Alan Watts - Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching

Analyzing Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching.

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[selvmordspilot]

I love how he uses SO many analogies and metaphors. It's very much in tune with the thought of "the one contains the many, and the many contains the one"

[labbalabba1000]

your head is in your mind

[babapoopoo]

man this is powerful.. no fix is needed 21:00 min.wow

[ZEDZOR2]

@Markle6 I think Alans point is that it's important to live in the now and not to try to paint a picture of the future in your mind that you can walk into...offcourse this is what people do but for the most part it's futile.Some people live in the past and some in the future and as Alan has explained in other talks these are types of neurosis and not the real world of now.A direct answer to your question would be that their is no next now is all that their ever is,next is an abstraction.

[maungarakei]

he's just getting a bit carried away here

[NoDevilsAdvocate]

@Markle6 I wouldn’t compare him to religion, as they control with fear and he teaches through truth. I admit I’ve had a negative view of religion for a time, but today I realized (near the end of this talk) that the feelings I have toward world leaders, both religious and political, must be there because I define myself through them. If I look at the world and don’t like it, it is myself I must change to create a better world. A cliché, but I’m seeing it clearer as a truth.PEACE

[mothurman]

@labbalabba1000 I understood him saying that everything is an illusion, like your feeling all of your senses in your brain. I didn't feel like watching the whole video but i saw this comment, and in spanish class today it hit me, I really understood the meaning of this. Like life was like a video game, or a dream, not that it felt like a video game or dream, but i could talk to just about everyone and i was so comfortable because they all were just things in my head.

[juggalomushroom]

@Markle6

We already do know.

[philipstrause]

As a sailor Im glad to hear "or more skillful still as a sailboat can tack, because when a sailboat tacks and goes in a direction contrary to the wind, it still is using the wind to blow it along. that is the most highly skillful art of all. that is Taoism in perfection. The art of sailing. Very intelligent." 6:36 - 7:00