No Fixed States of Mind

It was a turning point which came when I read one of Alan Watts books called the wisdom of insecurity. And there was a certain point in the book where he quoted a popular Christian Sunday school song which said, build your house upon the rock and not upon the sand. But he said there's no Rock to build on, life is not like a rock, it's like a stream or it's like sand. There's nothing solid to build on. Everythings in flux all of the time. And when I read those words, it was a turning point. That's when I look back on it is led to me taking up zen as practice.

No Fixed States of Mind, talk by Geoff Dawson, June 13, 2023, Ordinary Mind School of Sydney