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for the next program in the series of thought
hi

now for our regular sunday morning presentation of lectures by the late alan watts will hear this morning part three of the seminar entitled reflecting the mirror this seminar has four parts and the third part this morning the next sunday morning part for lectures by
the late alan watts on sunday mornings on t as a and reflecting the mirror part three before we begin a brief reminder that a catalogue of all of the available tapes of lectures by alan watts is yours from m e a box three all three
sausalito that's a catalogue of all of the alan watts lectures in a box three or three sausalito
we've been going into the problem of reflection
that is to say a mirror
is of course originally a reflecting think and the person i'm going to talk about a good deal this morning that chinese philosopher by the name of gionta
once said that the perfect man employs his mind as a mirror it grasps nothing it refuses nothing it receives but does not keep
and throughout the literature of both taoist and buddhist mysticism there are constant references to the mirror as an analogy of the mind
there's a poem which says while the water is used equally with a mirror
the wild geese have no mind to cast their reflection the water has no intent to receive their image
this again is a poem which somehow represents the attitude of zen
there is some
a lot of reference to in zen to the image of the moon in the water
and of the the phrase the moon in the water
is used to typify the attitude of the man who has attained absolute perfection in swordsmanship
because
he doesn't hesitate if he's attacked
he has no need to think what to do
what he does by way of defense is so simultaneous with the attack that there's no interval so in the same way when the moon rises all pools instantly deflected they do will cost in those days nothing about the speed of light
but as soon as the moon is that it's in the water
and there's no hesitation so they would say the mind that the original mine in us is like that
it it doesn't hesitate it doesn't do that
and when you hear a buddhist talking about the virtue of detachment not being attached to this world
you must not understand that to mean that good buddhist don't enjoy their dinner
all that the they have no was sort of pleasure in life what attachment means is exactly what we mean today in our colloquial speech by a hang-up
to have a hang-up is as it were to be trying to slide something across the surface but it's so gritty that it catches it doesn't slide slide smoothly
so the psychological term blocking when someone says you're blocking
that means or
so the psychological term blocking when someone says you're blocking
that means attachment and the buddhist sense the word in sanskrit closure
has the sense therefore of clean not attachment in the sense that you love someone
but that you're hung up
so that when you would be challenged by circumstances to act you don't know what to do and you you deserve iran because you're trying to think out what the right thing to do is so that's a hand up
so the ideal of the zen buddhists and the taoists the ideal of the man who is not hung up
bonds to all situations in the same way that when you clap your hands the sound comes out immediately without hesitating or if you strike a flint the spark issues at once there was no interval but you see the this is a different thing from being in a hurry
because the spark is in no hurry to come out of the flint is no rush about it
it's simply the spot coming out as the same thing is hitting the flint with they were the on
when you will put the two hands together the two hands coming together is the clap there is no interval between
so in that way than the response of consciousness to circumstance or no show funny they call it in japanese the unity of mind and form which is the required attainment for one who acts say in the know plays
this is what is being aimed at
and so all sorts of dithering
shall we say a calculation
get in the way
of the not attached or the completely flowing life
calculation i have costs
i remember of a passage and coomaraswamy his essay on now
what is called in india sir hodja which is the natural life
where he says
ah
it is a perpetual on calculated life in the present
now
everyone is of course read the fifth chapter of st matthew and the salmon on the mound
well jesus advisers his disciples not to be anxious for the morrow to consider the lilies or flowers of the field how they grow
they don't work you don't spin
but solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of those
and so we've got close the grass of the field which is lives for a moment you know which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven shall he not much more clothe you faithless ones
and i have never yet in all my experience of clergyman
i have never yet heard a preacher
go to work on that text
and
really dig it
they all say well
this very beautiful but it it causes not practical
ha
and it's amazing that this passage can be read again and again and again whereas people will take seriously all jesus his jokes about sex
which comes somewhat earlier in the same chapter
they they don't take this seriously at all
they just toss it off because it's the most subversive passage in the bible
it really cuts at the root of civilization and thailand
how does it
centuries before jesus
ah the chinese taoists was saying similar things
in opposition in a way to the confusions the confusions believed in laws
in a ritual in ceremony in filial piety and then telling people that they they ought to practice charity and duty towards one's neighbor
and there's a famous passage which is quite apocryphal because they didn't live at the same time were louder and confucius outta conversation
and confucius is trying to explain to louder what charity and to one's neighbor is
and finally lotsa says what stuff
sir you are causing great confusion to the people look at the sun and moon
