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.
…a thing called lightning, which does something called flashing, and and so you create a ghost. And one of the Great Chinese masters, Linji lived in the tang dynasty about 800 AD said that his work as a Buddhist Teacher was to beat the ghosts out of…
…tree was, of course implicit in the seed from the beginning. Now once upon a time there was an old Chinese Buddhist master called Linji, and he used to tell his disciples that he felt his duty towards them was to beat the ghosts out of them. And I…
…watchful lord, who's an androgyne and always comes on in a majorly female appearance. So, likewise, one of the Great Chinese Zen masters, Linji or rinzai as they say in Japanese, had a passage in his discourses where he says: o you followers of the way,…
…the consistent teaching of Zen: that it has nothing to say and nothing to teach. The Great Chinese master of the tang dynasty, called Linji in Chinese or rinzai in Japanese said Zen is like using a yellow leaf to stop a child crying. A child is crying…