n u a g e s - Dreams ❀
n u a g e s - Dreams ❀
Alan Watts
"Lets suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream,
And you would naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams,
you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure, you see. And after several nights you would say, "well that was pretty great."
And you would naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams,
you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure, you see. And after several nights you would say, "well that was pretty great."
But now lets have a surprise, lets have a dream which isn't under control. Well something is going to happen to me that i don't know what it's gonna be. Then you would get more and more adventurous, And you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream, And finally you would dream where you are now.
~*~
If you awaken from this illusion,
And you understand that black implies white,
Self implies other,
Life implies death.
And you understand that black implies white,
Self implies other,
Life implies death.
You can feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world,
Not as something here on probation,
not as something that has arrived here by fluke,
Not as something here on probation,
not as something that has arrived here by fluke,
But you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in,
is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
~*~ ~*~
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973)
a British writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience.
Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Watts gained a following while working as a volunteer programmer at the KPFA radio station in Berkeley. He wrote more than 25 books and articles on religion and philosophy, introducing the emerging hippie counterculture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), he argued that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy. He considered Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be, "from a literary point of view—the best book I have ever written".[3] He also explored human consciousness and psychedelics in works such as "The New Alchemy" (1958) and The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
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