alanbwt on Nostr: “Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life; it has no patience ...
“Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life; it has no patience with second-hand wisdom, with someone else’s description of a spiritual experience, or with mere conceptions and beliefs.”
— Alan Watts, The Spirit of Zen
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