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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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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.
Follow Sasha's adventures here bigworldsmallsasha.com/
#alanwatts #reality #science #nature #pocket3 #osmopocket3
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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.
Follow Sasha's adventures here bigworldsmallsasha.com/
#alanwatts #reality #science #nature #pocket3 #osmopocket3
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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.
Follow Sasha's adventures here bigworldsmallsasha.com/
#alanwatts #reality #science #nature #pocket3 #osmopocket3
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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.
Follow Sasha's adventures here bigworldsmallsasha.com/
#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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 🛌😴💤
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The Danger of Seeing What Others Don’t - Alan Watts
Do you ever feel like you see too much? In this profound lecture, we explore the experience of the highly perceptive person—the one who walks into a room and instantly feels the unspoken tensions, hidden sorrows, and secret truths. This talk reveals why this “gift” of clear seeing can be the most dangerous thing you’ll ever possess.
Discover the four hidden dangers of being deeply intuitive: the profound isolation of living in a different reality, the impossible choice between speaking truth and losing yourself, the pain of becoming a target for those who prefer illusion, and the devastating risk of losing your own identity by absorbing the emotions of others. This isn’t about being “too sensitive”; it’s about navigating a world that isn’t ready for your clarity.
This is a complete guide to transforming this potential curse back into a gift. Learn the art of “conscious distance"—how to see clearly without the compulsion to fix, how to protect your energy, and how to hold your awareness as a quiet strength rather than an unbearable burden. Stop trying to wake up the world, and instead, learn to live peacefully with your own eyes wide open.
https://piefed.social/c/mentalhealth/p/1396177/the-danger-of-seeing-what-others-dont-alan-watts
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The Danger of Seeing What Others Don’t - Alan Watts [18:52]
Do you ever feel like you see too much? In this profound lecture, we explore the experience of the highly perceptive person—the one who walks into a room and instantly feels the unspoken tensions, hidden sorrows, and secret truths. This talk reveals why this “gift” of clear seeing can be the most dangerous thing you’ll ever possess.
Discover the four hidden dangers of being deeply intuitive: the profound isolation of living in a different reality, the impossible choice between speaking truth and losing yourself, the pain of becoming a target for those who prefer illusion, and the devastating risk of losing your own identity by absorbing the emotions of others. This isn’t about being “too sensitive”; it’s about navigating a world that isn’t ready for your clarity.
This is a complete guide to transforming this potential curse back into a gift. Learn the art of “conscious distance"—how to see clearly without the compulsion to fix, how to protect your energy, and how to hold your awareness as a quiet strength rather than an unbearable burden. Stop trying to wake up the world, and instead, learn to live peacefully with your own eyes wide open.
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The world of "suchness" is void and empty because it teases the mind out of thought, dumfounding the chatter of definition so that there is nothing left to be said. Yet it is obvious that we are not confronted with literal nothingness. It is true that, when pressed, every attempt to catch hold of our world leaves us empty-handed.
The Way of Zen (pg. 131)
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Ich lese gerade mal wieder verstärkt in den Büchern von #AlanWatts und mag seine Denkanstöße. Speziell zum Thema #interconnectedness
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“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.”
Alan Watts
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Cause and effect
Things have consequences; they are themselves consequences. Sometimes it’s easy to forget this – sometimes things seem merely to be chance, or else they are the result of someone’s action, out of their – or God’s – “sovereign will”. But those ideas are never true. The “chance” occurrence had causes. The cliff fall came about because of heavy rain falling onto fissured and unstable ground – someone was injured because they hadn’t heard the Coastguard warnings, and were walking too close to the base of the cliffs…
Fate? Karma? The will of God? What do these things mean, except attempts to explain to ourselves how things beyond our control could happen to us, or to those we care about? Karma actually seems to me to come closest: the idea that cause and effect are ineluctable – what is sown will be reaped. Karma, though, is usually more naturally understood in its human, ethical dimension:
The Buddha defined karma as intention; whether the intention manifested itself in physical, vocal or mental form, it was the intention alone which had a moral character: good, bad or neutral […] The focus of interest shifted from physical action, involving people and objects in the real world, to psychological process.
Richard Gombrich, Buddhist Precept and Practice.
The Chinese concept of the Tao – “[t]he Tao can be roughly thought of as the ‘flow of the universe’, or as some essence or pattern behind the natural world that keeps the Universe balanced and ordered” (Wikipedia) – seems to me closer to the metaphysical implications. To harmonise one’s will with the Tao, to accept the way things come to be, is to cease to swim against the current, to follow “the watercourse way” (Watts).
The Stoics frequently talked about ‘living in agreement with nature’. This, in part, means that it is within our nature to be social, cooperative beings who want the best for others, and for people around us to thrive. Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, said, ‘All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.’
Bridgid Delaney, Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in chaotic times.
To live in harmony with nature in this sense requires a willing abdication of knowledge and willfulness. Alan Watts again:
[P]eople try to force issues only when not realizing that it can’t be done—that there is no way of deviating from the watercourse of nature. You may imagine that you are outside, or separate from, the Tao and thus able to follow it or not follow; but this very imagination is itself within the stream, for there is no way other than the Way. Willy-nilly, we are it and go with it. From a strictly logical point of view, this means nothing and gives us no information. Tao is just a name for whatever happens, or, as Lao-tzu put it, “The Tao principle is what happens of itself [tzu-jan].”
