Alan Watts: Dropping Out From Karma - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 2 - Hosted by Mark Watts

[@DLC1325]

I used to have a meditation room with Zen gardens and Buddhas, etc. until I noticed that the moments of complete presence and oneness ("enlightenment"/satori) never happened in my Zen room nor in meditation. These moments were completely random -- sitting in my shop having a beer admiring the beautiful trees and sky is the one that always comes to mind because it was so thorough and complete. In my experience, the most Zen thing one can do is to not practice Zen, because there is nothing to practice. The most Tao thing one can do is to not strive for the Tao, because there is nothing to strive for. "There is no method." -- Krishnamurti

[@TolkienBird8]

Wonderful comments and truth telling. Thank you! 💚💫

[@rainmanjr2007]

Yes. It's more about observing than the attempt to observe. Forget about communicating what we are observing.

[@TheFlyingBrain.]

Practice simply nurtures the ground for what will grow, naturally, of itself. It's as much a matter of where one habitually casts one's field of attention as anything else.

[@konspiracy_baby2623]

Reading your comment I thought of his lecture about desire...and how to not desire to desire...lol😂

[@DLC1325]

@@konspiracy_baby2623 Right! And it’s difficult for something so simple!

[@GreatMooglyGoogly]

Alan Watts’ lectures came on my radio on Saturdays when I was in high school… broadcast from some New Jersey college radio station. I started recording them on cassettes. Profoundly changed my life. I love Alan Watts.

[@whiteashpiperwhiteashpiper5447]

Very similar to me. Only west coast so cal and it was kpfk radio sadly I didn't have enough sense to record. Had good wine though.

[@bluesriot2]

wfmu in nj had them on wednesday years ago, my intro to alan and zen

[@Thematterofliving]

Alan Watts is 💚

[@EL-13]

I can listen to this a billion times and each time learn something new …. Ive always said if God had a voice it would be Alan’s

[@bobdillaber1195]

I also listen over and over. Each time I absorb more. Always.

[@jamiewilliams423]

The God voice had me🤣🤣

[@louiseboyd8896]

His voice just so happens to have a deep and wonderful resonance, especially when he chants....

[@juicetin942]

Wtf? Why not you or me? Did you learn nothing from Alan?

[@bobdillaber1195]

@@juicetin942 Huh?

[@kendrickburton1111]

Thank you for this.. Your father has been my teacher and a great guide for me threw life.. The small town I was raised in I was so different never thought I belonged because I was so different.. When I come across his teachings years ago made me feel truth within myself and my heart.. Thank you for this video and walking in his spirit..

[@sempressfi]

Love this. It feels like coming home after a long, dangerous journey where you weren't sure you'd see home again. And if you're able to find likeminded people, even if it's online, it's like finding family. 💙💜

[@doritoz98]

I resonate with much of what you both have said❤

[@PabuQQ]

You have much ways to go with this kind of comment, not very spiritually refined in the least it seems. Don't worry student, you can take my yoga classes. Only $699 per session. Then you will learn how to sync with nature and use Alan Watts Jutsu, straight from his bloodline.

[@gregrowe9650]

@@PabuQQ lol will you take $420?

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@@sempressfi wouldn't it be better to feel that way about the world so that you're home regardless where you are?

[@georgiagibbons9246]

Your father has been my spiritual father for few years now. His voice gives me comfort and his words Confirm my understandings and open them where they're closed. Thankyou for honouring your father so. I'm glad I found this video and channel. I'm looking forward to finding out more about your father through you. Again, so much gratitude.

[@wlljohnbey1798]

Your father is my favorite teacher and philosopher. He was a wonderful thinker and writer. Thank you so much for distributing more of his work.

[@JagirReehal]

Thank you for creating this podcast. It is so needed in the world today. Your father's words, his stories, his metaphors, and his way of presenting are timeless 🙏

[@The_Eternal_Now]

"I am no longer a stranger and afraid in a world I never made."

[@antoniopizzolatotroia8754]

Oh my thank you. It's Mark uploading those lectures in those podcasts. An hug for you Mark, thank you for those podcasts and interpretations 🙃

[@matejoh]

My deepest respect to you, Mark. I'm new to your father's lectures, and yet they feel familiar. Thank you for sharing these philosophical gems.

[@scalesstudio4670]

Thanks for sharing. Over the years Allen has become one of my driving partners along with Ram Dass and Aldous Huxley. To me, some of the best people to spend time with.

