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Accurate lol!

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right view means no particular view, no fixed view

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“Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.”

— Alan Watts (via spiritualitbe)

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“And the principle is that any time you voluntarily let up control (in other words, cease to cling to yourself) you have an access of power. Because you [aren’t] wasting energy all the time in self defence—trying to manage things, trying to force things to conform to your will…

…the moment you stop doing that, that wasted energy is available. And, therefore, you are, in that sense, one with the divine principle; you have the energy.

When you are trying, however, to act as if you were God, that is to say you don’t trust anybody and you’re the dictator and you have to keep everybody in line, you lose the divine energy. Because what you’re doing is simply defending yourself.

So, then, the principle is the more you give it away, the more it comes back.”

— Alan Watts

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The more you try to be positive, the more you will become negative. The nature of the mind is such that if you say, “I don’t want this,” only that will happen in your mind. Isn’t it so? Now, if you say, “I don’t want the negative,” only that will happen. Why are you talking about positive or negative at all? Why do you want to look at things this way? Why don’t you look at every situation the way it is, accept it the way it is, and see what is the best you can do about it? A situation is neither positive nor negative. Don’t try to develop attitudes and philosophies. Why can’t you just be here, without any specific attitude? Without any philosophy? Just aware. Simply aware. Every situation demands a different kind of response, isn’t it? If you develop attitudes of positive thinking or what not, it may work well in one situation. But in another kind of situation you will do stupid things, because you have a prejudiced idea that you have to be in a certain way.  If you go on thinking positive at the wrong place, the worst things may happen to you, isn’t it? So there is no need to be positive. There is no need to be negative, either. Just be aware. If you are aware, you will perceive a situation just the way it is. When you perceive a situation the way it is, you can act to the best of your intelligence and capability. It is as simple as that. Don’t get into prejudiced action.

Sadhguru (via thebigelectron)

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“Fake courage is still a form of armour. And, therefore, so long as there is armour, so long as there are defensive walls, they will provoke attack. 

Real courage is not an armour; it is not a character armour. Real courage is possible only through seeing. It’s not possible through belief in the divine self, which we all share in common—as if that were something you could believe in. 

This is only to be discovered through not hanging onto anything, not having any armour, not having any beliefs, not having any kind of gimmick with which you try to hold the weaving smoke in position. You don’t need it.

If you really are the basis of the world, you don’t need a belief that that is so.”

— Alan Watts

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The only way to handle danger is to face it.

Alan Watts (via alanwilsonwatts)

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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts (via lazyyogi)

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If I am trying to impress people, I usually don’t. If you try too hard with anything you usually make a mess of it.

Alan Watts (via alanwilsonwatts)

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“I must make it empathetic that zen, in its essence, is not a doctrine. There’s nothing you’re supposed to believe in. And it’s not a philosophy in our sense: that is to say a set of ideas or an intellectual net in which one tries to catch the fish of reality.

Actually, the fish of reality is more like water; it always slips through the net. And water, when you get into it, there’s nothing to hang on to. All this universe is like water; it is fluid. It is transient. It is changing.

And when you’re thrown into the water after being accustomed to living on the dry land, and you’re not used to the idea of swimming, you try to stand on the water, you try to catch hold of it, and as a result you drown.”

— Alan Watts

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You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago

Alan Watts (via eearth)