Alan Watts: In Your Own Way - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 3 - Hosted by Mark Watts

Alan Watts illuminates the connections between Taoism and relativity, technology and human evolution, culture and seperation, Saints and rascals, you and not-you, as well as difference and unity.
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.
Taoism & Relativity, Technology & Human Evolution (0:00)
Seperation & Culture, Saints & Rascals (15:25)
You & Not-You, Difference & Unity (28:10)
“The principle of relativity is absolutely fundamental to an understanding of Taoist philosophy. That is to say, that wherever you are, whoever you are, and whatever you are: you’re in the middle.” - Alan Watts
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[@a.d.d.j8673]

30 years after he passed he's still helping me everyday Edit: 50 damn I'm bad at math lol

[@ramzikaram9589]

50 years since he passed fyi. - but i agree this man is timeless & it makes his precise commentary on the modern society we inhabit even more mystical, he could clearly see where humanity is heading & so much more... i love those last words: "i wish i could figure out how to do all this without my body" the humour and insight in those words is pure magik :) - and here we are with this Jedi illuminating & even more powerful once death cut him down

[@a.d.d.j8673]

@@ramzikaram9589 appreciate the correction I'm bad at math apparently lmao

[@misslh]

49 :)

[@My-Nickel]

Right on!

[@Undeadaccount]

You dont need help you're the universe. you are and the lows are the same as the highs, just be

[@tkilla1202]

Whenever there's a disturbance in the force, I find Alan there. 🙏

[@niallanmckeown1480]

I listen to this man every morning before I even eat breakfast.. he puts me into a state of bliss without fail

[@kyul9357]

Same

[@travispeel6187]

Morning Alan Watts has become essential to my daily routine. Such a calming, funny and charismatic person. I would have loved to attend one of his lectures.

[@marcelar.2049]

My morning routines would'nt be the same without him. 🧡

[@lorraineneville2907]

Which of his podcasts do you enjoy most?

[@cheri238]

​@@lorraineneville2907 All of them.❤

[@madhatter4642]

I love how this cat gets lost in his own thoughts. It's like walking on a path , he goes from one sight to next, hey look at that butterfly, then a bird, hey there's a tree, but always on the path traveling the same direction.

[@chrissemenko628]

Great comment!!!!

[@cheri238]

Wow❤

[@all-things-under-heaven]

This man has become immortal.

[@cordellacampbell4668]

This man was way ahead of his time!!..Love him ❤

[@hadynbarr5716]

Incredible. Even to the point where he says we will be able to plug our brains into a computer. To say that in the 60s is amazing when there is only talk of its possibility for the last few years

[@agarawale]

His teachings are like a cold water on a hot day. 🙏🏾

[@Faus4us_Official]

Food for the soul lol

[@cheri238]

Thank you, Mark, every day for your father's wisdom.❤ I love his laughter (giggles), which moves me with joy. Blessings for you by being by side and being involved in his work as a young man. Ah, Krishnamurti!!!❤

[@kyul9357]

Shouldn’t surprise me but it’s incredible how prescient Allan was. That he was able to predict microchips implanting into the brain is so bizarre and extraordinarily foresighted.

[@Rabmcm32]

…or he was some kind of insider…

[@jermainroberts361]

of course he was an insider@@Rabmcm32

[@imsuggestionstakeitorleaveit]

This man explained to me everything my own mind had been telling me my entire experience here. As if he had been tapped into my mind years before I was born. Thanks Alan.

[@Faus4us_Official]

He was human after all. It's an experience for sure lol

[@VBM1]

3:57 Alan begins his lecture.

[@jonj4419]

Thanks for doing these Mark. It's great to have some context.

[@pianomaly9]

Watts is prophetic in the first few sentences.

[@seriouslygettingdownwithva1589]

Love to listen to these lectures. Thank You Very Much Mark for sharing these with the 🌍 Bless You

[@RoselynKaebird]

It’s hard if not impossible to find someone that talks like him, though I myself am him himself as though he is me himself. Yet it amazes me that start of waking up I’ll listen to him, when I work, when I almost do a lot of anything due to how it puts me in a state of zen, a moment of peace or understanding without understanding it will make sense. It makes sense, thank the gods which is Alan and the above all gods of gods I appreciate this man as a genuine human being just as I do Jim Carrey, Andrew Tate and so forth.

[@Russco-no7cv]

This man could save humanity from itself from the otherside.. Every school college university etc & every corner of the globe needs to hear this wisdom from loud speakers. Absolutely Incredible life & world changing higher wisdom from a true mystic sage philosopher legend.. Thank you Alan & your son for sharing it with us all on planet earth with our modern technology that thankfully we have now if only for hearing these lectures... I wish i had a true teacher like you at school..Your still here without your body Alan & your really helping me & i truly hope the whole world will eventually hear your incredible inspirational life & hopefully one day world changing wisdom 🎭🧘‍♂️🦋🌎🕊

[@user-qr6ih6jx9x]

AN intelligence and wisdom that has proven prophetic, with a voice that draws you in and demands attention. Thanks old son.

