Everything in the universe is always exactly right as it is in the sense that it is what it is and thus could not be otherwise even as it is being changed...
I always liked the title of Watt's "In My Own Way" with its multiple entendres. Edgar On Nov 24, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Anthony Wu wrote: > > > Quotations from Alan Watts (This Is It) > > In Zen the satori experience of awakening to our ‘original inseparability’ > with the universe seems, however elusive, always just around the corner. One > has even met people to whom it has happened, and they are just like us, and > yet much more at home in the world, floating much more easily upon the ocean > of transience and insecurity. > > Buddhism does not deny that there is a relatively limited sphere in which > human life may be improved by art and science, reason and good will. However, > it regards this sphere of activity as important but nonetheless subordinate > to the comparatively limitless sphere in which things are as they are, always > have been, and always will be – a sphere entirely beyond the categories of > good and evil, success and failure, and individual health and sickness. > > I find that I cannot help doing and experiencing, quite freely, what is > always ‘right’ in the sense that the stars are always in their ‘right’ > places. As Hsiang=yen put it, > > There’s no use for artificial discipline, > For, move as I will, I manifest the ancient Tao. > > > > >
