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Timeless WisdomNot Blocking by Alan Watts in "Sitting Quietly, Doing Nothing" The Way of Zen, pp. 150-151 The simplest cure is to feel free to block [i.e., react], so that one does not block at blocking. When one feels free to block, the blocking automatically eliminates itself [and then action -- or nonaction -- arises spontaneously]....The principle here is, of course, the same as getting out of the contradiction of 'trying to be spontaneous' through accepting the 'trying' as 'spontaneous' [in and of itself]...." |
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