Alan Watts - Money
The following is from another speech given by Alan Watts entitled "From Time & Eternity". *"Do you remember the Great Depression? One day everything was going all right. Everybody was pretty wealthy and had plenty to eat. The next day everybody was in poverty. What had happened? Had the fields disappeared; had the dairy vanished into thin air; had the fish of the sea ceased to exist; had human beings lost their energy; their skills and their brains? No, but on the morning after the Depression a man came to work building a house and the foreman said to him "Sorry chum you can't work today, there ain't no inches." He said "What do you mean there ain't no inches?" "Yeah" he said, "Yeah, we got lumber, we got metal, we even got tape measures." The foreman said "The trouble with you is you don't understand business. There are no inches. We have been using too many of them and there's not enough to go around." Because what happened in the Great Depression was a slump in money. Human beings are so unbelievably stupid, that they confused money with wealth. They don't realize that money is a measure of wealth, in exactly the same way that meters are a measure of length. They think it is something that is valuable in and of itself. And as a result of that get into unbelievable trouble, in exactly the same way time is nothing but an abstract measure of motion. And we keep counting time. We have the sensation time is running out, and we bug ourselves with this as we sit and watch the <b>...</b>
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Alan Watts - fear of enlightenment
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Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself - Part 1
A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind. Video posted by Alan's son and courtesy of alanwatts.com.
Alan Watts - The Silent Mind (PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE series)
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Alan Watts ☮ The Way of Waking Up
What does it mean, to awaken? A short movie narrated by Alan Watts... alanwatts.com For those who would like to hear Watts speak without any background music, a second version of this video can be found here: www.youtube.com "So then, here's the drama. My metaphysics, let me be perfectly frank with you, are that there is the central Self, you could call it God you could call it anything you like. And its all of us. Its playing all the parts of all beings whatsoever everywhere and anywhere. And its playing the game of hide and seek with itself. It gets lost, it gets involved in the farthest out adventures but in the end it always wakes up, and comes back to itself. And when you're ready to wake up, you're gonna wake up. And if you're not ready your gonna stay pretending that you're poor little me." with background music by Kitaro- "Endless Water" and "Tree" from his album "Ki".... Both songs can be heard at full volume here: www.youtube.com Recommended reading - The Joyous Cosmology, by Alan Watts www.psychedelic-library.org Excerpt- "T0 BEGIN WITH, this world has a different kind of time. It is the time of biological rhythm, not of the clock and all that goes with the clock. There is no hurry. Our sense of time is notoriously subjective and thus dependent upon the quality of our attention, whether of interest or boredom, and upon the alignment of our behavior in terms of routines, goals, and deadlines. Here the present is self-sufficient, but it is not a static present <b>...</b>
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Alan Watts discusses Nothing
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Alan Watts - God Complex
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Alan Watts - Atheist Spirituality
"Atheism in the name of God is an abandonment of all religious beliefs . . . giving up the attempt to make sense of the world in terms of any fixed idea or intellectual system. It is becoming again as a child and laying oneself open to reality as it is actually and directly felt, experiencing it without trying to categorize, identify or name it." -Alan Watts
Alan Watts on conforming to society
Why do we feel like we don't fit in? Is it a bad thing? Why do we have a harder time the less we conform? Alan Watts talks about societies insecurities. He says they want us to "play the game". We have to strive for status otherwise we aren't playing by the rules. But what are the rules? What is the game? Alan Watts talks 40 years ago here like it was yesterday. Listen how he explains how we are all believed to be equally inferior and how dangerous it is to society. A free society should embrace those of us who strive to see things simpler and less manipulated.
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Alan Watts - Time and The More It Changes 1 of 6
www.alanwatts.com Taped by his son towards the end of his life on Watts houseboat in Sausalito, these three videos present a series of informal talks by philosopher and Zen mystic Alan Watts. Ahead of it's time then and ahead of it's time now.
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Alan Watts - To Speak the Truth
Alan Watts discusses the limits of language. footnotes2plato.com
Alan Watts - Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
Analyzing Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching.
