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    Alan Watts

    I shall post here video lectures from Alan Watts recorded over 50 years ago.


    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn4hXhdvXdI


    The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts video series was recorded in 1971 above Muir Woods, California, and in 1972 aboard the ferryboat the SS Vallejo in Sausalito. Produced by his son Mark and directed by long-time archivist Henry Jacobs, the series explores core philosophical themes that spawned over Watts’ career.

    Everyone knows what time is, yet it is difficult to explain in words. On one hand we say I don't have enough time and yet we find ourselves perpetually in the present moment. Here Alan Watts points out that our insistence that the past determines the present is as nonsensical as insisting that the wake determines the course of the ship.
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    Quote Originally posted by Wind View Post
    I shall post here lectures video lectures from Alan Watts recorded over 50 years ago.
    That's some crazy sheeit! Fun and interesting.

    One would really have to be patient to explain things with that much deliberation...kudos to him.
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    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RrQL7gP5vY

    Alan Watts further explores the Hindu dramatic view of the universe,
    in which God plays all of the parts – all the while pretending not to know who he/she/it is!

    Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.

    I just realized Alan died on my younger older brother's birthday, but nine years before his birth.

    My oldest bro was born 8th of January in his sign of Capricorn.
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    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj0I4UGydlY


    To many of us the image of God as a gray-bearded omnipotent and omnipresent supreme being has become implausible, yet the common sense notions of divine authority surrounding that image persist.
    "The more I see, the less I know for sure." ~ John Lennon

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    Video went gonzo Wind...
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    Quote Originally posted by Chuckie View Post
    Video went gonzo Wind...
    How so?
    "The more I see, the less I know for sure." ~ John Lennon

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    Quote Originally posted by Wind View Post
    How so?
    It says, "Video Unavailable" ... but it is available on youtube via the link...
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    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLTSoImeUYE


    In common speech we often say that you can't get something for nothing.

    However here Alan Watts puts for the opposite idea that you can't have something without nothing!

    Basing his ideas on sensory perception and physical experience, as well as the Buddhist concept of the Void,
    he makes a compelling argument that everything actually depends upon nothing for its very existence.
    "The more I see, the less I know for sure." ~ John Lennon

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    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqdDhyilqHg



    "The Cosmic Self pretends that things are getting serious, just like a great actor on the stage. Even though the audience knows that what they see on stage is only a play, the actor’s skill takes them in—they weep and laugh and sit on the edge of their seats with anticipation. They’re utterly involved in what they really know is just a play. So that’s what’s going on here. Brahman is a tremendous actor with absolutely superb technique, so much so that Brahman takes itself in and feels that the play is real. We are all the The Ultimate Reality - acting out our own parts and playing the human game so beautifully that Brahman is enchanted, and this is what enchantment means—under the influence of a chant, hypnotized, spellbound, fascinated. And that fascination is maya." ~ Alan Watts
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    It's a profound thought but I'm not sure I like it...I gotta be me, at least for now.
    Last edited by Wind, 28th April 2024 at 19:32. Reason: Fixed quoting
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    Quote Originally posted by Emil El Zapato View Post
    I gotta be me, at least for now.

    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXYndNL4Mu8
    Last edited by Wind, Yesterday at 04:11.
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    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U3jC5JGRTk


    Alan Watts was concerned with the way we trap ourselves in words. He considered it unfortunate that we separate the “I” from reality and think of “I” in terms of how others see us or the image that we want to project.

    What is the answer? How do we escape the “I”? All we can do is to be aware of what we are doing and that we are not the words we use to describe ourselves. You will find yourself more functional and able by realizing that you are not what you think you are!
    "The more I see, the less I know for sure." ~ John Lennon

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    The video seems to be unavailable but I read the caption. I, for one, do have a tendency to take words very seriously...but I, is not one of them. In fact, 'we' hate that word.

    Feel like you want about David Icky but he always said we are one thought away from changing the world. I always felt that one thought was 'us' rather than 'them'.
    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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