they are unswerving in their regularity look at the trees they grow upwards without exception look at the birds they always flocked together at the same seasons be like these as for are an attempt to eliminate selfishness this is a positive manifestation of self
you are like one who beats a drop in search of a fugitive alaska you were brought much confusion to the empire
don't you know when you someone's running away and to escape the law and the officers are beating a drum as they come after him he always knows where they are saying so the same way to try to be unselfish who is the most selfish ideal
because you think my goodness wouldn't i be great if i were unselfish know i were really nice guy and helped everybody else and so by of having ambitions of that kind you'll become a real row you'll become a hypocrite
and you must note that all preaching telling people how they ought to be on only leads to hypocrisy
because you do it you will follow the advice of the preachers either because you want to keep out of trouble
because they threaten you with hell if you don't behave properly or because you want to be admired
and you can think you know to yourself well i'd i i don't have motivations like that i really love other people
under certain circumstances yes you do that you could be put to the test and certain circumstances might arise where you don't love other people at all
so
the attitude of the taoists as against the confusions was that all this discussion of righteousness and propriety and so on was doing nothing but getting mankind deeper and deeper and deeper into trouble
so loud so says
when the great dow lost that is to say when people no longer follow the natural way the course of nature that came duty to man and right conduct
when they were troubles in the state we began to hear of loyal statesman when the family was deranged we began to hear a filial sons and daughters
and so it seems to be say in a very odd way that it's the rules that make the trouble
and ordinary common sense tells us that the trouble comes first and then thereafter the rules
because things have gone astray and they believe the elders say or the younger going to the dogs we have to lay down the loddon
but it is not as simple as that
it has see i saw a headline the other day
which said cops riot and haight ashbury
and there is a very curious thing whereby after a while the law
let's say authority and crime
form an alliance with each other
and the the more you can attempt to suppress crime the more you stir it up
so that
i just want to ask you to consider what kind of person would volunteer for service on the vice squad
and you have a criminal obviously you have a very deranged person
and so that it would we tend to see as as time goes on that official types people who are enforcement officers begin to be the same kind of people as criminals
so that they the the law enforcement and crime reinforce each other all the time they have an alliance it's a symbiotic relationship because lots of symbiotic relationships are
contests
and so eventually what happens is that the government is the most successful group of gangsters
once and when we know we we could have they have to read the history of europe to realize that places like france and england and germany so on of particularly italy
that they were originally just bands of brigands and sudden brigand got stronger and stronger and stronger last he was the government
and it still goes on
so the the taoists were trying to say to governors look lay off
please leave things alone
their idea is the allowed sir wrote the dao de jing as a manual of advice to employers
and he says that other words that the emperor
although he is above the people they should not feel his weight
gov great state as you cook a small fish
we have a small fish like smells in the frying pan you don't keep jostling them with a and katana because the fish will just fall apart you have to cook it very gently
see less cooking is better than mall that's how the chinese produce such beautiful vegetables they hardly cook them at all
they have a method of heating them through very quickly and then serve at once so that they're very crisp less cookie is better than more so less law when the
about two hundred and fifty b c
a new dynasty came into power in china it was called on the han dynasty
and it followed the ching dynasty the ching dynasty lasted for fifteen years
the harm lasted for five hundred
ching dynasty was a dictatorship
and this grandiose military emperor was going to found a dynasty that would last for a thousand years and he legalized in every direction he made laws and laws and bars and caused only the right books to be allowed most of them were burned and heaven only knows when when the han dynasty came in
they simply wrote all the laws off the books they repealed everything they kept about to laws against robbery and murder and another and that was it they wrote them off
and that was the one of the most stable and creative a box in chinese culture
so it was very close to anarchy
and you must understand what anarchy is in the in the true sense anarchy is not someone with a grizzly beard and a bomb running around trying to blow up airplanes and the
stop the the the public functioning
anarchy in the west was invented by prince kropotkin who was a great russian aristocrat who had a theory about of
that the state is simply a nuisance
and that the simply should be no government in that sense at all so that in other words if you're driving down the road and you see a rock on the road you don't wait for the department of highways to get religious stop your car and shove it over and if everybody does things like that busy then things will go along and everyday
audi will feel responsible because there's no government to say you do it say
now or
when you start thinking about that
you realize this is probably something to be said for it
but you can't take it quite literally
because of karma that is to say because once you've started to interfere with the course of events you're stuck with it
is like his old is an awful sticky business for us to get ourselves out of vietnam
