“You might feel that you yourself were doing everything that’s happening. That would be one way of feeling it. The other way of feeling it would be that you are doing nothing at all, but that everyone else is doing you, like a puppet on the end of strings. On the other hand, if you got the feeling you were doing it all, you would feel you are god almighty. It’s very easy for our consciousness to slip into either state of sensation. But one must be very careful not to misinterpret this. Both these ways of feeling are right, but they must be taken together.”

— Alan Watts

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I can't recall a lesson from this great man #alanwatts that hasn't left me stunned in some way or another.

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Could you point me to a URL that has his recordings on if you can. Recently left #amazon owned #audible without realising all that money was just expensive rentals. I had a look but couldn't find anything this\that side of a pay wall

#whatwouldalansay ?

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I'm hoping to move to Japan soon and find new work in emerging tech #plebstr #nostr

and convert from Tibetan Buddhism to the Japanese version.

Warmest regards

Jode

Sure thing. You can find all of Alan Watts’ recorded lectures for free on Internet Archive.

Here’s the link — https://archive.org/details/alanwattscollection

It’s good to recognize what you can and can’t control. To focus on what you can control as that influence moves outward.

What’s unknown is the middle ground, because as people mature and grow they are both independent and dependent, or in other words, interdependent.

Agree