Alan Watts Lectures | Mahayana Buddhism

Alan Watts Lectures - Mahayana Buddhism

[@redseneastmkii]

Alan Watts did a great service to Western audiences in explaining and elucidating Buddhist and Daoist thought in plain, lucid English and in a rational and pragmatic way.

[@ThisThing435]

I’m labeled a 42 yr old male from the U.S. Many more labels attached and some earned. I am cross-stitching “WHAT THE F***” while watching him talk. I am taking notes while in class. 😂😂 I love to be able to watch him talk so thank you!!

[@et2223]

thank you so much for uploading !! it’s so nice to see his face when he was young

[@willsmithslap7080]

Never delete

[@curewish574]

Don't worry about worry; you are that - the experience + feedback (of experience & resistance); go with the flow, withought putting up resistance ! Don't make an issue of anything, i.e. creating new concepts or thoughts as these are all barriers (resistance). Jesus, Krishnamurti & all the Zen masters say the same thing......

[@juniorjohnson5961]

What did they say ?

[@freemind2025]

@@juniorjohnson5961 be the experience, not the interpretation of the experience.

[@cjnav8631]

@@juniorjohnson5961 They say: stop asking, and you'll find your answer

[@LeOnIdAs162]

He is giving away the show !!!! Shhhhh let's pretend he never said anything and keep going!!!

[@luansmit408]

Here you are thinking that you controll the show 😂 poor bodi shatva

[@LeOnIdAs162]

@@luansmit408 i never said that

[@Michael-qi7in]

This man is brilliant. I never in my life expected this much in a video of less than half an hour in length. Alan Watts, to my amazement, explains in one video everything I've come to personally understand about Buddhism (a term I don't even like) which to me is a philosophy. The Buddha was one of the greatest philosophers- and for this he's not credited... not, I think- understood. Like this video. I'll keep it short enough, everything is my personal opinion and understanding... but I believe Alan Watts, whereas a lot of others, many Buddhists included, may see this video as just another Westerner trying to explain Eastern Philosophy and failing to do so. No. This is wrong. He gets at the heart of Buddhist philosophy, far beyond many long practicing Buddhists, at least as I understand reading the Heart Sutra, the Tripitaka, and the other Mahayana Sutras... He doesn't mention Bodhisattvas in a video on Mahayana Buddhism until 25 minutes in. Up until then, and to my disappointment, he had explained in an absolutely brilliant way the Buddhist concept of anātman, or non-self... anitya, or impermanence... and he made reference to dukkha, commonly translated as suffering, or unease... these three things are the three marks of existence in Buddhism, called the trilakshana. Around my neck I wear a cheap Vajra pendant- and my impulse to buy this had less to do with Buddhism, I admit- and more to do with my own personal 'spirituality' and understanding of existence and phenomena at the time. I was fascinated with the sphere at the center, which is said to represent... Mr. Watts said it at the very end- it's commonly translated as "nothingness, voidness, emptiness" or as I've heard from certain speakers & readers, 'zero', that of śūnyatā... which, to my own personal understanding, is a representation of all three marks of existence in Buddhism, that is the trilakshana is represented in śūnyatā. To say I'm satisfied having discovered this video does what words often do- cause an injustice. But I'm so satisfied and very much wish I found this video a long, long time ago. Brilliant. To quote the Heart Sutra, invoking the concept of śūnyatā and the trilakshana as I understand anything... *I encourage everyone to go read the whole Heart Sutra. It's less than a five minute read. [As recited by the Triratna Buddhist Community] Here then, Form is no other than emptiness, Emptiness no other than form. Form is only emptiness, Emptiness only form.

[@gstkrr8]

14:14 Think about how blockchain works and then watch this part again.

[@ginycide]

:) he predicted this, maybe there's a lot more to learn.

[@pinksmind9855]

bro is literally god

[@llamamusicchannel7688]

@@pinksmind9855 sometimes old mate talks to me 👀

[@visnaidoogvn]

AW is a Legend of Note ✅✅✅

[@ronamain8689]

❤❤❤❤❤Genius Genius.

[@NoOne-ns8rt]

The diagrams are also a really good way to represent Hegel and his dialectical philosophy- negation transcending the thesis, and so forth

[@timothyblazer1749]

Except Hegel reified his thesis. He didn't have the doctrine of Maya to remind him not to take himself too seriously.