[@yourenodaisy5401]

I am almost 40 years old and I have been listening to your father speak from his heart for over 20 years, it has always put me in a state of ease, your father understood nature so well by n our trying to understand it that his lectures are priceless, you can’t put any kind of monetary value on his talks,

[@rosieTii]

I feel like this is for me, but I don't have a father. I don't know what that is. Like to trust a man. Or be loved by one.

[@rosieTii]

I feel like this is for me, but I don't have a father. I don't know what that is. Like to trust a man. Or be loved by one. I think I'm not traumatised power but I didn't consent to having a father.

[@krs1690]

Your father is the man this world would really need nowadays. I personally admit that he's the most extraordinary, interesting and adorable with the best life perception and philosophy for everything a human being can be and do. I simply admire him by admitting he's the very 1st person I'd love to meet if I'd have the opportunity to do so. I do hope maybe in some other life. Greetings 🙌

[@nightcall7398]

I just discovered Alan through a random youtube video quoting him and am now endlessly listening to his talks with this one being my 2nd one. Thank you for providing this for me and others!

[@willissudweeks1050]

Alan is the best I’m glad you found him

[@deboraholliver8777]

Ram Dass is also great. Check him out on KZbin

[@lindamon5101]

Hey Mark thankyou for sharing your Dad with me. My own Dad didn't talk much outside of crops& weather so Alan's talks fascinate me. Again thankyou!

[@DanielSchorr]

Many years ago when I was younger, I was driving along one day with the radio on, and Alan Watts was giving a talk on public radio. He said, "The wise man does what he loves for a living", and "The best way to learn something is to teach it". I followed his advice and became a music teacher. (He was 100% correct by the way.) I have listened to many Alan Watts lectures since then, but have never been able to find that episode. I only heard it that one time, and it changed my life. I would love to hear it again someday.

[@courtneyawalsh]

“Mutual arising.” How beautiful.

[@brucehitchcock3869]

Was in a band with Paul whose mom was a concert pianist and opera singer . Dude had perfect pitch but couldnt tell me what notes he was playing .I tried putting note letters on his keyboard but he so blocked by his mother`s criticism at not learning to read music easily that he pulled off the tape on the keys . He could play guitar and figure out any song by ear . We wrote 13 original songs .

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

I can only imagine how amazing it would be to have had Alan Watts as a dad.

[@Bodhi518]

This man is a legend!

[@tonycrook2955]

A true spiritual badass

[@georgeabdulnour2727]

Thank you for sharing theas well structured recording's 🙏.

[@amandalitts2830]

I love getting the glimpse into Alan's life and want to know more. I am always fascinated at the expanse of his knowledge and I could listen to him talk for hours.

[@travisphilp8215]

This just make me wanna see an Alan Watts movie 😍

[@renlei5875]

Im sad it has taken me so long to find this guy, and yet enthralled that I did.😊

[@mistymoseley2340]

Your Father’s voice has carried me through many nights. Brave New World is my favorite novel. I found your Father by way of reading about his friendship with Aldous Huxley. What a beautiful thing

[@Jsqared-aka-justjenn]

Thanks, so much for sharing this. I really enjoy listening to your podcast.

[@J3m51mct]

All joy and suffering comes from within who should be responsible for what goes on inside you 🤩🙏

[@MychelleSeymourHeyyouremember]

Good point! But, what about the recording's?

[@OspreyFlyer]

What a great teacher ♥️

[@Austin_Sweeney]

indeed!

[@paulmitchell5349]

I knew 3 female librarians . All vibrant and kind. One of them was an ex competitive fencer. The other spoke Japanese and English equally well and was always cracking jokes. The 3rd is now an active campaigner against global warming. Not dusty at all.

[@ioodyssey3740]

how sad...

[@AshterGoutich]

Thank you for holding on to the memories of this wonderful human being. Would love if you could give us a glimpse into his personal life and his use of various gurus, teaching,use of scared entheogens, travelling etc We are blessed to have you as an insight to his mind and his life and would to see a documentary/series on it! Love you keep up the good work champ ❤️

[@VBM1]

9:03 Alan begins his lecture.

[@FNasci1244]

Thank you 🙏🏾

[@peppermintspicelatte]

"who teaches you how to do it without forcing it", this must have been a thought worm when I first heard it. Because I've been thinking a lot about how I've been forcing myself to feel emotions I'm not yet ready to feel. And how that FEELS different than feelings that arise naturally. It's been a powerful seeing for me!

