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Ep. 2 – Dropping Out From Karma

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Relaxation Is a Non-Interfering Thing

A relaxation is simply something that happens when there's too much yang in you, too much of the positive. A lot of people, when they think they're relaxing, merely become flabby. The difficulty always arises when one feels, i must relax. I entirely identify myself with water. So you see here he is utterly relaxed, just rolling around in the torrent and not resisting in any way. So he is preserved. He goes with the stream, rolls with the punch, or whatever you want to call it. And so all these exaggerations in the direction of, let things go, let things happen, don't interfere, are stressing the in point of view to compensate for the

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