Alan Watts discusses Nothing

Alan Watts discussing the state of nothingness
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[Ephjos Hempstein]

Watts isn't discussing Nihilism. He's discussing Sunyata - the Buddhist principle of 'nothingness'. Nothing exists? Look around you - obviously stuff exists! He's saying that the mind gives a false illusion of the way reality is. We conceptualize to the point of madness. Putting aside the way your senses perceive things and the way our brain receives and makes sense of everything, escaping all of that - it is just atoms, and chaos, and a complete lack of ANY independent existence. So cheer up!

[Śūnyatā Advaita]

Anyone on a Watts youtube marathon? Check out my channel for a few new favorites

= ) Let there be peace.

[ValleyOfTheJedi]

Oh wait, I missed the reference. Monty Python, very good. Unfortunately, I'm explaining not arguing, although there's a good explanation clinic around somewhere.

[ValleyOfTheJedi]

What argument?

[ValleyOfTheJedi]

The apple is a noun. It's irrelevant. The holding is the subject in this case, because if we were always holding something, then we would lose the sense of what that mean, because there would be nothing to compare it to. In the same sense that, if we were always happy; everyone, was always happy. Then we would not know of this, because we have never experienced sad to know that we're not.

[joe mama]

The lack of an apple in your other hand

[Jack Needham]

"In order to have something you need an opposite."

That is not true. I am holding an apple in my hand. What is the opposite of an apple?

[Densilification]

Excuse me. Is this the five minute argument, or the full half hour?

[Matthew McLemore]

Easy to do...just don't scroll down. I however love Watts and want to hear what he has to say so I search through the vids and if I want to him speak it seems I am also obligated to listen to the music. You however need not read the comments in order to view the video. I think my point that he did not have a pianist accompanying him is not invalid. Music was around when he gave these talks. I prefer to hear them as Mr. Watts intended them to be heard. That is all.

[lion354]

You're distracting to the message. I find your commenting on this video distracting. I don't see why people on youtube watch videos if they don't like them. I prefer to listen to these videos without being distracted by pointless comments, like this one....thank you.

[lion354]

depressingly uplifting

[Milan Ambr]

Who wrote and added such insane Captions for this Video?!