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Alan Watts

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If you think his videos are good, try reading his books. You will get so much from itm


Hark ye yet again — the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough.

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@OctagonOctopus <3

Read the book Man of No Ego, you will love it.

I read it while listening to his tunes on a train ride home, was an amazing refreshment!


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"To have a free mind is to be a universal heretic." - A.H. Almaas

"We have to bless the living crap out of everyone." - Matt Kahn

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Do you do Alan or does Alan do you :ph34r:

"do you do it or does it do you" good book

 

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"To have a free mind is to be a universal heretic." - A.H. Almaas

"We have to bless the living crap out of everyone." - Matt Kahn

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Discusses way of the sly man,,,,

 


"To have a free mind is to be a universal heretic." - A.H. Almaas

"We have to bless the living crap out of everyone." - Matt Kahn

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"We have to bless the living crap out of everyone." - Matt Kahn

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On 9/16/2019 at 4:13 PM, outlandish said:

As many of you know, Alan Watts was a very wise philosopher. Personally, I've benefited a great deal by listening to him. I don't know of many teachers/philosophers that get right down to it like he does.

You can type Alan Watts into youtube, and almost anything that comes up will be pure golden nuggets of profound wisdom.

It wouldn't be right to not mention the official holders of his IP, and curators of his work, the Alan Watts organization https://www.alanwatts.org/ 

Please add your favourite Alan Watts videos and so on here!

His vid, asking what do you desire. View work as play. 

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Alan Watts has credibility with so many but I've heard criticism in the past about his alcohol consumption. Wanted also to freshen this thread and keep it going because of his influence and appeal to such a wide audience. Here he touches on that two edged sword around which he is criticized.

A part of the western mind sickness is black and white thinking in conjunction with morality and habits etc. More so than how it's experienced in the Far East according to my understanding,,,

 


"To have a free mind is to be a universal heretic." - A.H. Almaas

"We have to bless the living crap out of everyone." - Matt Kahn

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