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Tao: The Watercourse Way by Alan W. Watts

Tao: The Watercourse Way Alan W. Watts ebook
ISBN: 9780394733111
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Page: 134
Format: pdf

In Alan Watts's mature work, he presents himself as "Zennist" in spirit as he wrote in his last book, Tao: The Watercourse Way. The water simply flows downwards wherever the earth allows it." Tao is the way of the soft, the feminine way, the watercourse way. The quote “It is easier to run a buffalo off a cliff than to beat it to death with a stick. Lao Tzu says, "Tao is the watercourse way. TAO: The Watercourse Way Alan Watts. There are an infinite number of variables that interact constantly. I've been interested in Taoism ever since I read about it in The Idler about ten years ago. One of the changes was my interest and study of Taoism, the Watercourse Way. The natural world is not a linear system. Here's a quote from 'Tao: The Watercourse Way' by Alan Watts and Al Chung-liang Huang about yin~yang and the difference between opposition and polarity. With Taoism, I learned to accept the moment for what it was and to not look back at the past nor dread the unknown future. Gurdjieff s way is the way of the rock. Alan Watts, Tao, the Watercourse Way, 1975, p14. Indeed, we know that the only constant is change.