Saturday, 7 December 2013

"If you get the message...." - Alan Watts - Live by quotes

"If you get the message...." - Alan Watts - Live by quotes

Os Paraísos Artifíciais e outros sítios: Alan Watts on Pychedelics and Religious Experience

Os Paraísos Artifíciais e outros sítios: Alan Watts on Pychedelics and Religious Experience

Beautifully simplify the seemingly complex - Alan Watts | Phoenix Tree Productions

Alan Watts — some quotes that beautifully simplify the seemingly complex | Phoenix Tree Productions

Alan Watts - Video Documentaries - philosophist- recommended by David Deangelo - Solution Manual Downloads - Ebook Library

Alan Watts - Video Documentaries - philosophist- recommended by David Deangelo - Solution Manual Downloads - Ebook Library

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Alan Watts - Video Documentaries - philosophist- recommended by David Deangelo 
 
Alan Watts - Video Documentaries - philosophist- recommended by David Deangelo English | Size: 1.71 GB Category: Everything Else Alan watts is renowned as one of the greatest philosophers in the past hundred years, his body of work is phenomenal, check him out on wikipedia, really great philosophy which can be applied to all aspects of life. 
 
He was recommened to people by David Deangelo in one of his dating programs ( I think it was inner game off memory) These videos were hard to find and are in their original quality, enjoy Zen: The Best of Alan Watts Alan Watts is widely considered the West's foremost interpreter of Eastern thought. Distills a great teacher's insight on: The Mood of Zen, Zen and Now, Buddhism, Man and Nature, and the Art of Meditation. Time and the more it changes - Taped by his son shortly before Watts' death, this program captures the noted philosopher/mystic's ideas on the meaning of time and change, if they have meaning at all. The art of meditation - ""Meditation has no purpose, no objective, except to be entirely here and now." 
 
Not an easy concept for the competitive, goal-oriented Western mind, which is precisely one of the things that makes Alan Watts's guide to meditation a fascinating piece of work. 
 
Watts, an Englishman who died in 1973 (this piece was shot by filmmaker Elda Hartley in 1971), was an authority on Eastern thought and spiritual practice. Here he guides the viewer through a 25-minute program that's part documentary, part useful guide to meditation. 
 
While Watts explains such practical techniques as breathing, posture, and the chanted "aum" mantra, one can just as easily find oneself lost in the kaleidoscope of extraordinarily beautiful, natural images that accompany his words. All in all, those seeking "the naked experience of reality itself" and a connection to "the still, small voice within" will be enchanted by The Art of Meditation." :-) � 
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Rorschach ink-blot - Alan Watts - Card - Zazzle.com.au

Alan Watts - Rorschach ink-blot - Card - Zazzle.com.au

Life Perspective & Something Expected - Alan Watts | Growth Guided

Alan Watts Talks Life Perspective Through Quotes | Growth Guided

The Eternal NOW - Alan Watts

Alan Watts

Making sense of change - quote, Alan Watts

Beautiful Quotes

Alan Watts, Natural Animal and Serendipity | the Future is Fiction

Alan Watts, Natural Animal and Serendipity | the Future is Fiction



A fun way to get the flavor of Alan Watts is with this Alan Watts animation from the makers of South Park.

…good stuff, though in fairness I don’t think these videos capture Watts’s sense of humor.
Anyhow, my intent isn’t so much to focus on Alan Watts as that feeling that “I bet now that I know who this guy is I’m going to see his name everywhere.” Kind of like how before I knew who Joseph Campbell was, he was never mentioned, and then suddenly I heard about him on a weekly or monthly basis.

So today I was listening through the most popular new releases in the blogosphere, and this chilled out little electro tune buzzed in my ears by Natural Animal. I didn’t pay it much attention, until Alan Watts started talking over it. I had a YouTube tab open and paused on one of his lectures so I figured it had kicked in it’s autostart. But it turned out to be embedded in the song. Which was pretty neat, because I got to feel in-the-know. And now that I’m feeling all in-the-know, I must praise Natural Animal for being in-the-know as well.

And here I just wanted to share that little moment of serendipity with ya’ll. So you can be in-the-know, because nothing screams “hip” like a  Buddhist lecturer who died twenty years ago.So you can raise your eyebrows knowingly when they start selling Alan Watts t-shirts at Urban Outfitters.

