"But what makes it a problem is that you are dragging a past"

PERFECT !! no doodling or unnecessary Music!

@garybob212

9 ай бұрын

They way it should be!

@zandor5657

9 ай бұрын

yes what a relief- and the tuning system used in nearly all shopping mall /elevator/phone hold is fairly dubious

I am a Taoist. I practice and fail and start again. Watts changed my life for the better.

I'm so glad that I latched onto Taoism about 57 years ago. About the same time, I also had a strong peyote experience, and smoked my first weed. Terence McKenna said that Taoism is the philosophy that goes best with the psychedelics or e n t h e o g e n s. I agree. And weed is definitely an entheogen. Thank you so much for posting Alan Watts.... Decriminalize God's plant medicines.

@willg.6168

3 жыл бұрын

Cannabis Sativa/H.E.M.P for Victory✌

@RedDragonfly205

3 жыл бұрын

There are other ways to have a crown chakra though. A recreational puff is okay but for Dao De Jing to max out its' effectiveness you cannot be controlled by addiction of any sort. I gave up weed after 40 years of partaking in it to fully experience De Dao. I could not Wu Wei properly when stoned on weed. True story. When I feel like lighting one up now something inside says to me 'what after 40 years you cannot replicate the experience in your own mind?'. Kang Kong, Swamp Cabbage, Ony Choy or Watercress what ever you want to call it it is rather good. I like it raw helps my golf too. My gatekeeper must have been smoking my ghosties before because sometimes you just do not know who entered your building. Maybe everything in moderation. You should not have to be smashed to start to think about Dao. In saying that I am cautious not to sound like one of those do gooders Alan Watts talks about, who make the world more difficult than necessary to stay on the path that is forever upwards.

@WeAreAllOneNature

3 жыл бұрын

@@RedDragonfly205 Does Swamp Cabbage have psychoactive qualities?

@joedavis4150

2 жыл бұрын

@ciaran perry ......... ciaran Perry, Terence McKenna was not mainly about psychedelics, and definitely not about drugs. He was mainly about moral behavior, and putting two and two together. Definitely one of today's best philosophers.... Viva La Tao!

@joedavis4150

2 жыл бұрын

@ciaran perry ... Have you taken enough psychedelics, so that you know from direct experience, whether or not psychedelics and Taoism go together?

Alan Watts quote highlights from this video: “Taoism is what everybody is looking for-the easy way in, the shortcut, using cleverness instead of muscle.” “Can you find a way that sees into your own nature, that sees into the Tao, immediately?” “When you know that this moment is the Tao-and this moment is by itself without past and without future, eternal, neither coming into being nor going out of being-there is nirvana.” “We are all a constant flux, and the continuity of the person from past through present to future is illusory.” “Our seeming to go along in a course of time doesn't really happen.” “The Buddhists say suffering exists but no one who suffers, deeds exist but no doers are found, a path there is but no one who follows it, and Nirvana is but no one who attains it.” “So long as you're in the present, there aren’t any problems.” “The Taoist trick says simply live now and there will be no problems.” “There isn't any continuous ‘you’ running on from moment to moment who originated at some time in the past and will die at some time in the future.”

I just so much love listening to Mr Watts. My my, people watch TV, scratch around for the latest pleasure fashion...but it's all around us, hanging on the low branches of the trees. Peace be unto you.

So, what I got from this is that everything is one moment. This moment.

"There is no continuous you" I need to keep that in my mind. Great talk.

@GD-tn3ez

3 ай бұрын

You won’t be able to keep it in mind unless you continue passing it along to the new you. But don’t tell the next you I said so…they haven’t arrived yet…

@darkdevelop

Ай бұрын

@@GD-tn3ezthis statement is so loaded this is such an off putting yet thought provoking sentiment

Its funny how when you understand this its like the answer for every single problem or question there is. The connections exist .

Compassion / Empathy ☯️ Expectation / Reality ☯️ Being / Environment ☯️

We need him back.

Please continue spreading Watts’ talks. He’s amazing and unrivaled in explaining essence of Zen to all types of audiences. I would like to see something like Alan Watts centers or clubs pop up around the country and am willing to help in making it happen. Take care and live your lives like a musical.

Yup, people have only three days in their lives. Yesterday, today and tomorrow. The choice for yesterday is gone, at best there's just knowledge to be acquired. For today you have a choice. Tomorrow's choice only comes when tomorrow becomes today. Let's live today, shall we?

