
Alan Watts You are playing a game
Alan Watts Lectures
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The Art of the Joker
The art of the joker is very paradoxical because it is to give the show away that it is a game and yet keep the show going on. So then if you look upon the world as play as what the Hindus call the Vishnu Leela, Vishnu being one of the names of God and Leela meaning sport or play from which we get our word lilt. Then Vishnu or Brahman is the big joker and anyone who realises this is the little joker. And so it doesn't matter whether you are a big pearl or a little pearl. You all constitute the harmony of the whole.
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