Alan Watts on Symbolic Reality vs. Real Reality - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 30

In a lecture on symbolic reality versus real reality, Alan Watts explains the importance of total sensory awareness and looking at our motivations.
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"Symbolic Reality vs. Real Reality" is part of Flow, a three-part session in the TAO for NOW series of talks that you can listen to in full over at the Alan Watts Streaming Channel: play.alanwatts...
This time on Being in the Way, Alan Watts discusses:
Being aware of all sensory inputs while meditating
Allowing oneself ‘to be’ in a non-conceptual way
Confusing the world of symbols for reality
The limits to what we can enjoy in a material sense
The uselessness of guilt
Money, tithes, and western religion versus gurus
Why our motivation and intention matters
Experiencing life naked and directly
The Taoist approach to letting go of your body-mind
Using all five of our senses to witness our surroundings
This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.
“The point is to be wide, wide awake and aware of your total sensory input without confusing it with the symbolic world of words and concepts so that you experience life naked and directly. Experience YOU naked and directly, without having in your head the concept of who you are a a role player, as a personality, as an ego.” - Alan Watts
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[@tonyhawkes2040]

I was told to listen to Alan Watts when I was 18, I am 74 now...thank you so much for your special genius and profound being.

[@austinendicott2938]

Better late than never soul brother.

[@RealLifeMassMultiplayerRPG]

ahimsa. you prolly have a healthy diet ❤

[@OfficielleKENI]

How easily he can talk about deep subjects and ends up laughing 😂❤❤❤

[@DJK-cq2uy]

Wow

[@user-lu9hq6jv4v]

The Cosmic Giggle echos!

[@bunchofgrapesorafig]

It's because watts is laughing at others who take Life very very seriously see 😂❤ you forgot to play along ❤

[@spiralsun1]

It’s awesome ❤

[@spiralsun1]

@@user-lu9hq6jv4v You have a way with words which made me giggle 🤭

[@carolinebielby5924]

Your father was just fantastic speaker and still is the best 👌 you must be so proud of him.

[@josephslinskey]

Listening to Alan Watts has helped SAVE MY LIFE 💯🫂☯️🦋

[@JusticeImaging]

Thanks for curating and sharing these talks. Nice intros too! ❤

[@James-wv3hx]

Thank you. I used to listen to him on the radio in the nineteen sixties.

[@jivalongboarding2147]

There where times THIS was on radio broadcast ?? what happened 😮😮

[@James-wv3hx]

@@jivalongboarding2147 l enjoyed it!

[@Rent-A-Mind]

You mean you’re from the future?? 😮😮

[@DJK-cq2uy]

Wow 😂😂

[@Myshelisgold]

So grateful. Thank you Mark ❤ thank you Alan ❤

[@20Reeds]

Hey Mark, I just want to say I’m grateful for you putting all this audio out. I know that you are trusted source of actual lectures from your father. I came across a tik-tok clip of a computer saying things in your father’s voice which I don’t believe he actually said (nothing slanderous or anything). It’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between an actual talk and a manufactured one.

[@reidafrasier]

Thank you, Mark.

[@rudi504]

I wish I would have known about Alan Watts earlier, he is just spectacular.

[@RealLifeMassMultiplayerRPG]

its always now. no time to waste on regret. your lucky some people never find hin. positive attitude

[@codymills6429]

Thank you! Haven't heard this one, enjoying it quite a bit

[@jrt2007gjdje]

Thanks for sharing.

[@agnosticii]

fantastic talk

[@SeiroosFardipour-wf4bi]

Thanks please more podcasts

[@Robert-vy4gm]

The Man who showed my own door to the void where I can enter only alone!

