You're It - Alan Watts

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 Brotman like Dow 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 tatata that means ten thousand functions or ten thousand things one such ness and we're all one substance and that means that such Ness comes and goes like everything else because this whole world is an on and off system as the Chinese say it's the Yang and the yin and therefore it consists of now you see it now you don't hear you are here you're aren't here you aren't because that's the very nature of energy to be like waves and waves have crests and troughs only we under that being under a certain kind of sleepiness or illusion imagine that the trough is going to overcome the wave or the crest the yin the dark principle is going to overcome the yang or the light principle and that off is finally going to triumph over on and we shall I say bugs ourselves by indulging in that illusion Gees opposing darkness did win out wouldn't that be terrible and so we're constantly trembling and thinking that it may because after all isn't it odd that anything exists its most peculiar eight o'clock requires effort it requires energy and it would be 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 it's the rest but not being anything around that produces something around just in the same way that you can't have solid without space or space without solid when you wake up to this and realize that the more it changes the more it's 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 it 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 of things you realize you you're that we won't put a name on it you're that and you can't be anything else so you are relieved our fundamental terror that doesn't mean that you're always going to be a great hero but she won't jump when you hear it bang which you won't worry occasionally that you won't lose your temper it means though that fundamentally 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 hangout 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 playing of energy and there is absolutely nothing fundamentally to be afraid of fundamentally you will be afraid on that surface you will be afraid of putting your hand in the fire 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 you you

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Length: 5min 31sec (331 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 09 2013

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