“Perception is a kind of piano playing.”
— Alan Watts, Awareness of the Self
Alan ₿
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Have a blessed Sunday.
“You’re only making a mess by trying to put things straight. You’re trying to straighten out a wiggly world and no wonder you’re in trouble.”
— Alan Watts, A Conversation with Myself
“Nobody believes in God like an atheist.”
— Alan Watts, Buddhism, the Religion of No Religion: Buddhism as Dialogue
“It’s rather when you forget about your personality and you become interested in something else that you become interesting to other people.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: Zen in Gardens and Architecture
“Nature is a vast celebration of energy.”
— Alan Watts, Still the Mind
“In the giving up of our own will, we do not surrender power; we gain power.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: Omnipotence
“In your body there is no boss.”
— Alan Watts, Whose Game Is It?
Save in Bitcoin. Focus on your craft.
“Be willing to be worried, and then you don’t worry about being worried. Be willing to be afraid, then you don’t have to be afraid of being afraid.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: Pain
“Your skin is no longer what divides you from the world; it’s what joins you to it. What you see outside you is also you.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: The Void
“How can a noun start a verb?”
— Alan Watts, The Awareness of a Baby
“Everything that is an object is objectionable.”
— Alan Watts, Philosophies of Asia: Ecology and Religion
“To try and explain life is really as clumsy an operation as trying to drink water with a fork.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: The Discipline of Zen
Not only do you have what it takes.
You are it.
Gratitude will open you up.
The year is 2130.
After cobbling together a Bitcoin signing device from e-waste, I sign a transaction to order replacements for my drone batallion before the device self descructs into a thousand pieces.
My op-sec has never been stronger.
This is my story.
“Consciousness does not illumine its own origin.”
— Alan Watts, Zen and the Limits of Explanation
“You have only one dish to wash in your life: this one. You can only wash one dish at a time.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: Pain
The best signing device is the one nobody has any record of. That has no persistent memory. That is stateless. Ephemeral. Like a ripple in the ocean.