and stones and god and everything be damned – just enjoy it, dont feel that you got to salve your conscience by saying that this is for the advancement of your aesthetic understanding. Enjoy the pebble. If you do that you become healthy, you become able to be a loving, helpful human being. But if you cant do that, if you can only do things because they are somehow, you are going to get something out of it, youre a vulture. ~Alan Watts...
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:58:41 +0000
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