This is of course, as I suggested in a recent post here, very close to what has been called, in Christian contexts, “quietism” – which has widely been criticised as heretical, due to its rejection of doctrines around free will and supernatural determinism.
But (and I quoted her in the linked post) Jennifer Kavanagh explains:
Welcoming uncertainty, embracing it, does not mean commending ignorance or trying not to know; it’s not about the rejection of knowledge. It’s not about the negation of the intellect, but its enhancement. It is a recognition that cognitive thinking cannot reach everything, an understanding that the scientific and spiritual approaches are not incompatible, just different, complementary, dimensions. Not either/or but both/and.
The contemplative embracing of this principle is perhaps most clearly seen in the practice of shikantaza, just sitting, watching for the way to open:
Zazen or enlightenment is not about finding a particular state of mind, for all states of mind are fleeting and cannot be relied upon. When you know who is sitting, you know sitting Buddha. This expression is a bit strange; why not say sitting like a Buddha? I prefer to say sitting Buddha because there is nobody sitting like a Buddha; there is just sitting Buddha. That Buddha never stops sitting, but we must awaken to her presence–not that sitting Buddha is either male or female…
A theme I return to again and again is to just do the work that comes to you. Such an attitude is open-ended in the way that life itself is open. If you give yourself to the way, the way appears and that way is always changing.
Daishin Morgan, Sitting Buddha.
#AlanWatts #BridgidDelaney #contemplative #DaishinMorgan #JenniferKavanagh #philosophy #practice #RichardGombrich #stoicism #Tao #unknowing #Wikipedia
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Atheism and quietism
Quietism is a term with an odd and surprisingly contentious history. It is used of both a tendency in philosophy and a direction within Christian contemplative thought and practice. (You can find well- linked Wikipedia articles on the philosophy here, and the contemplative term here.)
But I believe the insight underlying both these Western traditions of stillness and unknowing can be found far farther back in history.
Chao-Chou [Zhaozhou Congshen] asked, “What is the Tao?”
The master [Nan-ch’üan] replied, “Your ordinary consciousness is the Tao.”
“How can one return into accord with it?”
“By intending to accord you immediately deviate.”
“But without intention, how can one know the Tao?”
“The Tao,” said the master, “belongs neither to knowing nor to not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it’s like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?”
(quoted by Alan Watts in Tao: The Watercourse Way)
In the Zen practice of shikantaza (just sitting) there is nothing to achieve: no particular state of mind, no exercise of concentration, nothing to get rid of. In doing nothing there is perfect freedom.
None of this requires a supernatural dimension at all; that fact seems to have been one of the reasons Christian quietism was condemned as heretical. Unknowing is a fundamental admission, the very underpinning of scepticism. Stevie Wonder wrote: “When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer – superstition ain’t the way…” Jennifer Kavanagh:
Welcoming uncertainty, embracing it, does not mean commending ignorance or trying not to know; it’s not about the rejection of knowledge. It’s not about the negation of the intellect, but its enhancement. It is a recognition that cognitive thinking cannot reach everything, an understanding that the scientific and spiritual approaches are not incompatible, just different, complementary, dimensions. Not either/or but both/and.
Unknowing, and the abandonment of the need to know, to possess knowledge, is in a sense the gate to the liminal lands I wrote about in my last post. It is also the starting point of the scientific method, and the heart’s defence against all kinds of creeds.
#AlanWatts #atheism #contemplative #JenniferKavanagh #philosophy #Tao #unknowing #ZhaozhouCongshen
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That reminds me...
Have you ever seen the After Skool series on #youtube?
I thought it was fun drawings to illustrate interesting talks by people like Alan Watts & Ram Dass. I guess it's been a while or I've looked at the list of videos and....wow.
Jordan Peterson & the #antiTrans Heather Heying.
So...heads up on that. Seems like another youtube personality being paid to stear people to the right.
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Taking off my academic hat, what intelligence and genius actually are: This 2023 essay explains what intelligence is: not measuring or comparing people, but rather a characteristic of life itself, which AI can never have.
See https://www.academia.edu/96104729 or download the essay from https://hcommons.org/deposits/download/hc:50812/CONTENT/intelligence_and_genius.pdf
#intelligence #intelligences #genius #AI #education #philosophy #psychology #religion #Buddhism #nature #Japan #life #creativity #consciousness #universe #HowardGardner #Jung #AlanWatts
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Alan Watts (80 Years in 8 hours, Dreams) & Perceptions Today Evolution
Time UK 2030-2130 #Callin Link https://www.callin.com/room/alan-watts-80-years-in-8-hours-dreams-EVtvJKdjqz
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Adding some hashtags since my interests are all over the place. I'll add more when I think of them. #PositiveMasculinity, #Ethnomusicology, #Afrofuturism, #OldPeopleOfMastodon, #AlanWatts, #AlanLomax, #nonduality, #nondualism, #esoteric, #DarkAmbient, #SpiralDynamics, #metamodernism, #Neoplatonism, #IFS, #InternalFamilySystems
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