Alan Watts' Being in the Way Podcast Ep.3: In Your Own Way
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2021
- Alan Watts illuminates the connections between Taoism and relativity, technology and human evolution, culture and seperation, Saints and rascals, you and not-you, as well as difference and unity.
Furthering outlining his father’s storied life and works, Mark shares perspective on Alan’s early literary successes, radio work, and ensuing lecture tours. Highlighting how Alan’s lively and expressive style of sharing dharma on the public stage quickly captivated audiences hungry for insight into the mystery, Mark introduces part-one of the talk that is the namesake of this podcast: Being in the Way.
“The principle of relativity is absolutely fundamental to an understanding of Taoist philosophy. That is to say, that wherever you are, whoever you are, and whatever you are: you’re in the middle.” - Alan Watts
Show Notes:
Taoism & Relativity, Technology & Human Evolution
Exploring the innate tension which constitutes our feeling of ‘I-ness,’ ‘there-ness,’ of being here as a self-conscious human, Alan uncovers the fundamental connection between Taoism and relativity. Offering perspective on human evolution and technology, Alan illustrates how unique, outwardly distinct parts can fit together into a working, whole system.
“We realize we wouldn’t be healthy as a total organism unless there were all these wars, plots, and politics going on between the various cells in our blood. But from their point of view, they feel a little bit put out. We’re in the same situation, because very slowly the human beings on the surface of the planet are realizing themselves into a total planetary organism with an electronic nervous system.” - Alan Watts
Seperation & Culture, Saints & Rascals (15:25)
Taking a look at the human body and it’s dynamics, Alan describes how most of us are fighting the external world all the time, constantly trying to hold ourselves together. From this perspective of the learned illusion of seperation, Alan depicts how our culture and class insulates us from the realities of life, and therefore our innate oneness. Alan then elucidates the overlapping connection between Saints and rascals.
“We have been brought up to feel separate. We have been brought up to feel actually disjoined from the external world; although, that is pure mythology and doesn’t exist at all. You’re as much part of the external world as a whirlpool is part of a stream.” - Alan WattsYou & Not-You,
Difference & Unity (28:10)
Are you breathing or is it breathing you? Speaking to the notion that every living being is a manifestation of everything that there is, Alan peels back the veil of separation, lifting the pertinent illusion that what you define as ‘you’ and ‘not-you’ are separate things. Illuminating the innate relativity between ego and oneness-between yin & yang-Alan relays how difference and differentiation is actually the way in which unity is discovered.
“The feeling of ‘not-you’ and the feeling of ‘you’ are relative. They go together, and you can’t have the one without the other. And if you can’t have one without the other, that means there’s a secret conspiracy between the two - they are really the same, but pretending to be different. Because the whole idea is, if there wasn’t a difference, you wouldn’t know anything was happening.” - Alan Watts
This podcast was made in partnership with the Alan Watts Organization. Discover the official Alan Watts archive at alanwatts.org
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Man, your father isn’t just a philosopher for me, he’s a therapist! You have no idea of the impact he had on my life & the tough times he helped me pass. I love him just as much as I love my own father! Please keep posting his lectures. That’s his gift to this world!! Happy awakening Y’all (-:
Yup
"You're Clueless" is kind of demeaning to say to anyone. Please try "You have no idea", instead.
@@bengarciamusic4life There is no problem. His context doesn't fit the slang imo.
SPOT ON for me too what human being
Iv
Thank You Mark for carrying your fathers work to the next generations. A brilliant soul he was.
As are ye; Marks and all 🙏💗🎯🎶✨❣️
You're doing a great job for humanity, he was a great man. Thank you Mark ❤
Here, here, thank you Mark. I was in college in the late 60s and was involved in the peace marches, folk festivals, coffee houses, but somehow never heard of your father until I stumbled upon one of his lectures on RUclips about 4 months ago and was instantly hooked. I've since listened to every lecture I could find of his on RUclips and listened to compilations on Audible. There was something unique about your father's lectures that drew you in and made one want to listen to the same lectures over and over. I may have listened to several of his lectures at least 20 times each and never tired of them. I think his entertaining style and wit, and his glorious laugh and verbal gymnastics, were a big reason for this. Thank God the audios of these lectures were preserved. Even in their rough form they are spellbinding.
It is so wonderful that you are again bringing these lectures to us and it is so interesting to hear of his early childhood and education, and his pursuit of spirituality around the world. You are a great credit to your father. He would be very proud of you.
Thank you!
