“To be awakened is to realize there’s nothing to be awakened to.” Just “be.” Live and let live, help others along the way if you want… And, don’t if you don’t. If you do, do it just because…

"We are hypnotized by our environment and don't know anything beyond the horizon of our experience." - Sri Yukteswar - Incarnation of Wisdom.

I like when the bells chime, and when I hear the giggling and coughing; sort of puts me in the room with them, in a sense... 50 some years ago when people interacted spontaneously because they were in the moment - no phone, buds, laptop, or I pad; just a room of life interacting with itself.

Oh Mr. Alan Watts, God has spoken most eloquently through you. May your words touch all individualized souls of all time and may we evolve as a collective consciousness of highly evolved beings.

When one discusses religion with people, they say they need a religion to hold on to, that is not the way to use a religion because if you use religion as something to hold onto, your religion is an expression of unfaith, faith is where you let go not hold on. When the cat falls off the tree, the cat relaxes. You see, soon the cat lands with a soft thud and doesn't get hurt, because she has faith

I am nothing, appearing as something, now enjoying both.

The day I felt out of myself One day, I was doing an exercise of pretending to be someone else, like actors do when they’re preparing to interpret someone, because I had to write about a very controversial historical figure. I was on the third day of this exercise. I had to feel what he felt and therefore think as he did. But on this third day, I forgot to turn off my phone, and I received a very unpleasant message that I had to reply to immediately. However, I was so deeply immersed in the other person that I couldn’t return to myself right away, so something really, really weird happened: I left the character and did not return to my ‘regular’ self. In less than a blink of an eye, I saw the world and my own existence in a very different way, much clearer than a second before. An incredible sense of joy invaded my soul, and I remained in that state for three days. Meanwhile, I felt that many blocks that were the foundation of my blindness were dissolving; many of my small identities just vanished. I have never felt anything so powerful in my life. I had a glimpse of what the great masters say, and now I want to feel that again, as I want to remain in that state.

At times I find it a little difficult to follow Alan's logic, but when I do understand it just rips my mind to pieces. I know that if portions confuse me I am not ready to understand it yet. One day I will return and it will make sense. Thank the cosmos for Alan Watts

This is his most important talk in my view. I have listened to it so many times it does not get old. You did a wonderful job for visuals. Thank you 🙏🏻

This talk by Alan Watts is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing! ☯

There's a gift for making people smile. Thank you for sharing it.

Alan Watts is still alive ♥ Thank you for this an for the fact that there is no music in this video.

jokes aside i lovehow he is all over the place with info ❤ it helps keep me focused aaaand opens doors like crazy 🎉 mr watts ❤❤❤

I could listen to Mr Alan Watts all day every day

Spiritual gold!

great feeling to hear this ❤

such beautiful photography , thanks for the upload.

Alan pulled me from trying to get people to get along. Now I just watch the world like I watch a tree blow or “weeds” invading parts of my yard. I can’t say I accept it anymore, but it’s going more and more into a show/movie. I do love asking people about things I’ve never been through. I do love asking people “Why?” if their opinion/stance/belief of very intense or hard core. When they can’t answer I always smile and say “Welcome to the edge. Now both our toes are over the edge.”

Nice talk, nice pictures (most of them).

Thank You! 🙏

Pinksteren. Uitstorting van de heilige geest. Deze preek gaat over: "Wees geen heilige." (met magische prachtige beelden van de wereld) ♥ Je bent geen leraar als er geen student is...

Monica Furlong wrote a deep searching biography of Alan Watts . It's called Zen Effects . It's worth buying . ❤

Nothing can harm a pure soul .

My response to somebody that asks me if I am saved is, yes I am, and thank you for your concern about my soul.

Great stuff! ButI also highly recommend his talk called ‘ They Made it all up!’

Buddhism is finding peace and happiness.. this is what we seek the most in life!! Every religion has its own unique benefits..!

External realization is the manifestation of man's internal imagination. God, the "I AM," is your own awareness of being. It's the unconditioned part of consciousness. And when you add imagination to "I AM," now God is moving and manifesting, realizing your assumed thoughts, or vision that you hold for an extended period of time. I am rich. I am joyful. I am strong. I am wise. I am. You can just be, or you can do.

I do believe there are people who set out to destroy you and people who are sent to help you. I hope you realize that before I did. Never thought I would grow up to be such a fool. I thought I'd grow up and help people, but I couldn't even help myself. Life is a journey, may you find friends who want to see you rise.

Sweet 😔☯️🙏

0:39 bless you!

It's ironic, because one of Watts students, Seraphim Rose, went on to become an orthodox monastic and may indeed be recognized as a saint. I think it paints a melancholy picture of the nihilism of Buddhism weighed against the life of the church.

Yes.

every time

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He spoke from Jiddu krishnamurti. Also very interesting Man.

If you painted the entirety of the canvas of babel at once, it would contain every experience you could have. Relative to you, the canvas is never complete. Relative to the canvas, you are eternal.

