Alan Watts did a great service to Western audiences in explaining and elucidating Buddhist and Daoist thought in plain, lucid English and in a rational and pragmatic way.
This man is brilliant. I never in my life expected this much in a video of less than half an hour in length. Alan Watts, to my amazement, explains in one video everything I've come to personally understand about Buddhism (a term I don't even like) which to me is a philosophy. The Buddha was one of the greatest philosophers- and for this he's not credited... not, I think- understood. Like this video. I'll keep it short enough, everything is my personal opinion and understanding... but I believe Alan Watts, whereas a lot of others, many Buddhists included, may see this video as just another Westerner trying to explain Eastern Philosophy and failing to do so. No. This is wrong. He gets at the heart of Buddhist philosophy, far beyond many long practicing Buddhists, at least as I understand reading the Heart Sutra, the Tripitaka, and the other Mahayana Sutras... He doesn't mention Bodhisattvas in a video on Mahayana Buddhism until 25 minutes in. Up until then, and to my disappointment, he had explained in an absolutely brilliant way the Buddhist concept of anātman, or non-self... anitya, or impermanence... and he made reference to dukkha, commonly translated as suffering, or unease... these three things are the three marks of existence in Buddhism, called the trilakshana. Around my neck I wear a cheap Vajra pendant- and my impulse to buy this had less to do with Buddhism, I admit- and more to do with my own personal 'spirituality' and understanding of existence and phenomena at the time. I was fascinated with the sphere at the center, which is said to represent... Mr. Watts said it at the very end- it's commonly translated as "nothingness, voidness, emptiness" or as I've heard from certain speakers & readers, 'zero', that of śūnyatā... which, to my own personal understanding, is a representation of all three marks of existence in Buddhism, that is the trilakshana is represented in śūnyatā. To say I'm satisfied having discovered this video does what words often do- cause an injustice. But I'm so satisfied and very much wish I found this video a long, long time ago. Brilliant. To quote the Heart Sutra, invoking the concept of śūnyatā and the trilakshana as I understand anything... *I encourage everyone to go read the whole Heart Sutra. It's less than a five minute read. [As recited by the Triratna Buddhist Community] Here then, Form is no other than emptiness, Emptiness no other than form. Form is only emptiness, Emptiness only form.
Don't worry about worry; you are that - the experience + feedback (of experience & resistance); go with the flow, withought putting up resistance ! Don't make an issue of anything, i.e. creating new concepts or thoughts as these are all barriers (resistance). Jesus, Krishnamurti & all the Zen masters say the same thing......
I’m labeled a 42 yr old male from the U.S. Many more labels attached and some earned. I am cross-stitching “WHAT THE F***” while watching him talk. I am taking notes while in class. 😂😂 I love to be able to watch him talk so thank you!!
Well now you're 43! :) I'm 60 plus old. Watts was my first exposure to academic treatment of non-Judeo-Christian-Western world views. About 1977. I was in my last year in the Air Force. A canned talk played on New Dimensions Radio with Michael Toms. Watts jet fueled my multi world views thinking appetite. I didn't see his TV show till You Tube. :)
Hey Raving Electron, I love all of your Alan watts vids. My two favorite ones though have gone missing! Man and nature and Buddhism vs Christianity. Do you know why those lectures were removed? Thanks
We missing ur anavailable videos how can we find them? The one where he speaks about children being bored in school, attention and that hieroglyph of the way budas expression is in meditation. This attitude towards life he spoke about and the chinese sulymbol. Which one was it pls help?
you wouldnt have any idea of what it would truly take to become a Bodhisattva. I'm sure of that. and im also sure youre just another ignorant nobody. @@mark-c802
So bhuddha was talking about neurology and quantum physics ? You really cannot take western philosophy out of a western man. Alan watts is arguably the most sophisticated charlatan ever.
