https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXq_mVU8nyc
“What do I want?
The answer is I don’t know….
Why don’t you really know what you want?
Two reasons that you don’t really know what you want.
Number one.
You have it.
Number two.
You don’t know yourself.
Because you never can.
The godhead is never an object of its own knowledge.
Just as a knife doesn’t cut itself,
Fire doesn’t burn itself,
Light doesn’t illumine itself,
It’s always an endless mystery to itself…
I don’t know.
&& this I don’t know you uttered in the infinite interior of the spirit…
this I don’t know…
Is the same thing as,
I love.
I let go.
I don’t try to force or control.
It’s the same thing as humility…
“….The brahman is unknown to those who know it, and known to those who know it not…”
And the principle is, that, any time you voluntarily let up control, in other words, cease to cling to yourself, you have an access of power. Because you’re wasting energy all the time in self defense…trying to manage things, trying to force things to conform to your will…the moment you stop doing that, that wasted energy is available. Therefore you are, in that sense-- having that energy available—you are one with the divine principle, you have the energy. When you are however, to act as if you were god, that is to say you don’t trust anybody and you are the dictator, and you have to keep everybody in line—you loose the divine energy. Because what you are doing is simply defending yourself.
So then, the principle is—the more you give it away, the more it comes back…
…You’d better give it away, because there’s no holding onto it.
The meaning of the fact that everything is dissolving constantly, that we’re all falling apart, we’re all in the process of constant death………all falling apart, everything’s is…you see that’s of great assistance to you.
That fact—that everything is in constant decay is your helper.
That is allowing you…to not have to let go, because there’s nothing to hold onto.
It’s achieved for you, in other words, by the process of nature.
Suddenly you find you have the power.
This enormous access of energy.
But it’s not power that came to you because you grabbed it.
It came in entirely the opposite way.”
Alan Watts <3
“What do I want?
The answer is I don’t know….
Why don’t you really know what you want?
Two reasons that you don’t really know what you want.
Number one.
You have it.
Number two.
You don’t know yourself.
Because you never can.
The godhead is never an object of its own knowledge.
Just as a knife doesn’t cut itself,
Fire doesn’t burn itself,
Light doesn’t illumine itself,
It’s always an endless mystery to itself…
I don’t know.
&& this I don’t know you uttered in the infinite interior of the spirit…
this I don’t know…
Is the same thing as,
I love.
I let go.
I don’t try to force or control.
It’s the same thing as humility…
“….The brahman is unknown to those who know it, and known to those who know it not…”
And the principle is, that, any time you voluntarily let up control, in other words, cease to cling to yourself, you have an access of power. Because you’re wasting energy all the time in self defense…trying to manage things, trying to force things to conform to your will…the moment you stop doing that, that wasted energy is available. Therefore you are, in that sense-- having that energy available—you are one with the divine principle, you have the energy. When you are however, to act as if you were god, that is to say you don’t trust anybody and you are the dictator, and you have to keep everybody in line—you loose the divine energy. Because what you are doing is simply defending yourself.
So then, the principle is—the more you give it away, the more it comes back…
…You’d better give it away, because there’s no holding onto it.
The meaning of the fact that everything is dissolving constantly, that we’re all falling apart, we’re all in the process of constant death………all falling apart, everything’s is…you see that’s of great assistance to you.
That fact—that everything is in constant decay is your helper.
That is allowing you…to not have to let go, because there’s nothing to hold onto.
It’s achieved for you, in other words, by the process of nature.
Suddenly you find you have the power.
This enormous access of energy.
But it’s not power that came to you because you grabbed it.
It came in entirely the opposite way.”
Alan Watts <3