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Alan Watts - How We Define Ourselves
"Out Of Your Mind" Lecture on "The Nature of Consciousness" At a time when the West was just starting to take notice of Eastern spiritual thought, Alan Watts was in the vanguard. A former Anglican priest who dove into an intense study of Buddhism, he explained mystical ideas in terms that an English or American ear could understand. And he combined a profound scholarly knowledge of both traditions with an irreverent sense of humor that was more than just leavening—it was an essential piece of his world view. To take an example that comes from the very beginning of the Out of Your Mind collection, Watts discusses the two Western views of the cosmos. In the "ceramic myth," the universe is created by God as a potter creates the bowl. As created beings, we are fragile and infinitely dependent on our creator. By contrast, the "fully automatic myth" views the universe as a clockwork machine, running by its own laws independently toward the inevitable conclusion. Both, Watts insists, are myths: meant to serve a certain purpose, and reflective of the people who created them. He proposes an alternative, the "dramatic myth," in which we are all players acting on the illusory stage of life, making up the rules as we go. You see how many levels this operates on? On the one hand, we can say that the "ceramic" myth represents the traditional Judeo-Christian world view, and the "fully automatic" myth represents the scientific materialism that has displaced it among Western intellectuals <b>...</b>
Alan Watts - Death
The speaker of this highly enlightening video on death is Alan Watts (1915 - 1973). A philosopher specialising in the Ancient teachings of the Far East, Dr Watts was instrumental in introducing Eastern philosophy to Western culture during the 1960s. Nevertheless, it is important to understand that Alan Watts was not attempting to replace our Western religions with those of Asia; as this would simply be replacing one form of grasping with another and in Eastern philosophy grasping is a cause of suffering. Unfortunately all that is made available on the subject of death in our Western culture is our outdated religious ideologies and wishful thinking. Yet most of us intuitively recognise "Life after death" is an oxymoron; making this very down-to-earth lecture by Watts a breath of fresh air. As it is commonly observed in Nature and illustrated by the Yin-Yang motif, every aspect of Nature has a equal and corresponding opposite. Therefore it is highly unlikely our current awareness would be directly followed by more of the same. It seems logical that any period of awareness would be followed by an equal period of non-awareness. Initially non-awareness may be confused with darkness or isolation and very much feared. Nevertheless, we already experience periods of non-awareness during dreamless sleep and meditation; yet these encounters with 'Emptiness' are the most relaxed and stress free periods we ever experience. It is little wonder 'empty mind meditation' is often referred <b>...</b>
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Alan Watts - "I"
I dont claim rights to any part of this video, but I could only find this bit in a longer compilation of this same type of Alan Watts speech over Stone/Parker animation. I wanted to link it to some people without telling to go to (X:XX) of that other video, so I ripped it out and uploaded it.
The Nature of Selfishness ~ Alan Watts
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Alan Watts - Presence Of Mind
"Out of Your Mind" Lecture on "The World As Emptiness" Here Watts puts on display his wide-ranging knowledge about Eastern and Western philosophy. Whether exploring the myth of ourselves based on our separation from others, the nature of selfishness, the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, or the illusion of the ego, Watts takes delight in demolishing the traps of conventional thinking. He asserts that we miss too much of the diversity and majesty of our experience when we close ourselves off to mystery, playfulness, and improvisation. Watts hits high stride on the CDs where he charts the treasures of Zen, Hinduism, and Buddhism. This author was well-known for the sharpness of his insights into Zen as "the pathless path." Here he talks about the golden age of Zen, the Japanese Zen monastery, koans, and the truth of the birthless mind. On the two CDs on Hinduism, Watts explores self as play, the yogas, the four stages of life, shedding the masks, and gamesmanship in spiritual practice. On the last two CDs, he muses on The Four Noble Truths, the Eight-fold Path, the mystery of change, the world as void, and considering death. Listening to these lectures, one cannot help but say a quiet note of thanks to this adventuresome spiritual explorer for his finely honed practice of hospitality. Thrilled with the transformation of consciousness and the mutual interdependence of all things, Watts was a generous interpreter of Eastern religions and the quest for meaning in the West <b>...</b>
Alan Watts is God for 10 Minutes
In this excerpt from a lecture, Alan Watts plays the role of a "delusional patient" who thinks he's God. He gets his students to ask him any question they please. The results are fascinating.
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Alan Watts - Work As Play Pt 1/3
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Alan Watts - Myth and Religion - Jesus and his Religion Pt 1/6
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Alan Watts - Infinite Possibilities
"When we decide, we're always worrying- 'did I think this over long enough? did I take enough data into consideration?'- and if you think it through you find that you never could take enough data into consideration. The data for a decision in any given situation is infinite. So what you do is: you go through the motions of thinking about what you will do about this, and then when the time comes to act you make a snap judgment. But we fortunately forget the variables that could have interfered with this coming out right. It's amazing how often it works." --Alan Watts
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Alan Watts - The Problem of Life
From Wikipedia - Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 -- November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. He wrote more than 25 books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the non-material pursuit of happiness. In his books he relates his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religion, spirituality and philosophy. In 1957 when 42, Watts published one of his best known books, The Way of Zen, which focused on philosophical explication and history. Besides drawing on the lifestyle and philosophical background of Zen, in India and China, Watts introduced ideas drawn from general semantics (directly from the writings of Alfred Korzybski and also from Norbert Wiener's early work on cybernetics, which had recently been published). Watts offered analogies from cybernetic principles possibly applicable to the Zen life. The book sold well, eventually becoming a modern classic, and helped widen his lecture circuit. In his mature work, he presents himself as "Zennist" in spirit as he wrote in his last book, Tao: The Watercourse Way. Child rearing, the arts, cuisine, education, law and freedom, architecture, sexuality, and the uses and abuses of technology were all of great interest to him. In looking at social issues he <b>...</b>
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Alan Watts ~ Who Are You?
