Portrait of Alan Watts by Randal Roberts, Threyda.com “If you awake
from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self
implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life
- you can conceive yourself. Not conceive but feel yourself, not as a
stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on
probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you
can really begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the
fabric and structure of existence itself. So, say in Hindu mythology,
they say the world is the drama of God. God is not something in Hindu
mythology with a white beard that sits on a throne, that has royal
perogatives. God in Indian mythology is the self, Satchitananda. Which
means sat, that which IS, chit, that which is consciousness; that
which is ananda is bliss. In other words, that which exists, reality
itself is gorgeous, it is the fullness of total joy.”