Alan Watts - Slices Of Wisdom Part 1

Alan Watts - The Tao Of Philosophy - Slices Of Wisdom Part 1. More to come.

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[MyceliaProductions42]

I could listen to Alan forever...and Terence McKenna. First and foremost reason: Their ideas, obviously. Second reason: They awoke things inside me all along. Third reason: Their voices flow very nicely.

[rotagen5]

thank you so much for not adding music or other distractions

[youtlubesuxxxxxxxok]

Consider this analogy of the homeostatic capabilities of the human body. You are able to regulate countless necessary functions each moment to maintain your life force without any conscious effort whatsoever. There is just a happening. You are not kept alive nor do you keep yourself alive. There is just nowness and nothingness simultaneously coexisting. Balance.

(You feeling agitated and resisting right now is still balance. The agitation is the rebalancing from not knowing, trying to solve...)

[youtlubesuxxxxxxxok]

@valkour22 ... "diversity is the key to life. diversity is nature. in nature there is a constant war going on every second for all eternity....because of diversity. If diversity didnt exist there would be nothing."

Eternal war is the key to life, disguised as diversity, and without it there would be nothing.

Yes, that is one grim way to describe existence.

another;

nowness. nothingness.

I pretend am separate from being both at once, pondering duality as someone different from you.

I am you val

[valkour22]

@youtlubesuxxxxxxxok Omg u are completel lost. You said diversity is an illusion. I said diversity is the key to life. Do u have any concept of the biology of ur body or the world around you? It sounds as though u don't. You believe this idoits view which only speaks of unity when in ur bodyand in nature there is a constant war going on every second for all eternity. This war is only because of diversity. If diversity didnt exist there would be nothing.

[youtlubesuxxxxxxxok]

@valkour22

I am making a complete fool of myself responding to you but here goes...

let me ask you two things:

WHAT is diversifying into all this diversity? One thing? Two things? Possibly NOTHING?

WHAT is there to prove in life?

Watts101

This nothingness is hard to grasp, but maybe it is hard to grasp because you are TRYING to grasp it.

All this effort to "know" --- to be something, and to solve each moment... to prove you exist.. Why struggle so hard to separate thought from thinker?

[valkour22]

@youtlubesuxxxxxxxok diversity is nature. Im saying an idoit like Watts that claimed all this BULLCRAP,couldn't even put the bottle down. He just rambled bs ,never proofing anything The illusion is the crap you try and tell urself like this guys teachings which are as far from the truth as could be. Diversity is the key.

[youtlubesuxxxxxxxok]

@valkour22

Silly ninny!

Are you saying the degree to which someone ingests a substance makes someone more or less godly?

The real question to be asking is "who" is this "someone" that can be separate from someone else in order to be godly or not?

diversity is an illusion my friend...

[jazzaste123]

I love Taoism beautifullnessness

[MyceliaProductions42]

@yogeesunshine Oh yeah, I love R.A.W.! He has never ceased to amaze.

[yogeesunshine]

@MyceliaProductions42 hope your listening to Dr. Robert Anton Wilson as well. a.k.a R.A.W he will blow your mind and he's helarious----all in my opinion of course.

[anglophileable]

@valkour22 One can have wisdom that is useful, and be a teacher, without imparting what is imperfect about oneself. Many people of great imagination are flawed.