So what I think we could aim for in the way of human civilization and culture would be a system in which we are all highly aware of our existing interconnection and unity with the whole domain of nature, and therefore do not have to go to all sorts of wild extremes to find that union. In other words, look at the number of people we know who are terrified of silence, and who have to have something going all the time, some noise streaming into their ears. They're doing that because of their intense sense of loneliness. And so when they feel silent, they feel lonely and they want to escape from it. Or people who just want to get together. As we say, they want to escape from themselves. More people spend more time running away from themselves. Isn't that wretched? What a definition. What an experience of self if it's something you've always got to be running away from and forgetting. Say you read a mystery story. Why? So you forget yourself. You join a religion. Why? To forget yourself. You get absorbed in a political movement. Why? To forget yourself. Well it must be a pretty miserable kind of self if you have to forget it like that. Now for a person who doesn't have an isolated sense of self, he has no need to run away from it, because he knows. Alan Watts
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Alan Watts: The Nature of Conciousness (Part 1 of 6)
From Wikipedia: "Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 -- November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote more than twenty-five books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the pursuit of happiness, relating his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religions or philosophies (Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Hinduism, etc.)"
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Alan Watts - Love Of Wisdom - 1969 Lecture
Alan Watts was born in London in January of 1915 at the start of the first World War. At a young age he became fascinated with the arts of the Far East, and by the time he was ten or eleven he began to read thriller stories by Sax Rohmer about about mysterious Oriental villains. This interest led him in turn to the works of Lafcadio Hern, Christmas Humphreys, and DT Suzuki, and by fourteen was writing on Eastern themes, and was published in the Journal of the London Buddhist Lodge before producing his first booklet on Zen in 1932. He moved to New York in 1938 and then to Chicago where he served as an Episcopal priest for six years before leaving the Church. In 1950 he moved to upstate New York, and in late 1950 visited with Joseph Campbell and, composer John Cage, and Luisa Commaraswamy at his Millbrook farmhouse. Then in 1951 at the invitation of Frederic Spiegelberg he moved to San Francisco to teach at the Academy of Asian Studies. Worldview Alan Watts was profoundly influenced by the East Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Buddhism, and by Taoist thought, which is reflected in Zen poetry and the arts of China and Japan. After leaving the Church he never became a member of another organized religion, although he wrote and spoke extensively about Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoisim. Some American Buddhists criticized him for not sitting regularly in zazen, even though he recorded several guided meditations teaching a variety of mediation techniques. Alan Watts responded <b>...</b>
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Prickles & Goo: Alan Watts Trey Parker Matt Stone South Park
www.alexandermarchand.com See Above Link Prickles and Goo: This is one of several animated short films set to the audio recordings of philosopher Alan Watts (1915 -- 1973). From what I can tell, the animations were made several years ago and were produced by the makers of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. If You like this video then you may also like the new philosophical nonfiction graphic novel titled The Universe Is a Dream. www.alexandermarchand.com
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Alan Watts On Masturbation,Religion & Love.mp4
The strong, calm man is always loved and revered. He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm. Who does not love a tranquil heart? a sweet-tempered, balanced life? It does not matter whether it rains or shines, or what changes come to those who possess these blessings for they are always serene and calm. That exquisite poise of character that we call serenity is the last lesson of culture. It is the flowering of life, the fruitage of the soul. It is precious as wisdom -- more desirable than fine gold. How insignificant mere money-seeking looks in comparison with a serene life. A life that dwells in the ocean of truth, beneath the waves, beyond the reach of the tempests, in the eternal calm! How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise of character and make bad blood! It is a question whether the great majority of people do not ruin their lives and mar their happiness by lack of self-control. How few people we meet in life who are well balanced, who have that exquisite poise which is characteristic of the finished character."