Is there a name like that, or a word or a place, that once you learned about it you started hearing about it everywhere?

Here’s that song by Natural Animal, “Who You Are.” Also check out “Dance Alone,” just as dreamy but a bit more uptempo. If you dig “Who You Are,” you can download it for free.

Alan Watts by South Park creators (All in one in HD)


 
From the wiki:

As part of his growing popularity, Matt Stone and Trey Parker—creators of the animated series South Park—have also contributed a video tribute by animating some of his lectures. This has spawned a culture of user-animated videos all around the net.

Alan Watts - tobe alive - PonderAbout.com

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"Alan Watts - On Illusion - Prints and Cards" Photographic Prints by (Particle) Quark | Redbubble

"Alan Watts - On Illusion - Prints and Cards" Photographic Prints by (Particle) Quark | Redbubble

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly...

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly...

We seldom realize - Alan Watts - Quotes and sayings

We seldom realize - Alan Watts - Quotes and sayings

Alan Watts - Let's All Just Laugh



Alan Watts - A Wiggly World - You are not a separate event! (+playlist)




Don’t hurry anything - Alan Watts - Quotes and sayings

Don’t hurry anything - Alan Watts - Quotes and sayings

Meditation is therefore the art of .... - Alan Watts - Quotes and sayings

Meditation is therefore the art of - Alan Watts - Quotes and sayings

Alan Watts – Insecure societies and hermits (Audio) | Spirit




Alan Watts – Insecure societies and hermits (Audio) | Spirit

This is something I have encountered my whole life; when you don’t go with the flow of society, you are against it, and when you are against it, you have a problem; because the whole load of conformism is poured on you – merciless.

People must defend their lives’ prescribed agenda; this is what they identify with, and everything which might undermine it, will be attacked – regardless. The governments of this world can blindly rely on their support, because people were raised to do what they are told.

What to think, what to eat, what to wear, what to build, what to say, what to defend, all predefined to the smallest detail – they do as they are told.

However, there is a fear or discomfort among all conformists that there’s something more powerful than government – as Alan Watts puts it – the realization of the non-joiners, the hermits of this world that belong to this reality only conditionally.

They see things for what they truly are; that death will come to all of them regardless of their status, and that there will come the moment in which they have to face the truth of their existence. To face death before it arises is liberation; this is the only difference between a hermit and an ordinary man.

Now enjoy this video ……….relax and float.




... One is to consider death.Alan Watts | WordsAre.in

Alan Watts | WordsAre.in

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“Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death. To observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up— never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation. It’s like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You’ll get wonderful things out of that.”

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What do I desire? - Alan Watts - What if money were no object?

What if money were no object?

Ask yourself.

What would you do with your life if money were no object? An amazing lecture from the late Alan Watts:
What if money were no object? - Alan Watts

What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like?


Let's suppose I do this often in vocational guidance of students.
They come to me and say, "Well, we're getting out of college and we haven't the faintest idea of what we want to do."

So I always ask the question, "What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?"

Well, it's so amazing, as the result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say, "Well, we'd like to painters; We'd like to be poets; We'd like to be writers; But as everybody knows, you can't earn any money that way.

Or another person says, "Well, I'd like to live an outer doors life and ride horses." I said, "Do you want to teach in a riding school?" Let's go through with it. What do you want to do?

When we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do, I will say to him, "You do that and forget the money."

Because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time.

You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living. That is to go on doing things you don't like doing - which is stupid!

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing. Than a long life spent in a miserable way.
And after all, if you do really like what you are doing - it doesn't matter what it is - you can eventually become a master of it. The only way to become a master of something is to be really with it and then you'll be able to get a good fee for whatever it is.

So don't worry too much...Everybody's interested in something. And anything you can be interested in, you'll find others will.

But, it's absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don't like in order to go on doing things you don't like and to teach your children to follow in the same track.

See, what we're doing is we're bringing up children and educating them to live the same sort of lives we're living.

In order that they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do the same thing. So it's all retch and no vomit - it never gets there.
And so, therefore, it's so important to consider this question -

What do I desire?

--Alan Watts


The Real You - Alan Watts




Published on 25 Aug 2012
Who are you really? An amazing lecture given by Alan Watts a British philosopher, writer, and speaker. He wrote more than 25 books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life.

