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#2914 - Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - Editor: Gloria Lee
Nondual Highlights
But I'll tell you what
hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get
very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with
everything.
- Alan Watts
Ed. note: This issue is all about Alan Watts, being so potentially huge a topic, that it is "narrowed" to the theme of the above quote. From the many videos on YouTube, I selected a series, recently put on by his son, Mark Watts. This TV talk is even more true and timely now than it was in 1971.
Alan Watts Speaks...t r a n s c r i b e d
Why must
everyone experience their
divinity?
or, What's so important about Entheogenesis?
To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it.
You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever that is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing your hearing your talking your thinking your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.
And if you don't know that,
if you don't feel that,
well naturally you feel alien,
you feel a stranger in the world.
And if you feel a stranger you feel hostile, and therefore you start to bulldoze things about, to beat it up and to try to make the world submit to your will, and you become a real troublemaker.
What's the
problem?
This whole sensation that we're brought up to
have,
of being an island of consciousness locked up in a bag of skin,
facing outside us a world that is profoundly alien to us
in the sense that what is outside me is not me,
this sets up a fundamental sensation of hostility and
estrangement
between ourselves and the so-called "external
world"
http://bellsouthpwp.net/m/s/mschelb/alanwatts.htm
So the bodhisattva saves
all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them
that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not
being able to stop changing.
- Alan Watts
 
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Music
and Life - Alan Watts animation by the South Park guys
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4 |
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Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself - Part 1 07:07 http://youtube.com/watch?v=8aufuwMiKmE A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind. Video posted by Alan's son and courtesy of alanwatts.com. |
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Alan Watts: A Conversation
with Myself- Part 2 or click on "more from this user" for all 4 parts |
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Alan Watts: A Conversation
with Myself-Part 3 09:59 |
Good reading, a rich bio, even if you think you already know enough about his life. Some interesting external links, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts
Zen does not confuse spirituality with
thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen
spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
- Alan Watts