[@aug.jam.1]

Thank you so much for these videos

[@aftermathmotomxrc]

Thank-you Mr Mark, I appreciate what you are putting out about your father, Mr Alan Watts

[@glenngeerinck771]

i cannot express, or even consider to try to express how much i enjoy alan speaking. hahahaha tis is just as miraculous, a miracle could experience how miraculous it finds itself. 😂 I'm having one of the greatest times in my life enjoying listening to whatever it/what is is that has a name Alan Watts

[@fionaross4407]

Yeah, its showing how you come to the end decision that has been really helpful to me over the years. From when you used to do the celebs and the comments, to now with Daaji, and how you reached your conclusion...we don't see that process too often and it's very useful. Thanks Paul. For me it was the mask wearing with him that was undeniable.

[@tonyhaines9910]

Dear mark watts 💗 found your fathers teaching s i too had this same experience universesal experience When one like myself so confused with this life and all that surrounds oneself to understand meaning, purpose to find peace with in oneself is and fundamentaly uneek a amazing life to think oneness no judgement a dream but who is the dream maker ?with this life im in ? ❤❤❤❤ A lit of compassion in what i see for all i see in life has been difficult and challenging ❤❤❤ thank you mark in promoting your farthers work to the masses ❤ respect to you and your family 💖

[@joannahikes1337]

I so enjoy listening to Alan His intellectual insights and humor are so inspiring and thoughtful provoking thank you for sharing… you must have had a most interesting childhood ❤🙏🦋

[@sacredguineapig9397]

Everything is a figure of speech, and yet he goes on talking and talking. A true entertainer, indeed.

[@nwsanagnwsths]

Interesting the part about the piano teaching itself and as an example

[@robinjohnsen8471]

I should maybe try listning to others, But i won’t.. Alan makes me listen, learn, laugh, understand and i live his voice! It’s strong and soft, pure N Kind, funny and real❤

[@ricktalks7420]

This is also that , and that is also this. 👌

[@eaton55r]

For me... I can read from many people and struggle with finding hope because it is based on imagination for hope. In the words Lao Tzu, Chiang Tzu and Wen Tzu there is no imagination. I see freedom and fell hopless. Ahhh!

[@peace3885]

Thank you for all of your work and contributions together with dedication to your father's work and it's altogether good so again please thank you

[@ostrari]

Very happy to hear a hero of mine's son present his talks. I hope he left you many good words along the way we'll never get to hear, special for you. Brilliant speaker, whose words were worth more than whole books.

[@Julieann0917]

Such a great video Thank u

[@mohammad4110]

The opening Music is just beautifullll Really makin me ready for the talkings

[@rainmanjr2007]

I've just recently become enlightened enough to now experience life in this manner and it's amazing. Alan describes it very well and I took mental notes. One can only observe from a peripheral angle so that one sees without seeing. In that way it's like punching the beast without intending to. Having observed that all is representational of Tao, and/or an aspect of my electron (bonded with others which create this frequency illusion), so all is an aspect of me, I see it everywhere (of course). In this process I am separating from an ability to be understood (or even considered sane). Interesting.

[@gratefulkm]

Do you know how you FEEL ? yet and what part of your internal apparatus controls how you FEEL

[@rainmanjr2007]

@@gratefulkm I do.

[@mariameere5807]

Love this thank you so much for all your blessings! ✨💜✨

[@guharup]

I misread the title and dropped out of Burma. Is it too late to go back?

[@kaylal6628]

I always wonder if Alan Watts took his wisdom and knowledge 1000 to 2000 years ago that he would be seen as a prophet because of this strong sense of enlightenment and profound understanding.

[@lennybreau4670]

Thanks, namaste 🙏, chi- miigwetch. Much appreciated all the good work. Thanks, Mark and crew. 🕉 🕉 🕉

[@dukereg]

1:01:59 Just this morning I was bemoaning the fact that I have only an intellectual understanding of this stuff that doesn't go to the spiritual level. 😂 I guess I'll have to go on playing my own game.

[@jaysalazar4977]

Very Informative

[@asanabahrami2735]

He is our collective father

[@petervisser3884]

Monumental dance of insights galore.

[@dabrupro]

Ditto. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you, All.

[@woodsandcreek7589]

This is exactly why gentrification does not work well in the rural country, 'hood, or inner-city. It is necessary to understand how things/ people are inter-related in any environment.

[@solidaritytime3650]

This is also why hierarchy within governance, more generally, will always be exploitative, coercive, and woefully inadequate to account for and/or manage the infinite complexity of the human condition.