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Alan Watts - bio

Alan Watts

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Early Years

Alan Watts was born in London in 1915, at the start of the first World War. At a young age he became fascinated with the Far East, and at fourteen he began to write and was published in the Journal of the London Buddhist Lodge before writing his first booklet on Zen in 1932. He moved to New York in 1938 and then to Chicago, where he served as an Episcopal priest for six years before leaving the Church. In 1950, he moved to upstate New York before going on to San Francisco to teach at the Academy of Asian Studies. Among Alan Watts' earliest influences were the novelist Sax Rohmer and Zen scholars D.T. Suzuki and Christmas Humpreys. In late 1950, he visited with Joseph Campbell and composer John Cage in NYC.
Worldview

Alan Watts was profoundly influenced by the East Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Buddhism, and by Taoist thought, which is reflected in Zen poetry and the arts of China and Japan. After leaving the Church, he never became a member of another organized religion, and although he wrote and spoke extensively about Zen Buddhism, he was criticized by American Buddhist practicioners for not sitting regularly in zazen. Alan Watts responded simply by saying, "A cat sits until it is done sitting, and then gets up, stretches, and walks away." 

AW in library


1950's and early '60's

After teaching at the Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, he became Dean and began to give regular radio talks on KPFA, the Berkeley free radio station. In 1957, he published his bestselling Way of Zen, and in 1958 returned to Europe where he met with C.G. Jung. He was an early subject in pioneering psychedelic trials, and, after recording two seasons of the public television series Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life, traveled to Japan several times in the early sixties. By the late sixties, he had become a counterculture celebrity, and traveled widely to speak at universities and growth centers across the US and Europe.

Later Years

By the early seventies, Alan Watts had become a foremost interpreter of Eastern thought for the West, and was widely published in periodicals including Earth, Elle, Playboy, and Redbook. He appeared on CBS television's Camera Three in 1969, and in 1971 he recorded a pilot for a new show titled A Conversation with Myself for NET, the precursor to PBS. When the series was not produced, he recorded the shows with his son Mark and his long-time audio archivist Henry Jacobs in 1972. Overall, Alan Watts developed an extensive audio library of nearly 400 talks and wrote more than 25 books during his lifetime, including his final volume, Tao: The Watercourse Way. Alan Watts died in his sleep in November of 1973, after returning from an intensive international lecture tour.

Alan Watts Lectures and Essays

Alan Watts Lectures and Essays

 Alan Watts
Alan Watts (1915-1973) who held both a master's degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He authored more than 20 excellent books on the philosophy and psychology of religion, and lectured extensively, leaving behind a vast audio archive. With characteristic lucidity and humor Watts unravels the most obscure ontological and epistemological knots with the greatest of ease. Bibliography


Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit---to the "conquest" of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature. Alan Watts, Psychedelics and Religious Experience

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These lectures are transcripts of recordings made from non-commercial radio broadcasts. They are fairly complete with some errors in spelling, grammar, and minor tape break omissions. Alan Watts was a highly-skilled lecturer who left behind a massive audio and video tape archive curated by alanwatts.com

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Alan Watts - the physical world and the human body are the same things | Planet, Punditry, Poetry, Philosophy

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Alan Watts - A Conversation With Myself


 
Published on 7 Jul 2013
 
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Alan Watts explains Inception. | Rebelle Society

Alan Watts explains Inception. | Rebelle Society
“I wonder, I wonder, what you would do If you had the power to dream at night any dream you wanted to dream And you would of course, be able to alter your time senseAnd slip, say, 75 years of subjective time into eight hours of sleep. You would, I suppose, start out by fulfilling all your wishesYou could design for yourself what could be the most ecstatic life…”

Great news: We think we finally get Inception.

With the help of Alan Watts—British philosopher and writer who contributed to the spread and assimilation of Eastern philosophy in the West—and enchanted by Hans Zimmer‘s soundtrack magic, we’re now lying on a couch and letting go of what (we think) we know, ready to be induced in the dream of our lives.
A bouncing dream that, like another version of ourselves, keeps coming back to us through a mirror.
Do we create our future or do we eventually meet an already present future? Are all future tenses just layers of the Now?
Watts realized “that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
So, if our mind is easily blown by this video, can we then recover all the pieces by dreaming some more? 


Poetically put, by the same Watts:
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
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