Alan Watts – Stop Trying To Change The World Study Yourself Instead
Life is the ultimate game of hide and seek … and the good news is that you’re it! With the combination of playful irreverence and penetrating insight that made him a legend in Western philosophy, Alan Watts investigates the surprisingly liberating concept of “the universe as play” found at the heart of Hinduism, Zen, and other wisdom traditions.
Carefully selected by his son and archivist Mark Watts, You’re It!: On Hiding, Seeking, and Being Found features more than 10 hours of newly restored historic talks from the “spiritual entertainer” who helped define Eastern thought to audiences in the West.
Here is a rare chance for listeners to experience the enduring brilliance of Alan Watts – one of the greatest spiritual voices of the 20th century.
Alan Watts – Stop Trying To Change The World Video
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There is no knowledge of tomorrow
Observation implies no accumulation of knowledge, even though knowledge is obviously necessary at a certain level: knowledge as a doctor, knowledge as a scientist, knowledge of history, of all the things that have been.
After all, that is knowledge: information about the things that have been. There is no knowledge of tomorrow, only conjecture as to what might happen tomorrow, based on your knowledge of what has been.
A mind that observes with knowledge is incapable of following swiftly the stream of thought. It is only by observing without the screen of knowledge that you begin to see the whole structure of your own thinking.
And as you observe, which is not to condemn or accept, but simply to watch, you will find that thought comes to an end.
Casually to observe an occasional thought leads nowhere, but if you observe the process of thinking and do not become an observer apart from the observed,if you see the whole movement of thought without accepting or condemning it,then that very observation puts an end immediately to thought, and therefore the mind is compassionate, it is in a state of constant mutation.
Alan Watts – One of foremost pioneers of international spirituality in modern times
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