I am God as You wrote about Alan Watts , The Essential Alan Watts is the only book that I have ever read on him, it's a small book,about 140 pages or so. Mark Watts compilation of his most important essays and lectures,starting with "The Trickster Guru, Speaking Personally,Ego,The Individual as Man/World,The Drama of it All,The More Things Change,Work as Play,Time,Oriental "Omnipotence" and ending with Psychotherapy and Eastern Religion" this was put together two years before his death in '73.This book was first printed "77. I'll have to go back and read the last two chapter's.I have heard some of his lectures on Google Video,Yeah Alan was pretty COOL. I remember him talking about the state of ZEN ,and he said "if you want to know what Zen is ,study your cat ,cause they're always in a state of Zen" and then he went on about domestication in humans ,and how it screws up our thinking.   PS...In the 9th century lived a sage named Lin Chi ,and gave one of his monks this advice "If you meet the Buddha on the road ,kill Him ....because this Buddha would only be a reflection of your unexamined beliefs and desires.

   Killing the Buddha : A  Heretic's Bible ,by Peter Manseau  &  Jeff Sharlet , is the name of the book that I'm currently reading,and I took that quote from the inside of the cover. That guy Jeff Sharlet is the author of  " The Family :The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart  of  American Power".          PS . That's a Koan that I havn't read yet,I put it with my favorites ,Thank Man, for the Link !!!

 Yo ! Have you ever practiced Chinese Calligraphy ? What a way to focus and concentrate, I still practice once in awhile. I did a cool painting of a cat observing a spider hanging from the ceiling. and a few other paintings that I gave to relatives,even got my own Chinese stamp.