He's explaining beautifully, karma and nishkam karma are the concepts of geeta and tao te Ching and geeta validates each other vary well. The consepts of both scriptures are the same, but i found tao te Ching more easy to understand than geeta ❤

Always a powerful message

Love him brilliant ❤❤

He is a genius, he talks about Taoism and Zen in a beautiful book he wrote called 'Become What You Are'. Life changing, especially for people interested in Eastern Philosophies.

Being a Chinese Taoism practitioner, I was highly recommended by a client about this lecturer. I was lost for the major part of this video because his references seemed random, now India Yoga, now Buddhism, now Tao, now Zen... I gather this is maybe that the lecturer was keen to recollect/record his studies, or it could help the video attract more interest groups, or even perhaps he did have in-depth talks elsewhere and this one is a chat for his mature followers. But it is not the way Taoist learn things. For Taoism beginner studies, everything can be explained in one book which has only 81 paragraphs. We read the book so well that the words jump out at us on occasions it is the right answer to our puzzles. Advanced Taoism studies will have to tackle "book of change" to be able to foresee what is coming and what has been the past, which are all in us at any one time. I unfortunately may never be able to master the wisdom in the "book of change". I thought to leave a comment here and hope you will find it constructive and begin to focus and really delve into and properly comprehend one book only, even just one paragraph of DaoDeJing, provided your prime interest is in Dao as well.

@dlxinfinite7098

2 ай бұрын

"But it is not the way Taoist learn things." -your words. How about you not assuming that the people present here havent read the DaoDeJing. Or that your Way is the Only Way. Allow others to grow into it, rather than breaking their spirit.

@jamescovan8853

24 күн бұрын

But the point is that he is trying to disown the severity with which people approach their religious practices. He has to reference the other possible ways to approach the problem, because he is proposing what he feels to be a more efficient approach. This is very much the point of the lecture.

Simply magnificent😊😊one of the best short lecture I have heard😅

He is fascinating.

8:00 Taoist begin. Thanks for reading.

@flankes3339

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Thank you so much for this.

The Tao happens without knowing! I enjoy listening to Mr Watts. I learn nothing from him.

@chillizora

10 ай бұрын

Exactly its all smoke and air what he sais like his life. Only hedonism to the max which is what satanists believe

@christopherlamott9351

6 ай бұрын

Haha, clever! 🥰

being simple is an arduous task

It a Law of retribution for me and now the morals come in. 😊

I've been iniciated by a guru in India and since then, life as I knew it, fell apart. His explanation of karma debt being collected brought me some clarity and relief. Thank you.

This is wonderful!! I just received the book Tao Te Ching.

@worldaccordingtoricky3164

3 жыл бұрын

Great! And... Great read. Just in case you are unfamiliar; look into different translations. I was unaware/ignorant to just how many versions there are. The first i read is extremely popular but, the presenter didnt even know the language. At best; its his interpretation of the Tao. not the literal Tao. Take care. And happy reading.

@Mystdragon

3 жыл бұрын

@@worldaccordingtoricky3164 Thank you. That’s some great info. I will look into it. 💜🌟

@Tomas33392

3 жыл бұрын

@@worldaccordingtoricky3164 Let me guess... You read Stephen Mitchell's version first! :)

@moosic5701

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tomas33392 yeah, I am!! Which is the best translation?

@Tomas33392

2 жыл бұрын

@@moosic5701 There isn't a "best translation". It's a very subjective matter. I really enjoy Red Pine's though. Do not recommend Steven Mitchell's.

The funny thing about karma and dao is that sometimes when you try to do good the result is disaster and when you try to do bad (by our definition of good and bad) something wonderful comes of it. More the former than the later. It's better to let things be. For Daoist fiction look to Ursula Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven.

thanks so

This is so nice to listen to. It is true about the karma coming to get you and asking you to pay its debts. Thank you Allen.

Merci

For me the most beautiful experience ever is the realization of being. It can vary strongly in intensitiy. I have also been to the place of "no self" and "the self". The "No-self" was completely without thought, sensory perception was extremely intense to the lack of thinking. But it didnt feel really pleasant whatsoever. Being "the self" feels extremely relaxing, thought is absent aswell, but you are still there. The whole body feels extremely comfortable and pleasent. But even this state is nothing compared to the realisation of being, which doesnt have anything to do with who you are or who you aren't.

@jamesbowers4135

Жыл бұрын

.m

Use the force.

thanks

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Karma? What Karma? Poverty got rid of mine and now she's a shadow 😭 8:42 - 8:49 = the story of my lives 12:43 Just as Heraclitus had supposedly stated., "No man ever steps in the same river twice!"

