The Wisdom of Insecurity

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Instead of a method, Watts argues that the problem can be resolved immediately the moment it is properly understood. Quite the contrary, it’s the stability and usefulness of this abstraction that makes it very easy to confuse for reality. If the simplest things caused wonder, if you had little use for thinking of the past or worrying about the future, then the "childish" you was truly living in ways you cannot even begin to fathom as an adult. Live in the present, because the present is essentially all there is; the past and future are mental memories that we evoke in the present.

Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Neki bi kvalifikovali ovu knjižicu kao krindž, ali ko nije krindž neka prvi baci kamen a to sigurno nisam ja. While Watts’ thoughts seem closer to the mark on actual Eastern religious viewpoints, I think it’s also clear that this isn’t how most of those religions are widely practiced in Asia. But we've already covered that I've been feeling pretty shot and my brain is no longer working as well as it once did.But to the undivided mind, death is another moment, complete like every moment, and cannot yield its secret unless lived to the full. That is, experienced meditators and Zen practitioners, are better at guiding their attention onto different objects of experience, and they have inculcated certain mental habits that make those attentional shifts more automatic. Most Westerners who get hooked on 'those mystical religions of the east' tend to be those who completely misunderstand the religions of the west and blame all the problems the last two hundred years (colonisation, the crusades, capitalism.

And according to Watts, we don't even have the true past to draw upon, but a memory of the past which is really only part of the present.The statement circulates forever, since it is true to the extent that it is false, and false to the extent that it is true. Now, Being to us in our fractious lives seems to be constantly Threatened by Non-Being - evil, or Nothingness as Sartre puts it.