“I suppose most of you have heard of Zen, but before going on to explain any details about it, I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I am not a Zen Buddhist. I am not advocating Zen Buddhism. I'm not trying to convert anyone to it. I have nothing to sell. I'm an entertainer.” — Alan Watts, Eco Zen

“When we achieve the fulfillment of Buddhism, there is no Buddha, no temple, no gong, no bell. Because the whole world is the sound of the bell. And the image of Buddha is everything you can look at. So a Zen master was asked, mountains and hills, are they not all forms of the body of Buddha? The master replied, yes they are, but it's a pity to say so.” — Alan Watts, Religion of No Religion

Atheism isn’t just wrong. It is cringe as well.

The crusades were not only justified. They were based as well.

Thinking about #Bitcoin again

As is tradition, #Bitcoin plebs vastly outperformed the world’s top hedge funds in 2024

How it feels to broadcast a #Bitcoin txn on the immutable timechain

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“Realize that yourself is not your ego, which is the standpoint at which you are involved in your game and taking sides, but yourself is the eternal, immeasurable reality that is what there is.” — Alan Watts, Four Ways to the Center

Them: Was Bitcoin invented or discovered? Me:

By and large, we appear to still be at the denial phase. For how long?

Still trust the fiat system?

#Bitcoin

#Bitcoin entering 2025

“In presenting ideas I exaggerate. The reason for this is that, insofar as I present ideas, whereas the actual content of the philosophy is not ideas but experience, these ideas are intended to act as correctives. And so when you are walking a tightrope, you learn balancing. And so if you're in danger of falling in a certain direction, you throw the weight the other way. And there are all sorts of funny tricks to balancing, as you know when you ride a bicycle, you turn the front wheel in the direction in which you're falling. Whereas the person who doesn't know how to ride a bicycle tends to turn the wheel the other way, so he falls over. So in this kind of way, what I'm talking about is always a corrective to whatever is a dominant current idea.” — Alan Watts, Time And The Future

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“There is the sense that somehow or other, at some time, there was a fall, a point at which we became unnatural. There’s a great deal of worry going on about this now because of the rise of the computer. You know this? This is terribly interesting. That a new form of intelligence, you see, has come into the world, which is, in certain directions, vastly superior to human intelligence. And people are beginning to worry like anything about whether the machines are going to take us over. But we've got to realize that machines aren’t... See, machine is becoming a dirty word. Just a machine. Mere machinery. You see? But actually, there has grown out of us, through these things, enormous electronic circuits that are new forms of life. And these are all connected with us. They're not separate from us. They're not something like a different order of beings that might come from some other planet and conquer us. The whole development of the electronic minds and brains that we have are new cortexes.” — Alan Watts, Four Ways to the Center

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“An atheist is very often an atheist because he cannot stand the idea that God is watching him all the time, that there is this constant all-seeing eye prying on your most private life and that there's this—you know how when you're a child in school and you’re writing something or doing arithmetic and the teacher walks around the class and looks over your shoulder? Nobody wants to be watched like that, even someone who's good at writing or at arithmetic doesn't want somebody looking over their shoulder while they're doing it. It puts you off. It bugs you. So the idea of the Lord God who is watching us all the time, who is judging everything that we do, puts people off and they can't stand it. So better be an atheist to get rid of teacher.” — Alan Watts, Buddhism As Dialogue