24 — Sunday, July 26, 1998 —- North Shore News

DURING the Sixties I

was acquainted with

- Alan Watts, the author

of The Wisdom of
Insecurity.

_ _ He would say and write
things like:
© “D knovevery well that I
am impermanent, that Iam
an impermanent manifesta-
tion of the which than which

_ there is no whicher — and

~~ thar is just the way J want it.

. Tam amanifestation of the

- root’and ground of the uni-

verse, which is what all men

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call God, Atman, or
Brahman..It is fun to know
thar... to know it not merely
asa theory, but as a positive
sensation that you can actual-
ly teel. Therefore, my fune-
tion is, if at all possible, to
share this feeling so that you

will not-need anymore psy-

chothérapy, not need any-
more gurus, and not need
anymore religion — just take
off!”

“The hallmark of Snsanity’

is to know you are God. It is

absolutely taboo, especially in

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the Christian religion. Jesus
got crucified for knowing i it
and the Christians said,
‘Okay, Okay, Jesus was God,
but let it stop right

there. .nobody else!’ But co
us all, the Gospel is a revela-

“If Jesus had lived
in India, they’
would have
_congratulated him
... rather than
crucified him.”

tion of something that the
Hindus have known all along,
‘Tat Tvam Asi,’ you are it! If

Jesus had lived in India, they
would have congratulated _

‘him for finding out rather

than crucified him.”

“Te is nor an. exclusive
claim that 1 alone am that,
but that you all are, and as J
look into your eyes J see the
universe looking back at me.”

“There is about the char-
acter of the Taoist sage,
something of the fool. The
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know enough to come in out
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(Nor do L..competition sepa-
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{a poet) says: *

Sometimes naked, some: ‘
times mad,

Now as a scholar, now asa
fool,

Thus, they @ ppear on
earth, the free men” . ;

Thank you, Alan Watts, we
vou radical rascal. You live’
merrily on. Another of his ~
books, Te Taboo Against." :
Knowing Who You Ares

His works can be found-at,
or ordered from Serenity

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