The Tao of Philosophy (Part 8)
Alan Watts explains how language helps to construct reality, and what to do about it. He then follows up with the challenges of expressing the ineffable.
The Veil of Thoughts (Parts 1-4)
Alan describes the ways in which we have concealed truth behind a veil of thoughts. He talks about how and why we mistake symbols for reality, argues that civilization may be a misguided experiment, offers observations about the way in which abstractions have become more powerful than the realities they are referencing, and explains how we can become “unbamboozled” from these ways of thinking.
Intelligent Mindlessness
Alan discusses ways in which Western civilization confuses symbols with reality and introduces meditation and its associated gadgets as tools to get in touch with reality. Then he encourages his audience to cast off their reliance on symbols by guiding them through various mantra in a half-hour demonstration of this intelligent mindlessness.
Thusness
https://alanwatts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/thusness.mp3 Part 1 00:00 Now, the title of the seminar is a very strange word, translatable into English as “thusness” or “suchness;” in Sanskrit: tathātā. And this is based on the Sanskrit word tat, which is...The Tao of Philosophy (Part 7)
https://alanwatts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/tao-of-philosophy-7.mp3 00:00 Tonight, at any rate, we’ve got to go through some theoretical materials, so we’re on a head trip. I don’t know where the trip will end up; it depends on you. But in order to lay the...The Tao of Philosophy (Part 6)
Highlights from the “The Love of Wisdom” radio series by Alan Watts