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Indications de méditation
On pourrait dire que la méditation n’a besoin ni de raison ni de but.
Ainsi envisagée, elle se situe à l’opposé de toutes nos activités, exceptées peut-être la danse et la musique.
Quand nous faisons de la musique, ce n’est pas pour atteindre un certain point, qui serait, par exemple, la fin du morceau. Si tel était le but de la musique, le meilleur exécutant serait évidemment le plus rapide.
Et quand nous dansons, nous ne nous déplaçons pas pour atteindre un certain endroit, un lieu donné, comme en voyage. Quand nous dansons, c’est le voyage même qui est le but; quand nous faisons de la musique, c’est la musique qui est à elle-même sa propre fin.
Il en est exactement de même pour ce qui est de la méditation.
La méditation est découverte que le but est déjà là, dans le moment présent.
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Le mot « personne » en français comme en anglais, vient du latin persona, ce qui signifie ; ce au travers de quoi (per) le son (sona) passe. Il s’agit aussi des masques portés autrefois par les acteurs du théâtre classique. Ces masques étaient dotés de larges bouches faisant offices de mégaphone, ce qui permettait de porter le son plus loin. Ainsi le persona, la personne, c’est le masque, c’est à dire le rôle que vous jouez.
L’image que vous avez de vous-même est une institution sociale au même titre que, par exemple la division des jours en vingt-quatre heures ou du mètre en cent centimètres ou que le tracé purement imaginaire des latitudes et des longitudes à la surface de la terre.
Exactement de la même manière l’image que vous avez de vous-même est un concept imaginaire, pas autre chose en réalité qu’une caricature
Alan Wilson Watts (1915 – 1973) est l’un des pères de la contre-culture en Amérique. Philosophe, écrivain, conférencier et expert en religion comparée.
La conscience humaine est une forme de sensibilité et de compréhension, c’est aussi une forme d’ignorance. Notre conscience ordinaire de tous les jours élimine plus que ce qu’elle garde, des choses qui sont terriblement importantes.
Alan Watts dans L’envers du néant : Le testament d’un sage
Une pièce musicale de Peter Gabriel – Open
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c6Iac4AANc&list=OLAK5uy_mSwaG0kKJilN3R9tQkBQFgIsuKfHHZgC0
#24Heures #acteur #AlanWatts #AlanWilsonWatts #attention #écrivain #être #But #caricature #compréhension #conceptImaginaire #conférencier #conscience #conscienceHumaine #contreCulture #danse #découverte #division #endroit #entrainementDeLEsprit #envers #institutionSociale #latitude #masque #méditation #mégaphone #momentPrésent #musique #néant #persona #personne #philosophe #philosophie #Raison #rôle #Sage #testament #théâtre #théâtreClassique #tracé #Vivre #voyage -
"Better to be in detention than in the playground."
That was my outlook as a kid at school. I was bullied so much that the only escape I could find was to act out and bunk off.
My school reports are mostly "Was in isolation, had a great day", "47% attendance this year"
I achieved great results academically and was top of my class for most lessons, even French. No idea how.
But I was bullied so much that it led to poor behaviour from me as an escape and eventually to me being kicked out of school at 15 and home at 16.
The rest of my life has been a result of that trauma. Living in a hostel, drug use, dumb things. Until I eventually sorted myself and landed my first real job at 30 years of age, after 14 years of going from job to job.
A self taught software developer, finally found my thing.
Uhhh wrote that out and forgot what point I was going to make 😅
Kids are cruel? Life sucks? Maybe I just want attention 😬
Sometimes I wonder if I live off my past trauma as a reason to be angry. I'm still holding on to it.
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Regarding my last post, there's a quote from Alan Watts which I quite like. It goes like this:
"“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
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(fascinating documentary about someone I've never heard of who spouted a load of bollocks which fascinated easily confused idiots (imho))
Alan Watts: The Brahman of Bromley
Archive on 4Jarvis Cocker wasn’t exactly enthusiastic when his bandmate suggested they listen to some old Buddhist lectures to while away the hours on their tour bus. But when the captivating voice of Alan Watts floated through the speakers, it transformed the way he saw the world.
Alan Watts is considered by many to have been a key translator of Eastern spiritual ideas in the 20th century. His books and lectures took the complex and often intangible concepts of Buddhism, Zen and Taoism, and unpacked them for Western ears with startling clarity and wry humour.
Born in Chislehurst in 1915, Watts moved to America just before the Second World War, where he became a popular public intellectual, “philosophical entertainer” and a thought-leader for the Beat Generation and emergent hippy counterculture.
In the years since his death in 1973, Watts’ reputation has only grown - first in esoteric New Age circles, and now with the millions of viewers online who take comfort from his archive of recorded lectures on YouTube and social media.
With access to his extensive recorded archive, Jarvis Cocker examines Watts’ life, work and digital legacy - featuring interviews with Watts enthusiasts and family members, historians and experts, as well as artists and filmmakers inspired by his work.
Access to Alan Watts' audio lectures provided by Mark Watts at the Alan Watts Organization.
Written and produced by Tom Harrad.
Executive producer: Ant Adeane
Sound mix: Alex PortfelixA Small Blue production for BBC Radio 4
Available now57 minutes
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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.
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By This Time Tomorrow - Fires in the Distance https://musiccloud.io/QHeWc
Anyone else enjoying the #AlanWatts sample in this track, the full piece is here: https://www.organism.earth/library/document/out-of-your-mind-12#ch2
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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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#alanwatts #reality #science #nature #pocket3 #osmopocket3
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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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The world in slow motion - And Alan Watts
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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.”
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RE: https://norden.social/@nakieken/116282684457333520
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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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