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Sublime Minds
Letting Go - Alan Watts
An Alan Watts lecture on letting go, built around one claim: faith is where you let go, not where you hold on. Watts starts from the meaning of the word Buddha, the man who woke up, and the trance of separateness he calls avidya, then argues that clinging is the disease and releasing is the cure, using a falling cat, a chicken on a chalk line, and a man kicked off a precipice. He traces how Indian Buddhism crossed into China, gained humor and Taoism, and became Zen. The second half opens the machinery of Zen training: how a master refuses to give a student anything to hold until the student sees there was never anything to get.