ah were once we've been to feared that see we're terribly involved
in all sorts of ways
and sometimes of call it is better you know nice like a marriage whereas
both husband and wife are trying desperately to make the marriage work and as a result of that they get more involved and more involved and more involved with each other until they're both living in a wall to wall trap and loathe each other
and the only thing is to simply go in a break it up
at all costs you know just get out of it
because when people get more and more involved
under the supposition that they're doing the right thing and they'd try to love each other they don't love each other and when you when you pretend to love someone who you don't love all you do is create hatred because you don't like what you're doing and the person very well knows that you are loving them not because you really do but because you think
it's your duty and so they feel guilty
and it's it's a mess all around
so it's a completely absurd to be dishonest with your emotions with your feelings so people say well
but what i what if nobody delivers the mail
what if nobody wants to be the milkman what if there are no garbage collectors
mustn't there be some people who do their duty everyday and eight it
okay
think ahead a little
all that resent on piles up and piles upon piles up
and one day it has to blow itself off
so you've had your mail delivered your milk delivered your garbage collected regularly all these things have done for you and it goes on for about twenty years
meanwhile everybody's getting more and more bored and frustrated and whatnot and suddenly the bombers are over you
and the whole life is blown to bits
practically
you know we're out of our heads absolutely
a
we've been lucky in this country the swiss have been lucky for one hundred years the swedes have done fairly well by minding their own business and we were far enough away so that nobody can reach us
but all that's over
technologically
and even if we don't suffer the consequences from an external enemy we've brought up plenty of trouble back here at home and nobody knows what the answer to it is
oppenheimer shortly before he died said that it's quite clear that the world is going to hell
the only chance it might not
is it if that we don't try to stop it doing so
ah the beautiful is remark
so dancer
as some things to say about this at a very
interesting

do you realize how one's character is lost and where knowledge leads
a man loses his character through the desire for fame and knowledge leads to contention
in the struggle for fret for fame man crush each other while their knowledge is but an instrument for scheming contention
these two are instruments of evil and lead one away from the moral life
those who rely upon the arc the line campuses in the square to make correct forms enjoy the natural constitution of things those who use cards to bind and glue to piece together interfere with a natural character of things
those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting humanity and justice have lost the original nature of man there is an original nature and things things in their original nature or curved without the help of arcs straight without lines round without campuses and rectangular without
squares they are joined together without glue and hold together without chords
in this manner all things grow with abundant life without knowing how they do so
they all have a place in the scheme of things without knowing how they come to have their proper place from time immemorial this has been so and it may not be tampered with
why then should the doctrines of humanity and justice to continue to remain like so much glue or cards in the domain of towel and character to give rise to confusion and doubt among mankind
the lesser doubts change man's purpose and the greater doubts change man's nature
how do we know this ever since the time when shun made a bid for humanity and justice and through the world into confusion man of run about an exhausted themselves in the pursuit thereof
is not then humanity and justice which i've changed the nature of man
people was superfluous keenness of vision put into confusion in the five colors lose themselves in the forms and designs in the distinctions of greens and yellows for sacrificial ropes is this not so of such was lead you the clear sighted people were superfluous keenness of hearing put into confusion the five
notes exaggerate the tumblers of metal stone string and bamboo of the hong jong and the title which are ancient musical instruments that standard pitch pipes is is not so of such sweatshirt on the music master people who abnormally develop humanity exalt character and suppress nature in order to gain a reputation make the world noisy with
their discussions and cause it to follow impractical doctrines is this not so a such what some sure
people who commit access and arguments like piling up bricks and tying knots analyzing and inquiring into the distinctions of art and white identities and differences were themselves out over a useless terms is this not so of such way yarn and mo
all these are superfluous and devious growth of knowledge and are not the correct guide for the world
he would be the ultimate guide of the world should take care to preserve the original nature of man
in the united is not like giant toes the separated is not like extra fingers what as long as not considered a success and what is short is not regarded as wanting for ducks legs though shot cannot be lengthened without dismayed to the duck and a cranes legs though long cannot be shortened without
misery to the crane that fetches long in nature was not be cut off and that which is shot in nature was not be lengthened
one should not worry about changing them it would seem that humanity and justice were not part of the nature of man how worried these teachers of charity are
