alanbwt on Nostr: “When you say, I have a problem guru, I really am mixed up and I don’t ...
“When you say, I have a problem guru, I really am mixed up and I don’t understand, he looks at you in this queer way. And you think, Oh dear me, he’s reading my most secret thoughts. He’s seeing all the awful things I am, all my cowardice, all my shortcomings. He’s not doing anything of the kind. He isn’t even interested in such things. He’s looking at, if I may use Hindu terminology, he’s looking at Shiva in you, saying, ‘My God, Shiva, won’t you come off it?’”
— Alan Watts, Zen Bones
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