Alan Watts - Don't Be A Saint

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[@joeblack3878]

“To be awakened is to realize there’s nothing to be awakened to.” Just “be.” Live and let live, help others along the way if you want… And, don’t if you don’t. If you do, do it just because…

[@Agent_Paul]

To be awakened is to see through the whole game, the Indra Web 🕸 But to be subtle is acting like there's nothing to be awakened to.

[@TheDweller-]

@@joeblack3878 Idk, I like to observe.

[@childpeanut5095]

Beautiful

[@TheDweller-]

@@joeblack3878 As if we are all the same? I am wise, I only know self, and what can kill you..

[@TheDweller-]

@@childpeanut5095 then Good sight seen.

[@markselsor6048]

"We are hypnotized by our environment and don't know anything beyond the horizon of our experience." - Sri Yukteswar - Incarnation of Wisdom.

[@karoakestream]

We know we don't know anything even ,what we may think.

[@TheFreedomBay]

"Its a common misconception of sentients to see reality as limited by their own senses" Macros the black (totally butchered it, its from Raymond Feist fantasy book series The riftwar cycle. Always stuck with me)

[@ivok9846]

@@TheFreedomBay can you rephrase? it's not obvious what are you saying

[@TheFreedomBay]

@@ivok9846"Its a common misconception of sentients to see reality as limited by their own senses" -Macros the black (Totally butchered it, its from Raymond Feist fantasy book series The riftwar cycle. Always stuck with me) Better? It basically means the same as the original comment

[@ivok9846]

@@TheFreedomBay better. quotation marks or hyphen to denote book title would be even better. and 's after author's name. the only remaining question is who butchered what? you're afraid you're misquoting (butchering) macros? thanks

[@soarer25gtt]

Oh Mr. Alan Watts, God has spoken most eloquently through you. May your words touch all individualized souls of all time and may we evolve as a collective consciousness of highly evolved beings.

[@soarer25gtt]

@mrswomanfacelel Ah yes, you are completely right! I should have said "The expression of God through the individualized soul of Alan Watts" Thank you for catching that :)

[@33rdStreet]

@@soarer25gttbeautifully said

[@MichaelMunn-sd3eb]

Precisely the case that in a way there is a problem but in a way there is none

[@asor8037]

@@MichaelMunn-sd3eb maybe, maybe not. I would prefer to listen to people who walks the walk, not only talks the talk. Speaking of enlightenment is not the same as the experience of it

[@Paul-Silu]

I loved reading your comment. Thanks.

[@victornilsson2816]

I am nothing, appearing as something, now enjoying both.

[@Robb3348]

Are you really though?

[@sjoerdev]

@@Robb3348 does it matter?

[@Robb3348]

@@sjoerdev what does it mean to matter?

[@ryanrohn4561]

I like when the bells chime, and when I hear the giggling and coughing; sort of puts me in the room with them, in a sense... 50 some years ago when people interacted spontaneously because they were in the moment - no phone, buds, laptop, or I pad; just a room of life interacting with itself.

[@StriveNot]

Are you sure they were in the moment? We romanticize the past due to our inability to be with what is🙏🏼 i would know..

[@bunchofgrapesorafig]

​​@@StriveNotOne day your comment will be considered to be in the past though, have you ever tried to be entirely present in an ever fluctuating Universe. You'd have to be completely mummified to be Still. Life is born out of silence ❤

[@StriveNot]

@@bunchofgrapesorafigto sin means to miss the mark, it’s an archery term. And you my friend have missed my point🙏🏼 enough said.

[@bunchofgrapesorafig]

@@StriveNot stop talking nonsense. Your comment has nothing to do with reality. As Alan Watts quite rightly stated, ' From the bath tub to the bath tub we utter stuff of nonsense' hahaha 🤣 archery and sin lol what are you bumbling on about

[@zedekiahfisher6519]

I use to think the coughing was a sign that it all was live. Now

[@psychological8730]

Thank you for posting this.

