Alan Watts - The Principle Of Not Forcing

there is a

principle

called way and this means whoo means none or no no negation way has a combination of meanings it can mean to do action but the best translation I have found is to force and so Louie is the

principle

of not

forcing

anything that Do you know now? We know that when we see the performance of an artist, whether it is a dancer, an actor or a musician, we immediately know when the performance is forced and we say that it doesn't ring true, it's too artificial, it doesn't seem that way. being natural many people who study Taoist doctrines think that this means doing nothing in the laissez-faire sense being lazy being always passive does not mean that there is a time for action when you study judo you use your muscles only on the right side when the one where your opponent is hopelessly extended and off b

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ce and you add some muscle to him and throw him across the room, but only then do you never use the muscles at the wrong time because a Shakespeare knew perfectly well that there is a tide in affairs . of men who, taken in their flood, lead to fortune and therefore Louie relies on the knowledge of the tide, the drift of things will be the art of sailing rather than the art of rowing, so if you say now, one of the most famous Lao sayings in the book of the loser: his superior virtue has no intention of being virtuous and is therefore virtual.

Inferior virtue cannot set aside virtuosity and is therefore not virtual, so one could also say that Wu's true path is not intentionally absent and therefore the will of it. way but lower will tries to be will way that it is not, in other words this is to say lui is not a question of cultivated passivity or even of cultivated spontaneity because there are people who think that they are liberated and who have realized that. They are the DAO as we all are, or to put it in Vedanta terms, each of us is the brahmana, the eternal self of the universe beyond all description, classification or thought, and says, "Okay, darling, I am that now." I'm going to have fun, what kind of ball do you have?

Well, what they do is look for the rules according to which society is governed and do the opposite. Well, that is still governed by the rules of society and is the mirror image in reverse. that is not spontaneity, you have to be able to realize that you don't know what you really want to do until you are very calm and it tells you, quoting Jesus, unless you become like a child again you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven and If you read his Bible, by the way, which is a very dangerous book, as I will demonstrate in Playboy this December, but you understand heaven in a very literal sense.

Space. Look, we're in heaven now because Earth is a spaceship and heaven is space. It's called in Chinese chewing gum Japanese glue the emptiness that's the important thing most of us don't know this even Shakespeare has one of his characters saying oh, this very solid flesh would melt but do you know that you are much more space than You are anything else if the ponderable I won't say it matters how ponderable whatever is in your bodies would condense and everything together would be smaller than the tip of a pin and anyway someone once said that even a bishop is 80% water Hey , we are The airy nothingness is so space is in some ways very fundamental, let's go deeper into this, but you understand that heaven is space and all those references in those nursery rhymes that we learned when we were children, which were the hymns about the heaven we were talking about. about Thrones and crowns and harps and streets of glass crystals transparencies space everything is reduced to space always space that no one can define no one can imagine it seems to be nothing is the basis of the universe but you have to be like a child again to see what you know , go back to your childhood what were the fascinating things what's out there what's beyond the stars how long does it last and mom said it goes on forever and ever and always the child wanders around is excited that this is something that never ends so the child question about time how long ago is it a long time ago well the bible says that in the beginning God created heaven and earth well what did God do before he did that well how one person said he established punishments in hell for people who are stupid you ask but still it's just a joke and that the child thinks about God going back never starting then in the same way you think about death go to sleep and never wake up why it would be like you never existed not only you but everything else that it's been hard how things were before you were born, just turn it around, you know, what if you woke up after never having fallen asleep?

That's all a fraud, something suspicious about all that, ex, jaysus Christos, United States. hence the fish, so we have a funny feeling when we think about those questions through very funny feelings and the children that you see love to get into that funny feeling. Children like all kinds of strange things to spin as fast as possible so that with their eyes and I make faces and I taste their bodies and all kinds of funny shapes because they know from the beginning that the world is strange, I miss it because everyone knows what it is about, they just don't admit that they are being taught.

I don't want to admit it if you know very well what's going on, but in order to find out once again as an adult, who after having arrived as a child, then what does that mean? Ladies and gentlemen, could you please check your ideas and opinions at the door, first of all, all your philosophical and religious views, all your logic, because I say check it at the door carefully because you can pick it up again when you leave if you feel unsafe without it. I'm not trying to take you away from your opinions and views I'm simply suggesting that for the sake of an experiment you temporarily suspended and looked at what it is like you don't even know how to speak red is not red blue is not blue hard is not hard soft it is not resolved man is not a man woman is not a woman only this jazz exists it will not be possible to force oneself to this way of seeing things because what Buddhists call energy of habit continues and as I speak with you you will find yourself thinking about in a compulsive way and usual this is red this is green this is something this is nothing mrs. solid, this is space, okay, but treat those thoughts that go through your head exactly the same as if they were maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe see that's all, they're like shapes in the spray as the sea breaks against the rocks now.

Please don't worry because this is an anti-intellectual point of view, this is undermining the value of logic and reason, etc., just that we will bring all that up later when we need it, but just for the moment let's simplify the closing. your eyes hear what it is what you are really honest here don't name it like it's music classical music