I need something like the Twitter filter words thing but for KZfaq so I can filter specifically and basically exclusively "Alan Watts".

if you have an opinion..you still don’t get it. And to those who do get it-it’s funny. What’s the point? All “points” are imaginary perspectives..which is debatable at every level. The point is there are no points :)

I got Nothing ❤

I'm a new subscriber 🙏

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I think I will become a saint. ❤

All is ONE! Know this, FEEL this, BE this. The rest is just chatter for the mind (which is also the ONE appearing as chatter of course!)

Why not exist and try to be good to people who are you. Simply existing is pointless. Hell even

There is a difference between being "holier than thou," and avoiding taking stupid risks with your soul.

I'm listening to Jesus right now, but he is trying to convince me that he does not exist.

"Beware of False Prophets"!. Don't listen to ANYONE that are trying to "complicate things", making you feel stupid or Ignorant, but also never listen to anyone that are trying to teach you the Opposite of this. It's most often bullshit "marinated" in very very Fancy words(that make you feel Ignorant). You must learn ALL the important virtues (Altruism, Compassion, Tolerance, Humbleness, Solicitude and so on) for your self through experience(suffering) as No one can teach you anything especially advanced or important about this through simple language(Speech). So next time you are helping a Snail to cross the side-walk as to not risking it getting hurt in the sun(Drying out), look around at those people watching you, and just try to even get eye contact with them, and there you have the moral foundation of the collective. I find it really comforting to know that i'm personally a really kind and humble guy, and that everyone that will come in contact with me will get "Handled with care" and affection, and that makes me calm, knowing that my fellow men are in good hands. I am NOT a "Saint", but rather just a genuinely kind person and there is nothing strange or special with that. Cheers

We should all laugh at the funny things people come to the East and learn a little bit and then purport to know everything. Then tell you not to have pride you learned something. Let’s have more Western Masters of Indian and Asian philosophy. The problem is, Western philosophers, including Alan Watts, like to categorize everything into segments; Hindu, Buddhist, etc. we don’t do that as tradition in the East. We just are 🤷🏻‍♂️

Church is a place for people to gather and help people who are lost spiritually find there way back to society

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Gurdjieff talked a lot about the saint he had a term called stupid saint. Buddhism focuses on the intellectual center, western religion disregards this and only develop the emotional center. Don't question just believe with all your heart, this is the stupid saint.

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Rastafari Way Words Curse Or Make The Day. Why time unfolds, enfolds, history -His-story, ~whose story?...is~

Ohm

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14:15 “Chinese civilization was all rigged around the family.” - So is Indian Civilization. Alan Watts says Indian Buddhism is a conflux of Indian Hinduism and Buddhism, but only Buddhism was ‘exportable.’ Yet we are ignoring the Kama Sutra and all the teachings of the same The same is true of Sikhi ‘to be living as a householder, plus separation from the Maya world. Sikhi did not just begin because Guru Nanak came on the Earth. They had teachers and compatriots as well. Bodhi Dharma was a Buddha from India who travelled to Shaolin and is the founder of all martial arts in China; most prominently Shaolin Kung Fu. Bodhi Dharma lived in a cave, came from India, drank a lot of alcohol, and sat starting at a wall, and in Samadhi for a long time. These things I say are reputable and backed by facts; not anecdotal made up stories to suit a Western audience or to make them laugh. If Alan Watts, who we respect says “there is no humour in Indian Buddhism” then he didn’t study enough. He obviously spent more time in China than India.

He got a bunch of things wrong because of how Japanese culture changed after wwii. The tantric path somewhat opposes the views of Mahayana and Zen claims to be both. Whereas I would argue that Chan is from the lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism and has tantric origins because of Bon. These elements entered Buddhism before the Chinese got their hands on it. Whereas he's also wrong about the timeline with Taoism which is a new religion that emerged from Tengrism. Taoism comes from Wudang, Zhang Sanfeng etc which is a recent phenomina in history. People even go to claim that the military Taoist cult who created Doumu was an extension of esoteric Buddhism through the Marishiten cult that peaked in the Ming dynasty. Which went onto dominate the discourse and military/cultural transmission for every town and village of Japan. Shugendo governed as an umbrella all Zen, Pureland, Todai, Nichiren and Shingon philosophy. The tantric element with the Buddhist philosophy was always rooted in the Mahasiddhas of Vedic tradition. Hinduism is also another modern phenomenon that homogenised badly 36,000 years of culture with completely different emphasis on deities and practices. Indra for example was one of the main pantheon guys and after the Hindu reformation he's on the tertiary. But there's a huge divide in meaning between Mahayana practice of void and Vajrayana emphasis on tantric/yogic/3x human mystery principles. These distinctions are becoming more and more important as more information historically comes forward. For example the 8 limbs of Yoga and the 8 fold path of Buddhism is another example of a theological divide. The 8 paths of Buddhism want you to worry on the right speech, actions etc. Whereas the 8 limbs of Yoga demand you have rituals and exercises in the right speech, skills, meditations. One has you living in your head worried all the time and trying to quel ego whereas the other develops the self into mindfulness and skillful means through ritual and development. One is growth, the other suppression. Kukai said that teachings were meant to be easily understood, koans too, but that their use goes beyond the words on a page. But the sounds, shapes, images and symbols are all exercises in mind, body and speech practice. We try to become enlightened through realisation, what you get with this idea that there's nothing to see is a contradiction that doesn't develop more observational science and collaboration. There has been a muddying of the waters.

