Alan Watts - The Way of Waking Up
Alan Watts - Myth of myself - Full Lecture
Ego
“Well,” you ask.
“How do I get rid of it?”
And my answer to that is:
That’s the wrong question.
How does one get rid of what?
You can’t get rid of your hallucination of being an ego by an activity of the ego.
Sorry, but it can’t be done …
If you try to get rid of your ego with your ego you will just end up in a vicious circle.
You’d be like somebody who worries because they worry because they worry.”
- Alan Watts
Alan Watts - You
“I had a discussion with a great master in Japan, and we were talking about the various people who are working to translate the Zen books into English, and he said, “That’s a waste of time. If you really understand Zen, you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.”
- Alan Watts
(Source: whiskeyriver.blogspot.com)
