“In the same way, in the phenomenon called experience reality is not an encounter of the knower and the known. Reality is the experience that can be termed as having two aspects, two ends, the knower and the known, although this is only a figure of speech. In a neurological sense, everything you see is yourself. What you are aware of is a state of your nervous system, and there is no other knowledge whatsoever. That does not mean that your nervous system is the only existing reality, and that there is nothing beyond your nervous system, but it does mean that all knowledge is knowledge of you, and that therefore, in some mysterious way, you are not different from the external world you know. If you see, then, that what you experience and what you are are the same thing, then take it a step further, and realize also that you are in the external world you are looking at. Just as I am in your external world, you are in my external world, and yet I am in the same world you are.”
- Alan Watts, Taoist Ways, 1966
- Alan Watts, Taoist Ways, 1966
"What is seen by the eye is transformed and colored by the vision of the mind."
- Robert Wade
- Robert Wade
Is this the tree of the Queen Mother of the West? Please let it be. What I see before me makes my mouth water.
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