…way and that so on and you can listen to that and find it very interesting, very beautiful. But if someone were to do what John cage does and put you in a concert hall with the expectation of hearing music and by having a purely silent playing of the…

…what you believe and so people go in for believing in the. You see the roman Catholic Church up to the time of pope John was getting the height of it was Achilles. They were getting more and more obscurantist. The last thing they did was to make it…

…literal way you can pat yourself on the back and say: I am a strong fellow, I'm gutsy. But the old wise pope John you know, suddenly realized that this wasn't working and that some very serious thinking had to be done about the church's whole position…

…working and that some very serious thinking had to be done about the church's whole position and they now, because of pope John they took themselves out on a limb and there's something that's got to happen about birth control, about relationship to not…

…of the head. The head says no not at all, although I evolved later than the stomach. The stomach was my forerunner like John the baptist for jesus Christ, and really the stomach is simply a gadget which serves the needs of the brain. The brain is…

…I'm riding on the back of an ox and when crossing the bridge the bridge flows and the water stays still. Or when Jim drinks John gets tipsy. Zen is full of paradoxes of this kind or a Eckhart is full of funny sayings like this: the eye with which I…

…seriously. Now I want to read something to you to suggest another thing altogether, and this is a very curious document written by John blofeld, who for many years has been well known in Zen circles as a rather good translator of Chinese Zen texts, and…

…of Chinese Zen texts, and he wrote a very competent little textbook on Chinese Buddhism called the jewel in the lotus. Well John blofeld finally broke down some months ago, say the 25th of may 1964, and decided he would see what happened to him…

…action represented by a verb word such as to know, must have in front of it a noun such as I know, he knows, she knows, John knows, Mary knows, if there's a verb like love, I love you, which is the whole basis of the doctrine of the holy trinity: I…

…is this: true, the brain is a later development than the alimentary tract. But the alimentary tract is to the brain, as John the baptist to jesus Christ, the forerunner of the big event. And the reason for all the scrounging around and stomach and…

…would say: well no it isn't that things which come first aren't necessarily the most important. The stomach is to the brain, as John the baptist was to jesus. The stomach is there but to nourish the brain the stomach is the servant of the brain, which…

…people are afraid of the possibility of eternal annihilation, and I suppose one of the most eloquent expressions of that is John Betjeman's Poem before the anesthetic, where he would prefer rather even the dismal hells than that this eye should cease to…

…church had outbreaks of this and this sort of thing can't happen. You know once upon a time, in the cathedral of st John the divine which is the chief episcopal church in New York, the sermon was going on and the colored woman present suddenly…

…memoriam, a few close friends and admirers have gathered around the fireplace with frankincense burning and we have come together at John and tony Lilly's Ranch in malibu to observe what would have been his 59th birthday. Great teacher and illuminated soul…

…that he had of joyousness and life was always an adventure whatever you did with Alan took on a particular quality of vitality. John well I'm just a recent acquisition, I think tony and Laura came before me. When did you meet him John well I've known…

…particular quality of vitality. John well I'm just a recent acquisition, I think tony and Laura came before me. When did you meet him John well I've known Alan. I say I've known him because I feel his presence is still here and I suppose it's gone back…

…me. We were practically in los angeles when I realized that there was a package in the back of the car and that scarf that John was talking about and the picture that we had used during the ceremony with his ashes in front of it was in the car and…

…everybody has he would always take it lightly because he was capable of looking at himself and laugh, which is such extraordinary quality, John, I met Alan as a sort of a voluntary act. I had read his book man, nature and woman, wasn't it man woman…

…jesus Christ, who believed himself to be god. This of course will be unquestionably true if you think that the gospel of saint John has historical value. It's a little vaguer in the synoptic gospels but if you read the gospel of saint John there is…

…that the gospel of saint John has historical value. It's a little vaguer in the synoptic gospels but if you read the gospel of saint John there is absolutely no doubt about it for he said: I and the father are one he who has seen me has seen the…

…authority do you speak of heaven or of men? And he was tricky about answering that one. He said: by what authority did John the baptist speak? And they were nervous about answering that one. He could have asked: by what authority did Isaiah speak etc.…

…was hushed up from its inception was that: wake up everybody and find out who you are. Asking. That again in the gospel of saint John they pointing to his disciples may be one even as you father and I are one and when he was accused of blasphemy the…

…have material possessions and necessary for you it wasn't unnecessary for him to have material possessions. They said instead of st John the baptist that he was an ascetic, but of jesus, this man consorts with gluttoners and wine bibbers and comes eating…

…It's too strong. Here with the mass communication, you see everybody getting the same thing. Now, oddly enough, you see John McLuhan in his thought about the future of communications, says that with the development of the electronic circuits we tend…

…a Catholic say when he makes his confession? The formula is: I confess to god almighty the blessed Mary ever virgin, blessed John the baptist, the holy apostles Peter and Paul and all the saints, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word and deed…

…sound comes through quite clearly. It's no problem. So then there was an extraordinary eccentric that was going to be a big hit called John cage. It was a good friend of mine and he used to. He was a very competent musician oh I mean juilliard and all…

…proficient in archery through the study of Zen that he could hit the bullseye in the dark. But a friend of mine the composer John cage was recently traveling in Japan and a Japanese said to him: you know something needs to be added to that book. We…

…is very beautiful, but the confucians really disregarded the study of nature. The taoists, especially if you read the great philosopher John turner, had a wonderful eye for natural process and also for human skills in so far as they exemplified natural…

…very largely prophetic in style, culminating as it does in the end of the new testament, in the apocalypse, the revelation of st John, this tremendous warning of an impending doom which will come about if men do not mend their ways. And it seems, you…

