David Lynch in "Curtain's Up" (by Austin Lynch and Case Simmons) from Stella McCartney (2018)

 

How To Never Get Angry or Bothered By Anyone | Alan Watts (fragments)

Laughter is the sound of freedom returning.

Disagreement is just diversity in disguise.

The truth plays hide-and-seek through all of us.

When you stop the obsession of being right, you begin to listen.

Not to prepare a counter-argument but to truly hear. 

 

David Lynch MasterClass / English subtitles /

Flora, Fauna, Funga | Documentary | National Geographic Society (2024)

 

Alan Watts (1915 - 1973) Bibliography

(1932). An outline of Zen Buddhism. London: Golden Vista Press.

(1937). The legacy of Asia and Western man: a study of the middle way. London: John Murray.

(1940). The meaning of happiness: the quest for freedom of the spirit in modern psychology and the wisdom of the East (1st ed.). New York: Harper and Row.

(1947). Behold the spirit: a study in the necessity of mystical religion. London: John Murray.

(1950). Easter: its story and meaning. New York: H. Schuman.
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety. Pantheon Books. 

(1951) Myth and Ritual in Christianity, Thames and Hudson, including essay "God and Satan"

(1957) The Way of Zen. Pantheon Books. 

(1958) Nature, Man and Woman; Edited by Jean P Burden. Beat Zen Square Zen and Zen

(1960) This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience, Pantheon Books

(1961) Psychotherapy East and West, Pantheon Books

(1962) The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity

(1966) Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship, Pantheon Books
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. Pantheon Books.  
Nonsense, illustrations by Greg Irons (a collection of literary nonsense), San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions

(1970) Does It Matter?: Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality, Pantheon Books

(1972) The Art of Contemplation: A Facsimile Manuscript with Doodles
In My Own Way: An Autobiography 1915–1965. Pantheon Books.  

Vintage Books pocket edition 1973, New World Library edition, 2007

(1974) Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal, Pantheon Books. Also published in Canada by Jonathan Cape

(2020). Just So: Money, Materialism, and the Ineffable, Intelligent Universe (1st ed.). Boulder, Colorado: Sounds True. 

Para una versión del «I King» - Jorge Luis Borges (1975)

El porvenir es tan irrevocable

como el rígido ayer. No hay una cosa
que no sea una letra silenciosa
de la eterna escritura indescifrable

cuyo libro es el tiempo. Quien se aleja
de su casa ya ha vuelto. Nuestra vida
es la senda futura y recorrida.
El rigor ha tejido la madeja.

No te arredres. La ergástula es oscura,
la firme trama es de incesante hierro,
pero en algún recodo de tu encierro

puede haber un descuido, una hendidura.
El camino es fatal como la flecha
pero en las grietas está Dios, que acecha.







Soneto con el cual Borges prologa I Ching. Libro de las mutaciones (1975), edición de Richard Wilhelm (Edhasa)

George Harrison On What Lies Beyond The Mind

 

Alan Watts For When You Need To Stop Thinking

 

"The goal of action is contemplation".

Aristotle

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu (Chapter 24)

24


Those who stand on their toes are not steady.

Those who take long steps cannot keep the pace.

Those who show off do not shine.

Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

Those who boast are not respected.

Those who praise themselves do not prevail.


To the Way,

Such people are surplus provisions and useless actions.

They are rejected by many.

Therefore:

Those who follow the Way do not remain with them.

Debunking the #1 myth about enlightenment | Robert Waldinger

 

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