Alan Watts: The Unpreachable Religion - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 18 - Hosted by Mark Watts
Exploring modern culture as actually anti-materialistic, Alan tackles matters of sedentariness, sensuousness, isolation, work, play, God, and sexuality.
This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.
Western Culture as Anti-Materialist (0:00)
Screen to Sensuality // Crowd vs Community // Work & Play (5:55)
Work, Play, Sex, & God (12:08)
“For the vast majority of American families, what seems to be the real point of life-what you rush home to get to-is to watch an electronic reproduction of life. You can’t touch it, it doesn’t smell, and it has no taste. You might think that people getting home to the real point of life in a robust material culture would go home to a colossal banquet, an orgy of love making, or a riot of music and dancing. But nothing of the kind-it turns out to be this purely passive contemplation of a twittering screen.” - Alan Watts
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I was fortunate enough to stumble across his lectures when I was at a truthfully life threatening point in my life and I honestly can't say that I would be typing this if I hadn't.
Same thing with me .... Weird to read your comment, but somehow Im not surprised.
I absolutely went through the same thing. I do believe many of us get to the absolute bottom, then the answers we need are right there. They appear
@@abibb27 I'm not sure there is any other way. It quite literally takes being forced into complete isolation for us to even be able to see the world from the outside looking in and see any kind truth.
@@brendonconklin3837 I would have loved to meet him
I don't understand why it's so hard to find more speakers like him- someone who saw into the Dao or Zen or whatever but is still charismatic, joyous and creative. Lots of dry teachers and fake gurus, ...somehow Watts always feels different.
"the Los Angelesation" WOW that describes it perfectly...thank you for sharing your dad with us, Mark! If only more fathers were like him.
Or boyfriends , partners ect
“Only a nation unenlightened half wits could have taken this beautiful place and turned it into what it is today: a shopping mall.” George Carlin
@@freeian2mile after mile of mall after mall Americans are fatally attracted to the slow death of fast food and satisfy their 2 major addictions, consumption and eating especially eating. Americans love to eat if you deep fried skunk asshole and put salsa, Americans would buy and eat them!!! R.i.p. Carlin
*WHEN BUDDHA RETURNED AS A MAN NAMED ALAN*
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2HEARY
We are all buddhas, some of us just dont remember it. For that there is satori. 🎉😅😊
Hes returned as many :) i enjoy alan Watts also his friend ram das ect ti name just two here and a several others snd each adds a little something that makes up a whole beutiful picture all with its color its outline its frame all together they bring me so much
When Alan left and came back as EEkz4bo
The idea that expressions of physical love are viewed as scarier than expressions of physical hate are currently very topical.
😭. We are life itself but we do not know it. Some of us are waiting to go to heaven and be joyous but we are running away from death at the same time. It is a cop up if you give it a second thought.
Like how in some countries you can be arrested for any sign of public affection.
Excellent!!!
This recording here is wholesome. What is going on man? Where is the play? Who knows how to play? The product of the earth appeals to the eye rather than the stomach 🤔👌 even though we have successfully made the soil productive 😪
Wisdom that permeates through time.
Amazing how ahead of the time this is..this must be before 1973
The U.S. has basically given up on creating an attractive landscape since then. It doesn't need to cost more to have a non-tacky buildings around us, but it seems people and institutions just can't help themselves. So much of what we feel is our personal identity is just alien culture living in our head... even though it has created an ugly world doesn't mean we have to live in an ugly inner one.
I love his analogy of a spoiled child with too much in their nursery Spoiled They discover that all these piles if objects are not giving them peace or a feeling of love
Thank you so much for another - wake up - from religion and other doctrine systems - call.
Thanks alot ❤️❤️
Knowing this in my soul I have never plugged into any system since I graduated from college. I’ve “paid” dearly for this in the predictable isolation - being sane is considered crazy - but I’m enjoying my middle age, even feeling intense joy most days and am really grateful I stayed true to life rather than embrace what the world insists we must become. I don’t recommend my way - I think it’s braver and better to engage with the world but if you are a lifetime outsider like me, I promise there is a pay off.
It's more today than ever. Few folk enjoy living. They simply carry on because commuting suicide is either wrong, or scary. Or both. Or hope things will change. I meditate for 2 hours daily. It my main form of joy, fun I have. OK. Bit sad. But at 54, with chronic fatigue syndrome. I'm limited. Fun things like holidays abroad, escorts and good food should be free, sometimes. So many are unhappy. Lonely. Isolated.