…in the hand palm of avalokiteshvara look into an eye. What are you looking at when you look into somebody's eyes? Is it just John or jane you're looking at something about an eye that's deeper than that. I think a new kind of encounter group might be…

…of music turned out bach's by the dozen and after a while we would say: all this is a bore, try Shostakovich try John cage. And that is in fact what happens. So the genius can't explain. So there's no point praising myself. I don't particularly praise…

…Some people are afraid of the possibility of eternal annihilation and I suppose one of the most eloquent expressions of that is John Betjeman's Poem before the anesthetic, where he would prefer rather even the dismal hells than that this I should cease to…

…down. Because whatever you do you have to do. It unilaterally. I mean you have to do it uniformly for everyone. You can't say, well John is the lord god and Peter Isn't, ha uh, but as a result of this you see, we all feel like strangers in the…

…to read to you a description of this state which is rather curious. It's the work of a very famous Buddhist Scholar, John blofeld, who was adventurous enough to take some mescaline and suddenly got a real shock, because he found out practically everything…

…and that and so on and you can listen to that and find it very interesting, very beautiful. But if someone were to do what John cage does and put you in a concert hall with the expectation of hearing music and by having a purely silent playing of the…

…a sense of humor. And in the toilet you know it's an old fashioned one there's a tank and a pipe coming down to the John and there's a little placard on it with a big eye painted and in gothic letters. Underneath it it says: thou god seest me, so…

…is this: true, the brain is a later development than the alimentary tract. But the alimentary tract is to the brain, as John the baptist to jesus Christ, the forerunner of the big event. And the reason for all the scrounging around and stomach and…

…would say: well no it isn't that things which come first aren't necessarily the most important. The stomach is to the brain, as John the baptist was to jesus. The stomach is there but to nourish the brain, the stomach is the servant of the brain, which…

…in summer we sweat, in winter we shiver. So it's different from in Shakespeare's Richard Ii, where Bolingbroke is about to be banished and John of gaunt I think it is says to him: to all places under the eye of heaven are to a wise man ports and…

…this is a question with many aspects to it. It isn't only a question of the reinterpretation of doctrines, the what pope John called agionamento, the updating of Christianity. It's a question of the institution. What are we going to do with the church…

…and they said: but it is written in the tradition that the messiah is not subject to death. This is in the gospel of saint John. And jesus replied: if a grain of corn does not fall into the ground and die, it remains lifeless and isolated. But if it…

…they said that there's something else that has a higher authority than scripture, which is the inner light, as the gospel of st John Describes it the true light which enlightens every man that comes into the world. And if you just put your mind back…

…dawn and you hardly move except once at midnight when you get a drink of water passed round and you can go out to the John if you wanted, they say, because their religion is legal there have been court tests of it but their view is that peyote, being…

…as you can see that a landscape is the humscape you see. And so there has become a school of musical composers, like John cage, who treat us to background noise or to silent concerts in which the concert is the sound spontaneously occurring in the…

…friend who built somebody a house like a snail shell and it spiraled in and in and in and in and the John was right at the center. Everybody rebels against this house. They just feel very uncomfortable. You see the furniture doesn't fit, because…

…jesus Christ, who believed himself to be god. This, of course, will be unquestionably true if you think that the gospel of st John has historical value. It's a little vaguer in the synoptic gospels, but if you read the gospel of st John there is…

…that the gospel of st John has historical value. It's a little vaguer in the synoptic gospels, but if you read the gospel of st John there is absolutely no doubt about it for he said: I and the father are one. He who has seen me has seen the father…

…authority do you speak of heaven or of men? And he was tricky about answering that one. He said: by what authority did John the baptist speak? And they were nervous about answering that one. He could have asked: by what authority did Isaiah speak etc or…

…hushed up from its inception, was that: wake up everybody and find out who you are asking that again in the gospel of st John, they, pointing to his disciples, may be one, even as you, father and I are one. And when he was accused of blasphemy, the…

…him to have material possessions and necessary for you? It wasn't unnecessary for him to have material possessions. They said of st John the baptist that he was an ascetic but of jesus, this man consorts with gluttoners and wine bibbers and comes eating…

…the beginning was vak, which is exactly the same thing as saying in the beginning was the word, as in the gospel of st John. But that doesn't mean the orders give him the word. The vak means vibration, and so the name that is fundamentally vak is the…

…when you read the writings of the early fathers of the church, the great theologians like st clement, Gregory of nyssa, st John of Damascus, even Thomas Aquinas, They're not interested in the historicity of the Bible. They take that sort of for granted…

…four gospels as on the whole, as good a historical document as anything else we have from that period, including the gospel of st John, and that's important. It used to be fashionable to regard the gospel of st John as late, in other words at the turn…

…from that period, including the gospel of st John, and that's important. It used to be fashionable to regard the gospel of st John as late, in other words at the turn of the century. The higher critics of the new testament assigned the gospel of st…

…John as late, in other words at the turn of the century. The higher critics of the new testament assigned the gospel of st John to about 125 a d, and the reason was just simple. Those higher critics at that time just assumed that the simple teachings…

…theology and therefore they said: well it must be later. Now as a matter of fact in the text of the gospel of st John the local color, his knowledge of the topography of Jerusalem and his knowledge of the Jewish Calendar is more accurate than that of…

…Thomas Aquinas, Out of the great fathers of the church, from Oregon, from clement of Alexandria, from st Gregory Nazianzus, from st John of tabascus from st basil the great, from st Augustine from st Ambrose, from Bernard of cervo st Albert the great. He…

…the environment the Puppet of the organism being pushed around by the organism. The relationship between them is, to use John Dewey's word, transactional, the transaction being a situation like buying and selling, in which there is no buying unless somebody…