[@edamameedamame1202]

This is his most important talk in my view. I have listened to it so many times it does not get old. You did a wonderful job for visuals. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@DaQuote]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it and I greatly apprechiate the kind words! 😄🙏

[@kostisv]

The visuals so exceptional that distract me from listening to the lecture. English is not my native language

[@morselsofwisdom]

This talk by Alan Watts is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing! ☯

[@brunocortese]

The day I felt out of myself One day, I was doing an exercise of pretending to be someone else, like actors do when they’re preparing to interpret someone, because I had to write about a very controversial historical figure. I was on the third day of this exercise. I had to feel what he felt and therefore think as he did. But on this third day, I forgot to turn off my phone, and I received a very unpleasant message that I had to reply to immediately. However, I was so deeply immersed in the other person that I couldn’t return to myself right away, so something really, really weird happened: I left the character and did not return to my ‘regular’ self. In less than a blink of an eye, I saw the world and my own existence in a very different way, much clearer than a second before. An incredible sense of joy invaded my soul, and I remained in that state for three days. Meanwhile, I felt that many blocks that were the foundation of my blindness were dissolving; many of my small identities just vanished. I have never felt anything so powerful in my life. I had a glimpse of what the great masters say, and now I want to feel that again, as I want to remain in that state.

[@TheDweller-]

@@brunocortese holds out hand..it can get lonely..help me teach?

[@TheSentientCloud]

We are all plural. Jung called them archetypes.

[@DedicatedSpirit8]

At times I find it a little difficult to follow Alan's logic, but when I do understand it just rips my mind to pieces. I know that if portions confuse me I am not ready to understand it yet. One day I will return and it will make sense. Thank the cosmos for Alan Watts

[@trevhagios7582]

When one discusses religion with people, they say they need a religion to hold on to, that is not the way to use a religion because if you use religion as something to hold onto, your religion is an expression of unfaith, faith is where you let go not hold on. When the cat falls off the tree, the cat relaxes. You see, soon the cat lands with a soft thud and doesn't get hurt, because she has faith

[@lindboknifeandtool]

The cat doesn’t relax, it does the exact opposite. It’s nerves don’t relax, they put the cat on it’s feet. Wouldn’t faith be just freefalling and letting go? If you describe what the cat does as relaxing then words don’t even have meaning anymore. A cat stuck in a tree…

[@Tenhys]

_"You see, soon the cat lands with a soft thud and doesn't get hurt, because she has faith"_ Huh... no. Cat's lands on their feet because of their reflexes, not faith. Get rid of the reflexes and no matter the amount of faith, the cat's gonna fall flat on the ground.

[@vmayn92]

Thank you so much 🙏🏽

[@jokevermeer3828]

Alan Watts is still alive ♥ Thank you for this an for the fact that there is no music in this video.

[@soarer25gtt]

Death does not exist. Life is infinite.

[@gordonely3591]

Yes I find music extremely distracting ❤

[@felixstone3.14]

We all have a billion atoms that where once in alan watts

[@omarsadiqYouTube]

I could listen to Mr Alan Watts all day every day

[@Robb3348]

why don't you, then?

[@soap5420]

🤔. sorry that was rude i’m enlightened so i can’t be rude. im gonna go take an enlightened shit now

[@TheKingsJarl]

And would keep learning the whole time.🪬

[@Robb3348]

@@soap5420 my question was well-interntioned

[@timothythegreat6294]

jokes aside i lovehow he is all over the place with info ❤ it helps keep me focused aaaand opens doors like crazy 🎉 mr watts ❤❤❤

[@jamesfrearson9630]

such beautiful photography , thanks for the upload.

[@DaQuote]

I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

[@siilver1]

These alan watts recommendations in my feed wont go away...maybe is it time? I already saw one in my feed and now this too. Are accidents even accidental? . . . ,~28th August, 2024 @2:12pm, Wednesday (Tuesday midnight)

[@seandougherty8613]

0:39 bless you!

[@NadineGardner-ws2tw]

Nothing can harm a pure soul .

[@gordonely3591]

Monica Furlong wrote a deep searching biography of Alan Watts . It's called Zen Effects . It's worth buying . ❤

[@user-li4ul8cc7x]

There are no teachers like this today as we fully enter the age of false prophets

[@ThisThing435]

Alan pulled me from trying to get people to get along. Now I just watch the world like I watch a tree blow or “weeds” invading parts of my yard. I can’t say I accept it anymore, but it’s going more and more into a show/movie. I do love asking people about things I’ve never been through. I do love asking people “Why?” if their opinion/stance/belief of very intense or hard core. When they can’t answer I always smile and say “Welcome to the edge. Now both our toes are over the edge.”

