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Reality is this. - videos.trom.tf/w/wfXp5jDDHcVyQ…
Alan Watts about what reality is. A short clip I made with some footage I recorded with the Osmo Pocket 3.
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What we really are
We pay attention to our own true nature and by becoming fully conscious of the union of our nature with Christ, we become fully ourselves.
John Main, Word into Silence, p.18
The idea of time has many expressions, from chronological to biological, emotional to cosmic. We sometimes feel we have lived a lifetime in a moment. We can feel time as a crucifixion or as a resurrection. The vast figures measuring cosmic time in an expanding universe can seem overwhelming but the few years of a human life can seem more significant and precious. Time and mortality live out the drama of birth and death and the painful mystery of separation. In the light of faith we come by stages to see the all-pervading mystery of union…
This consummation of union, whether it is called nirvana, liberation from rebirth, enlightenment, moksha or heaven is part of the common ground of all religious wisdom when we understand religion in its mystical dimension. It refers to the experience of oneness, the transcendence of the ego’s centre of consciousness, the transformation of the dualistic mind, the movement from the mind’s self-mirroring complexities into the simplicity and pure vision of the heart, the non-duality of the spirit. With a silent passion deeper than their words and differences, all religions point to this. If they do indeed teach this way and not just pay lip service to it, religion offers our often sad and battered humanity a reasonable and empowering hope.
We both lose and find ourselves in the otherness of ultimate reality. This is easy to say but it is a hard paradox to wrestle with. It demands a deepening faith commitment. When the master class of life has taught us enough, commitment meets detachment and solitude, the recognition and acceptance of our uniqueness becomes more attractive and even easier. We gradually withdraw from unnecessary activity and distraction. We become freer from compulsions and addictions.
Laurence Freeman, First Sight: The Experience of Faith, p.76-77
What we really are is this. We are not what we think we are, frail isolated intelligences trapped in a zero-sum game of mere survival, creatures of allegiances and enmities, just barely hanging on. We belong. We are part of it all, wavelets on a limitless ocean of grace.
We must… make a clear distinction between belief and faith, because, in general practice, belief has come to mean a state of mind which is almost the opposite of faith. Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would “lief” or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on the condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. In this sense of the word, faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deception.
Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity p.24
Faith is no more, perhaps, than this radical open-heartedness, this helpless surrender to what is, in David Jones’ words, “actually loved and known”. All our practice, all our patience and all our prayers come down to this simple oneness. What we used to be is dispersed, patched and rotted through with light. None of the old certainties can hold. They don’t need to: this trackless brightness beyond the memory of shorelines is the waking heart itself, nothing more.
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The world in slow motion - And Alan Watts - videos.trom.tf/w/9ChXtcyzDiiJN…
This was made in 10 minutes from footage I got at a vintage car "display" or whatever you call that. I was testing my second hand Osmo Pocket 3. Added some music and a bit with Alan Watts. Enjoy 😃
#alanwatts #slowmotion #cars #vintagecars #osmopocket
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I subscribe to the podcast : Alan Watts - Being in the way.
It packages Alan's talks into nicely produced episodes.
They don't release often so its always a pleasant surprise to find a new episode.
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"Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.”
― Alan Wilson Watts -
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Heute möchte ich euch etwas empfehlen, das wie unser 🌈Regenbogenbesen auch Herz und Seele beschenkt. Dieses Mixtape habe ich vorhin auf dem Weg zur Arbeit gehört und ... MUSS es mit euch teilen, ist ja #TuneTuesday 🎵
Spoiler: Es ist weniger die Musik, als die Worte von den Größten 😃 ❤️ Wer also die Ruhe hat ... bitte mal reinhören, es tut gut, versprochen 🍀 habt den Tag schön und viele Grüße aus Ostfriesland.
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Don’t believe #change is possible? Watch just one #AlanWatts video and your #YouTube #algorithm will never be the same
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Zen-Lehrer der Hippie-Generation: Religionsphilosoph Alan Watts
Zeitzeichen im WDR 5 – “Philosophical Entertainer”, so hat sich Alan Watts mal beschrieben. Er trägt dazu bei, dass fernöstliche Weisheitslehren im Westen populär werden. Mit seinen mehr als 25 Büchern, etlichen Artikeln zu Themen wie Identität, der Natur der Wirklichkeit und dem Streben nach Glück wird Alan Watts zum Zen-Lehrer der Hippie-Generation.
https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:5ddd38946d309452/
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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music, also, it is fulfilled in each moment of the course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
Alan Watts (1915-1973) Anglo-American philosopher, writer
The Wisdom of Insecurity, ch. 7 “The Transformation of Life” (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/watts-alan/81949/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alanwatts #dance #endings #journey #living #meaning #meaningoflife #music #path #purpose
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"Taoists do sit in meditation, but not with the egotistic purpose of improving themselves;
it is rather that, having understood intuitively that there is no way to go except the way of the Tao. "— Alan Watts
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The Real You - #AlanWatts
An inspirational and profound speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts. Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts - 'Nature of Consciousness' from Human Consciousness” -
"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
– Alan Watts
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Watts #AlanWatts
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Evening walk with the family and the dog alongside the golf of Mexico
Calmly reading Alan Watts' lectures
Reheated Xmas lasagna
@3goodthings #threegoodthingsoftheday #threegoodthings #alanwatts #mexico
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I love Tara Brach. I feel like someone should use her Dharma sessions in songs kinda like some people did with Alan Watts
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"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts
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Bashō's Frog
Plop.
https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/11/bashos-frog.html
#AlanWatts, #Bashō, #frog, #GeoffreyWilkinson, #haiku, #hermitpractice, #herpetology, #Japan, #lake, #poem, #RobertAitken, #Ryokan, #SengaiGibon, #Zen, #日本語
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Bashō's Frog Plop. rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/11/bash... #AlanWatts, #Bashō, #frog, #GeoffreyWilkinson, #haiku, #hermitpractice, #herpetology, #Japan, #lake, #poem, #RobertAitken, #Ryokan, #SengaiGibon, #Zen, #日本語
Bashō's Frog -
Bashō's Frog Plop. rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/11/bash... #AlanWatts, #Bashō, #frog, #GeoffreyWilkinson, #haiku, #hermitpractice, #herpetology, #Japan, #lake, #poem, #RobertAitken, #Ryokan, #SengaiGibon, #Zen, #日本語
Bashō's Frog -
I'm listening to #AlanWatts old audio recordings. It's one of my fave ways to put myself to sleep, with a smile 🛌😴💤