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By Alan Watts

“Supposing that I say to you each one of you is really the great self, and you say well, if all you’ve said up to now makes me fairly sympathetic to this intellectually, but I don’t really feel it, What must I do to feel it really?

My answer to you is this; you ask me that question because you don’t want to feel it really. You are frightened of it. And therefore what you are going to do, it’s you are going to get a method of practice so that you can put it off. So that I can say, well, I can be a long time on the way getting this thing. And then maybe I’ll be worthy of it after I have suffered enough, because we are brought up in a social scheme, whereby we have to deserve what we get, and the price that one pays for all good things is suffering, all of that is precisely postponement. One is afraid here and now to see it. If you had the nerve, the real nerve you would see it right away. Only that would be there when one feels you shouldn’t have nerve like that, that would be awful, that wouldn’t do at all. After all I’m supposed to be poor little me, and I’m not really much of a muchness. I’m playing the role of being poor little me. And therefore in order to be something great, like a Buddha or a jivamokta. One liberated in this life, I ought to suffer for it. So you can suffer for it. There are all kinds of ways invented for you to do this. And you can discipline yourself. You can gain control of your mind, and you can do all sorts of extraordinary things. I mean you can drink water in through your rectum, and do the most fantastic things. But that’s just like being able to run the hundred yards in nine seconds, or any other kind of accomplishment you want to engage in. absolutely nothing to do with the realization of the self.

The realization of the self is fundamentally depends on coming off it. When we say to people who put on some kind of an act, “Oh come off it.” And some people can come off it. They laugh and say they suddenly realize they are making fools of themselves, and they laugh at themselves and they come off it. So in exactly the same way, the guru, the teacher is trying to make you come off it. If he finds he can’t make you come off it, he is going to put you through all these exercises. So that you at the last time when you’ve got enough discipline, and enough suffering and enough frustration, you’ll give it all up and realize you were there for the beginning, and there was nothing to realize.

So this tremendous schizophrenia in human beings, of thinking that they are rider and horse, soul in command of body, or will in command of passions wrestling with them. All that kind of split thinking simply aggravates the problem. And we get more and more split. So we have all sorts of people engaged in an interior conflict, which they will never resolve. Because the true self, either you know it or you don’t. If you do know it, then you know it’s the only one. And the other, so called lower self, just ceases to be a problem. It becomes something like a mirage, and you don’t’ go around hitting at mirages with a stick, or trying to put reigns on them. You just know that they are mirages and walk straight through them. That split is implanted in us all. And because of our being split minded we are always dithering. Is the choice that I’m about to make of the higher self or of the lower self? Is it of the spirit, or is it of the flesh? Is the word that I received of the lord, or is it of the devil? And nobody can decide. If you knew how to choose, you wouldn’t have to.

In the so called moral re-armament movement, you test your messages that you get from god in your quiet time, by comparing them with standards of absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute love, and so on. If you knew what those things were, you wouldn’t have to test. You would know immediately. And do you know what those things are? The more one thinks about the question, “What would absolute love be?” supposing I could set myself the ideal of being absolutely loving to everybody. What would that imply in terms of conduct? You can think about that until all is blue, because you could never get to the answer. The problems of life are so subtle, that to try to solve them with vague principles, as if those vague principles were specific instructions is completely impossible.

It is important to overcome split-mindedness. But what is the way? Where can you start from if you’re already split? A Taoist saying is that, when the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way. So what are you to do? How can you get off it and get moving?

If I say to you, “good morning”, you say, “good morning, nice day isn’t it?” Or if I hit you, boom you say, “ouch!” you don’t stop to hesitate to give these answers or responses. You can’t think about it when I say “good morning,” in exactly the same way, that kind of response, which doesn’t have to be a deliberate response, a response of a no-deliberating mind, is a response of a Buddha-mind or an unattached-mind. But you must not imagine that this is necessarily a quick response. If you get hung up on the idea of responding quickly, the idea of quickness will be, itself a form of obstruction.

When you are perfectly free to feel stuck or not stuck, then you are unstuck. Nothing can stick on the real mind. And you will find this out if you watch the flow of your thoughts. And those thoughts arise and go like waves on the water. They come and go, when they go, they are as if they had never been here. There is process. There is the flow of thought,

The flow of thought doesn’t have to happen to anyone. Experience does not have to beat upon an experiencer. There is, all the time, simply the one stream going on. And we are convinced that we stand aside from it and observe it. We’ve been brought up that way.

It’s very important to get rid of that illusion of duality between the thinker and the thought. Find out who is the thinker behind the thoughts? Who is the real, genuine you?”

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“I’m making a grilled cheese for Jossie, do you want one?”

Lincoln, “I don’t wnat a girl cheese, I want a boy cheese!”

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I heard a bitch has forgotten her worth this morning.

Repeat after me,

I’m more than a mood i’m a lifestyle, I’m more than vibe I”m a frequency,

I ascended so high meaningless shit and mofus can no longer fuck with me,

my vision is so aligned with my energy everything that i command comes to me,

i’m no long seeking validation from peasantry, because they are not vibrating as high as me.

- Jasmine Garden

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The lady who is in charge of the food and beverage of my office floor just told me I’m the prettiest one on this floor, and she’d like to give me an orchid :)) Oh she just made my day, wait, probably my year!

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