[@raulsimon2218]

Nice talk, nice pictures (most of them).

[@jokevermeer3828]

Pinksteren. Uitstorting van de heilige geest. Deze preek gaat over: "Wees geen heilige." (met magische prachtige beelden van de wereld) ♥ Je bent geen leraar als er geen student is...

[@AcceptingNewLife]

Een naaste Alan Watts fan ? Ik zal een eeuwige student blijven , zoekend naar antwoorden om elke hoek, onder elke steen , just because 😊

[@RonnieLeeJones]

My response to somebody that asks me if I am saved is, yes I am, and thank you for your concern about my soul.

[@cyberpunkfalangist2899]

I would caution you against such notions pride is the most insidious of sins and can worm it's way into our hearts

[@slumpkiid3570]

​@@cyberpunkfalangist2899and righteousness

[@spookyboo333]

This is where it’s at ❤ here and now

[@kelleemerson9510]

Spiritual gold!

[@GLRYB2GD]

External realization is the manifestation of man's internal imagination. God, the "I AM," is your own awareness of being. It's the unconditioned part of consciousness. And when you add imagination to "I AM," now God is moving and manifesting, realizing your assumed thoughts, or vision that you hold for an extended period of time. I am rich. I am joyful. I am strong. I am wise. I am. You can just be, or you can do.

[@d1o2c3t4o5r]

There is a difference between being "holier than thou," and avoiding taking stupid risks with your soul.

[@sockneman]

Thank You! 🙏

[@jerrycurtin5770]

if you have an opinion..you still don’t get it. And to those who do get it-it’s funny. What’s the point? All “points” are imaginary perspectives..which is debatable at every level. The point is there are no points :)

[@MichaelMunn-sd3eb]

That's your point is it? Don't worry I can easily concede that in a way there is no reality and I definitely find the word consensus funny

[@tankjones513]

Yup. If you get it, you get it. The key is to not try to grasp it, its not able to be understood by finite mind.

[@NickBatinaComposer]

yall my folks in Alabama sent me a coffee that I used to drink in college before moving up north, it’s really good stuff. Great processing too, it’s called Lucky Goat, based in Tallahassee.

[@dnbjedi]

I think some points are in a superpositional state like a hyperdimensional crystal of unfoldingness

[@dnbjedi]

Such as love, heat, pressure, surrender, …

[@timothythegreat6294]

great feeling to hear this ❤

[@user-rc2xs5ti2w]

Don't be a saint unless you are a saint

[@Yourallowedtosmile]

I do believe there are people who set out to destroy you and people who are sent to help you. I hope you realize that before I did. Never thought I would grow up to be such a fool. I thought I'd grow up and help people, but I couldn't even help myself. Life is a journey, may you find friends who want to see you rise.

[@richspring1]

Great stuff! ButI also highly recommend his talk called ‘ They Made it all up!’

[@Deity333]

Things I wish I knew when I was I was kid Im having terrible time sleeping wishing this shit just wasn’t true

[@agucci]

I think I will become a saint. ❤

[@Na_bruh]

Good luck

[@agucci]

@@Na_bruh thank you so much!

[@oliverpirker5784]

thx

[@IhadEggsThisMorning]

I got Nothing ❤

[@amcreative3784]

Padre Pio was leaving the planet apparently. He became a Saint.

[@lokeshabhi3762]

He saw the truth.

[@Cheese-is-its-own-food-group]

I really appreciate the lack of music and the beautiful pictures!

[@ProfArnoldEhret]

He spoke from Jiddu krishnamurti. Also very interesting Man.

[@williamwightman8409]

I'm listening to Jesus right now, but he is trying to convince me that he does not exist.

[@juliarotunno]

How do you know it wasn’t just YOUR mind (thought) claiming that it is Jesus? From the Biblical scripture I have read, Jesus identified as the one essence or Holy Spirit, not a body/ temple or its thoughts.