[@spiralsun1]

The rope with Acalanatha or Fudo as he says it is to lead others through illusion. ❤😊 Literally used to be my favorite figure in all Buddhism for a while. His sword is the diamond-bladed sword of truth. I loved that later in Minecraft you could wield a diamond sword and diamond armor which had enchanted fire-resistance 😊 ❤️‍🔥👁️

[@colemeeker908]

Thanks for the. I'm curious if you spend any time in saucalito on the varda with him? What's an amazing space

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

Your life will turn upside down 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

[@RealLifeMassMultiplayerRPG]

lol the complete emoji catalog hehe 😅🎉🎉😂❤❤

[@veronicakaese7655]

❤Thank you Allan watt! Alreciate and gather learning! Values kf meaning to attach that are of benefit ❤🙏🏿😇🧠🌗💥🌝🎯🕊🦉🌡🌈💞🌻🌎🔥☁️🤞🎆💞🦅🌎🥰🦎🌿🌝👑🌝👑🌝👑😇

[@Malcolm_99]

The only thing that is in the way is your voice in the intro, and the music!

[@CrouchingscarabflyingJ]

r/whooooosh

[@mut8inG]

Have you should on anybody today? 🐝kind🎶🎯💥🌸

[@sherececocco]

Cooperative competitiveness?

[@sherececocco]

And everything is doing Its best at every moment with what It has.

[@theoneandonlygona]

🫶👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙌

[@MrWhatever1234567]

Nonsense

[@SexyMEFFER]

There is plenty here and now.

[@hansenmarc]

24:29 the point is to be wide, wide awake and aware of your total sensory input without confusing it with the symbolic world of words and concepts

[@shawnrobinson4050]

Put that in simpler terms that a child could understand

[@hansenmarc]

@@shawnrobinson4050 A baby experiences the world with the same five senses you do. The difference is that a baby doesn’t attach words and concepts to what it experiences because it has not yet learned words and concepts. The point is to experience the world and not confuse the direct sensory experience with the words and concepts our minds attach to experience. (This is sometimes said as: don’t confuse the moon with the finger pointing at the moon.) When you see a tree, it’s easy to ignore yet another unremarkable tree because we already know all about what trees are, how they look, and how they function. What would the experience be if instead you didn’t know what a tree was and were seeing one for the first time? When you experience with a beginner’s non-conceptual mind, experience becomes incredibly more rich and vivid. It’s like being born again into a world endlessly filled with fascinating things. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

[@KriRama]

💗 💥

[@leftovers6229]

Thank you. Please post more new sessions soon ! 😊

[@edwardhayes6113]

😅 I bought a t shirt with this marvelous photo of your dad in his office and the caption “ Did you forget to dance” I thought I bought a yellow shirt but it turned out to be pink. I wore it and got funny looks is I am ninety. So went home and folded your shirt and framed it with only the picture of and his office showing. So when I walk my man’s den Alan Watts greets me. me and reminds me dance in all my activities.

[@sherececocco]

I got a "second wind" once when riding my bike. It was strange and amazing. I thought I was "in the zone" , maybe even the twilight zone😂 It was completely spontaneous and I have not created it again or maybe I am and have become desensitized 🐟

[@afoolinherfolly]

1:34

[@tuttosalve8352]

Not worth it rly Mark’s alright and it’s only a minute haha

[@ms.jesuewalker5784]

It never fails. I sleep deeper and better.

[@justdriveon]

Love! 🫶

[@StephenPalmer-o8x]

So all instuinalzed spiritual And religious practices are Shams Even shrinks and gurus And 12 step programs

[@cyphrTube]

Awesome.

[@StephenPalmer-o8x]

Playing tennis a few hours Is best spiritual practice No gurus

[@sazennonumber]

Thank you for this lovely reminder, Mark. 💖

[@RealLifeMassMultiplayerRPG]

second wind is so real. 6.5 hour walking it happens around 4 hour

[@moogzoliver]

I was like no 666

[@etobillions]

dude stop bragging about watts being your father all the time. he was him and you are you, and his accomplishments are not yours so stop riding his coat tails and be your own

[@PS-qn4oz]

Funny, you think you know his motivations and it's your job to correct them.

[@RealLifeMassMultiplayerRPG]

hes being his own at being negative about it and me being myself at exposing his negativity