[@jasonshapiro9469]

I thought gentrification is how one got out of those places

[@glenngeerinck771]

btw: i dreamed yesterday, having a phonecall with alan, having the "opportunity" to express how greatfull and thankfull i am for all its work and contributions i discovered till know 😮😮😂😂

[@CrouchingscarabflyingJ]

Going through these again. Thanks

[@lukeiffland424]

If you want to know God, get started by not looking outward but inward. When u realise that god is within, start to figure out what the I and me is. When you know that it is impossible to say in words then you have found the piece that 99% of people are missing. This is the start towards inner wisdom and learning to understand the self and its infinite potential. Learn then self and find everything inside and it will release u from suffering into bliss and understanding

[@Timmerrr23]

It's a wonder that in the age of abundance you have so few subscribers. In any search for Enlightenment on someone's present situation 9 times out of 10 that someone will come across the awe and beauty of his teachings, especially in audio where all of the faculties are done for you. No reading is involved or action of any kind needed. Only to be in the present listening. It inherently true it's beneficial and quite entertaining. All knowledge is available and yet humanity is being fed garbage and engineered to like it. I'm sorry you have to witness the world in this state Mark, knowing all of what your father spoke of. Yet I'm sure you agree that our beauty and Heaven is within us on a very personal level. Maybe Humanity will realize this on a whole. It would be a sight to see ❤

[@paulguthenberg364]

Much appreciate your sharing, on all levels 🙏✨

[@Neti-Netti]

Your father is amazing 🤩

[@SavingAmerica]

Love Your Dad❤ Thanks❤ Namaskaram ❤

[@magiclampboogiesdown9717]

Marvelous

[@nghila5176]

❤❤❤❤❤, Greatest Thanks AW! Best Blessed Wishes Y’all!..

[@DOMOZORROORROZOMOD]

How about planning a plan? Living a life? A way chosen. One would make reason before, a composition for ones rhythms. Is it a surprise that it may be a worthy song in this drama?

[@sourcetext]

If you are experiencing yourself as an individual among other individuals, you are still the Ego no matter how sweet or intellectual you are ....being an individual " is" the Karma and the illusion 😵 There is no such thing as an individual! 😵

[@VansHalham]

I wonder what would happen if Alan Watts and others such as Joseph Campbell were broadcast in jails, prisons and psychiatric correction facilities. I ran a homeless shelter in a community that attracted hippies and travelers. I would broadcast harmonic pitches such as 528 Hz = photosynthesis vibration, Solfeggio and new sh#t.

[@xxxyz]

25:00 you think so much that you get into the state when you're eating the menu instead of the dinner, confusing the map with territory what is vs. ideas about what is but the process of thinking is also what is. thoughts in their own domain are as real as rocks, words have their own reality thoughts about things are their own things. intellectualize and think in an immediate way thinking about thinking can be lived with just as much direct fresh spontaneity as living without thinking -> the symbol can no longer be seen as a block to life, a means of escape. you can't escape, there's no one to escape ... the liberation of the mind from identifying with symbols = as breaking up the links between the successive moments, the illusion of self, continuing self that travels from moment to moment and picks them all up. -> there is no one who perceives anything, no one who experiences anything. there is simply seeing and experiencing. we introduce all these redundances through talk, we talk about seeing sights, hearing sounds, feeling feelings. all that is irrelevant. there are sights, there are sounds, there are feelings. you don't feel a feeling, the feeling itself contains the feeling of it. to have sight you don't need something to be seen on one hands and a seer on the other and the some mysterious way they come together. the seer and the seen, the knower and the known are terms, terms mean ends - in mathematical language limits. stick - two terms, two ends but they are not separate points that encounter each other on the occasion of meeting at a stick. they're abstract points. the reality is the stick. experience - reality is not encounter of the knower and the known, the reality is an experience which can be termed as having two aspects, two ends. but that's only a figure of speech. neurologically, everything that you see is yourself. what you are aware of is a state of your nervous system. that doesn't mean that your nervous system is the only existing reality and that there is nothing beyond it. but it does mean that all knowledge is knowledge of you and that in some mysterious way you are not different from the external world that you know. what you experience and you are the same thing -> you are in the external world you're looking at. i'm in your external world, you're in my external world, but i'm in the same world you are. my inside is not separable from the outside world. it's something it outside world is doing. just as it's doing the tree and ocean etc. --> you can play any life game you want to: link the past and the future together, play roles, but you've see n through the idea that once accumulates, owns experiences, memories, sights, sounds, other people, possesions = the idea of being the haver of things, if you think that you've been had

[@DOMOZORROORROZOMOD]

There is still the one, I want to teach, and the one I want to save, and the one I want to forgive, and the no one, I want to love, cause all is loved by me, forgiven, or known or not.

