alanbwt on Nostr: “This is the humor of the whole thing, that when you catch yourself doing something ...

“This is the humor of the whole thing, that when you catch yourself doing something such as looking all over the house for the spectacles you’re wearing, there’s nothing to do when you find out but laugh. In the same way, when you’ve been trying to get liberated from an ego that never existed in the first place, there’s nothing to do when you find out but laugh. The whole of Zen is based on this.”

— Alan Watts, Individual and the World