Alan Watts, from ‘Introduction to Zen’, in the original Eastern and Western Zen lecture series. “…to make a long story short and to tell you the whole point right at the beginning, that the disciplines of Taoism and of Zen are supposed to change your consciousness in such a way that you will no longer feel that you are an isolated unit locked up inside a bag of skin, but that you will actually experience the fact that your real self, the real you, is everything that there is, but concentrated an