amazing

The book cannot serve satori if it is too complicated to understand. In other words it's useless.

Excellent

This man was a genius

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This is awesome 😊

Perfect diamond eyes carved out Polished orbits pierce all matters. No eyes. No orbits. No things.

i experienced a moment of Satori, in 2017, in October, at 9000 feet in the Colorado rockies, of the raggeds wilderness, ten miles from the trail head, the golden aspens, the snow covered spruce, and ragged peaks.....

Hi Guys❤

I got to satori about 50 years ago after reading an Alan Watts book I borrowed from a local library. Basically place a lit candle about 4 feet away slightly above eye level, sit comfortably (lotus position if possible), fix your gaze on the candle flame (colour and movement helps keep your attention), then concentrate on listening to your breathing, and dropping passing thoughts letting them go without attachment like passing clouds. Eventually gaps will appear, wider, wider, until one day - *@**#SHAZAM**!!!#%@* - a flash of mind-expanding consciousness - everything is connected - all fear of death evaporated - and for the next few days I could hear people's thoughts before they spoke them in household conversation. Decades later I read a book saying Gautama Buddha reached enlightenment in about 6 weeks - as did I - for me about 10 minutes a day. Simple but not easy - required dedicated concentration to keep returning to letting go of thoughts.

Visuals are beautifully sync'd

I noticed Watts ended the talk with the same question he started with "What is the self". lest look at the question this way . lest say that the answer is in the question. lest take the question apart, Take the first word away, what's left, "is the self". Now that the second word away , "the self". Two words are left, "the self". Only the "self "is left. What happens when we take the "Self" away what are we left with, Satori !

This is AI, not Alan watts,

Im it tag now you're it

There my mind is pssifide

Tag you're it

Why does everyone type with a weird, haughty taughty, overly articulate tone when they talk about “that one time when they reached enlightenment if even for a moment”. Is that weird af to anyone else?

The Pig King shall set us free!!!!! He has already defeated the turtle Lord, the Bearded Dragon Tyrant. Next he shall overthrow humanity on this planet, and usher in a golden age of understanding and enlightenment. You heard it here first

Annoying music added to Alan Watts lectures unfortunately doesn't help make it "rare".

What book was it that Allen watts mentions in the beginning I'd love to read it

Japanese is not my first language, but I studied it for some years and lived with a Japanese roommate in college. I had an experience one day where all the corners of my mind were talking to each other, and on contemplating the idea of awakening or the 'point' of meditation or being here now. I was having an internal experience; I was in a different incarnation, as a person who was born and lived in Japan my whole life, waiting for the train to arrive for my commute to school or work. The impression of a bird flew across my vision, and very absent-mindedly, I said to myself out loud' saaa, tori.' In Japanese, ’さあ、鳥’ means 'hmmm, a bird'. I pondered on it for a moment and started to laugh pretty hysterically. Now, any time I see a bird, I have a little echo of that moment, and I smile.

PURE GENIUS? Alan Watts was a suicidal drunk who ended his own life.

Plot twist of the mother of greatest plot twist? YOU ARE GOD

🪐 Saturn

I just went out to buy my partner his supper ( it's Pats mom using the phone). I ran into a homeless man, young, from the north, Inui. I was going to buy him a coffee to warm him up, it's still quite cold in Ottawa at night. I ended up getting him a Harveys meal and 5$ for the bus. It doesn't matter....... What matters is that I got as much out of the interaction as he...

You are already there,.....

this is a good last minute satori summary with valuable verbal subtleties compared to his 60s talks...the audio could be louder and the all the lavish visuals are well meant distractions...to date i have studied buddhism for some 50 years but as far as satori goes - i don't know anything about it...🤡

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Feels like Ram Dass. 'Be Here Now'.