now the charitable men of the present age go about with the look of concern sorrowing over the ills of the age while the non charitable let loose the desires of their nature in their greed for position and wealth therefore it would seem that humanity and justice were not a part of human nature yet from the time of the three dynasties downwards what a commotion
has been raised about them
the has been such a thing is letting mankind loan and tolerance there has never been such a thing as governing mankind letting alone springs from the fear lest man's natural dispositions be perverted and tolerance springs from the fear that their character be corrupted
but if they're natural dispositions be not perverted nor their character corrupted what need is there left for government of old when yao govern the empire he made the people live happily consequently the people struggled to be happy and became restless when shall govern the empire you made the people live in misery consequently the people regarded life
as a burden and but discontented
restlessness and discontent are subversive of man's character and without character there never has been such a thing as stability
when man rejoice is greatly he gravitates towards young the positive pole when he is in great anger he graduated gravitates toward in the negative pole when the equilibrium of positive and negative is disturbed the four seasons are upset the balance of heat and cold is destroyed man himself suffered physically thereby
it causes men to rejoice and sorrow inordinately to live disorderly lives to be vexed in their thought and lose their pattern a norm of conduct when that happens than the hollowell seethes with revolt and discontent and we have such men as the robert robertshaw and the confusion teaches some and sure
offer the entire world as rewards for the good or threatened the wicked with dire punishments of the entire world and it is still insufficient to reform them consequently was the entire world one cannot furnish sufficient inducements or deterrents to action from the three dynasties downwards the world has lived in a helter skelter of promotions and punch
judgments watch chance of the people left for fulfilling peacefully the natural instincts of their lives
therefore
when a gentleman is unavoidably compelled to take charge of the government of the empire there is nothing better than inaction letting alone will weigh in chinese by means of inaction only can he allow the people to fulfill peacefully the natural instincts of their lives therefore he who values the world as
his own self may be entrusted with the government of the world and he who loves the world as his own self may be entrusted with the care of the world therefore if the gentleman can refrain from disturbing the internal economy of man and glorifying the powers of sides i'm hearing he can sit still like a cops or spring into action like a dragon
be silent as the deep or talk with the voice of thunder the movements of his spirit calling forth the natural mechanism of heaven
he can remain calm and leisurely doing nothing while all things are brought to maturity and thrive what made them would have i to set about governing the world

the time
you know that was one thing that when eisenhower was president of the united states
somebody and a slogan does before the next election which was let's keep the white house empty for another voyage
and his reign was the was there was really rather peaceful
and that what what the point here is you see them
a rulers
if somebody has to be in charge of a social function say like the district or the county's sanitary inspector
as a useful man
and but he doesn't go riding around in splendor with escorts of police on motorcycles and dirt
reporters and cameras all over the place and so in the same way law allowed syringe wants are saying that anybody who governs should be very anonymous i shouldn't be a fast made over him he's just like any other person going about his daily business with the moment you start to make a
the central controller of everything and you blow fanfares you make up a big thing and say you know the united states hooray hooray hooray or whatever the country is then you're in for trouble
so govern a great state as you cook a small fish
now
let's go a little less than that
from the point of view not have the political state for the moment i don't want to get into a long discussion of politics about assorted for the point of view of the human being
your your organism
is like a country
anna
do you have a boss
in your body
there's a long passage and dancer about the organism
and it says that although it all seems to function together which part of it you prefer
is is that a kind of hierarchy of preferable parts of the organism
i've told some of you the argument between the head and the stomach
and the argument is that obviously the stomach is fundamental because is the place where all food is digested and it supplies everything
and so therefore the stomach is the really important organ
and the head is simply the
manufacture on the end of the alimentary canal which feeds the stomach of us a seeking device complicated seeking device for finding food
now the other argument is the argument of the head the head says no not at all although i have evolved later than the stomach
our the stomach was my foreigner like john the baptist of jesus christ and the really the stomach is simply a gadget which serves that given the needs of the brain the brain is of his culture and is the fine arts and his religion and music and as a stomach is just lower things and you'll put food into your mouth you know and that
it's necessary it's good for you are you're not supposed to enjoy it because you're exposed to enjoy higher things so everybody's eating wonder bread and hot dogs and things and saying that the plane living and high thinking think
well in a way you can argue both points of view with equal validity
they asked the brain is the main thing about man that's important or you can see how the brain is just an adjunct to the stomach but solids
you can argue it both ways because there is no final truth about the matter
the interesting thing about a human being is that all his organs
are mutually necessary to each other
