Alan Watts just said something interesting in this lecture “The philosophy of the Tao” about how we educate the poor so that they desire more things that they can never get.

Another good one about how the group that manages to obliterate all its enemies falls apart, because its muscles grow flabby.

Another great quote: “You’ve got to learn to use your brain, by allowing it to go to work on your problems, without interfering with it, and then it will deliver you a decision.”

Then he talks about getting to a certain point in the study of Taoist and Zen Buddhist practice, “… you get to the point where you learn to act without making decisions, or rather to use a more exact word, without choosing.”

And he says that Krishnamurti once said, “Freedom is precisely the state of not having to choose.” And by choice he means here, the act of hesitation that we make before making a decision, a “mental wobbling,” or basically a doubting. Then he talks about how the way we use the word decisive, when describing a person as “decisive” actually doesnt mean that at all, it means the person doesn’t have to stop to decide - they just DO.

Fan-freakin’-tastic!