Alan Watts can be deep. "Nothing is really more inhuman than human relations based on morals" means to me that nothing is more inhuman than human relations based on rules. A good deed coming from rule or obligation or agenda is manipulative. It's using the other as a thing. It's selfish. Ironically, it may do some good and be appreciated, which is even worse. Speaking personally, I have many times felt authentic love, that is, times when someone has done something for me out of love for me. I've been fortunate. My understanding is that there is my ego self and there is my real or essential self. So, I have no ego self to love because my ego self isn't really concerned with love -- it's concerned with my own selfish manipulative agendas. However, loving from my essential self is agendaless and pure, and it is from essential self that authentic human love comes. Wisdom teachings ask you to practice loving your essential self.
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On Oct 10, 2017Ed wrote :
Wow! That ripped my mind apart and put light on my darkness. Thank you profoundly.
On Oct 7, 2017 david doane wrote :
Alan Watts can be deep. "Nothing is really more inhuman than human relations based on morals" means to me that nothing is more inhuman than human relations based on rules. A good deed coming from rule or obligation or agenda is manipulative. It's using the other as a thing. It's selfish. Ironically, it may do some good and be appreciated, which is even worse. Speaking personally, I have many times felt authentic love, that is, times when someone has done something for me out of love for me. I've been fortunate. My understanding is that there is my ego self and there is my real or essential self. So, I have no ego self to love because my ego self isn't really concerned with love -- it's concerned with my own selfish manipulative agendas. However, loving from my essential self is agendaless and pure, and it is from essential self that authentic human love comes. Wisdom teachings ask you to practice loving your essential self.