I find this part about secretly going on day after day with stopping drinking absolutely hysterical. That's how people start too 🤣.

A path only exists for a path walker.

MR ALAN WATTS IS THE GREATEST PHILOSOPHER TO HAVE EVER WALKED EARTH!!!

@seymourbutts8786

4 жыл бұрын

Life changing

@buddha1736

3 жыл бұрын

👌

@RedDragonfly205

3 жыл бұрын

Alan Watts is maybe the greatest Western World philosopher but have you noticed the legends from different cultures that he has learnt off. It is like a chain reaction running through time that was intended to happen. It is his perceptions of everything that made him a great. Alan was just to humble and modest to peruse accolades. Wanting no credit for it rings a bell. He is a champion non the less. JESUS/ANU bless Alan Watts.

@2valoeant

3 жыл бұрын

Nietzche , dostoevsky , kierkigaard , Senneca , Epictitus ... please if u dont know dont supposse

@RedDragonfly205

3 жыл бұрын

@@2valoeant Hey relax when you do think you know better than someone you get gazumped yourself. As far as it All goes least is most. What was said has merit given that Mr Watts did not rebuild the wheel he looked at what was there and believe me he took in everyone and everything. Without putting all his eggs in one basket he did lean towards Tao. What better place to source things when on Earth than Mother Nature. It was not just that he could break down complexities and unravel the convoluted nature of things soas they could be readily ingested. That's art. Anyway and ironically 'she that talks doesn't know and she who does not talk knows'' - Lao Tzu. Dao De Jing. The day we All have to have the one opinion I will feel like I wasted the emptiness of My little mind. Bias is a form of discrimination the universe did not so why should we? Maybe it was meant that Alan Watts was great because he was relatable regardless of how tertiary the subject and he always reinforced his opinions by showing how nature already demonstrated it All in its' own way so no need to look too far it is All inside of yourself in your heart/mind. Kaboom! Have a nice day everyone.

Nom nom

Kong Qui, Zhuang Zhou, LaoTzu, Alan Watts, nough said

Good Day, eh. Be mindful and take pleasure.

20:50 ❤

The contortionist- the parable. Found the sample. It’s at 2:10.

💙🙏💙

Every comment written, on the Internet, let's the Devil knows what we are doing. So, no more commenting. New Years resolution?

For the algorithm

Forgive & Forget

@BabeTheAstrologer

3 жыл бұрын

uhhh... yeah,,,

Karma =Memory

I'm the only one I know on this path.

@13:53

Chapter One-1; Tao te Ching There are ways but the way of Tao is Uncharted There are names but the nature of Tao cannot be given a name, Quantum indeed is the Nameless source of creation The mother of things has a name, Singularity, which has a dual, two, qualities, 0\1 The secret waits for the insight of eyes unclouded by longing. Those who are bound by desire see only the outward container. These two are identical, yet distinct one from the other; 0\1. By their names, of all things profound, it is said their Pairing as the Singular, Primary, particle 0\1 is deepest, is the gate to the root of the World, the gateway to the manifold secrets of the Universe.

@92587wayne

3 жыл бұрын

Wayne L Foley In the Prophecy of the Savior of Mankind, the Savior was to have both a Spiritual Body and a Flesh Body. The way that One becomes Spiritual is to die in the Flesh, for the Flesh Body to be placed in the grave, be laid to rest, the Spiritual Body to rise up to the Heavens, The Spirit to then return to the Earth, for the Spiritual Body and the Flesh Body to rise up, the Savior to walk the Earth having the Spiritual Body and the Flesh Body to act as One. When God breathed his breath into Man's Nostrils, it was the Immortal Spirit God that became a Living Soul. The Immortal Spirit of God alive in the Flesh Body of Mankind.

What is the book mentioned in 11:37?

@MHSUPER30

2 жыл бұрын

Shobogenzo

Can anyone please explain the last quote ?

The live chat be completed

Watts makes some good points but his sycophantic sinophilia can be a bit too much for me.

@GD-tn3ez

3 ай бұрын

Well, he fully understands that people are paying him to entertain them by way of cleverly devised peaks and troughs of language which transfers to mental stimulation, which leads to emotion, without danger of personal harm. Basically an intellectual carnival. Terence McKenna understood the same premise.

@redseneastmkii

2 ай бұрын

@@GD-tn3ez Is that what it is?