[@DOMOZORROORROZOMOD]

Because I can make conditions, I am bias. I asked if I may. I am proof, I Respectfully continue. Gratitude and honored.

[@gratefulkm]

@@DOMOZORROORROZOMOD lovely imaginary imaginings in the imagination machine, but the real question has never been about thought, its been about how do you FEEL ?

[@renatehendricks5078]

Thanks for the upload keep up the good work 🙏

[@jakecarlo9950]

Outstanding. Thank you b

[@DOMOZORROORROZOMOD]

To play, make sound on . A hammer can be thrown or swung. But to play in harmony with the saw, one needs a rhythm . It can be progressive or, precalculated. Being made in perfection, one must play it , to believe it's beautiful ways.

[@myjinderbraich1158]

Truly blessed 😇

[@rajharell]

Hard to really be immersed with bongos and maracas in the background. But Alan is always spot on.

[@robertcalamusso1603]

Allan is my mystic guru 🌀

[@mrMagpied]

I love listening to this msn

[@sohara....]

9:05 Alan Watts on Taoist Way .... Leads directly into next talk

[@azimshabestary6411]

One mental energy passive and active at the same time as passive it’s infinite eternal absolute love and as active energy it’s knowingness and we are both at every moment.and imagination is the only thing that knowingness can do.

[@ekurisona663]

would it be possible to remove the exposition you've added and simply include it as text in the informational box below the video? that way you dad is able to speak uninterrupted? ty for considering

[@ultimatechakra3162]

It’s amazing his son is still is alive and a real person

[@tripzincluded8087]

hahaha "there's no such thing as a real person, haven't you been listening to his father ??" (::)

[@ultimatechakra3162]

@@tripzincluded8087 yea but I’m not that deep into his understanding of things I just speak how I speak

[@tripzincluded8087]

@@ultimatechakra3162 ((::))

[@monikakappelin8807]

I cannot remember who said it but "Children are life's longing for itself" ❤

[@joshvanschaick4896]

Does anyone know how to spell "Gwanza's" name?? I', trying to look up to find his book. Thank you

[@Ralf09]

He kinda looks like agent Smith, from the Matrix.

[@mighty_osaker]

And their charisma levels are also alike

[@brienmaybe.4415]

Ma! The trix they're for kids!

[@hobbes4583]

Does anyone know the correct name of the Buddhist philospher he quotes in this lecture? It sounds like "gwong zhe".

[@universillusion7693]

zhuangzi, a chinese philosopher :)

[@Reveticate]

The other common translation is Chuang Tsu.

[@kayvee256]

What is the name Alan refers to at 39:55 as "so-and-so does in a very humorous way". Who is the so-and-so? I can't quite catch it so not sure which name to search for.

[@beaulyons5554]

What is the second book he speaks of called

[@vatoloco1751]

5:15 I just realized the similarities between Alan Watts and Uncle iroh, who happens to be a Chinese villain in the last airbender...

[@dylanevartt3219]

Last Airbender was such a good show... I'm sure it planted some seeds for my interest in Eastern philosophy

[@AnisetaU.]

Truth doesn't require efforts, but illusion does! If it took over 8 million forms of life to get to the human one, then it would require 8 million years to get back to the point zero from which humans would then be able to agree to such surrender. Life lies between existence and inexistence, where being part of the eternal cycle and big circle would still require the linear line, so one would still be able to name the temporary opposites, consequently know his temporary position within the small circle, called "Earthly Life"!

[@DOMOZORROORROZOMOD]

Namaste Jung

[@LostWorl]

Cool

[@innertube4933]

Does anyone know how to spell that philosopher’s name that is mentioned at 37 minutes?

[@innertube4933]

Got it! Zhuang Zhou

[@lovealways2609]

born into a family.. having the brain given.. things happen to us.. all dominoes.. here we are

[@BruceWayne-nz6et]

Wu Wei means non-doing and doing without doing. The Ashtavakra Gita and Wu Hsin provide clarity.

[@blindinglights02]

Brilliant ❤️

[@DOMOZORROORROZOMOD]

Who chooses what is truth, knowledge, and secret. Where does taboo come from? No one steps forward?

[@DOMOZORROORROZOMOD]

If subject is removed from life, who is the observer?

[@joeyc1725]

Is there a place where I can buy all his talks in chronological order?

[@badger2-6romeo]

No he said he's not selling anything