Fascinating Figures: Alan Watts
I was recently asked to write a series of profiles of fascinating people and events from the 60s and 70s for a Spanish magzine called Cañamo. Because the various cultural revolutions that swept through the U.S. and the rest of Europe never made it past the dictatorship in control of Spain, the editors asked me to write about some worthy figures the Spanish might not know of. Here's the first article, about Alan Watts. Alan Watts Parapsychologists have long noted that people who appear to have authentic supernatural abilities are often also gifted illusionists. It could be said that Alan Watts was in some ways similar to these psychic/magicians. Alan Watts was one of the best-known interpreters of Eastern philosophies for the West.
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Dokkōdō
The "Dokkōdō" [ (Japanese: 独行道?); "The Path of Aloneness", "The Way to Go Forth Alone", or "The Way of Walking Alone"] is a short work written by Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵) a week before he died in 1645. It consists of either nineteen or twenty-one precepts; precepts 4 and 20 are omitted from the former version. "Dokkodo" was largely composed on the occasion of Musashi giving away his possessions in preparation for death, and was dedicated to his favorite disciple, Terao Magonojō (to whom the earlier Go rin no sho [The Book of Five Rings] had also been dedicated), who took them to heart. "Dokkōdō" expresses a stringent, honest, and ascetic view of life. Precepts[edit] References[edit]
The Nature Of Consciousness
The legacy lives on at alanwatts.com I find it a little difficult to say what the subject matter of this seminar is going to be, because it's too fundamental to give it a title. I'm going to talk about what there is. Now, the first thing, though, that we have to do is to get our perspectives with some background about the basic ideas that, as Westerners living today in the United States, influence our everyday common sense, our fundamental notions about what life is about. And these basic ideas I call myth, not using the word 'myth' to mean simply something untrue, but to use the word 'myth' in a more powerful sense. So in the same way, we use these sort of images to try and make sense of the world, and we at present are living under the influence of two very powerful images, which are, in the present state of scientific knowledge, inadequate, and one of the major problems today are to find an adequate, satisfying image of the world. A Protestant church is a little different.
Buddha at the Gas Pump | Interviews with "Ordinary" Spiritually Awakened People
Alan Watts Vault : The Nature of Consciousness
I find it a little difficult to say what the subject matter of this seminar is going to be, because it's too fundamental to give it a title. I'm going to talk about what there is. Now, the first thing, though, that we have to do is to get our perspectives with some background about the basic ideas which, as Westerners living today in the United States, influence our everyday common sense, our fundamental notions about what life is about. And there are historical origins for this, which influence us more strongly than most people realize. Ideas of the world which are built into the very nature of the language we use, and of our ideas of logic, and of what makes sense altogether. And these basic ideas I call myth, not using the word 'myth' to mean simply something untrue, but to use the word 'myth' in a more powerful sense. So basic to this image of the world is the notion, you see, that the world consists of stuff, basically. So the world doesn't come thinged; it doesn't come evented.
satsang with mooji - videos
www.mooji.satsangs.net A beautiful and clear page created by a Mooji Sangha member, which includes many of Mooji's Youtube videos as well as a tribute to Papaji, and is organized by year and place. This page, www.mooji.satsangs.net, makes it very easy to browse Youtube videos and includes descriptions and quotes (click on ). Much gratitude to JC for putting this page together!
