Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Alan Watts (Pacifica Radio, L.A., KPFK.org, Jan. 26, 2014) |
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What is reality? "I came
into this world," I say. "You didn't; you came
out of it," insists British philosopher and Zen teacher Alan Watts. We bounce between a ceramic (that we created out of clay) and an automatic theory of the universe. So beginning with a Big Bang view, assuming that's how it happened, how we came to be, Watts follows that view to its logical conclusion. We are way out in space, way out in time, and now here we are: Who am I? I am the Bang, not something that came out of it. It is an entirely different and very Mahayana/Hindu way at looking at the question. Are we the primordial energy of the universe defining ourselves separately from it? "There are no such things as things, at least no such things as
separate things. We are wiggly goo imagining a world of thorny lines.
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