it's true you can get around with an amputated leg it's true you can function if you are blind
but was severe limitations because all the
organs are in a relationship
this is what we mean by an organic relationship everything is dependent upon everything else everything goes with everything else
just as you don't find anywhere in nature a
a creature which is just ahead
think you imagined human heads suddenly coming into existence and rolling down the street being alive and talkative say it's absurd
imagine just as a pair of legs someday you mean running along it's ridiculous
so then in the in the ordering of this marvellous thing you do really have a democracy of a sudden kind
it's not like a voting democracy it doesn't elect a president
but it all works together if left to itself
now occasionally of course we do salvage somebody's life by surgery
and make a very of
rough abrasive interference
but we are nowhere near the situation where everybody in the world
interfered with
and we run into a danger incidentally through medicine
that we are beginning to see coming into the world now
that if we patch people up
all the time and don't let them die we begin to get not only the population problem
but an enormous population of completely bored old people
who are just vegetating
and who are you know they brought up their families and they've done all these things for them they raise their children under that's great and so on then of at the end of that time they impoverished their families by having to be maintained on the end of tubes and hospitals for an unspeakable long
time
i mean where where does the duty to one's children are due to one's parents come in here
now
therefore
what is the practical
outcome of this that's what everybody's gonna ask
what should you do about
now let's examine that question
what do you mean the practical issue of all this that i'm saying
what do you mean by practical
lots of people say i'm a practical man i believe in getting things done and all you philosophers you to sit around and talk not doing com show us what we ought to do
have to say what do you want to do
where do you going well do you think what do you mean by practical
oh no everybody knows what practical is oh do they
ah
why you say practical is what's productive
productive of what
one side of things you buy a grocery store
losing that's practical
well you supposed to survive on you have to eat oh so you mean what you want to do as you want to go on
now how would you like to go on you want more out want more life you want more time
why
well we don't think about that everything just wants to go on it's what we call the instinct for survival that says that's the only value we have it's the only thing that anybody will agree about the we want to go on
when when you come to think about it it's very odd
because here there are thousands and thousands of creatures in nature was just go poof like that
that's the whole life
poof but boy what a gas that must be one they do it see
as the zen poem which says the morning glory blooms for an hour yet differs not at heart from the giant pine which lives for a thousand years
now the reason that we all want to go on
and we are concerned with survival all time animals are only concerned about survival when they're directly challenged
and they are quite content when they are fed to love from do nothing
lie on their backs and go to sleep or contemplate the stars or listen to the sound of the river
human beings feel guilty when they're doing that it i'll be up doing something i ought to buy
cause you see if i don't i'm wasting time
i'm not filling my barn up and not really my bank account up so that when the awful awful happen it'll will be something there
so the reason we want to go on surviving
is that we live in an impoverished present
and therefore are always wanting something more to happen
say it's a if if you if you never are nourished you're all you're perpetually hungry always looking for maybe tomorrow i'll get a good meal see
but when you've properly fed
you're not hungry anymore
so even confucius said a man who understands the dow in the morning may die with content in the evening
now you already to die
what would you do what would you say you know the what is something you have to do is buzzing we suddenly to got on the radio that the the bomb was gonna land in fifteen minutes or you already did i
is that is a rather peculiar instance because there's just nothing you could do about it
but supposing it was something where you thought you could do something about
and ah
what what does one have to do to be prepared for them
one normally cyber i get my affairs in order see my wills or right under the things tied it up and all the personal papers thrown away and whatever it is so that by successes will be in possession but also people think well some people want to go to the priest and confess their sins others want to or have at least one more
a role in the hay or whatever it may be you get ready get ready to tie
now that there's a connie him which they sometimes sing in church
it says
redeem lima spent moments passed live every day as if i lost
now that has a that has a kind of are wrong
twist in it which is a guilt take you may die at any moment
so will make your peace with god asked for the forgiveness of your dc and that that that's a that's a kind of a dreadful thing they hang up everybody would that monarchical theory of the government of the universe
but to be ready to die at any moment
is it to be always completely in the present
to live with this time isn't that i'm not going to be any other time face it
you could say all out tomorrow i will reform tomorrow i will maybe save up enough to do this that and the other there is no tomorrow
in a sense there is a tomorrow about that tomorrow as i've often said is is
only usable
by people who know how to live today
they are the only ones who have any use for making plans
people who live for tomorrow have no use for plans at all plans don't do ever do them any good
whenever there
somewhere else off
so
