Alan Watts on Faith

fire on the wind · regular contributor Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 33

" Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. "

find more at www.alanwatts.com and www.alanwatts.net, also you can usually find some of his lectures to download if you have Limewire.

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Rev.Holden Greene · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:

very inspirational post im gonna have to start readin up on allen watts sounds like a very enlightened individual that has much to teach
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**Ferre** · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject:

Me too I can highly recommend some reading of Alan Watts's work.

Alan Watts on "Asking God" mp3

http://www.alanwatts.com/ra/AskingGod620.mp3
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**Mystic Power** · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject:

Beautiful.

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fire on the wind · regular contributor Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 33

Alan watts on EGO

," you ask.
"How do I get rid of it?"

And my answer to that is:
That's the wrong question.

How does one get rid of what?

You can't get rid of your hallucination of being an ego by an activity of the ego.

Sorry, but it can't be done . . .

If you try to get rid of your ego with your ego you will just end up in a vicious circle.

You'd be like somebody who worries because they worry because they worry.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination. What we really are is, first of all, the whole of our body. And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. Obviously a body requires air, and the air must be within a certain temperature range. The body also requires certain kinds of nutrition. So in order to occur the body must be on a mild and nutritive planet with just enough oxygen in the atmosphere spinning regularly around in a harmonious and rhythmical way near a certain kind of warm star.

That arrangement is just as essential to the existence of my body as my heart, my lungs, and my brain. So to describe myself in a scientific way, I must also describe my surroundings, which is a clumsy way getting around to the realization that you are the entire universe. However we do not normally feel that way because we have constructed in thought an abstract idea of our self.
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Vexation of the soul is vanity -Peter Tosh

Love to will, will to love.
The secret was told to Mose through the bush which the lord who is like unto fire did burn but not consume, Moses came nigh unto the bush and the Lord spake: I Am, upon which Moses pondered and replied I am too, thus was the initiation given through the bush which in its blazing was not consumed but revealed.

Slide · Cannabis Sacrament Minister Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 339

I like that. Alan Watts is very interesting. I have a lot of his stuff on audio. I listen to him frequently.