Dogma is not a good representation of reality

It’s not just that we are trying to find security in an ever-changing universe. Is that to achieve it means we separate ourselves from the world. It’s trying to hold our breath to preserve it forever. 

We have to understand there is no security. No permanence. But to truly understan...

• The true reality is free of ideas and prejudices. Thus it can not be described, only experienced.
• Truth can be found just by removing the concepts we trapped ourselves in. 
• You are not an ego having an experience. There is only pure e...

Say you listen to the song, while suddenly being asked the question above. How would you answer it?

If you stop and think, anything you will tell me about you would be about your past you. But who are you now?

In reality the you who was listening was...

We live in an age of unprecedented anxiety (uncertainty, information overload, social comparison etc). Historically, religion used to ground people by giving them a set of rules and making them part of a divine plan.

Allan Watts observes the fading of Christianity in the West, but instead o...

Our scientific rational mind gives us the impression everything can be labelled. And that with enough understanding we keep things under control. But the universe is infinite in size and complexity. And we are part of that vastness. There is no ultimate categorisation. There is no control...

Unlike animals who live in the present, we poses brains who can memorise and make predictions.

Our ability to be conscious of our self on a timeline took as at the top of the food chain. It also made us miserable. Because our fixation on the past or our obsession for the f...

Fought in the real of facts, religion is loosing the fight against science. This widening gap leads people to look for instant gratification from addictive behaviours like drugs and alcohol to make up for the lack of purpose or meaning in life.

We are all chasing pleasure in all sorts of wa...

We are obsessed with rationality. We label things, we define, we catalogue. However by doing this we are trying to contain a reality which in reality is interconnected and always in flux.

Our obsession to analyse is like trying to save the river in a bottle. A word is a ver...

Believing in a God may have lots of benefits. Atheists may be more neurotic compared to theists. But this, Watts believes, is not an argument for God. Because the lack or neuroticism does not prove the God hypothesis. 

Another way to look at it is to say that “If ignora...