Oddbean new post about login | logout “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” — Alan Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture https://image.nostr.build/60e6d86834bf5631a6538d4c3adbd1f18ffde97f20bc9c06e8948ef8bbda4348.jpg
I can’t find the direct quote, but he said something like, we don’t have to do anything to experience our true nature, the problem is that people try to do nothing. I spent decades trying to do meditation. Liberation comes when one simply rests in stillness. The inner eye opens and one sees as unconditionally open, boundless awareness.
Procreation matters too, second only to the survival instinct.
