c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…to our living to be able to transform? Yes well it's that sentence which Aldous Huxley uses for the doors of perception from Blake Oh yes if the doors of perception were cleansed we should see everything as it is infinite, infinite yes, tell me what was…
…be. Maybe I shouldn't say anything at all about the folly of trying to put things to right, but simply on the principle of Blake, let the fool persist in his folly so that he will become wise. This is an argument against all kinds of do Gooding. In…
…view is very generous I think that all ways of meditation can be followed and because even if some of them are folly to quote Blake again the fool who persists in his folly will become wise all is required that you keep at it. So I want to talk this…
…is nothing but post hypnotic suggestion. So the only way to convince a fool of his folly is to make him persist in it. As Blake says the fool who persists in his folly will become wise. By some psychiatrists I know, I know who, when they get a person…
…because he's still on it. Finally it dawns. You see when you persistently do something absurd, eventually you'll have to see it. As Blake says a fool who persists in his folly will become wise. But if you're really consistent about it if you really go…
…sense that I'm using it is a musical thing, it is a dance it is an expression of delight in the sense of Blake saying that energy is eternal delight. And, for example the art of Islam, the arabesques, which aren't pictures of anything, they're just…
…halves of the personality and thereby brings the civil war to an end. End of quote. In other words, he was seeing that as Blake said a fool who persists in his folly will become wise that the development of egoism in man is not something to be…
…to our living to be able to transform? Yes well it's that sentence which Aldous Huxley uses for the doors of perception from Blake Oh yes if the doors of perception were cleansed we should see everything as it is: infinite, infinite yes, tell me what…
…and then come back as someone else altogether. And so when you find that out, you become full of energy and delight. As Blake said, energy is eternal delight. And you suddenly see through the whole sham of things you realize you're that we won't put a…
…the whole object of this Zen Dialogue between the teacher and the student is to carry that game of being the separate ego to its logical conclusion to its reductio AD Absurdum, so that as Blake said, the fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
…it, any old guru can sell you on a method to find it. And that may not be a bad thing for him to do, because, as Blake said a fool who persists in his folly will become wise, and a clever guru is a person who leads you on here kitty kitty, kitty,…