The Wisdom of Insecurity

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The Wisdom of Insecurity

The Wisdom of Insecurity

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In his books he relates his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religion and philosophy. Knjižica mi je baš legla, jer se Vots ne bazira na isključivo logičkim argumentima (ima par falinki, nije da ih nema, ali koga briga), nego igra na foru intuicije. Put this one up there with Untethered Soul and The Echart Tolle books and Robert Wright's on Buddhism. If, instead, one stops trying to separate from these experiences, they tend to dissolve on their own quite readily. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York.

In other words: I can't throw a pebble so long as I am holding on to it- so as to maintain perfect control of its movement. It's a very non-Western principle but it contains a depth of truth that Western philosophy has never quite understood. Such a system is a vicious circle, and has the same logical structure as a statement which states something about itself, for example, "I am lying", when it is implied that the statement itself is a lie.Indeed, one of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one’s own existence, to be absorbed in interesting sights, sounds, places, and people. While I can imagine sacrificing my happiness for an even greater purpose towards others, I can’t see a reason to sacrifice my happiness without some greater benefit. If you came to this page expecting a review rather than my life story, then I apologize for the disappointment. Nor, on the other hand, is it interested in being free, in acting perversely just to prove its independence. I don't think it would do the book justice to summarize but I will do my best to give you an idea of whether or not you should read this book.

This is to say that it may be, despite Watts’ assertions to the contrary, possible to actively work on cultivating a mental habit of attentional control. According to Watts there is no method to solve the problem of happiness, “The question ‘What shall we do about it? In such feeling, seeing, and thinking life requires no future to complete itself nor explanation to justify itself. Important: Your credit card will NOT be charged when you start your free trial or if you cancel during the trial period. However, if we are continuously living in an imagined, abstracted future (or past) moment, then when those moments actually come, we will miss them if we are living again in another imagined moment.Oh, not a self with added contextual meaning - but our selves Alone - without the meaning of our environment. But I think it is provocative in that it also neatly resolves some of the practical and metaphysical problems I see with a more standard, scientific Western view of the world.



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