Alan Watts on Symbolic Reality vs. Real Reality – Being in the Way Ep. 30 (Black Screen, No Music)
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Published 2024-05-02
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"Symbolic Reality vs. Real Reality" is part of Flow, a three-part session in the TAO for NOW series of talks that you can listen to in full over at the Alan Watts Streaming Channel: play.alanwatts.org/
This time on Being in the Way, Alan Watts discusses:
Being aware of all sensory inputs while meditating
Allowing oneself ‘to be’ in a non-conceptual way
Confusing the world of symbols for reality
The limits to what we can enjoy in a material sense
The uselessness of guilt
Money, tithes, and western religion versus gurus
Why our motivation and intention matters
Experiencing life naked and directly
The Taoist approach to letting go of your body-mind
Using all five of our senses to witness our surroundings
This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.
“The point is to be wide, wide awake and aware of your total sensory input without confusing it with the symbolic world of words and concepts so that you experience life naked and directly. Experience YOU naked and directly, without having in your head the concept of who you are a role player, as a personality, as an ego.” – Alan Watts
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All Comments (12)
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Amazing awakening teaching. Superb 😊👍🏿
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Listening to Alan Watts has helped SAVE MY LIFE 💯🫂☯️🦋
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this is exactly what I needed. Thank you!
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Reality/Life = That which is/That I am
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The smell of the color purple is quite and sharp
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Here & Now
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Thank you for upholding your father's legacy 🙏
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☁ Puff Puff Pass ☁ Namaste
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Dear Mark, i am all for freedom and modern tech too, but that latest AI lectures that appeared and pretending to be works of your father, Alan Watts, is too much! Even for me. It should be forbidden to generate AI text and voice without (at least) explicitly write in the title that it's AI. Here's one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0do_VYg8-o
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Grateful to be alive I knew I fell asleep 😴 😮😅😂