Week 8 · modern

Alan Watts

Alan Watts was a former Anglican priest who left the church, moved to California, and became the man who explained Zen to the West. He didn't meditate much. He drank too much. He'd been married three times. And somehow his recorded lectures on the nature of reality are still the thing people put on at 2 AM when they can't sleep and need to feel like the universe makes sense.

“"You are the universe experiencing itself." He said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Which, he would argue, it is. We just keep forgetting because we're too busy being a self.”