[@hadynbarr5716]

Ive listened to a lot of Alan Watts. Personally, I think this his best lecture.

[@thevagabondsageinthewoods]

I love how he managed to sneak humor into wisdom. ❤

[@mikasasukasa4479]

id say the two are very well connected but i dont know why lol. ill have some thinks about this

[@thevagabondsageinthewoods]

@@mikasasukasa4479 I tend to trust people more if they can make me laugh-humor is such a connecting attribute.

[@cheri238]

​@@thevagabondsageinthewoods Humor "The Magic Flute"

[@thevagabondsageinthewoods]

@@cheri238 indeed.

[@realityobserver7521]

Whenever I've been sure I've connected with the divine, every time it has felt light and humorous

[@eduardogomez59]

His last words hit hard

[@tonyjohnson8929]

This is exactly what our lives are. His view, his perspective of getting out of humanity, and being able to look back at it and explain it. That is a beautiful gift, and I'm thankful he shares it with us.

[@smashingtwoscoops4999]

What a beautiful blessing this man was. He was so very influential on my awakening..❤️😊🙏

[@wendyernstrom8853]

I have become dependent on his voice each day. He was so brilliant and had the ability to eloquently convey his thoughts. He has raised me up in vibration by educating me on a deep level.

[@phatesdesign3411]

It would be an honor to meet you someday Mark, I'm sure you get this all the time. But just to sit in nature and speak of your father, what he was like... That'd be an astonishing event. Thank you for this post, his talks have saved my life.

[@MichaelYoder1961]

18:50 Thomas Moore in "Care of the Soul" talks about the same thing - going into the feeling completely and not dismissing it. I had an experience where I was in terrible grief, and threw myself into it for 3 days and after that, it was done. We live in a culture that tells us "it's going to be okay" "you'll get over it" "don't cry" and so on. It does us a disservice.

[@williammoses5939]

Gratitude beyond words 🙏🙏

[@Unfamous_Buddha]

I read Alan's "This Is It" in 1970 at age 18. If I had to live my life again and could only read one book, it would be that one. The title is the closest, most succinct English-word phrase that describes the Ultimate Reality.

[@chrisbennett6260]

What do you mean by ultimate reality ? I presume their is an idea you hold in relation to ultimate reality as you put it .?

[@Unfamous_Buddha]

@@chrisbennett6260- The Ultimate Reality is the present moment. It's the realization that we live in an eternal Now ("This Is It") and that the self does not end at the skin. Or equally, one could say, there never was a self to begin with. Once this is realized, all philosophies, religions, gods, concepts disappear. One would certainly become (like Buddha, Zen Masters, Taoists) an atheist because one has realized something much bigger. It's like realizing a creator is unnecessary. Or another way to phrase it would be: creator and creation are the exact same thing.

[@niallanmckeown1480]

Thanks I just ordered that book

[@chrisbennett6260]

@@Unfamous_Buddha did Alan wats die ? and its 9 years on since 2014 ,i want see my dad ?how can i see and contact ,communicate with my dad ?

[@Unfamous_Buddha]

@@chrisbennett6260- Your dad has restraining orders on you and your mom. But I know the judge. Send me $5,000 and I'll fix your legal problems for you. Alan Watts is alive. But he wants to keep it hush-hush so don't tell anybody.

[@kevinisthename6688]

in awe as he predicts wifi and the internet

[@Always_a_Duelist]

I Love how he predicted the concept of Neurolink.

[@bodhidarma2]

Alan was a Bodhisattva and I am in line to follow him.

[@danielmartin2771]

He is so right about the building a human brain and interfacing with a computer. Artificial intelligence is actually a model of the human limbic system.

[@alanhehe4508]

Thank you for sharing this!! ✌❤🔥

[@devinagrace1999]

Thank you 🙏

[@Tutuila1968]

Alan was a prophet

[@ClarenceHW]

Beautiful, thanks Mark

[@aaronananth]

For now ...we as humans have Scattered mind .... which needs a way of CONCLUSIVE INTELLECT which takes us to Wisdom.💙🙏

[@emma72676]

Omg! I love him! He was so amazing. I love this talk! 🥰💗

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Appreciations …. This is really amazing ….🌞

[@AnthonyDunstan]

thank you may God the most high bless you

[@nathanpaisley2265]

trying listening to his podcast with End memory playing in the background. Its friggin awesome

[@Rob-vf5rx]

Your dad is awesome. Thanks for keeping his message alive.

