Alan Watts Lectures | On Being Vague

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Raving Electron

5 жыл бұрын

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@asmodeus0454 9 ай бұрын

This is quite an interesting talk from Alan Watts. He brings up some interesting points. Watts was rational in his approach to the spiritual and spiritual in his approach to the rational.

@juniorjohnson5961 2 жыл бұрын

That opening Flute music was Fire 🔥

@Aiur 2 жыл бұрын

Matt McCusker would approve

@MassiveChetBakerFan 2 жыл бұрын

This was a good one, thanks for posting!

@barbod4260 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing 🕉🌷🙏

@MarkMasters... 2 жыл бұрын

Much obliged. 🙏🌌

@markheithorn3905 3 жыл бұрын

This is what I needed to see. Thank you

@tseek001 2 ай бұрын

Mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced .. Hmm .. that does it .. really 😉

@bodhidarma2 Жыл бұрын

Lao Tzu was SPOT ON on what he had said, precisely..I have seen the Dao and it is the most Radiant essence of life itself. I am the Maitreya

@phamngoclam2013 5 жыл бұрын

I love it.

@jakecarlo9950 11 ай бұрын

So good

@tseek001 2 ай бұрын

Curious mind is an unavoidable and unshakable curse ... that's what makes a human .. in other words being human is a curse.

@tieuca7070 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice video.

@nwsanagnwsths Жыл бұрын

He plays like an actor and directs himself too

@MichaelYoder1961 2 жыл бұрын

I read in a book about Kabbalah "You can't God God" - same thing with the Tao "You can't Tao Tao"

@ariesgriffin6683 2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@tikat 4 ай бұрын

george carlin said exactly the same thing about time

@jakecarlo9950 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. Brilliant and plain-spoken critique of the Anglo-American analytic school of thought and logical positivism, which are stinky, wrong, and responsible for a lot of bad stuff in our culture. Really interesting how the philosophical arguments he makes mesh not only with e.g. the ancient Tao but the continental European tradition in the 20th century.

@sergiocampanale3882 3 жыл бұрын

Well said! (Especially love the description of 'Enlightenment' (ha!) thinking as stinky, wrong and responsible for a lot of bad stuff in our culture! Perhaps the best description of a philosophical school and it's effects ever! But it looks like it's finally starting to run out of road as even it's staunchest champions have realised that it goes nowhere and there was nothing really very much in it)

@aPheonixRises 2 жыл бұрын

Enlightenment is not what people think it is. It's a moment of eureka!

@juniorjohnson5961 2 жыл бұрын

@@aPheonixRises I've had brief moments where I felt happy or at one with the world.

@TheMahayanist Жыл бұрын

Logical positivism is great.

@insufficientquestionsforpr740 7 ай бұрын

i listened to this on a lotta shrooms and thought i was gonna die

@Staskasas 5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@BigC73shoshot 2 ай бұрын

Lmao! I can only imagine 😉

@liltick102 26 күн бұрын

LOOL

@tseek001 2 ай бұрын

Nature itself is feminine ...

@uberwolf1424 5 ай бұрын

8:20, 26:08

@1andonlytoonkid 2 жыл бұрын

This guy makes me feel ashamed of myself for needing neurotypicals to be precise and specific with their words, but I can't help it. I've got Asperger's and they have a habit of being vague, which only leads them to be upset with me, because they wouldn't clearly explain things. They get upset with me for their own vagueness. I'm not an effing mind reader, come on. I can't know what I don't know.

@Dman9fp 2 жыл бұрын

Yep that's the vast majority of people to ever exist, unfortunately it seems... Then I find myself saying "that was clearly a joke,.didn't you see I said "..lol"? " Then they seem to say "paradoxes lol" but really they're double standards But I know imbeciles are not worth losing sanity over... {Maybe when much is at stake that normally gives me strength? (the pristine external environments still out there for instance, highly under threat lately)} but otherwise, they can go waste their life elsewhere on some other moron lol

@RavingElectron 2 жыл бұрын

If you need to talk more about this then let me know.

@psychologicalsuccess3476 5 ай бұрын

That's not what this video is about. He states very clearly that this precision is needed in life. But Tao cannot be tackled with that. Even the most neurotypical vagueness is not as precisely so vague as to read tao. Perfect communication is skillful and precision is need, these taoist arts are the most precise communication they could gather, and rationale words do not do it justice. The most precise words about the tao, is that it is what is is. You are that which is it, the other things are artforms surrounding all that is, that includes your identity before you accept that you are just what is.