Alan Watts | Buddhist-Taoist Meditation | Intelligent Mindlessness (Preview)

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Recorded in January of 1969, the Intelligent Mindlessness lecture introduced an audience in San Francisco to the theory and practice of meditation, and the following weekend many attended Alan's meditation workshop at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
Excerpts from the talk:
"Civilization suffers easily from too much of a good thing, and all civilization rests on language.... Under the hypnotic influence of thought--that is to say, linguistic representation of the world--we're always trying to straighten things out. "Just what sort of a person are you? How much is 'you' and how much is 'me?" And all this is simply a symptom of the fact that we are confusing the description of the world on the one hand, with the world itself on the other. And this can lead to the most disastrous results, because it makes us unable to see that you really cannot divide one thing from another.
Before we decide either to save the planet or to destroy it, I suggest that we pause for a moment of silence...and I mean real silence--in which we stop thinking and experience reality as reality is. Because, after all, if I talk all the time I can't hear what anyone else has to say...."
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“Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Alan Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the un-writable’. Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit. A fascinating entry into the deepest ways of knowing.” - Los Angeles Times
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[@waysofzen]

Separating oneself from the ego... the past & future live inside the ego... the real YOU lives in the present.

[@intuitieveling]

I can listen to AW again and again. I keep discovering new things about myself and life. Thank you for sharing, Mark and the team 🙏🏼❤️

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Thanks for listening

[@brokeheartwolf3733]

Me 2

[@Malcolm_99]

This is eye-opening!

[@galactus4mac]

He was one of, if not the best world teachers this planet was fortunate enough to have.

[@gustavob.6337]

Thanks!

[@AlanWattsOrg]

Thank you!

[@hflores6324]

This is a gem. Thank you for posting🙏❤️. He is so alive and conscious and guiding us more than ever.

[@arnaldooliveira3672]

Thank you for posting this and everything else about his "work" (or shall I say his "being" ?). It has and keeps helping me a lot. Probably the same with everyone else here

[@FearJoanna]

thank you for sharing. so good to get reminded on things that matter. now and then, truth is spoken. ^_^

[@brianbechtel3]

Alan Watts could be talking about making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and I'd stop and listen. His voice and tone alone are just wooosaaah...

[@VOID-Venture_Geology]

envisioning God looking at Serpent made me laugh out loud.... thanks Alan Watts

[@susanwangari3753]

Everyone is born with his or hers music instruments..the drum is the heartbeat and the DNA is the guitar or some carry piano..all are well programmed and coded.The first cry of a new born baby is like what we call ... microphone check... without air.. 👉🏾 spirits, heartbeat and baby can't cry or make a sound.let the ancestors came in and play with our instruments, breathing is very important... Without spirits..( air )no one there to beat the drum or play the instruments 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@STAYTRUETOYOURSELF_9]

"As above, so below"

[@erichoffman8671]

there may not be a past but there is a future if not you're dead if you think you want to make something to eat and get up and make something to eat then there is a future

[@lxmzhg]

You are far more advanced than Alan Watts.

[@erichoffman8671]

@@lxmzhg probably not but if there were no future he would have never had been able to finish a sentence

[@simplysunmoon]

❤️☀️🌙

[@dankor3340]

Those who came here after song “Overthinker” by INZO 👇