ok but what does it mean for anything to "happen"?
Alan Watts, in his lecture "We as Organism," eloquently explores the interconnectedness of life and consciousness. He likens living beings to the flame of a candle, a continuous flow of energy and activity, rather than static entities. Watts argues that our consciousness often overlooks the constant, harmonious processes of life, focusing instead on potential disruptions. This myopic view leads us to identify with our ego, the troubleshooter, rather than our complete organism. He emphasizes that our bodies, like candle flames or whirlpools, are patterns of the cosmos, ever-changing yet recognizable. Watts challenges the common Western notion of life as a brief flash between two darknesses, urging us to see life as a complex, continuous dance, where there is no dancer, only the dancing.http://www.buddhism.org/bodhi-dharmas-bloodstream-sermon/
who Zen now calls the first patriarch, but who was kicked out by many people while he was alive.
perhaps we shouldn't be so arrogant to think we're somehow immune now? but it's natural for people not to know how much more profound enlightenment is when they haven't encountered the real dharma yet.
One of the problems with following teachings that aren't right is the risk of losing oneself. It's a fact that many people spoke words under the name of Buddha, like Watts. So how on earth can we pretend that he has not introduced any % of falsehood to the right teaching while he passes it down? The alternative is that Watts is pretending to supreme enlightenment, which I have not heard of him having done.
My question as to what it means for things to happen pertains specifically to the original article talking about the meaning of "time". Instead what we've got is absolute ambiguity that amounts to "don't worry about it, just chill". That sounds like self-loss to me. Self-loss starts with loss of consciousness. That can happen when people learn the degenerated truth (it's like a rotten apple for a consciousness, shall we say).
and Watts doesn't say much in answer my question - but rather guided people towards self-loss (after which he didn't have to worry about answering questions)
What does it mean for something to "happen"? it goes back to the reason why the OP article suggests state evolution by time emerges from entanglement.
@emmaluciaev1938 8 months ago
What ???? This is pure quantum physics He is a true genius And he is also funny, a rare alignment of the stars
22 Reply @Agent_Paul 6 months ago
Sophisticated man, but he played it cool. A mystic but never announced himself
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And it’s also great that he credits a lot of his insights to ancient Asian cultures. Essentially explaining that naturally, humans rediscover the nature of the universe, without the need for any special or modern technology, but rather through direct experience of the world
Highly prescient as well.
This was already widely recognized as each talk was originally being given.
Kind of stream-of-consciousness if you think about it.
Or if your head's a blank.