a missing finger a lost arm....i thought buddists were pacifists

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This isn't Alan

This is garbage. These are not the Steps towards Enlightenment. If you follow this, you will not be prepared to face the true tests and the much longer journey towards Full Enlightenment (Satori). What is being described here is the Western short-cut to Kensho (a glimpse of Enlightenment). What Alan Watts and Gilbran created in the New Age movement where they cheated by using LSD and Magic Mushrooms---which only led to them both dying in their own drunken vomit. Read a true Taoist master like Ancestor Lu "Comments on One Hundred Character Tablet." Or better yet, just study neuroscience and figure out how your own mind works. What is being described here is only learning to control the Rewards Center in the mind--the Pleasure/Pain dopamine Center we use when coming in contact with exterior things/events. This leads one to find the calm serene Contentment Center (the insula--serotonin)--which is the "background" feeling we have when not being bombarded with pleasures/pains. It is connected to empathy, feelings of righteousness, and wisdom. The last "test" presented here. And yes, if you have been in pain for a long time, finding this new system is "enlightening"--and why people take LSD and DMT to experience it. But if never took the time to understand how the amygdala works and realize how to moderate it correctly, then it is just going to turn back on and you will be back on the roller coaster ride, and go right back into the "Dark Cave" or Hell. Again, this is Kensho---an early stage towards Satori. Satori means you have to learn how to control the Insula system too and go "beyond good and evil." A state of pureness--where NO THOUGHTS enter the mind. If you still have inner thoughts without control over them, then you are not Enlightened (especially thoughts on how to make money off of your "knowledge", or worse, how to get laid with young gullible students who don't realize you are a fake). But this is the mistake Watts and Gilbran made---as the "trap" in the insula system is Pride (a secondary emotion), as the insula is where mania and depression originate, as well as being connected to natural DMT (hallucinations of "spiritual" beings--tricking you into believing you are divine or a god with a purpose to save the world, a messiah complex). Read the diary of Abraham Maslow--he clearly suffered from this as well. This is schizophrenia. You are not "Enlightened" at this point---you are just caught in another trap. Without purpose to tell others of your "enlightenment" (manic pride), you just fall into depression and suicidal ideation---just like someone with bi-polar disease (Jesus, Paul, and the Apostles being prime examples). A true teacher is not going to post garbage on you-tube--as the teachings need to be geared towards where you truly are on the Path (no 20 yr old will want to accept the conditions placed on a 60 yr old--different hormones are involved). Besides, no one "desiring" Enlightenment is going to find Enlightenment--as this is not how the system works (Buddha teaches one must cease ALL desires...).

Segnalo puntualmente questo canale, dato che l'ho già bloccato, ma continua a ripresentarsi incessantemente, peraltro sempre col medesimo video. La conferma che KZbin è un social inutilizzabile e del tutto privo di funzionalità di base.

Great teachers are rare these days - they seem to be more opinion mongers, podcasters, and influencers. Alan Watts was a gift to mankind. I'm grateful to him and KZbin for what we gain from his teachings.

I know.

And then I thought. Wow genuis. So simple. How life can be taught by a human teacher if life is the teaxher itself and the goal is not to know but instead of getting lessons over and over. Also reminds me on the quote which says the way is the goal

Wow

This is hilarious 😂😂😂. Its brilliant and yet idiotic at the same time. I love it. Alan had such a marvelous life im sure. I envy his personal experiences. But im sure he would say the same of mine. In a sense. 😊 our existence is magnificent and unimaginably brilliant. Such a good way to pass an endless ..time.

Santori is a liR

To be awakened is to have pain with less suffering, you understand why now, yet will still struggle with things. No, there's no way to pure happiness, and do you deserve it! You've put in a lifetime of work to improve yourself through the means of helping and appreciating others whilst understanding it's those others whom cause your pain! You can do that! Know daily you'll help those whom don't have your best interest at hand! You can do this? Okay, so now the long way to that path is long and narrow with nobody there but monsters... Suffering will Not leave you, you'll have ways of dealing with it.. Now you get to live with and help those monsters or become a stone Buddha doing nothing all day. Still sound good! No material items anymore because it doesn't jive up with the new way.... No friends or family either, years of being alone without lonely. Now what do you do? You simply understand the reasonings, Now what? Duality.

wtf is that lmao

Half truths are full lies

This man is a liar

And if you ever noticed everything he says never actually becomes a truth. It's the ultimate art of Bullshito.

Say mahakashapa the times fast

I'm just a consciousness experiencing time

The story of the picture when he kicked it over, I went Ooh! got it! 😮😊❤🎉

about a year ago, without seeing this video, it was unknown to me at the time I was meditating after about four years, and after about a year of meditating on my own mind, I realised I did not exist. also found shunyatta emptiness at the same time. this life has changed since. A word of advice, not try explaining it to people. They just think you are crazy.

One of teachers, who are also reminders, as all teachers are