What is your oxygen level ?
Try mild hyperbaric Oxygen therapy
Thanks
My thoughts Exactly 💥turn off The Black Box 🖤⬛️◼️🔇🔕🔲🤍⬆️⬇️⤴️⤵️↪️⤴️🔁🔄♻️🚮♻️⁉️
The Creation of a MIND-LESS CROWD‼️⚠️ Free-Will- AMEN- -C🔱⚡️💎✝️🤍💙🌬🦃🕊🐝🦋🐞🐣🪺🐇🌟✨✨
Indeed
When Alan returned with teachings of Buddha...
Complicated?
GOD created This Gorgeous Playground 🛝 Jack…. Shouldn’t EVER B a dull Boy🌟✝️🤍💙🕊🐝🐣🪺🐇⚡️✨✨✨✨✨✨
I did not know Alan Watts had a son
Why would you? Doesn't matter anyway. TMZ cultural destruction
Higgilty-pigilty.
Modern Buddha
He was right about religion,, or better said false Christianity. Since the time of the first Patriarchs, God instructed them to build altas in modesty, to build altas with plan rocks not carved in ornaments, Just plan rocks. The Tabernacle and later the temple in Jerusalem, were not open to nobody only to the highly priest but once in every years, the inner corridos for the presta and the sacrifices, an it was blinded by a wall from the componerse in the outer corridos. When the temple of Jerusalem was destroyed as a need for Christianity to grow strong, there was no need for temples of any kind, congregations yes, but now the temple of God is supposed to be every true bealiver his body and mind complete dedicated to serve God . Jesus referente to himself as the New temple to replace the one made of Stones son to be destroyed ( Mathew chárter 24:14 he said about himself he will destroy this temple and bring it back in the third day and for those words he was judge an killed!
Bruh this dude is God come back to earth, and you are too
It is interesting that he talks about people believing we have bodies instead of being bodies. As if we should be saying we are bodies. He talks about being disassociated with them as a bad thing. Yet in some of his other lectures he says we are God experiencing existence using bodies; and that we aren't bodies, we are everything. This is a discrepancy in his teachings.
There you’ve discovered the paradox of life. Don’t stop there. It’s not just his teaching. You are and you’re not. The concepts and the thing in itself are simultaneous yet not the same. If you’re it, all of it, then you are your body and so much more. Not the thought of it, but actually it. Whatever it is. It is no thing. Still it is.
Simultaneous is a good word to describe what we’re experiencing as Source.
The churches resemble an everlasting church service 🤣🤣🍺🤣🤣😱😪😪😪. Allan is hurting for us!
Ok🧚🏻♂️All at once🤗I see it for good🕊️But is IT good?☯️What if it was you? If you loved all then? Was Hitlers doctors right? Why didn't we give Hitlers doctors victims a war memorial for what they discovered for all the new medical ways they found? I KNOW🧐
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My success was awesome I found the pattern of life I was excited until I researched what I had and couldn't find anything then I found out why because I didn't stop researching then I discovered the more I researched the more wrong I found then I found that it revealed a very deeply disturbing situation that nobody has known for thousands of years the history itself the church all the books everything was linked together and intentionally hidden. To the point I fear now even trying to write a paper because what it uncovered i don't know if the right thing to do is to let I be or turn it in and become the anti Christ and hated forever then after they rip me apart they will use it to make careers out of my work as I will be set aside I know that's how it will go I'll be the bad guy as they profit and I struggle to survive Nobel prizes for incomplete incorrect work but doing it will be the death of me. Cool huh
You are right the truth of the universe is actively suppressed by a gatekeeper religion on this planet.
Read James Joyce. His identity was Irish even though he did not or they did not allow him to live there. I feel JJ understood the human struggles but the humans did not understand him. Something has gone on over time that has caused so much segmentation of the human race that others, as you indicate tear our insight apart and this continues well past Allan Watts, Jesus, Budha you Jiddu Krishnamurti etcetera. The truth is beyond what most of us hold on as the truth.
@@winniethuo9736 I created a face book to help describe through art
,@@jasonrench2623 Thats an idea. We can check-in if you post the 🔑. Thanks
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JESUS = SON OF THE FATHER MAN= is the image of the Father Woman = out of the man she came to be