@robertmckoy1085

8 күн бұрын

​@@redseneastmkii no this guy just thinks everyone is spinning fucking yarns trying to pull the wool over his eyes. Watts did not make any of this up nor did McKenna, these teachings have existed for thousands of years

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8:20

This is one of my favourite Alan Watts talks! Check out this video by someone who was so inspired by Watts that he studied and meditated on one verse of the day every single day for an entire month before commenting on it! kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIaFyMxrit2Ye8o.html

Is it really about Taoism? First 3-4 minutes he is talking about Karma and Hinduism, not thta it is not interesting. I am curious how he is going to link it to Taoism.

This must be Alans only talk on taoism? Only one I can find anyways.

@AlanWattsOrg

8 ай бұрын

Hello! (2 years later). There's a few more free & full talks from Alan's Tao of Philosophy series you can listen to here: play.alanwatts.org/alan-watts-101

Was Alan Watts a Bodhisatva? What do you think? Who ever you are (provided you know what a Bodhisatva is) winky winky ^^

Gangstas move in silence 🤫

🙏❄️❄️❄️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

So basically we are basically fighting Thanos with his all his stones.

Shobogenzo

@kennyshortcake999

8 ай бұрын

Dogen ⚡️⚡️

I bet that at least 70% of everyone here listens to Tool

17:39 Dog having Buddha nature? Acting spontaneously?

q

📌 I don't know who, but someone actually needs to hear this, you've got to stop saving all your money. Venture into investing some, if you really want financial stability.

@Michael-gd8xj

Жыл бұрын

@let love lead In situations like this, I always recommend to people on getting guidance at least from someone that understands price action and all that while you strive on improving yourself by watching videos and learning fundamental analysis.

@saanvi848

Жыл бұрын

Investment guidance sounds like a great idea, thought about it before but never knew how to go about it.

@Mason-vz2kl

Жыл бұрын

WoW.Loretta Wilkinson ?

@larizoclack1541

Жыл бұрын

I basically follow her trade pattern and haven't regretted doing so. Hence I can confidently say I'm impressed by my returns so far.

@sandra3316

Жыл бұрын

@@larizoclack1541 This is refreshing coincidence, she has been handling my trade, it's been a year now and the experience has been amazing.

These are very dangerous thoughts from Buddhism. These are the same thoughts that have led India where it is now: a poor over populated country with a not so great future for its citizens. This was a country which was once one of the greatest states in the world.

@Logan-cn8zy

2 жыл бұрын

please elaborate

@stephanie98mm

2 жыл бұрын

You could say the same thing for the United States and Christianity. Our homeless population is roughly over half a million and incarceration is 2.3 million.

@ladybookworms

2 жыл бұрын

That's not why India is the way it is. It's the same as everywhere else. People are greedy. And also the wheel of fortune turns without tiring. Places and people go through a cycle of abundance and poverty. It always happens. One can't always be prosperous or always be in lack.

@MrDannyFrank

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was Taoism that fucked up india and not the British

@sev2300

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrDannyFrank Taoism let it happen!

You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. You must love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus the anointed is Lord! Repent and be baptized and believe the Gospel.

@kyliereed200

3 жыл бұрын

“You must”

@zmaru9672

2 жыл бұрын

Noob.

@sleepyboy9247

Жыл бұрын

No thanks I will not worship your grimoire

@L0wen

Жыл бұрын

Please do read some Christian mystic writings. St Thomas Aquinas, St Francis of Assisi, Thomas Merton the list goes on and on........all of whom end up saying almost exactly the same thing as many Hindu and Buddhist scholars and teachers. This "you must or else" is a misnomer given by people who want to own and control and have people obey them. I don't wanna come off as all "Holier than thou" or "my way is right and yours must be wrong" bud but for your own sake please do have a look in and try distinguish between what people have told you to think and what's preached from a pulpit and what you can truly discover for yourself when you entertain other views 🤷🏻‍♂️ God Bless.

@davonsmith6356

Жыл бұрын

Or don't Just because it's your belief doesn't mean it's anybody else's or that yours is the proper one while the rest is not. If you're a good person, you will figure it out. Get to where you need to. There is no right or wrong religion, if there was one.. then what, the rest of everybody goes to he'll for being raised with different beliefs no matter how good a person they are?? What of those that believe in reincarnation? I must do nothing but be me and keep following my path. Thanks anyways, earl. Sure you mean well.

"Got to be Mystic" -Peter Tosh