[@freeMinder]

🙏🏼 thank you

[@lulusp1023]

I just found him..and love his lectures 😍

[@eliasbuchwald1064]

What an incredible capacity of prophecy and anticipation Alan Watts had!

[@TheLove1Makes]

Excellent Advice and a good message.

[@user-nl6te2nf9t]

I appreciate you more then you know. I enjoy Manly P Hall however your messages have now propelled you past him and on to The G.O.A.T 🐐

[@alexanderdurig4474]

Thank you, Mark, your father has been a great favorite of mine and a great influence on me since I first read "This Is It" in the 70s when I was maybe 14 years old ...

[@abduragiemsamsodien4887]

Awesome! ❤

[@leeannarose6384]

He could see the internet before we ever thought of it... wow

[@____2080_____]

This is fascinating background information. I’ve listen to public radio sense the late 70s and I only came across all of the lights in the last two years. Thank you KZbin algorithm for taking me away from “human design“ and to the guy that that speaker was heavily borrowing his cadence from. Full circle.

[@cindyd3476]

At 9:00 he preempted the internet as we know it now. Plugging our brains into a computer

[@geoffsaunderson5766]

Listen to lectures by this guy most nights as I go to sleep, a loose track quit a lot. But something about the voice and content ZZZZ

[@GreenTrees-tf2fn]

Amazing how on the money he was on his talk in the intro completely knew what direction we headed in

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Such a topic …. Sometimes the sensation ( no matter good or bad upon its measure and receiver’s perception of that energies ) can destroy the body or do a dramatic accidental change in the body …..🌞

[@Jaikaalbhairav3]

Alan watts is for sure an Emanation of Manjushri

[@ronamain8689]

I could've done with hearing this at school! Can't believe how spot on he is! The idea that the human race is concocting a single electronic brain!?😱He mentions ESP but take it now as AI.....

[@Newfoundmike]

Yin/yang,HIS BOB DYLAN 🤣🤣🤣 at 31.11 😂

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Amazing lecture ……for coming generation really be clever to use any new Know -s ….🌞

[@asoulist4829]

Don't let dice tell you how much tranquility you have.

[@maxbrass8725]

10 comments! I love this podcast

[@johnwibbels4678]

He predicted the future!

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3:58

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Without knowing all wisdom of all different isms - 😂I just started from the “middle “…. Amazing ….🌞

[@dalysianepgen6102]

When your father passed away, I was only 5 yrs old,,, hope to hear your personal views,,, yes, we all have a viewpoint,... The Great Spirit is the point of every view. RAYNE x

[@walterbray81]

As the greats always live in books of the past & presently scribe for tomorrow & his may transcend the ages certainly his bones did as dante & the wealthiest king yesterday, i say Mark, Matt or Luke your father has & Thankyou!!!

[@walterbray81]

Episode 3, wait a minute esp / Mr. Watts done it again

[@brucehitchcock3869]

Fully dittoed.insight kind brother. No voice effects me like Alan .😂💘🙏🌞🌍

[@walterbray81]

Alan conveys as Dante & is as the same to me

[@wayofspinoza2471]

Our emotions are triggered when our desires are not met or satisfied. Intellectuals avoid social gatherings due to fear of being out of control. Meditation has its limitations; enlightenment is possible when our mind is awake, its desire is to understand the causes of our emotions. Freedom from hate and anger is possible when we understand them. The teachings of Spinoza’s and Gurdjieff’s will help develop a deeper meaning to your life.

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

And as Whole - This is about - a human now experience and start knowing the -Energies that is the Basic Construction of Conscious Awareness ..,. They all speak about it -Every old civilizations ….🌞

[@TimberWolfmanV6]

I think so too Transcendent stuff 😊

[@Handas1111]

Thank you !! Your father was a great teacher and great man 🪬❤️‍🔥

[@jamigaither]

@15:00 a great description of drinking alcohol

[@sahilhamidi3421]

❤❤❤

[@davidmitchell0722]

Any info on what year this one was recorded?

[@floridianman]

🙏

[@ComedianMoGreen]

10:24 he basically described the social media today

[@babaa368]

❤

[@VBM1]

@46:09 "when misfortune comes treat it as a blessing, when fortune comes treat it as a disaster."

[@mrv_1500]

true is true👍👌🔥⛓️👽👼😢😢🙄

[@mrv_1500]

inheaven/im.alonnilleh

[@mrv_1500]

#alanwatts @alanwatts

[@LovePeacENTrees]

Omg he was so ahead of his time

[@abalt3019]

I think it is more like most everyone else is behind… basically stuck. ❤

[@kealebogapheto8742]

Evertime he laughs I laugh 😃 😂😂

[@christinawilson7312]

8:50 made me think 💭 of Star ⭐️ Trek… the Bubbleheaded beings👽👾🤖🎃👏🏻

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Interesting informational interpretation of the idea of the symbol ……yin and yan - that goes way far from …,..🌞

[@sureshgaikwad5004]

Allan watts is not other than Raman Maharshi ,Kabir, Nanak and all our Indian saints. He is equal J Krishnamurthy and Osho. Every great human beings talks in his own way of expression.

