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Three Alan Watts Lectures - Be Comfortable Under Any Circumstances - Ways of Liberation - No Music

Alan Watts Lectures

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Zen Discipline

When you meet a Japanese who is thoroughly trained in zen he is a different kind of personality altogether from modern rich Japanese. He doesn't worry about whether he ought to be somewhere else and so unable to sit with complete serenity in one place. There's nothing about zen discipline which is masochistic it isn't to beach your body because your body is bad or there's a creation of the devil or something has nothing to do with thatIt is how we are able to relax completely under any situation of hardship. valve needs a way out of this thing and zen provides just that.

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