Eternal Delight

 

Energy is the only life and is from the body and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight. 

William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"

The Realization

Ten thousand functions, ten thousand things, one suchness...it exists of "now you see it, now you don't...here you are and here you aren't," because that is the very nature of energy to be like waves and waves have crests and troughs. 

Alan Watts

The Fear that Keeps Us Stuck

Only we, being under a certain kind of sleepiness or illusion, imagine that the trough is going to overcome the wave or the crest. The yin, or the dark principle is going to overcome the yang or the light particle. And that off is finally going to triumph over on. And we ...bug ourselves by indulging in that illusion. 

Alan Watts

In other words we fear the realities of Life which include: change, loss, and death. We may become consumed with this fearful thinking and become depressed. 

Sometimes Hope Is Needed

We may need hope at those times. Micheal Singer, like me, is not a fan of hope but he does say in the linked video below..."If you are depressed I want you to have hope that you will get what you want." 

How do we get hope when looking at the reality of loss, change, and death? Alan Watts words might help:

You Are that Energy

...death is just the other face of energy and its the rest, not being anything around that produces something around just in the same way you can't have solid without space or space without solid. When you wake up to this and realize that the more it changes, the more it's the same thing...that you are really a playing of this one energy and there is nothing else but that...that it is you.

Alan Watts

Contemplating Change And Reincarnation

...but that for you to be always you would be an insufferable bore. Therefore it is arranged that you stop being you after a while and then come back as someone else all together. And so when you find that out you become full of energy and delight. As Blake said, "energy is eternal delight". 

Alan Watts

Waking Up

And you suddenly see through the whole sham of things. You realize "you're that ( we won't put a name on it.) You're that and you can't be anything else. So you are relieved of fundamental terror...to live without hangups...to drift like a cloud and flow like water....seeing that all life is a magnificent illusion...a playing of energy...and there is absolutely nothing fundamentally to be afraid of. 

Alan Watts

What comes then is living this life, here and now, with peace, joy, and love as we find peace with what is and joy in being who we are. 

All is well

Alan Watts/T&H -Inspiration and Motivation (2024) Trust the Universe- Alan Watts on Finding Zen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBmuvR9QYLs&t=607s