He says that in several ways. Says he talks and writes books because he likes to and get paid for it.😂😂Aaaand I still listen to him all the time.🤷🏼♂️😁
Like he says lol, he's an entertainer. And we find him entertaining. Which is the point of experiencing him. He entertained us thoroughly. I really enjoyed what the universe did with that energy wave we called alan watts. And I realize than I am he
Mr Watts said on many occasion that he was just an entertainer, that what he says shouldn't be taken seriously, he enjoyed speaking and people still to this day enjoy listening to him. He trys to use various kinds of modern metaphors, psychology as well as incorporating Buddhist and Hindu ideals, if this is all you've ever listened to there are a lot better talks about Buddhism and other eastern cultures. He says many times that he's not trying to convert anyone to anything, he's not selling or denying religions, just sharing his point of view and asking people to think about it. He has hundreds of lectures besides this one.
Alan Watts did a great service to Western audiences in explaining and elucidating Buddhist and Daoist thought in plain, lucid English and in a rational and pragmatic way.
thank you so much for uploading !! it’s so nice to see his face when he was young
HE WAS AND WILL REMAIN A TREMENDOUSLY GLORIOUS MAN
22:11 Thank you Mr. Watts
This man is brilliant. I never in my life expected this much in a video of less than half an hour in length. Alan Watts, to my amazement, explains in one video everything I've come to personally understand about Buddhism (a term I don't even like) which to me is a philosophy. The Buddha was one of the greatest philosophers- and for this he's not credited... not, I think- understood.
Like this video. I'll keep it short enough, everything is my personal opinion and understanding... but I believe Alan Watts, whereas a lot of others, many Buddhists included, may see this video as just another Westerner trying to explain Eastern Philosophy and failing to do so. No. This is wrong. He gets at the heart of Buddhist philosophy, far beyond many long practicing Buddhists, at least as I understand reading the Heart Sutra, the Tripitaka, and the other Mahayana Sutras...
He doesn't mention Bodhisattvas in a video on Mahayana Buddhism until 25 minutes in. Up until then, and to my disappointment, he had explained in an absolutely brilliant way the Buddhist concept of anātman, or non-self... anitya, or impermanence... and he made reference to dukkha, commonly translated as suffering, or unease... these three things are the three marks of existence in Buddhism, called the trilakshana.
Around my neck I wear a cheap Vajra pendant- and my impulse to buy this had less to do with Buddhism, I admit- and more to do with my own personal 'spirituality' and understanding of existence and phenomena at the time. I was fascinated with the sphere at the center, which is said to represent... Mr. Watts said it at the very end- it's commonly translated as "nothingness, voidness, emptiness" or as I've heard from certain speakers & readers, 'zero', that of śūnyatā... which, to my own personal understanding, is a representation of all three marks of existence in Buddhism, that is the trilakshana is represented in śūnyatā.
To say I'm satisfied having discovered this video does what words often do- cause an injustice. But I'm so satisfied and very much wish I found this video a long, long time ago. Brilliant. To quote the Heart Sutra, invoking the concept of śūnyatā and the trilakshana as I understand anything...
*I encourage everyone to go read the whole Heart Sutra. It's less than a five minute read.
[As recited by the Triratna Buddhist Community]
Here then,
Form is no other than emptiness,
Emptiness no other than form.
Form is only emptiness,
Emptiness only form.
Never delete
Don't worry about worry; you are that - the experience + feedback (of experience & resistance); go with the flow, withought putting up resistance ! Don't make an issue of anything, i.e. creating new concepts or thoughts as these are all barriers (resistance). Jesus, Krishnamurti & all the Zen masters say the same thing......
What did they say ?
@@juniorjohnson5961 be the experience, not the interpretation of the experience.
@@juniorjohnson5961 They say: stop asking, and you'll find your answer
The diagrams are also a really good way to represent Hegel and his dialectical philosophy- negation transcending the thesis, and so forth
Except Hegel reified his thesis. He didn't have the doctrine of Maya to remind him not to take himself too seriously.
I’m labeled a 42 yr old male from the U.S. Many more labels attached and some earned. I am cross-stitching “WHAT THE F***” while watching him talk. I am taking notes while in class. 😂😂
I love to be able to watch him talk so thank you!!
