
Three Alan Watts Lectures - Be Comfortable Under Any Circumstances - Ways of Liberation - No Music
Alan Watts Lectures
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Zen Is a Discipline of Self-Consciousness
The discipline of zen is to enable you to act without watching yourself we would say unself-consciously but Japanese are as terrified of this as we are they think. We think if I don't watch myself I'll make a mistake and so on in one's own spontaneity makes it makes us wonder that if they zen people are really spontaneous well they become very very dangerous people socially, he says.
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