[@lindhorstellie]

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[@lindboknifeandtool]

@@juliarotunnoaccording to 99.99999% of Christians, he was a person. You can feel his presence I guess? But you’re guessing what that may feel like. Nobody has the answers and if they say they do be very skeptical and search for their motive.

[@thatdude3977]

​@@lindboknifeandtoolthey also say bow down or face eternal torture 😂 I think the names got mixed along the way

[@soulitis]

do you exist? who are you? what is existence? just a thought? a persona? perception? everything is nothing so nothing is everything

[@Yonkersville]

Now and Zen i must tune up the strings

[@SteveBMayer]

If you painted the entirety of the canvas of babel at once, it would contain every experience you could have. Relative to you, the canvas is never complete. Relative to the canvas, you are eternal.

[@TheEcono]

Sweet 😔☯️🙏

[@BrotherJerry]

I'm a new subscriber 🙏

[@DaQuote]

That's awesome Brother Jerry! Thank you 🙏

[@phk2000]

All is ONE! Know this, FEEL this, BE this. The rest is just chatter for the mind (which is also the ONE appearing as chatter of course!)

[@childpeanut5095]

Hello me

[@MrMcflanigengaming]

Why not exist and try to be good to people who are you. Simply existing is pointless. Hell even

[@user-gy8in7ui2c]

that's why people so scared of it)

[@soap5420]

Alan Watts reminds me of Jordan Peterson as far as his vocal inflection and scattered talking points go. In a debate between richard dawkins and jordan petersen, jordan remarked “i think your more interested in specificity and i’m more interested in aesthetics, it’s what differentiates our thinking styles”. I’m not saying Alan Watts is dumb he just isn’t very precise to the point that his words can be interpreted in a plethora of ways.

[@sketchingtophat9661]

Yes.

[@AstralApple]

17:25 "How do you navigate." "What's the problem?" "The problems are pluralistic. They include imperialistic conquistadors from many different ethnicities, hostile wild animals, plus a naturally reoccurring Armageddon in the form of toroidal loop great flood that occurs every 25,000 years or so. The last natural great flood was about 9,600 BC."

[@tristanfunk1417]

every time

[@macdmacd7896]

existence is illusion. thus you will die with no memories you ever existed. cos you are nothing... from nothing back to nothing, empty, zero... no idea, no brain, no intellect, no love, no thing... yayyy

[@numbers419]

Church is a place for people to gather and help people who are lost spiritually find there way back to society

[@marika64able]

Church did the opposite for me. It's when I left the church where I found my personal relationship with The Christ.

[@kelleemerson9510]

If only.😔

[@TheFreedomBay]

Potentially. But as most things its a two edged sword. Then again as usual we humans tend to have a hard time understanding anything but absolutes so we end up discussing of something is bad or good endlessly never realizing both sides are both right and wrong in most all cases. This is possible because its always relative. In this case its relative to the intentions of the induviduals going to church.

[@user-gy8in7ui2c]

nope

[@ACharmedEarthling]

I think it's a place where people who are lost spiritually get fleeced.

[@chuckliquor3663]

It's ironic, because one of Watts students, Seraphim Rose, went on to become an orthodox monastic and may indeed be recognized as a saint. I think it paints a melancholy picture of the nihilism of Buddhism weighed against the life of the church.

[@Someone-nv1cj]

" one of watts students", i am also sure at least one of his students murdered people. He taught and spoke to thousands, not responsible for everyone, most people that actually intellectually and fairly study hindu philosphy or buddhist philosphy come to prefer it, it's really shameful that ritualistic aspects of hinduism/buddhism are much more widely known and performed so they have not lead to a fair representation of the religion on a mass scale.

[@avery_IO]

him talking abt chicken while showing video of sautéing a chicken is diabolical

[@walkie-talkie7]

Buddhism is finding peace and happiness.. this is what we seek the most in life!! Every religion has its own unique benefits..!

[@thatdude3977]

Christians and Catholics are weird when they demand their god is all powerful. I have to disagree with you

[@CheKelley]

welp that is it. what he says at the end just finished my entire three decades long quest to know. im Done. it’s wrapped up. And i Just Finished My Quest. if u can hear what he said and not reach the finality i am doing in this moment then maybe u are missing other additional info not found here within however - This Is It. my quest truly ends here and i can go back to what i was doing b4. iGET it now. and it all makes perfect sense.

