Thursday, October 10, 2013

5 Speeches By Alan Watts That Will Leave You Speechless

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  1. Alan Watts is a serious inspiration,
    here's my animation of his' account of Nirvana as recorded in his Lectures on Buddhism:
    The Middle Way - Watts' Nirvana
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xTlIxa7oAI

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  2. Any way you could extend this offering to those of us who are deaf? On behalf of folks like me, thank you.
    I'll check back n see.

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    1. You know, the only way I could see this happening is through Youtube offering a transcript, in which it does for some videos but not all. It is also not very reliable unfortunately.. If I had the transcripts I would.

      I have a quote from the last video though!

      “It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting. But so we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually--if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning-- you're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you, I see not just what you define yourself as--Mr so-and- so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs so-and-so--I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I'm that, too. But we've learned to define ourselves as separate from it. ”


      ― Alan W. Watts

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  3. Thanks for great information you write it very clean. I am very lucky to get this tips from you.
    Alan Watts Lectures

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