ALAN WATTS - Make Peace With Your Dark Side (SHOTS OF WISDOM 19)

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In this profound speech, Alan Watts explores the depth of human psychology upon the question of personal integrity and challenges the hypocritical stance of moralists of all ages regarding it. He elucidates the simple but often overseen fact that nobody is a perfect saint, nobody is an absolute villain, and everybody is a combination of the two. Understanding and accepting this fact as part and parcel of the very nature of our embroidery is indeed true integrity.
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[@jasonambrose99]

I deceive, therefore I am

[@Initwithlove]

Thank you for posting. This is absolutely wonderful and a keeper into the library of all good things.

[@inspireAS]

You're most welcome. I am glad it resonates with you.

[@inspireAS]

I’ve chosen this speech today for a specific reason: Some of the comments mention Alan Watts' purportedly excessive alcohol consumption, trying to discredit his philosophy and discard his wisdom as valueless. Now, when you read the works of great minds, you’ll always find some sort of discrepancy between what they said in their books and what they - according to somebody else - purportedly said or did. So if I have to decide what to buy, I would intuitively buy what I get firsthand from a person rather than what somebody else is telling me about them. I am not saying that Alan never had this kind of problem, I am just saying, if he had, SO WHAT?! What counts for me is his thoughts - not his diet. Did his drinking affect anybody else but him? NO! Did his thoughts touch the lives of millions? YOU BET! Apart from this, nobody can know whether somebody else does or did experience something in the same way that we (or society in general) experience or perceive it. As the great sage Nisargaddata Maharaj was asked about his consumption of meat and his smoking of cigarettes, he most naturally stated that those things are idiosyncrasies of the body, and since he is not the body, but the ultimate reality (I AM), why should he be held accountable for what the body does or doesn’t. I know this will be over the head of those unfamiliar with this kind of consciousness, but the way of knowledge often starts with a shock.

[@felixmoyoedonmi]

You are spot on. 👌

[@Initwithlove]

Yes indeed.

[@Brightfreeman23]

It was there the whole time

[@dacoo8820]

If one is perfect, there is no place for him/her on Earth. Would have no purpose here. The moment one becomes perfect he/she dies for this Earth. Physical death is inevitable at that very moment of perfection. Or enlightenment. So, if one wants to stay longer here, better get him(her)self a negative habit, even if barely negative, even if it means to bore others...etc.... Otherwise go, "sit next to God". All the gurus in the past, all the great men (minds) were either rascals and stayed a bit longer with us, or they left too young due to purity and sinless life, few of them have indeed lived a reasonable age frame, but unfortunately rather ill. As Gurdijeff said, if you want to move forward in your spiritual growth, you need to bring another individual to where you are standing now. And you can eventually bring another to individual to your level of knowledge and awareness only if he/she decides and asks you for, you yourself do not and can not chose one at your own convenience. It seems this can be a lifetime trap and if so what is left there for you while in a limbo, but to consume this life in a bohemian rascal notes of pleasure? Mr. Watts could have done nothing, but waiting to be asked by a proper disciple. Obviously it did not happen. But, he kept on sharing, spreading and hoping. That makes him a great person whose beautiful mind needed so little to accomplish its task.

[@horace9151]

I love the short bursts of wisdom with these videos

[@inspireAS]

I'm glad they resonate with you.

[@amarrejane0]

Many thanks!

[@rebeccaelle135]

Embroidary. Yes.

[@confidencedimkpa8017]

Were you in the seminar?

[@sayusayme7729]

Love this man, inspiring 🦉

[@OvercookedOctopusFeet]

Great upload as always.

[@inspireAS]

Thank you!

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He he good

[@Initwithlove]

Subbed

[@malvin946]

Tobe is to deceive 😮

[@felixmoyoedonmi]

Alan Watts' insights into the nature of things is amazing. He spoke with extraordinary simplicity and clarity. Indeed, to be is to deceive. It's all an act. A game of hide and seek.

[@davidkarunarathna3462]

love is the glue that connect good and bad ,up and down,light and dark,women and men.love everything .love yourself.when you are in love you can't judge.so you don't know what is good what is bad,what is light what is dark.you'll become whole.whole=holy. 1.Love yourself And second love your neighbor as you love yourself.so when you love your neighbor you connect with him.neighbor= next person to you. 2.love your neighbor as you love yourself.

[@sublimeister9630]

Without Mara you can’t have a Buddha… “The Shadow” by Jung is nothing new. 🙏🏻😊

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Love your videos and the way you put them together, you nailed it!

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“🤍”……… 💫🌻🐝🐝🌻💫

[@alextimez]

What is this song playing in the background?