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

And it’s good Not Know and then - To Know ….and then go with that flaw of those 2 energies and Know - How To Be or 😂Not To Be …..🌞

[@mentonparticles7052]

I am going to lay down on the floor and see if I go BLLLEEEAAAAA

[@emma72676]

Hahahaha

[@Karlien68]

😄

[@xxxyz]

the everything else feeling and the you feeling are two poles of one and the same process, so that the real you is what lies between these poles and includes both of them. ... the knower of all things (the knower in all of us) doesn't know itself the same way the fire doesn't burn itself and knife doesn't cut itself -> nothing to God would be more mysterious than God we can experience ourselves as something that just happens ... there's no self without the other

[@benjamindsouza6736]

Wowwww....!!!!! 🙏🤍🙏

[@bodhidarma2]

Well if material procurement cements the impending disaster, then well what is the "Use,". - Bodhi

[@keithhart3212]

Starts at 3:55

[@dmtdreamz7706]

How do you comunicate so much beauty? It's Incredible. I just look at it and it brings me to tears. Because I'm looking at it and I'm looking at myself. Yeah you've never really seen a computer until you've seen it on 5meo DMT. Until you recognize that it's you and that's basically what Infinity is. Sort of like I love you, no I love you, no I love you, no I love you, no I love you more, I love you more, I love you more. Who can love who more? And whoever can love who more is God. You see that long laundry list of stuff about you that you don't love. God loves all of it. I'm sorry for not loving more, that's the only thing you have to be sorry about. Thank you. Thank You For Love! And at this point you realize that that's it, that's the point. That's the only lesson in life. That's my only job. Is to love. Everything else is idiocy and then what you do is you say I love you. For the first time in your life you say I love you because you really understand what that phrase means and you fall in love with God. But as it throws it out there, it's gentle so he throws it out there but then you say oh I can't love it and then what God will say in return is, it's okay. I love that you are not capable of love. I love that. And when that hits you. That's what fills you with enough love to overcome your resistance to love even that next level thing that you could do. No it can't be love. Of course it's love! what else could it be! It's love! No oh my God this is impossible! Of course it's love how could it be anything else!? How could I be so stupid as to think it's anything else. And God is like of course it's love.

[@louiseboyd8896]

This man was amazing down to his Bob Dylan impersonation....

[@brucehitchcock3869]

Why abandoning the potential in our own temple ? Crazy but is it a lesson part of evolution or devolution which are one thing ? I think so but not from direct observation.🙏🙏🌞🌍

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Ear - new growing fetus kind of -is look like …. Amazing….🌞

[@richardharris2604]

What would you say to the comment that much of today’s turmoil-a turn to the right and the increasing influence of the appeal of dictators-is due to the acceptance of relativity in our thinking.

[@ramzikaram9589]

Yup - we are too scared to rule ourselves, and our communal fear of others inevitably gives rise to "daddy figures" to protect and rule us... watch Kymatica, it lays out this concept so beautifully and plainly - realising this basically cured my conspiracy theory obsessiveness - we make our reality

[@jasonhuman1740]

9:08 He predicted Neuralink.

[@MostHighProductions1]

This man predicted the Matrix how long ago? 😨

[@jlstruyde]

I wonder if Alan watts was aware of and knew Neville goddard

[@ShinarMoshi]

Elon Musk Neuralink

[@ramzikaram9589]

on this planet at this time, an Elon was bound to be made - but honestly i'd prefer him to most other technocrats i could imagine - and isn't neuralink or the like possibly opening the way to some sort of ESP and advanced learning probably our only hope in a world with AI and intellectual property laws that will restrict open access to a technology that will compete with humanity

[@ShinarMoshi]

@@ramzikaram9589 Amen 🙏

[@dalysianepgen6102]

All things wise and wonderful, all creatures great and small, fairy tales are true the Lord God made them all,,, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella's Fairy godmother, Mythos and Logas all an illusion, light chasing shadow dancing on the walls of imagination,,,, Rayne XS. A.

[@DennisNieves-fm4sl]

The biggest human misconception, for the theist, is that god got it all right.

[@richdude8150]

Lock your own brain to a computer .. " androids ,iphones ,,) Alan was so ahead of his time

[@user-uq5qs5uh9k]

Israels, US racist and no God will want them to turn to God without fixing