Alan Watts Soundboard Edit

Alan Watts Veil of Thoughts 1

Between Western psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy. And the so-called religions of Asia. There is common ground. Because both are interested in changing states of human consciousness. Whereas...

I find it a little difficult to say what the subject matter of this seminar is going to be. Because it's too fundamental to give it a title. I'm going to talk about what there is. Now the first thi...

I find it a little difficult to say what the subject matter of this seminar is going to be. Because it's too fundamental to give it a title. I'm going to talk about what there is. Now the first thi...

I wonder if it's ever struck you. How curious a thing it is? That most of the things that we experience. We regard as things that happen to us. Which we ourselves do not originate. Which are events...

I wonder if it's ever struck you. How curious a thing it is? That most of the things that we experience. We regard as things that happen to us. Which we ourselves do not originate. Which are events...

If you believe that God is a monarch. And absolute omniscient and omnipotent authority, shall we say a sort of cosmic ego? Then to claim to be that is to introduce democracy into the Kingdom of hea...

In this seminar on birth, death and the unborn, we've been discussing the Buddhist philosophy of change. Of life. As a. Flowing. Dynamic pattern process. Which. Is essentially immaterial. Because i...

Let me see here. Consciousness all the time. There is no time my dear. It's always now. Then in the space time at every precise moment, almost yes if you put it that way. Of course you are conscio...

Now you see, this has characteristically through the ages, being the attitude of priesthoods. Of the guardians of. Law and order, or, as they say in the Episcopal Church, everything should be done ...

Now. I want to get down to the simplest possible nitty gritty of what we've been talking about, and a very easy way. To ask ourselves the question. Quite fundamentally. What's all the trouble about...

One of the first things which everybody should understand. Is that every creature in the universe that is in any way sensitive and in any manner of speaking conscious regards itself as a human being?

The basis of. All. Indian philosophy? Is called the self. And this word in Sanskrit is Atman. And that means self in the vast best possible sense and the most inclusive sense of the word. It means ...

This morning I discussed the idea of the self. As the basis of the universe. And showed that this idea, which is fundamental to the central tradition of Hindu philosophy. Is not a logical idea. You...

This morning I'm going to talk to you about a particularly virulent and dangerous form of divine madness. Which is called falling in love.

This seminar about birth, death and the unborn is going to be a discussion of the Buddhist philosophy of change. And I'm going to start out by. Going into. The very tricky and difficult question. O...

This seminar called inevitable ecstasy. Is about a very sticky problem. Which is to say, the problem to which the Buddha primarily addressed himself. Which is that of agony. Suffering. But before w...

Well, now in the first talk I was explaining. That the theme of this seminar. Was the problem. Of how? Thoughts protect us from truth. And what to do about it? And showing various ways. In which th...

Well, now we've been discussing in two sessions the ways in which. Thought can conceal truth. And so now we have to come to the other aspect of the problem. Which is how to get on bamboozled. And I...

When I use the word mysticism. I'm referring to a kind of experience. A kind of, shall we say, state of consciousness. Which seems to be as prevalent. Among human beings. As measles It's something ...

You, as a human being, you grow out of this physical universe in just exactly the same way that an apple grows off an apple tree. So let's say the tree which grows apples is a tree, which apples. U...

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