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A tribute to Alan Watts
DIR By: Perilsting
Date: October 27, 2018, 6:45 am
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Up there, if not at the summit alone, comes the words of a truly
enlightened hero. He says it all perfectly in the following..
(Hope it aint to long Jed, I swear I counted 199 words!)
"So then, here’s the drama. My metaphysics, let me be perfectly
frank with you, is that there is the central Self, you can call
it God, you can call it anything you like, and it’s All of Us.
It’s playing all the parts of All Beings whatsoever everywhere
and anywhere.
And it’s playing the game of hide and seek with itself. It gets
lost, it gets involved in the farthest-out adventures, but in
the end it always wakes up and comes back to itself. And when
you’re ready to wake up, you’re going to wake up, and if you’re
not ready you’re going to stay pretending that you’re just a
‘poor little me.’
So then, when you’re in the way of waking up, and finding out
who you are, you meet a character called a guru, as the Hindus
say ‘the teacher,’ ‘the awakener.’ And what is the function of a
guru? He’s the man that looks you in the eye and says ‘Oh come
off it. I know who you are.’
You come to the guru and say ‘Sir, I have a problem. I’m
unhappy, and I want to get one up on the universe. I want to
become enlightened. I want spiritual wisdom.’ The guru looks at
you and says ‘Who are you?’
You know Sri-Ramana-Maharshi, that great Hindu sage of modern
times? People used to come to him and say ‘Master, who was I in
my last incarnation?’ As if that mattered. And he would say ‘Who
is asking the question?’
And he’d look at you and say, get right down to it, ‘You’re
looking at me, you’re looking out, and you’re unaware of what’s
behind your eyes. Go back in and find out who you are, where the
question comes from, why you ask.‘
**M
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Re: A tribute to Alan Watts
DIR By: Jed McKenna
Date: October 27, 2018, 7:42 am
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Thanks for sharing. Alan is great and spoke very eloquently.
However, in this venue, I am only interested in what you say
about your journey. Stick with that. You enough in your head,
get it down and out.
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: A tribute to Alan Watts
DIR By: Perilsting
Date: October 27, 2018, 11:23 am
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Ok all good...
What do you wanna know from me that you dont know already?
I know that I know pretty much nothing and am ok with that. The
curious cat is dead!
All that is left is the purring content cat amused at his
environment.
As Alan says “Youre it!” pretty much resounds with me.
Putting into my words would be “I’m it!” Nothing else exists
outside of this statement. All else is a conceptual reality.
Smile and enjoy.
**M
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Re: A tribute to Alan Watts
DIR By: Jed McKenna
Date: October 28, 2018, 8:17 am
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Yup, no off with you. Enjoy the show.
Love ya, Jed
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Re: A tribute to Alan Watts
DIR By: Perilsting
Date: October 28, 2018, 7:47 pm
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Ok ok ... jeez man just hangin around for fun :-), anyways see
ya later aligator !
**M
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Re: A tribute to Alan Watts
DIR By: Jed McKenna
Date: October 29, 2018, 12:29 am
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8) 8) 8) ;)
Via con Dios... or something like that.
Cheers.
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