1. The realities of the life are most
truly seen in everyday things and actions.
2. Everything exists according to its own nature. One's individual perceptions of worth, correctness, beauty, size, and value exist inside our heads, not outside them.
3. Everything exists in relation to other things.
4. The self and the rest of the universe are not separate entities but one functioning whole.
5. Man arises from nature and gets along most effectively by collaborating with nature, rather than by trying to master it.
6. There is no ego in the sense of an endlessly enduring, unchanging private soul or personality that temporarily inhabits the body.
7. True insight does not issue from specialized knowledge, from membership in coteries, from doctrines or dogmas. It comes from the preconscious intuitions of one's whole being, from one's own code.
8. In emptiness, forms are born. When one becomes empty of the assumptions, inferences, and judgments he has acquired over the years, he comes close to his original nature and is capable of conceiving original ideas and reacting freshly.
9. Being a spectator while one is also a participant spoils one's performance.
10. Security and changelessness are fabricated by the ego-dominated mind and do not exist in nature. To accept insecurity and commit oneself to the unknown creates a relaxing faith in the universe.
11. One can live only in the present moment.
12. Living process and words about it are not the same and should not be treated equal in worth.
13. When we perceive the incongruity between theories about life and what we feel intuitively to be true on the nonverbal, nonjudging plane, there is nothing to do but laugh.
14. Zen art has this characteristic quality, that it can fuse delight in a work of visual art, knowledge of life, and personal experiences and intuitions into one creative event.
15. Each of us develops into a unique individual who enters into unique transactions with the world as it exists for him.
2. Everything exists according to its own nature. One's individual perceptions of worth, correctness, beauty, size, and value exist inside our heads, not outside them.
3. Everything exists in relation to other things.
4. The self and the rest of the universe are not separate entities but one functioning whole.
5. Man arises from nature and gets along most effectively by collaborating with nature, rather than by trying to master it.
6. There is no ego in the sense of an endlessly enduring, unchanging private soul or personality that temporarily inhabits the body.
7. True insight does not issue from specialized knowledge, from membership in coteries, from doctrines or dogmas. It comes from the preconscious intuitions of one's whole being, from one's own code.
8. In emptiness, forms are born. When one becomes empty of the assumptions, inferences, and judgments he has acquired over the years, he comes close to his original nature and is capable of conceiving original ideas and reacting freshly.
9. Being a spectator while one is also a participant spoils one's performance.
10. Security and changelessness are fabricated by the ego-dominated mind and do not exist in nature. To accept insecurity and commit oneself to the unknown creates a relaxing faith in the universe.
11. One can live only in the present moment.
12. Living process and words about it are not the same and should not be treated equal in worth.
13. When we perceive the incongruity between theories about life and what we feel intuitively to be true on the nonverbal, nonjudging plane, there is nothing to do but laugh.
14. Zen art has this characteristic quality, that it can fuse delight in a work of visual art, knowledge of life, and personal experiences and intuitions into one creative event.
15. Each of us develops into a unique individual who enters into unique transactions with the world as it exists for him.
- Stewart W. Holmes and Chimyo Horioka, Zen Art for Meditation,
1973
Photograph of Alan Watts (1915-1973)
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