when you have a whole culture built up see on the supposition
that are
what is like is this there was a great russian writer forget his name
said this whole philosophy is turning everybody in the characters you know what to carry it it is carried it is a pillar
of a building carved in the shape of a human being or animal which is therefore used as a supporter he says you're turning the whole human race into carry at it who will hold up a flaw upon which future generations will dance
he said a the as long as you think that way it will always be that way so the future generation when it comes that'll be a flaw than they'll be carrier to the in another flaw works carry it is there another floor job carried it and physical progress
i'm a carrier is you know they feel the way loss of depressed and pulling up
a
so one's children
when one's always saying one's children look how much i've done for you look at all the things i did view etc etc etc they all they do as they learn to say to their children look how much i've done fuel development exhibit and nobody ever gets a equipment
so now you see if you if you listen to this sort of thing dallas attitude of what you might call is very permissive
it saying
lago stop all this awful hanger
and then what happens see everybody comes to me and says you have been talk of these kind of and all our children are falling apart they're all doing this see and they're not delivering the mail even if they do take jobs with the post office when i get i well i hate get a load of samples
it's just they they the
or drop it in the in the ditch
ah that terrible say
well i say i but
they take me too literally
because that's the trouble with everybody they're looking for something to do
what shall we do about it see that was what i started with what is the practical thing to do under the circumstances

you know it does it mean overthrow the government and have none
or does it mean have a different kind of govern what are we going to do about
what i'm saying is there is nothing you can do about
that anything you do about it will all make it worse
even if you make a big show of doing nothing about it and you are you know that that will all that's also doing something about it see
this is terribly important to understand that this juncture in the history of the world that anything you do about it will make it worse
now
then we get we get into
that comes into effect of principle which i will call the power of not doing
this is taoist not doing will way which means it it really not forcing
not inaction it means action in accordance with the flow of nature as distinct from action against the grain
so not doing is of costs proceeding with ones whatever you do everyday
and in the understanding that you are not go to change the world simply not
and the world has to be allowed to deteriorate or whatever it's doing and its own sweet way
now the minute lots of people start doing that
things turned out the change
but they change of themselves nobody forces at to change that's the that's the only change that can be correct that which is zero on which means self so of itself and sudan in chinese means nature what happens of itself
so this is for for everybody involved in the present crisis of the world which is just of cost terrifying what's going on but you must understand basically
there isn't anything you can do about
and if you go on a crusade to do something about it you just create more trouble
but if you lay off
and thoroughly realize in your heart that it can't that you can't do anything about it that is going to change you
and you're going to become a peaceful burst and an honest person and you will stop being a prig and a hypocrite and a ball
because you are not equally you you you must understand you're not going to change yourself
i met a couple last night live known for a long time
andr
hadn't seen them and quite a while and they were just a delightful but i remember way back when
they were all
i'm happy i'm striving and quarreling that the just
there's nobody home but with what happened was a
the lady in particular and a chick she couldn't make herself at different views and she gave up
a that she is just charming a
you know
you get to you get to realize this more when you are past the middle of live past forty five or fifty and you'll get a little bit cynical and you realize that
you're gonna feel the same old fool your hopes up
and i was told young couples about to get married that term don't ever look upon your wife or husband or someone with good potentiality
always assume that they are going to get worse as time because i to find out whether you could possibly live with this person when they thoroughly deteriorate
that's the only
only a sound judgment for going to bed about sounds very cynical and sounds as if i were against higher things but this is the only way to get to them z
bye bye acceptance of oneself and that does not meet you see lot of people accept themselves by going around writing fall letter words all over the walls that's not accepting yourself that's making a big show of accepting nature you know that's laying it on that's blowing a trumpet before you can
asked your arms and the temple box
that's not the way
so you can't follow this philosophy as a form of protest
you simply can't do it it won't work that way
it's just realizing that the ego has no reality whatsoever it's like a line of latitude you can't do anything with it and if you try to use your you go to change things all you will be doing is you'll be straining and straining and straining to make something happen which
can't happen
and all you'll be doing is wearing yourself out with a strain then you will be of a nasty disposition go around making trouble
as why puritans are always cruel

part three
of reflecting the mirror part for will conclude the seminar reflecting the mirror next sunday morning on key as a and in san francisco again a reminder you can get a catalogue of the recorded lectures of the late alan watts by writing in e a box three or three
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