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Alan Watts - What Buddhism's About
Wisdom Of The Mountains: A Seminar On Tibetan Buddhism In this dynamic series of lectures recorded in 1965 and 1969, Alan Watts joyfully takes us on an exploration of Buddhism, from its roots in India over 2500 years ago to the explosion of interest in Zen and the Tibetan tradition in the West. These lectures have been transcribed and edited by the author's son, Mark Watts, who also provides an introduction that sets them in their historical context. This book then begins with Journey From India, which presents a brief explanation of the Indian worldview and cosmology followed by a discussion of the important differences between Hinduism and Buddhism. The Middle Way offers an insight into the radical methods of the Mahayana, or "great vehicle," and reviews the basic Buddhist terms and teaching, including the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Alan Watts then turns his attention to Zen and Tibetan Buddhism in the remaining four chapters. In Religion of No-Religion he discusses how the Buddha taught the method of awakening through the experience of no-self, no-concept, and no-religion. This technique of short-circuiting the mind is seen today in the method of instruction centered upon Zen koans. In contrast to the intellectual methods of Zen, the Tibetan, or Vajrayana school, retained much more of the original Indian flavor of Mahayana Buddhism, and in Wisdom of the Mountains Watts provides an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism by explaining its unique practices. In <b>...</b>
Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself- Part 2
A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind. Video posted by Alan's son and courtesy of alanwatts.com.
Alan Watts - What is Tao?
In this video Alan Watts contrasts the Abrahamic concept of God with the Ancient Chinese concept of Tao; while also paralleling Tao with Einstein's General Relativity theory. Most of us know Albert Einstein was a great theoretical physicist, nevertheless not many of us know what he actually achieved. In short Einstein debunked Newton's Mechanical Universe, instead finding our Universe to have an organic nature. I personally believe sustainable world peace will not be possible until this knowledge is commonplace; for it is no coincidence Einstein had great empathy for all life and was a great humanitarian. Isaac Newton's equations are extraordinary and extremely useful for describing our everyday world. Yet these equations proved useless for any phenomena outside normal perceptions, such as the extremely fast or the extremely small. This is simply because Newtonian physics is a product of sensory awareness and therefore incapable of describing any other reality beyond our five senses. If Newton's laws conclusively accounted for Nature, the mathematics would work at all levels and speeds, yet it doesn't. It must also be noted that although Newton could accurately measure gravity, he remained unable to explain what it actually was, simply assigning the process to God. The reason gravity could not be explained by Newtonian physics is that it is akin to a flat map of a spherical world. A map maybe extremely useful, but as Korzybski pointed out, "The map is not the territory <b>...</b>
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Alan Watts - The Real You
mp3: melodysheep.bandcamp.com . A philosophically oriented remix of the late Eastern Philosopher Alan Watts' 1971 special "A Conversation With Myself" combined with visuals from the great art film "Baraka". Please consider watching the original here www.youtube.com For fans of Symphony of Science ( symphonyofscience.com ) Enjoy! Lyrics You're breathing The wind is blowing The trees are waving Your nerves are tingling The individual and the universe Are inseparable But the curious thing is Very few people are aware of it Everything in nature Depends on everything else So it's interconnected We confuse ourselves as living organisms which are one with this whole universe With something we call our personality And what is our personality? And our fundamental self is not something just inside the skin It's everything around us with which we connect When you look out of your eyes At nature happening out there You're looking at you That's the real you- The you that goes on of itself Now listen It's absolutely necessary That we let go of ourselves- and it can't be done, Not by anything that we call doing it, acting, willing, Or even just accepting things It seems that the human being Really has a very simple kind of mind Nature is wiggly Everything wiggles And all this wiggliness is too complicated [Refrain]
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Alan Watts on Human Consciousness
You cannot have negative without positive, nor positive without negative. You cannot have dark without light, it's the absense of light that gives dark its meaning. You cannot have the peak of a wave, without the trough of a wave. You cannot have some thing without no thing One extremity gives the other extremity it's existence. I'm gonna vlog on the law of attraction at some point... (we've decided it will probably be a Wednesday, but not decided which Wednesday ;-) But positive and negative energies co-exist. And it's my thinking, that both positive and negative co-exist in every human being, regardless of what labels and descriptive nouns they have attached to themselves in the form of an "ego", a "personality type", a caricature of what it means to be "them", as a seperate entity. No human is a fixed entity, though they often like to think that they are, in the way that they like to categorise themselves. They like to exist in a box. A bubble. A definition. And most of the time they like to believe the best about themselves... but... I would argue that all creatures have a light and a dark side and to deny the existence of one or the other is to be deluding oneself, pretending.... as everyone does, in some way or another. Here's Alan Watts confronting the truth of what you are.... infinite ad astra per aspera
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Alan Watts - Existence Is Weird
"The unexamined life is not worth living." —Socrates "My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose." —John Burdon Sanderson Haldane "It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd—uncanny and highly improbable. GK Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things. Why, of all possible worlds, this colossal and apparently unnecessary multitude of galaxies in a mysteriously curved space-time continuum, these myriads of differing tube-species playing frantic games of one-upmanship, these numberless ways of "doing it" from the elegant architecture of the snow crystal or the diatom to the startling magnificence of the lyrebird or the peacock?" —Alan Watts
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