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This is a delightfully fresh and direct book from Watts. I have been reading him on and off for the past 35+ years and this seems to me to be something of a breakthrough for/from him, really expressing a very clear experience of being in the moment. It is easy to read (large print, simple words), but the meaning is deep and profound, and he says it all in a way that is both clearly simple and yet playfully fresh. And he does this without a lot of cultural baggage (East or West), so making it especially powerful and approachable for modern readers (yet also remarkable in that he wrote this in 1951).
Over and over he points out what is real (what we all know), and yet indescribable;
"What is true and positive is too real and too living to be described, and to try to describe it is like putting red paint on a red rose." (p.76)
"Indeed, every experience is in this sense new, and at every moment in our lives we are in the midst of the new and unknown. At this point you receive the experience without resisting it or naming it, and the whole sense of conflict between "I" and the present reality vanishes." (p.94)
"The meaning of freedom can never be grasped by the divided mind. If I feel separate from my experience, and from the world, freedom will seem to be the extent to which I can push the world around, and fate the extent to which the world pushes me around. But to the whole mind there is no contrast of "I" and the world. There is just one process acting, and it does everything that happens.... No one fates and no one is being fated." (p. 122)
And the way he finishes the book is perhaps best of all;
"Discovering this the mind becomes whole; the split between I and me, man and the world, the ideal and the real, comes to an end.Read more ›
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This book was recommended to me by an acquaintance, but I just didn't "get it." Maybe I need the coloring-book version for the intellectually challenged, but whatever, I just couldn't connect with it at all. I guess if you're not a philosophy major, I would have to say, skip this one.
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