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Essential Lectures of Alan Watts volume 4
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To many of us the image of God as a gray-bearded omnipotent and omnipresent supreme being has become implausible, yet the common sense notions of divine authority surrounding that image persist.
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Essential Lectures of Alan Watts volume 3
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As Alan Watts explains, "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts and loses touch with reality." He covers basic mediation techniques, including listening without naming and mantras or sonic meditations.
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Essential Lectures of Alan Watts volume 2
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Alan Watts was concerned with the way we trap ourselves in words. He considered it unfortunate that we separate the "I" from reality and think of "I" in terms of how others see us or the image that we want to project. What is the answer?
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Essential Lectures of Alan Watts volume 8
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English
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Alan Walks comments on the circle of life and our response to the surprising event of being born in the first place.
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Essential Lectures of Alan Watts volume 10
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English
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After talking about growing up near London, Alan Watts demonstrates a variety of cultural garb and points out how each influences the way we live and feel. His choices of attire include a western business suit and a kimono.
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Essential Lectures of Alan Watts volume 1
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English
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Basing his ideas on sensory perception and physical experience, Alan Watts makes a compelling argument that everything actually depends upon nothing for its very existence.
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Essential Lectures of Alan Watts volume 6
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English
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Here Alan Watts points out that our insistence that the past determines the present is nonsensical.
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Essential Lectures of Alan Watts volume 5
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English
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Alan Watts further explores the Hindu dramatic view of the universe, in which God plays all of the parts – all the while pretending not to know who he/she/it is!
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Essential Lectures of Alan Watts volume 7
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English
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Alan Watts swirls an orange on a string and shoots an arrow high into the air before explaining why the art of living is being paid to play – and to the extent that we feel compelled to work and survive, life becomes a drag.
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Essential Lectures of Alan Watts volume 12
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English
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While walking in a field above Muir Woods, Alan Watts points to humankind's attempts to straighten out a wiggly world as the root of our ecological crisis.
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Essential Lectures of Alan Watts volume 11
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English
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Alan Watts speaks about our most repressed sense. Here he introduces viewers to the intricacies of incense in front of a small Buddhist altar, while commenting on the types of incense used in Church rituals and all across Asia.
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Essential Lectures of Alan Watts volume 9
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English
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Alan Watts speaks on our fascination with reproduction through media, and on the far out notion that human beings may just be one star's way of becoming another star!
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The widespread influence of Buddhism is due in part to the skill with which a way of liberation was refined by its teachers and became accessible to people of diverse cultures. In this dynamic series of lectures, Alan Watts takes us on an exploration of Buddhism, from its roots in India to the explosion of interest in Zen and the Tibetan tradition in the West. Watts traces the Indian beginnings of Buddhism, delineates differences between Buddhism...
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Buddhism symbolizes its basic spiritual experience as a void, but Alan Watts explains this must not be taken literally. Watts explores the void as a symbol of freedom and of a world feeling which can be described poetically though not logically as the "absolute rightness" of every moment.
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