[@MarcDufresneosorusrex]

21:54 min is what you came here for, : D

[@steve-ok2090]

Hey Raving Electron, I love all of your Alan watts vids. My two favorite ones though have gone missing! Man and nature and Buddhism vs Christianity. Do you know why those lectures were removed? Thanks

[@princeqadash7316]

Man & Nature -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4iZiYihftWNmtE

[@graffittistudio9903]

We missing ur anavailable videos how can we find them? The one where he speaks about children being bored in school, attention and that hieroglyph of the way budas expression is in meditation. This attitude towards life he spoke about and the chinese sulymbol. Which one was it pls help?

[@ThemanlymanStan]

@graffittistudio9903 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnXEpWyKa9F_bLssi=FG7z3IpuDKpUA__s Do you mean this video?

[@juniorjohnson5961]

How long have you had this channel ?

[@RavingElectron]

I uploaded this videos and left it 4-5 years back. Checking now...

[@HVACmiester]

@@RavingElectron is there any way to download these lectures outside of KZbin

[@bodhidarma2]

I'm a Bodhisattva

[@mark-c802]

who is it that knows they are a bodhisatva?...🤡

[@bodhidarma2]

you wouldnt have any idea of what it would truly take to become a Bodhisattva. I'm sure of that. and im also sure youre just another ignorant nobody. @@mark-c802

[@bodhidarma2]

@@mark-c802 not you youre just the clown youve attempted to project unto me. get a life who ever you are, MARK. youre a loser

[@metzli-tecolotl]

intro sounds like nothing else matters by metallica lol

[@digdeepentertainment]

India wasn’t a country until 1947. Buddha was born in Nepal technically. I assume he says India because Nepal wasn’t widely known at the time.

[@emilbonus1080]

Western therapy doesn't apply to Eastern mind. -Beef

[@Belteshazzar-dainel-BN]

Buddha teach "nirvana" ...it's like this... imagine our world is a fish tank that god made.... and nirvana means be part of that fish tank so no longer there is pain... sin of sloth do this because he think he can be free from God... so no longer he wants do God's will... (he trick God by understanding his mercy)... remember god made the fish tank for fish 🐟 God bless u

[@Belteshazzar-dainel-BN]

Don't mess with love.... u know the pain when someone who truly love u broke up with u because of ur mistake.. God is not control... God is love

[@Belteshazzar-dainel-BN]

Sorry my English is not that good

[@ThisThing435]

Despite all our rage we are still just fish in a tank!!

[@miguelatkinson]

​@@Belteshazzar-dainel-BNI don't think you understand or know a single thing about the buddha or Buddhism

[@Belteshazzar-dainel-BN]

@@miguelatkinson what makes you say that ??.... Explain to me what you understand .... I'm 22 years old boy living in sri lanka 🇱🇰 ... buddhism was the fundamental frame to see reality for most of my life.. I came to know about YHWH because of some dreams that he shows me.at that time i did not know about god or believe in him..... All of my family members are buddhist for till this day.... I know who gauthama is... and what the meaning of been a buddha according to buddhist lecture ..... Explain what nirvana is according to your Understanding and what it means to be a budhdha....

[@Belteshazzar-dainel-BN]

Buddha call holy spirit is a illusion... that's why he never can find love..... God doesn't hate him or love him.. so it (sin of sloth) goes to Bottomless pit...

[@miguelatkinson]

Buddha never believed in holy spirit in the first place and also Buddhism predated the existence or emergency of Christianity from a couple thousand years so there's nowhere he knew of such things and also saying that the buddha was slothful person is just downright offensive to the actual character of the historical buddha and Buddhism

[@saimbhat6243]

So bhuddha was talking about neurology and quantum physics ? You really cannot take western philosophy out of a western man. Alan watts is arguably the most sophisticated charlatan ever.

[@ThisThing435]

He says that in several ways. Says he talks and writes books because he likes to and get paid for it.😂😂Aaaand I still listen to him all the time.🤷🏼‍♂️😁

[@stevenknoph711]

Like he says lol, he's an entertainer. And we find him entertaining. Which is the point of experiencing him. He entertained us thoroughly. I really enjoyed what the universe did with that energy wave we called alan watts. And I realize than I am he

[@depraved420]

Mr Watts said on many occasion that he was just an entertainer, that what he says shouldn't be taken seriously, he enjoyed speaking and people still to this day enjoy listening to him. He trys to use various kinds of modern metaphors, psychology as well as incorporating Buddhist and Hindu ideals, if this is all you've ever listened to there are a lot better talks about Buddhism and other eastern cultures. He says many times that he's not trying to convert anyone to anything, he's not selling or denying religions, just sharing his point of view and asking people to think about it. He has hundreds of lectures besides this one.