Immediate ‘now’ is it, with or without ecstasy. - Alan Watts

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From " This is it. " by Alan Watts

 

" The central core of the experience seems to be the

conviction, or insight, that the immediate *now,*

whatever its nature, is the goal and fulfillment of

all living. Surrounding and flowing from this insight

is an emotional ecstasy, a sense of intense relief,

freedom, and lightness, and often of almost unbearable

love for the world, which is, however, secondary.

Often, the pleasure of the experience is confused with

the experience and the insight lost in the ecstasy, so

that in trying to retain the secondary effects of the

experience the individual misses its point -- that the

immediate *now* is complete even when it is not ecstatic.

For ecstasy is...necessarily impermanent....But insight,

when clear enough, persists. " pp. 18-19

 

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Cyber Dervish

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