…acted. Far more intelligently than you would if you had thought about it. And on certain occasions people being, say chased by a bull can do all kinds of feats of physical prowess which they never imagined they would be capable of in the ordinary way…

…swallowed a ball of red hot iron. He can't gulp it down and he can't spit it out. Or it's like a mosquito biting an iron bull. It's the nature of a mosquito to bite and it's the nature of an iron bull to be unbiteable. And both go on doing their…

…Or it's like a mosquito biting an iron bull. It's the nature of a mosquito to bite and it's the nature of an iron bull to be unbiteable. And both go on doing their thing that is their nature. And so nothing can happen. And you realize, absolutely…

…the whole function of every great guru is to kid you out of that and look at you and say don't give me that line of bull. But you know, you have to be tactful, you have to be effective you can't just tell people this you can't talk people out of…

…a person is simply beside himself to get this and finds no way through. That is called in Zen the mosquito biting the iron bull. But that's not. There are, as it were other ways. This is not, as it were a necessary only way. The whole problem is:…

…an appropriate sign it is the whole strength of the butting RAM, the sudden uprush of spring. Next comes, of course Taurus the bull what could be a better symbol of fertility, of the emergence of spring in its full strength? Next Gemini the twins what…

…to invest are often finding bigger profits in the art market than they do in the stock market? In fact during the great bull market of the 1950s the art market actually outperformed the stock market. The author of a remarkable new book, art as an…

…be put one down. The master one up man with psychotics is a controversial psychiatrist known affectionately in the profession as the bull. A compulsive talker won't listen to him. The bull pulls a knife on the fellow and attracts his attention. No other…

…psychotics is a controversial psychiatrist known affectionately in the profession as the bull. A compulsive talker won't listen to him. The bull pulls a knife on the fellow and attracts his attention. No other therapist is so adroit at topping even the most…

…hospitals attendance, shock treatments, lobotomies, drugs, restraints and tubs to place the patient in a sufficiently one down position. The bull, with mere words and with an occasional flash of a pocket knife, manages to make the most difficult psychotic…

…an occasional flash of a pocket knife, manages to make the most difficult psychotic feel one down. An interesting contrast to the bull is a woman known in the profession as the lovely lady of the lodge, leading the league in subtle one upmanship with…

…bull's ploys which are often considered rather. Crude and not always in the best of taste. If a patient insists he is god, the bull will insist that he is god and force the patient to his knees, thus getting one up in a rather straightforward way to…

…race of men and she, being ashamed to have intercourse with her own brother, turns into a cow and he immediately turns into a bull and has intercourse with her and produces all cattle and so on down to the very ants. Down to the very ants, because all…

…be passive you are doing something. So you get into the state which they call in Zen. Buddhism, a mosquito biting an iron bull or as we would say in our western idiom, the state when the irresistible force meets the immovable object, where something must…

…the tail, is therefore dissipated by the technique of the koan it's called. Working on a koan is like a mosquito biting an iron bull. It's the nature of the mosquito to bite, it's the nature of an iron bull to be unbitten. Or they say it's like…

…on a koan is like a mosquito biting an iron bull. It's the nature of the mosquito to bite, it's the nature of an iron bull to be unbitten. Or they say it's like swallowing a ball of molten lead. You can't swallow it down you can't cough it up, you…

…me, since he is originally me this is incest. And so she turned herself into a cow, he immediately turned himself into a bull and from their copulation were produced all cattle. But then she turned herself into a mare but he immediately into a stallion,…

…you realize that there is nothing you can do about life, nothing you could not do about life, then you're the mosquito biting the iron bull. Well so in the same way he said: look you heard a bomb coming at you you could hear it whistle and you knew…

…can the mountain finch know the wild swans aspiring? The eight cornered mortar rushes across the sky. The badger and the white bull emit a glorious radiance, with no bird singing, the mountain is yet more still in the spring beyond time, the withered tree…

…But the woman got guilty about this because she felt it was incest, and so she turned herself into a cow, and he became a bull and he made love to her and so came all cattle and the same thing happened she got guilty and turned herself into a sheep,…

…You know you fell off. You nailed that man to the cross because you eat steak. You have crucified Christ because he killed the bull after all you depend on it. Mithra, it's the same mystery. And what are you going to do about that? This have I done…

…to be put one down. The master one upman with psychotics is a controversial psychiatrist known affectionately in the profession as the bull. The compulsive talker will listen to him. The bull pulls a knife on the fellow and attracts his attention. No other…

…psychotics is a controversial psychiatrist known affectionately in the profession as the bull. The compulsive talker will listen to him. The bull pulls a knife on the fellow and attracts his attention. No other therapist is so adroit at topping even the…

…hospitals attendance, shock treatments, lobotomies, drugs, restraints and tubs to place the patient in a sufficiently one down position. The bull, with mere words and with an occasional flash of a pocket knife, manages to make the most difficult psychotic…

…an occasional flash of a pocket knife, manages to make the most difficult psychotic feel one down. An interesting contrast to the bull is a woman known in the profession as the lovely lady of the lodge, leading the league in subtle one upmanship. With…

…classes, whether of humans or of animals, do. You see we pretend that we don't. It's like you don't go around crudely taking a bull and banging it on the head with a mallet or sticking a knife through it and tearing it apart and eating it. All that's…

…who went over there said: well these people are obviously devil worshippers, because yamantaka's main Face is the head of a bloodthirsty bull with fangs, although when you see all the other heads, right at the top is the head of the bodhisattva of supreme…

…inevitable ecstasy on Zen Buddhism, in which Alan Watts compares man's effort toward attaining enlightenment to a mosquito biting an iron bull. It's part one of biting an iron bull. Here's Alan Watts. This seminar called inevitable ecstasy is about a very…

…Watts compares man's effort toward attaining enlightenment to a mosquito biting an iron bull. It's part one of biting an iron bull. Here's Alan Watts. This seminar called inevitable ecstasy is about a very sticky problem, which is to say the problem to…

…one turn to look at yourself, but you can't make two turns and see what's looking. You've been listening to biting an iron bull, part 1 with Alan Watts from the Alan Watts radio series no 3, eastern and Western Zen. For information on how to obtain…

…California, 94979. When you call or write please indicate the name of your local station now you heard the program biting an iron bull, part 1 from the Alan Watts radio series no 3, eastern and Western Zen. Again the phone number is 1 800 969 2887,…

…the central themes in Zen Buddhism. It was recorded on the ferry boat Vallejo in the late 60s. It's called biting an iron bull. Part 2 here's Alan Watts. So it's very simple, therefore. You only have to understand that you can't do anything about it.…

…it and there's nothing I can not do about it. And this predicament in Zen is called a mosquito trying to bite an iron bull a position of such psychic extremity that nothing can be done about it. Now the point here is: what does this situation mean,…

…swallowed a ball of red hot iron. He can't gulp it down and he can't spit it out. Or it's like a mosquito biting an iron bull. It's the nature of a mosquito to bite and it's the nature of an iron bull to be unbiteable. And both go on doing their…

…Or it's like a mosquito biting an iron bull. It's the nature of a mosquito to bite and it's the nature of an iron bull to be unbiteable. And both go on doing their thing that is their nature, and so nothing can happen. You realize, absolutely you're…