[@DaQuote]

Amazing! 🤩

[@VenusLover17]

❤❤

[@jiqian]

I need something like the Twitter filter words thing but for KZbin so I can filter specifically and basically exclusively "Alan Watts".

[@eMZ3RO]

The name the can be named is not the eternal name

[@thatfunkyduck]

"Buddhism is Hinduism stripped for export" Not correct at all. The Buddha's teachings are a practical guide for subduing passion and desire with the ultimate goal of permanent cessation of all suffering. Hinduism is an Indian religion with a diverse pantheon and set of beliefs. Buddhism is perfect for export to other cultures, not because it was "stripped", but because its teachings apply to all sentient beings equally.

[@DanielEngsvang]

"Beware of False Prophets"!. Don't listen to ANYONE that are trying to "complicate things", making you feel stupid or Ignorant, but also never listen to anyone that are trying to teach you the Opposite of this. It's most often bullshit "marinated" in very very Fancy words(that make you feel Ignorant). You must learn ALL the important virtues (Altruism, Compassion, Tolerance, Humbleness, Solicitude and so on) for your self through experience(suffering) as No one can teach you anything especially advanced or important about this through simple language(Speech). So next time you are helping a Snail to cross the side-walk as to not risking it getting hurt in the sun(Drying out), look around at those people watching you, and just try to even get eye contact with them, and there you have the moral foundation of the collective. I find it really comforting to know that i'm personally a really kind and humble guy, and that everyone that will come in contact with me will get "Handled with care" and affection, and that makes me calm, knowing that my fellow men are in good hands. I am NOT a "Saint", but rather just a genuinely kind person and there is nothing strange or special with that. Cheers

[@soap5420]

but also never say never

[@SeekingSikhiStories]

We should all laugh at the funny things people come to the East and learn a little bit and then purport to know everything. Then tell you not to have pride you learned something. Let’s have more Western Masters of Indian and Asian philosophy. The problem is, Western philosophers, including Alan Watts, like to categorize everything into segments; Hindu, Buddhist, etc. we don’t do that as tradition in the East. We just are 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@billhassall1586]

Jack Vickland

[@joannaufnal9309]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@hellybertalha]

There's a gift for making people smile. Thank you for sharing it.

[@user-en7cc2xi4n]

When to know who you are as human beings to be among those who have been put into a line separation from how you see them is uncall for my people putting them on mother earth 🌎 to live like it is in my Gold house and forgot love are in your Closet and your dreams you have not founded yet and you have turn to your Dark side and your feelings are going from you and the same old days path still within you like saying I like to walk through Bloods on your mother earth with know respect 🙏 🫡 ❤️

[@konkowjosephson1607]

It is not a good thing too be "Awakened" In this time period. It makes for more sadness for our world,but it is still better than being illusioned and being content. "Everyone is a philosopher", we need more doers

[@childpeanut5095]

Or just enjoy everything

[@DougDeYoung-gt4id]

Gurdjieff talked a lot about the saint he had a term called stupid saint. Buddhism focuses on the intellectual center, western religion disregards this and only develop the emotional center. Don't question just believe with all your heart, this is the stupid saint.

[@jonnybsidetv]

This officer is such a passive aggressive, condescending person. Should not be an officer.

[@ianyoung8392]

