Ep. 5 – Zen Bones
Alan Watts Being in the Way
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The Five Colours Make a Man Blind, the Five Tones Make a Man Deaf
The discipline of meditation, or zazen, lies behind the extraordinary capacity of zen people to develop such great arts as tea ceremony and caligraphy. And it is only through stopping fixing conceptions on the world of colour and sound that you really begin to hear it and see it. That's why lautze said, the five colours make a man blind, the five tones make a man deaf. Because if you can only see five colours, you're blind. If you can only hear five tones in music, you're deaf. You see ifyou force sound into five tones, you force colour into five colours,You are blind and deaf. The world of colour is infinite,
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