Alan Watts: The Nature of Conciousness (Part 6 of 6)

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"Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 -- November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience.

He wrote more than twenty-five books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the pursuit of happiness, relating his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religions or philosophies (Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Hinduism, etc.)"

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[MarcusCMarcellus]

This is brilliant, wise and very humane. The man has a wonderful speaking voice and form of expression. Thank you for posting.

[German1184]

"But the problem is, you see, we haven't been taught to feel that way. The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it--aliens. And we are, I think, quite urgently in need of coming to feel that we ARE the eternal universe, each one of us. Otherwise we're going to go out of our heads."

[BlackHatGuitar]

@elchafa or the next year

[Sleazymush]

''What you call the external world is as much you as your own body. Your skin doesn't separate you from the world, it's a bridge through which the external world flows into you, and you flow into it.''

[elchafa]

This is the type of knowledge we need to acquire and internalize in order to reach the next level or the next age.

[zatoichiable]

@thepenguin114 I believe this philosophy of gender and opposites are part of the creative process of continuity as manifest by the Absolute Truth. The image is never the real.

[thepenguin114]

@zatoichiable By changing lives in an ultimately more profound way, I think so, yes. Alan's theory is not the avocation of taking one's life, it's the avocation that you are as much a part of all of this as anything else. There is no maker, because everything makes itself. Everything did not arise from nothing, because the two arose together; they cannot be each other without each other.

[zatoichiable]

@iamdk007 Thanks you. Its very difficult to describe the formless but the hidden has to manifest.. As they said I believe in Sufism. Nothing is Everything.

[iamdk007]

@zatoichiable the aim of it is to bring understanding to the experience of enlightenment. it is a process of becoming what we already were from the beginning. much like riding the ox in search of the ox. the contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our experience which in its very nature transcends linguistics. simply be thankful. live your prayer. its nice saying it but if you dont mean or act on it whats the point

[zatoichiable]

@natmanprime As Michael JAckson said: Youre not alone..

[zatoichiable]

@itchcitizen2 All i can is: "Ha, ha, ha, ha" no comment...

[zatoichiable]

@iamdk007 How long have you been practicing Zen, if i may ask? What is the goal of Zen. To whom do you give thanks for the food you eat when it is served on your table. do you just eat without recognizing who provided it? Do you thank the farmers who produced it or just swallow it and wash the plate when youre done?