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.
…is concentration as it's put here. Look at this piece of calligraphy by a Great Japanese, Modern Japanese artist, Saburo Hasegawa, and it says literally: one meeting, one lifetime, every encounter, every moment in other words every meeting, every experience…
…you're carrying it. You see it's like that. And so Suzuki has explained that that's the way it is, that once when Saburo Hasegawa who was a Great Japanese painter, was at a dinner party here in San Francisco Somebody asked him what about understanding…
…can do it to play on demand, that's the hardest lesson of life: to contrive what is called by my Japanese artist friend Saburo Hasegawa, a controlled accident. The thing is that we have been educated to use our minds in a certain way, a way that…
…value of this Caddy went up to a phenomenal figure. Now this is the art of what the great modern Japanese painter Saburo Hasegawa called the controlled accident. And you see there is a combination in the idea of the nature, the control being the…
…wisdom as the behaviour of a lunatic. You see it doesn't take itself seriously. Here is a Zen painter of modern Times, Saburo Hasegawa, a self portrait, and the writing underneath is a quotation from Laozi. The people of the world seem so satisfied, as…
…is a very marvellous example of wandering. It's a print by a great contemporary Japanese artist who died a year or two ago, Saburo Hasegawa. He made this print from pieces of an old boat that were washed up on the beach and he rubbed them with ink…
…you're carrying it you see it's like that and so Suzuki has explained that that's the way it is, that once when Saburo Hasegawa who was a Great Japanese painter, was at a dinner party here in San Francisco Somebody asked him: what about understanding…