OVERCOMING FEAR - Alan Watts🌊

it's all unbelievable it's amazing I wonder added I marvel at it it is a miracle let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream and that you could for example have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time or any length of time you wanted to have and you would naturally as you began on this adventure of Dreams you would fulfill all your wishes you would have every kind of pleasure who could conceive and after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each you would say well I was pretty great but now let's um let's have a surprise let's have a dream which isn't under control well something is going to happen to me that I don't know what it's gonna be and you you would dig that and come out of that and say wow that was a close shave wasn't it and then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further and further out Gamble's as to what you would dream and finally you would dream where you are now you would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today that would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have so you have always when you are in the theater say you go to the movies and you go to see some great horror movie you know awfully well why does one do it do you want a thrill and the whole of the universe wants a thrill but when you go to the movie you know in your heart of hearts that it's only a movie and yet you contrived to some degree to forget this while you're there and therefore gets scared and feel real creeps so one might say then that it is possible in this life to attain a sort of metaphysical courage in which you are you know really know deep within that the most harrowing experiences that physical existence can offer our show so there is a poem which says under the sword lifted high there is hell making you tremble but go ahead and there is the land of bliss don't hesitate don't don't be blocked don't be fazed nonplussed by the illusion but you must remember that the secret to all this is not to be afraid of fear when you can really allow yourself to be afraid and you don't resist the experience of fear you are truly beginning to master fear then furthermore when you realize that in a world where there are no eyes the Sun would not be light and that in a world where there were no soft skins rocks would not be hard nor in a world where there were no muscles would they be heavy existences relationship and you are smack in the middle of it things for example are measurements they are units of thought like inches are units of measurement there are no things and physical nature how many things is a thing any mate is any number you want because the thing is a thing a unit of thought as much of reality as you can catch hold of in one idea so when you don't cling to it when you have no longer a hostile attitude to the world because you know the world is you it is I mean let's take it from the point of view of biology if I describe the behavior of a living organism I cannot possibly describe that behavior without simultaneously describing the behavior of the environment so that I discover that I don't describe organisms in environments I describe a unified field of behavior called an organism environment - awkward word but there it is the environment doesn't push the organism around the organism doesn't push the environment around they are two aspects or poles of the same process and if you want to stay in the state of illusion stay in it but you can always wake up

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Length: 5min 14sec (314 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 21 2019