My name's Justin, and I'm a Buddhist. I take bits from Hindu, and Taoist philosophy as well though. I blog about religion, politics, philosophy, and whatever else I feel like blogging about. I've grown a lot over the years, but I'm still far from where I want to be. If you have any questions then ask away! Don't be shy.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan Watts (via crscwldpt)
You are the vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
-Alan Watts
“It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about “I”.” - Alan Watts
The self you love—if you really go into it—is the universe. You don’t like all of it. You’re selective about it…perception is selection. But, on the whole, you love yourself in terms of what is other, because it’s only in terms of what is other that you have a self at all.
Alan Watts (via annadoes)
Billions of years ago you were a big bang, but now you’re a complicated human being. And with that, we cut ourselves off … and don’t feel like we’re still the big bang… But you are! You aren’t something at the end of the process, you are still apart of the process!
Alan Watts (via labyrintho)
But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
- Alan Watts
Alan Watts changed my life. Such a profound thinker. My favorite of his is Become What You Are, a short essay collection. Check it out on Amazon.
A Zen master was once asked, “What is the most valuable thing in the world?” He answered, “The head of a dead cat!” “Why?” “Because no one can put a price on it.” The realization of the unity of the world is like this dead cat’s head. It is the priceless, the most inconsequential thing of all…
-Alan Watts, Nature, Man and Woman
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Alan Watts (via softle)
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Alan Watts (via yclept-em)
I feel like having questions.
I think people should entertain me with questions, I’d love to get to know more of my followers.
All cats are gray in the dark. - Alan Watts
“Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force. This, in turn, arises from the definition of man as an independent agent—in the universe but not of it—saddled with the job of bending the world to his will. No amount of preaching and moralizing will tame the type of man so defined, for the hypnotic hallucination of himself as something separate from the world renders him incapable of seeing that life is a system of geological and biological cooperation. Certainly, the system contains fights: birds against worms, snails against lettuce, and spiders against flies. But these fights are contained in the sense that they do not get out of hand, that no one species is the permanent victor. Man alone is trying to eliminate his natural enemies in the conviction that he is, or should be, the supreme species.”—Alan Watts
