Alan Watts, from ‘Introduction to Zen’, in the original Eastern and Western Zen lecture series. “…to make a long story short and to tell you the whole point right at the beginning, that the disciplines of Taoism and of Zen are supposed to change your consciousness in such a way that you will no longer feel that you are an isolated unit locked up inside a bag of skin, but that you will actually experience the fact that your real self, the real you, is everything that there is, but concentrated and expressing itself at the point called your physical organism.” (fb)

Alan Watts describes a moment of pure awareness - when thought no longer interrupts experience. In that seamless flow, we don’t just observe connection, we feel it. Meditation becomes not a practice, but a realization of our innate unity with the universe. Segment from ‘Silent Mind’ in the Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life series. “When our consciousness is responding instantly, without any interval or interruption, without any, shall we say, stopping to think about it, then we have a situation in which we are actually realizing. We are actually feeling the true physical relationship which exists between man and his environment. And this we could call the experience of oneness or unity with the universe - which is the function of meditation.” #AlanWatts #Meditation #Oneness #Unity #Presence #Awareness This series is now streaming as an audio collection for the first time - in the updated Alan Watts App… available in apple and google app stores (fb)