He got a bunch of things wrong because of how Japanese culture changed after wwii. The tantric path somewhat opposes the views of Mahayana and Zen claims to be both. Whereas I would argue that Chan is from the lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism and has tantric origins because of Bon. These elements entered Buddhism before the Chinese got their hands on it. Whereas he's also wrong about the timeline with Taoism which is a new religion that emerged from Tengrism. Taoism comes from Wudang, Zhang Sanfeng etc which is a recent phenomina in history. People even go to claim that the military Taoist cult who created Doumu was an extension of esoteric Buddhism through the Marishiten cult that peaked in the Ming dynasty. Which went onto dominate the discourse and military/cultural transmission for every town and village of Japan. Shugendo governed as an umbrella all Zen, Pureland, Todai, Nichiren and Shingon philosophy. The tantric element with the Buddhist philosophy was always rooted in the Mahasiddhas of Vedic tradition. Hinduism is also another modern phenomenon that homogenised badly 36,000 years of culture with completely different emphasis on deities and practices. Indra for example was one of the main pantheon guys and after the Hindu reformation he's on the tertiary. But there's a huge divide in meaning between Mahayana practice of void and Vajrayana emphasis on tantric/yogic/3x human mystery principles. These distinctions are becoming more and more important as more information historically comes forward. For example the 8 limbs of Yoga and the 8 fold path of Buddhism is another example of a theological divide. The 8 paths of Buddhism want you to worry on the right speech, actions etc. Whereas the 8 limbs of Yoga demand you have rituals and exercises in the right speech, skills, meditations. One has you living in your head worried all the time and trying to quel ego whereas the other develops the self into mindfulness and skillful means through ritual and development. One is growth, the other suppression. Kukai said that teachings were meant to be easily understood, koans too, but that their use goes beyond the words on a page. But the sounds, shapes, images and symbols are all exercises in mind, body and speech practice. We try to become enlightened through realisation, what you get with this idea that there's nothing to see is a contradiction that doesn't develop more observational science and collaboration. There has been a muddying of the waters.

[@bigburrito308]

15:00 I don't get it. If everybody was a Buddha and none of them had sex then there would be nobody else to become a Buddha....... Sex is an Intricately woven piece of life that is part of its own propagation....... Should we all just not have any desires or care about anything and just live our life Out till we die and not care about having a child...... I never understood this

[@_NobodySpecial_]

clown to clown communication

[@brianrono9629]

13:24

[@SeekingSikhiStories]

14:15 “Chinese civilization was all rigged around the family.” - So is Indian Civilization. Alan Watts says Indian Buddhism is a conflux of Indian Hinduism and Buddhism, but only Buddhism was ‘exportable.’ Yet we are ignoring the Kama Sutra and all the teachings of the same The same is true of Sikhi ‘to be living as a householder, plus separation from the Maya world. Sikhi did not just begin because Guru Nanak came on the Earth. They had teachers and compatriots as well. Bodhi Dharma was a Buddha from India who travelled to Shaolin and is the founder of all martial arts in China; most prominently Shaolin Kung Fu. Bodhi Dharma lived in a cave, came from India, drank a lot of alcohol, and sat starting at a wall, and in Samadhi for a long time. These things I say are reputable and backed by facts; not anecdotal made up stories to suit a Western audience or to make them laugh. If Alan Watts, who we respect says “there is no humour in Indian Buddhism” then he didn’t study enough. He obviously spent more time in China than India.

[@leerutledge9099]

Alan Watts has been dead for a long time. This is nice to see.

[@childpeanut5095]

How do u know he didn’t achieve eternal lifeeeee 😳

[@ShimrraShai]

Don't "be a saint" (you can't, really) i.e some ludicrous standard of perfection (that is also often idiosyncratically crafted by some authority - think e.g. sexual prude morals that are also and esp. patriarchally loaded) often "backed up" by some form of punitive attitude (esp. toward oneself), but don't disregard the well-being of others in how you act. Unfortunately, many of us are too focused on "what's in it for us" more than we are on whether we a) should really have or really need to have whatever is in it for us and b) the consequences that obtaining what is in it for us and especially by whatever method are on others (which isn't just other humans, but other life on Earth and maybe even elsewhere in the universe when the thinking gets really long-term). And I don't mean just intellectual focus but much more importantly _visceral_ focus, i.e. that we may see something wrong but be unable to override the urge. It's not about meeting some dumb perfection standard as it is shifting the mind and the modes by which actions come to be so as to thoroughly integrate the interests of others as well as "oneself" in true equality ... and when you get really far down that road you start to see it sounds like the dissolution of separation-consciousness itself; I would suggest thus that also conversely, if one is still acting in a way that would not be justified when one has such a cognition, that one hasn't, in fact, dissolved the separation-consciousness entirely at that point, even if one thinks one has. (And that in turn gets us to Buddha again because Buddha's plan in many ways involves seeking out enlightenment _through_ mindful, ethical conduct and he even defines many spiritual attainments _by_ ethical attainments ... thus what I just describe about how the separation-consciousness dissolves as one pursues ethical conduct in a more essential and less "rules-bound" way.) (Also I find "Buddhism was Hinduism stripped for export" something puzzling enough I'd want to know where that came from. Because Buddha famously _contended_ with the proto-Hindus [Vedic Brahmins] of his time.)