Don't "be a saint" (you can't, really) i.e some ludicrous standard of perfection (that is also often idiosyncratically crafted by some authority - think e.g. sexual prude morals that are also and esp. patriarchally loaded) often "backed up" by some form of punitive attitude (esp. toward oneself), but don't disregard the well-being of others in how you act. Unfortunately, many of us are too focused on "what's in it for us" more than we are on whether we a) should really have or really need to have whatever is in it for us and b) the consequences that obtaining what is in it for us and especially by whatever method are on others (which isn't just other humans, but other life on Earth and maybe even elsewhere in the universe when the thinking gets really long-term). And I don't mean just intellectual focus but much more importantly _visceral_ focus, i.e. that we may see something wrong but be unable to override the urge. It's not about meeting some dumb perfection standard as it is shifting the mind and the modes by which actions come to be so as to thoroughly integrate the interests of others as well as "oneself" in true equality ... and when you get really far down that road you start to see it sounds like the dissolution of separation-consciousness itself; I would suggest thus that also conversely, if one is still acting in a way that would not be justified when one has such a cognition, that one hasn't, in fact, dissolved the separation-consciousness entirely at that point, even if one thinks one has. (And that in turn gets us to Buddha again because Buddha's plan in many ways involves seeking out enlightenment _through_ mindful, ethical conduct and he even defines many spiritual attainments _by_ ethical attainments ... thus what I just describe about how the separation-consciousness dissolves as one pursues ethical conduct in a more essential and less "rules-bound" way.) (Also I find "Buddhism was Hinduism stripped for export" something puzzling enough I'd want to know where that came from. Because Buddha famously _contended_ with the proto-Hindus [Vedic Brahmins] of his time.)

"Buddhism is Hinduism stripped for export" Not correct at all. The Buddha's teachings are a practical guide for subduing passion and desire with the ultimate goal of permanent cessation of all suffering. Hinduism is an Indian religion with a diverse pantheon and set of beliefs. Buddhism is perfect for export to other cultures, not because it was "stripped", but because its teachings apply to all sentient beings equally.

This officer is such a passive aggressive, condescending person. Should not be an officer.

Not clinging onto something is also clinging onto trying to not cling onto something ... checkmate buddists!

Alan Watts has been dead for a long time. This is nice to see.

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I know right? Good thing I’m not!

I am the whole religion ❤

It is not a good thing too be "Awakened" In this time period. It makes for more sadness for our world,but it is still better than being illusioned and being content. "Everyone is a philosopher", we need more doers

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Fallen angel knowledge. Distraction and separation from Christ.

Alan Watts, Saint of the Milksop Sophists.

Wish he had bothered reading the catechism befored crossing the ocean to study foreign religions.

I enjoy very much listening to Alan Watts. But there are always these snippets of inherited religious dogma lurking around haha There is a profound plot twist in all Religions, Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism included etc... You are looking up to someone or something or some deity to give you the answers. They cannot. You are the full Answer, You always have been. We are all One, timelessly just experiencing itself. No need to go through all the fruitless nonsense and ego driven (here including that spiritual ego as well). If you are willing to really dive deep inside yourself and find out who you are and surrender, you will understand what all the Masters and Religions really mean... Terence McKenna once quoted a beautiful Van Morrison's song that talks about this: "No guru, no method, no teacher, Just you and I and Nature"

What an evil way at looking at the world

I'm not a saint, a devil, a god, king or queen, a Buddha, a Shiva or anything, just an individual loser in the sea of sour milk. Everyone is under the same casino dome, perks or not. there's a heavy price to pay for any good or enjoyable "life" under the dome.

what do u mean don't be a saint?

Man talks for an hour to come to the conclusion "I am God" 😂😂😂😂 wow so profound

Lies from Satan. Want to live forever? Follow Christ.

Alan Watts posits to remove all ritual and dogma, which is good, yet is a proponent of “Zen.” Is this not a concept , and his ideal to aspire to? Dogma will exist everywhere if you label it. He says so. Yet labels the same. These ideas are interesting, but not for a moment uncontradictory.

Can you stand alone against the world, I can. It's all a joke that I don't find it funny.

Weird talking about a living chicken and showing chicken being cooked.

Hmmm, there’s not being a saint and there’s being an ass hole. Zen master should be getting themselves up in the morning for one, getting rage full at the perceived mistakes of others only to realise it’s your own mistake but not own that mistake or apologise for being rage fully wrong. Sounds a lot like something else, pathological narcissism. Nothing to teach sounds about right….

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He talks of buddhism with poor knowledge!

Alan blew it at the end. The Zen Master doesn't know shit.

I'm fully enlightened. I don't care if others can't see this. I act correctly and think correctly. I'm an intelligent, thinking, compassionate person, who has empathy for his fellow humans. I practice kindness. I am nothing and completely anonymous. Bliss.

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