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.
…you suddenly see that this is totally commonsensical and that your present feeling of how you are is a hoax. You know Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote a book called how to be a real person. Translated into its original terms that means how to be a genuine…
…And by a curious inversion of the meaning of words, the word person has come to mean not the mask but the real thing. Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote a book called how to be a real person that is correctly styled, how to be a real fake, in other words…
…open air theater and by a curious degradation of words, the word person has come to mean the real individual. And when Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote how to be a real? Well now this image this model of the universe is disturbing to Christians. What is…
…the sound flows is the mask. And now we use the word person, which means fake or mask, to mean the real thing. Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote a book: how to be a real person. If you translate that back, into the original meaning. It's a real fake. So…
…and in this respect we do something extraordinarily odd. We define a person. Consider this for a moment: this word person. Harry Emerson Fosdick once wrote a book called how to be a real person, and this, in translation, means how to be a genuine…
…and that would project the sound. So the person is the mask. Isn't it funny now how we've forgotten that? And so Harry Emerson Fosdick could write a book called how to be a real person, which if translated literally is how to be a genuine fake,…