Well now you're 43! :) I'm 60 plus old. Watts was my first exposure to academic treatment of non-Judeo-Christian-Western world views. About 1977. I was in my last year in the Air Force. A canned talk played on New Dimensions Radio with Michael Toms. Watts jet fueled my multi world views thinking appetite. I didn't see his TV show till You Tube. :)
14:14 Think about how blockchain works and then watch this part again.
:) he predicted this, maybe there's a lot more to learn.
bro is literally god
@@pinksmind9855 sometimes old mate talks to me 👀
AW is a Legend of Note ✅✅✅
❤❤❤❤❤Genius Genius.
He is giving away the show !!!! Shhhhh let's pretend he never said anything and keep going!!!
Here you are thinking that you controll the show 😂 poor bodi shatva
@@luansmit408 i never said that
Everyone always trying to stay one up 😂
No words can give away the show.
21:50 min is what you came here for, : D
Hey Raving Electron, I love all of your Alan watts vids. My two favorite ones though have gone missing! Man and nature and Buddhism vs Christianity. Do you know why those lectures were removed? Thanks
Man & Nature -- th-cam.com/video/aW6XUkIpZdo/w-d-xo.html
We missing ur anavailable videos how can we find them? The one where he speaks about children being bored in school, attention and that hieroglyph of the way budas expression is in meditation. This attitude towards life he spoke about and the chinese sulymbol. Which one was it pls help?
@graffittistudio9903
th-cam.com/video/LDat9T6lL6Y/w-d-xo.htmlsi=FG7z3IpuDKpUA__s
Do you mean this video?
How long have you had this channel ?
I uploaded this videos and left it 4-5 years back. Checking now...
@@RavingElectron is there any way to download these lectures outside of TH-cam
Real life Obi Wan
Sir help me
India wasn’t a country until 1947. Buddha was born in Nepal technically. I assume he says India because Nepal wasn’t widely known at the time.
Nepal did not exist 560 BCE. Buddha was born in a country called Kosala, which was mostly in what is now India and partly in what is now Nepal.
@@KrisVesellame !
We need to make sure this gets more exposure; so much fake content out there generated by AI
Western therapy doesn't apply to Eastern mind.
-Beef
I'm a Bodhisattva
who is it that knows they are a bodhisatva?...🤡
you wouldnt have any idea of what it would truly take to become a Bodhisattva. I'm sure of that. and im also sure youre just another ignorant nobody. @@mark-c802
@@mark-c802 not you youre just the clown youve attempted to project unto me. get a life who ever you are, MARK. youre a loser
Sup Bodhi
Prove it.
intro sounds like nothing else matters by metallica lol
Metallica was Buddhist.
So bhuddha was talking about neurology and quantum physics ? You really cannot take western philosophy out of a western man. Alan watts is arguably the most sophisticated charlatan ever.
He says that in several ways. Says he talks and writes books because he likes to and get paid for it.😂😂Aaaand I still listen to him all the time.🤷🏼♂️😁
Like he says lol, he's an entertainer. And we find him entertaining. Which is the point of experiencing him. He entertained us thoroughly. I really enjoyed what the universe did with that energy wave we called alan watts. And I realize than I am he
Mr Watts said on many occasion that he was just an entertainer, that what he says shouldn't be taken seriously, he enjoyed speaking and people still to this day enjoy listening to him. He trys to use various kinds of modern metaphors, psychology as well as incorporating Buddhist and Hindu ideals, if this is all you've ever listened to there are a lot better talks about Buddhism and other eastern cultures. He says many times that he's not trying to convert anyone to anything, he's not selling or denying religions, just sharing his point of view and asking people to think about it. He has hundreds of lectures besides this one.
More like Buddhist philosophy and view is complementary to the laws of quantum physics and modern day neuroscience.
He’s showing that they don’t necessarily contradict, it’s great stuff, shame you don’t see the value in it but hey no worries 😉