Alan W. Watts Quotes

One Of The Cardinal Features Of The Buddha's Teaching Is That All Life, However Solid It May Seem To Be, And All Things, However Separate They May Seem To Be, Are In A State Of Flux. That Is To Say That The World We Live In Doesn't Consist So Much Of Things Or Entities As It Consists Of Process. Everything Is In A Constant State Of Flowing Pattern. By Way Of Illustration You Might Say That It's Something Like The Flowing Pattern You See When You Look At Smoke: A Dancing, Constantly Changing Arabesque Of Pattern; Flowing, Flowing, All The Time. Or That The Substance Of Life Is Something Like Water, Which I Can Hold In My Hand So Long As I Cup It Gently, But If I Clutch At The Water, I Immediately Lose It.

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