>>5Why did the Japanese Zen monasteries ally with the warlords to teach their soldiers zen for fearlessness?
Why did Bodhidharma's first pupil in China have to cut his arm to prove his fervor for enlightenment?
Because that's how they roll. Watts never painted himself as a saint, and from all his talks it's apparent that he has a certain distaste for the saintly who would deny the reality of their own flesh.
Why couldn't an enlightened person be a complete degenerate?
I know a fag, biggest fag I've ever known, who practices contemplative Christianity and feels himself perfectly in line with the divine principle. All while blowing dicks and taking it up the ass left and right every single day while getting wasted occasionally. And he teaches at an elementary school.
The true holy man does whatever the fuck he feels like. It's all alright in the end.