Alan Watts The Real Four Noble Truths Part 1/2

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[plague613]

Only the mind can mislead

Alan Watts was a great teacher, and on top of that- a scholar, and like all great teachers, he gently points towards the truth, it is your part to close the gap

[Diatonic135]

look i know i'm speaking out of turn but people need to understand this even if it is contradictory to what they think they know.

the desire to release desire is a focal point during meditation and we don't release that until we've released most or all other desires.

bringing that apparent contradiction up without pointing out it's reason and purpose is harmful.

buddhism is not a philosophy it is a path that you walk. the day it became a philosophy is the day the true teachings were lost.

[TheKcsmithy]

interesting video and very informative

[MrBrucebracey]

i enjoyed this vid

[144jr144]

ooo... "try not to grasp" sounds so much like... a form of grasping, something to be attached to, and so on. See my video of "the four noble truths."

[Dean012494]

if you trully understand then u realise there is nothing to understand lol,you are the whole the everything,nothing 2 know,just be,u are the universe the multiverse anything u imagine existing to be is you,i know this because i am god and i am you but you are me so why i am arguing and explaining things to myself? because being everything gets lonelyand i like to distract myself from that fact so i create the game to forget the factt i am the

[Dean012494]

@4mica

[truthseeker010101]

I smoke cannabis, I eat, I make love, and I live life. I may be this, I may be that, but in the end I just enjoy myself.

[4micaman]

@SuperALguitar You are clever enough. I think the better question is, will you allow yourself to understand this?

[SuperALguitar]

I wish i was cleaver enough to understand this,.

[theseanze]

@TheAccidentalMonk -- My point is that as a subjective, biologically cognizant being, naturally some things are more desirable than others (i.e. bread over death). The problem with Watts is he gears his talks toward religious conversation-stoppers. "Motivation ruins the project," he says, but in order to have this opinion you need a framework to stand behind. More to my point is how does this lack of desire manifest in real time/praxis, not just at the moment of conception.

[TheAccidentalMonk]

@theseanze

Desire is 'evil' (not that I believe in evil) because it intrinsically finds its existence where egotism is present. If you weren't subject to ego(t)ism, you'd have no desire(s pulsing their way into your consciousness that required tending to). When one acquires a/the state of egolessness, no desires are created/present within ones own consciousness, and that's because egolessness is wholeness - if you have (or more pointedly, ARE) everything (the whole), what else can you desire?