To support free web content, consider donating! Contribute via donation, or otherwise, at: http://ift.tt/1Z25SWT ~The complete Alan Watts collections may be found at www.alanwatts.org. "What you call 'the experience of time' is YOU. It's not something else altogether you see... which is a trap for you. You are time. All right, you go on? You want to go on? Okay, you create time by wanting to go on. Why do you want to go on? 'Well,' you say, 'because, uh, well, one must go on.' Why must you go on? You feel compelled? 'Yeah. It's our duty to go on.' How did you learn that idea? 'Well, we're taught it when we're children by our parents.' They said you must survive. You must live. And they were taught that by their parents, so they knew no better. But if you live a life in which you feel you must survive, then your life is a drag. You're always hoping to live. So then, if you come to your senses—which will tell you there isn't anything but the now, and that therefore, because there isn't anything but the now, it is supremely important to rest in it, to get with it, to be one with it—you will understand the point... What's going on... That you, in your own way, are your fathers and your grandfathers come back. Myriads and myriads of past events are still going on in you. And you are doing the same thing only it keeps looking different, in the same illusory way that the wave appears to be moving across the surface of the water." ~Alan Watts speaking in audio "Time and the Future" {Part 4 of 4}. Full audio available free: https://youtu.be/Wto6rNCgN4o
3 minutes with Alan Watts ~ Time and the Future Vignette
To support free web content, consider donating! Contribute via donation, or otherwise, at: http://ift.tt/1Z25SWT ~The complete Alan Watts collections may be found at www.alanwatts.org. "What you call 'the experience of time' is YOU. It's not something else altogether you see... which is a trap for you. You are time. All right, you go on? You want to go on? Okay, you create time by wanting to go on. Why do you want to go on? 'Well,' you say, 'because, uh, well, one must go on.' Why must you go on? You feel compelled? 'Yeah. It's our duty to go on.' How did you learn that idea? 'Well, we're taught it when we're children by our parents.' They said you must survive. You must live. And they were taught that by their parents, so they knew no better. But if you live a life in which you feel you must survive, then your life is a drag. You're always hoping to live. So then, if you come to your senses—which will tell you there isn't anything but the now, and that therefore, because there isn't anything but the now, it is supremely important to rest in it, to get with it, to be one with it—you will understand the point... What's going on... That you, in your own way, are your fathers and your grandfathers come back. Myriads and myriads of past events are still going on in you. And you are doing the same thing only it keeps looking different, in the same illusory way that the wave appears to be moving across the surface of the water." ~Alan Watts speaking in audio "Time and the Future" {Part 4 of 4}. Full audio available free: https://youtu.be/Wto6rNCgN4o
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