[@Honorcodefor-1life]

Rastafari Way Words Curse Or Make The Day. Why time unfolds, enfolds, history -His-story, ~whose story?...is~

[@a.j.garrett9639]

Yetzer Hara

[@oswurth8774]

33:50

[@SapereAude562]

I enjoy very much listening to Alan Watts. But there are always these snippets of inherited religious dogma lurking around haha There is a profound plot twist in all Religions, Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism included etc... You are looking up to someone or something or some deity to give you the answers. They cannot. You are the full Answer, You always have been. We are all One, timelessly just experiencing itself. No need to go through all the fruitless nonsense and ego driven (here including that spiritual ego as well). If you are willing to really dive deep inside yourself and find out who you are and surrender, you will understand what all the Masters and Religions really mean... Terence McKenna once quoted a beautiful Van Morrison's song that talks about this: "No guru, no method, no teacher, Just you and I and Nature"

[@jernyx9139]

Not clinging onto something is also clinging onto trying to not cling onto something ... checkmate buddists!

[@Na_bruh]

Learn to live in the now.

[@slumpkiid3570]

Don't try, just do

[@SeekingSikhiStories]

Alan Watts posits to remove all ritual and dogma, which is good, yet is a proponent of “Zen.” Is this not a concept , and his ideal to aspire to? Dogma will exist everywhere if you label it. He says so. Yet labels the same. These ideas are interesting, but not for a moment uncontradictory.

[@everythingoneverything919]

They are meant to be that way. He is teaching the western world alternate ways of meditation, thought, spirit. He isn't on a conquest to remove all rituals and dogma. Listen to more of his speeches and you'll learn, he is merely teaching through perspective, helping others reach a mindful/spritual state that is awakened without using Christiananity, Islam or judeo beliefs or zen or buddahism. He doesn't preach or push a belief on anyone or anything. He merely speaks on self realization of one's place within the self, the earth and the cosmos.

[@MatthewGill-nv4tb]

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[@wonkyfug]

A saint wears siddhartas butt on his mouth, for he is the jist of the joke.

[@f1KING]

what do u mean don't be a saint?

[@DaQuote]

There was plenty of sun today! 🌤

[@raul4848]

Black Madonna

[@LifeLongLearner-om8jx]

Listen to the talk… its self explanatory

[@UriyahRecords]

Try listening to the video, it makes perfect sense

[@Drdssikes]

I had a smoothie for breakfast

[@odinseye-y8k]

Ohm

[@cyberpunkfalangist2899]

What an evil way at looking at the world

[@thuggy67]

Change title to Alan Watts on Hinduism Instead .

[@Lumalnatti11]

I'm not a saint, a devil, a god, king or queen, a Buddha, a Shiva or anything, just an individual loser in the sea of sour milk. Everyone is under the same casino dome, perks or not. there's a heavy price to pay for any good or enjoyable "life" under the dome.

[@childpeanut5095]

What

[@slumpkiid3570]

​@@childpeanut5095 don't listen to him, every label will trap you, every attempt at removing a label will trap you, just live your life as you will.

[@Peppermynthe]

But my dove, you ARE Shiva. A piece of Shiva lives in your heart. If only you will connect to it and let yourself free to play in this Lila.

[@tonyliang8099]

I already know lol get judged and criticized every move f that lmao carebear with a steel 🪑

[@KyngKyro]

I know right? Good thing I’m not!

[@agingerbeard]

Alan Watts, Saint of the Milksop Sophists.

[@ZBielski]

Man talks for an hour to come to the conclusion "I am God" 😂😂😂😂 wow so profound

[@litscreek5361]

Not really I don’t think so at least maybe that’s what a Christian perceives, what am I just person a part of this process cause let’s see where it goes

[@tristanfunk1417]

lmaooooo

[@TheMatheushorta]

Wish he had bothered reading the catechism befored crossing the ocean to study foreign religions.

[@balajib785]

I am the whole religion ❤

[@childpeanut5095]

No me