Alan Watts - Think of Nothing

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Philosophies to think about by Alan Watts.

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 -- 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest but left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Living on the West Coast, Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be best thought of as a form of psychotherapy, not just a religion. Like Aldous Huxley before him, he explored human consciousness in the essay, "The New Alchemy" (1958), and in the book, The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. His legacy has been kept alive with the help of his son, Mark Watts, and many of his recorded talks and lectures have found new life on the internet. Critic Erik Davis notes the freshness, longevity, and continuing relevance of Watts's work today, observing that his "writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity.

Music: Mike Oldfield - Let there be light.

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[eaglespear1]

awesome video, I gotta do some research on Alan Watts he really is fascinating.

[36254518]

i dont like this music its a little harder to follow him when that guy in music starts to sing...

[optimusbest]

@Zee96969696

I think that thought is limited to the brain, so - I think we're unable to understand the universe with our current way of thinking. We cannot use our analitic thinking to attempt to understand it. I goes beyond that I believe. What I wonder, if, by changing the way we 'think', that by doing that we perhaps 'could' understand it :)

[Zee96969696]

so somehow the universe has always existed and time has always existed and everything has always existed but how could it come out of nothing? It probably couldn't come out of nothing, but it had to, otherwise how can there be no start? maybe the universe doesn't exist the way people think it exists?

[Zee96969696]

I know what the answer to this whole topic is... we think we are alive and we are living beeings, but we are not... therefore there was no live before we were born, there is no life after we die and there isn't any live now... there isn't any live and nobody is alive... that is the only logical solution... or to put it in other words, people have a concept of the word "life' and 'existance' which is not accurate, and in reality, things are different than we think... there is no 'life'

[davpea1]

love alan watts, got most of his work. nice video too, great animation.

[rehabib2]

thats fuckin beautiful , thanks .

[ZenMasterC]

That has to be my favorite, talks of his. thanx your videos are great

[SlingSalsa]

looking into the core of your inauthenitic existence is the first step to being personally responsible for you, your life and the impact one has in the world around themselves. I beleive this is where morality/ethics begins. Stopping oneself, getting in ones way, to prevent yourself in spite of yourself, the real confrontation comes upon stopping oneself's modus opperandi and thinking "holy crap is this really who I am/have become". It is amazing how we can be not present in our lives.