“If I want you to listen to music, any advice to do so will drown out the music. The directest way is to play the music itself.”
— Alan Watts, Gateless Gate 
“Or put in still other words, the first rule of the game is that this game is serious, i.e., is not a game. This might be called the primordial ‘repression.’ By this I do not mean that it is an event at the temporal beginnings of human life, but rather that it may be our most deeply ingrained social attitude.”
— Alan Watts, Psychotherapy East & West 
“I suppose most of you have heard of Zen, but before going on to explain any details about it, I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I am not a Zen Buddhist. I am not advocating Zen Buddhism. I'm not trying to convert anyone to it. I have nothing to sell. I'm an entertainer.”
— Alan Watts, Eco Zen 
Brita is better based on testing. It also tastes better compared to Berkey from my own experience
“When we achieve the fulfillment of Buddhism, there is no Buddha, no temple, no gong, no bell. Because the whole world is the sound of the bell. And the image of Buddha is everything you can look at. So a Zen master was asked, mountains and hills, are they not all forms of the body of Buddha? The master replied, yes they are, but it's a pity to say so.”
— Alan Watts, Religion of No Religion 
Atheism isn’t just wrong.
It is cringe as well. 
The crusades were not only justified.
They were based as well. 
Thinking about #Bitcoin again 
As is tradition, #Bitcoin plebs vastly outperformed the world’s top hedge funds in 2024 
How it feels to broadcast a #Bitcoin txn on the immutable timechain 
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. https://video.nostr.build/5f25bd47397158ab01e9e4d66758da5fd6759d3ceb5a739ace1fa8fec0294b56.mp4 nostr:note1psvesckyfd35cr0x6jq46m5szj33gvtjsh0n9lz3zsqax50a2qxsumlhzx
“Realize that yourself is not your ego, which is the standpoint at which you are involved in your game and taking sides, but yourself is the eternal, immeasurable reality that is what there is.”
— Alan Watts, Four Ways to the Center 
Them: Was Bitcoin invented or discovered?
Me: 
By and large, we appear to still be at the denial phase. For how long? 
Still trust the fiat system? 
#Bitcoin 
#Bitcoin entering 2025 
“In presenting ideas I exaggerate. The reason for this is that, insofar as I present ideas, whereas the actual content of the philosophy is not ideas but experience, these ideas are intended to act as correctives.
And so when you are walking a tightrope, you learn balancing. And so if you're in danger of falling in a certain direction, you throw the weight the other way.
And there are all sorts of funny tricks to balancing, as you know when you ride a bicycle, you turn the front wheel in the direction in which you're falling. Whereas the person who doesn't know how to ride a bicycle tends to turn the wheel the other way, so he falls over.
So in this kind of way, what I'm talking about is always a corrective to whatever is a dominant current idea.”
— Alan Watts, Time And The Future 
