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Ep. 3 – In Your Own Way

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Are You Breathing, or Is It Brewing You?

You can decide to breathe and feel that you are breathing in just the same way that you walk when you want to. When you forget about breathing altogether, it still goes on. Your life is not your own. It is the delegated adaptability of tao. You know not how you are at rest. So how could you have it for your own? That's a funny thing. Then we can experience ourselves through and through, as something that just happens. Most people don't own this. They say, well, it's some kind of very clever machine which the lord god made out of his infinite wisdom, and put me in it. This is met's extraordinary thing, but it

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