Abosolutely! Thank you for keeping his work out there and available. He was a great influence in me in my young life and like the mentors whom I knew personally he helped mold the life I would make. Though I must say he should not be held responsible for my failings any more than anyone, but myself should be. I have had great ups and downs in my life, all, in hindsight, because of my own freely made decision. Sadly, not every decision I made was best for me or others in every case in the long run, but at the time felt right with no intention of hurting anyone. I was simply short sighted in the consequences of my actions, or perhaps I thought I understood better the world then than I do now. Lol. If only I still new everything like I did when I was 17. Now at 60 I only know how little I know now, and thus how very little I knew when “I knew it all and better than everyone else”. Oh, what fools we can make of ourselves. And what entertainment we must be to our greater self, the Brahman, that which IS, the great I AM.
I am not afraid of the coming of the time to return home and be in on seeing myself through the many eyes that remain and are to come as parts of that great light split off for a chance to experience love and loss, joy and sorrow, life and death as a return to the great self.
It is through listening to these recordings that I’m able to recall what I did know, and how I got here, and why there is no reason to fear the dissolution of this body and a return to that which, in some ways, I never left.
Thank you for keeping your father’s thoughts pouring forth. May you and yours, and those at the Be Here Now network (a worthy legacy from another great man, Ram Dass) have a bountiful and successful and joyful new year in 2022.
With Metta, JTI
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Mark, your father always makes me feel comfortable in the everything
Thank you, Mark Watts, for recording and sharing your father's talks. It is amazing that nearly 50 years after your father's passing, his comments are still compelling and relevant - truly timeless. His ideas, I feel, are needed now more than when he was alive. These recordings are a real gift - thanks again, Mark Watts. All the best.
Except they aren't ideas....
@@blaZinthemBudz What are they if not ideas?
@@bobdillaber1195 Truth
I can't believe I found the son of Alan Watts on RUclips. How great is that?!
I’m so greatful your father is still with us !❤❤❤
He never died if he is still teaching me and alot of other people around the world,, I sometimes cry from profoundness listening to Mr. Alan Watts. ❤
Just found him!
He was so far ahead of his time....
Listening to this everyday lately. Only cause I need constant reminding that I'm FINE lol.
Yes…..
Listening to him has accelerated my understanding immensely , so grateful to be able to hear him ❤
I listen at work for hours and over and over.
It’s shining my soul 🙏🏻
Me too
The seeds your father planted are still growing and producing seed. Thank you so much for sharing.
This man Alan Watts. How smoothly he slips enlightenment into your mind. You’re a lucky son.
I dream and try to manifest in my life a man like your father❤ such extraordinary simple yet profound wisdom!!
wow this man knew the future i love alan watts , Mark your a blessed person to have a genus as a father, GOD bless us all, jeff in Lexington ky
The profundity of Alan Watts's philosophic way shows an excellent analytical mind. He analyzes and expounds on spiritual matters in a practical and rational way. He is a spiritual rationalist.
Your father is one of my favorite teachers he is an amazing philosopher!!
I love playing these over and over again. Thank you mark for doing what you do. Thank you Alan Watts and all that's dear to you 🙏. Blessings to you and all that's dear to you 🙏😘, live forever ❤
A tremendous blend of many different extremely important ideas. A treasure of philosophical knowledge, advanced information and ancient wisdom combined with above average eloquent intelligence entertainment. Alan Watts is, was and also always will be a wonderful blessing for all humanity and more I’m sure. Namaste peace love and joy
Thank u mark, im so blessed to hear ur fathers lectures
It’s amazing listening to your father almost 50 years after his transformation to the next and hearing him talk about life death love hate Ying and yang and that these days more than ever the human beings need the awakening to awareness.
I’m not sure if I am making any since to anyone but I tried.
Mark you are doing the human race a great service by continuing your fathers concepts thoughts feelings he knows the way was found for him to continue without his body.
I discovered this while on a psychedelic mushroom trip a few weeks ago and I am hooked. Everything he says makes so much sense to me and a lot was already known deep in my subconscious I think. I'm 43 and I think the younger generations need to be listening to this stuff with all the social media baggage they carry around in today's world 🌎
23 and been listening for the past few years! Alan Watts is the light that guides me through this darkness.
Thanks God for like minded souls
I think A LOT more people need to hear this man. More today than ever
Alan Watts has introduced mediation and thinking differently for me. Thank you.
Alan watts was a prophet!!
I appreciate that you provide this material...
Haha I love the opening !!! ♥️⚖️♥️🕯️♥️🙏🦋
Thanks for the positive feedback, more good stuff to come this year - much love!
This channel is a gold mine and a life saver. Keep doing what you’re doing! I appreciate you guys : )
Genius thinker and beautiful teacher, yes he is doing that without the body, we are grateful
Exactly
MAAAAN YOUR FATHER IS A LEGEND he probably was a cool one
Thank you Universe for giving us Alan! ❤️ and thank you Mark for keeping him alive for all of us
Amen
Amen
I wish I had been introduced far earlier in life to this way of thinking and approach to life as expounded by Alan W. Watts.
Thank you Mark for sharing your Father's amazing work we can never get enough of him.again thank you.☺️
Still resonating still penetrating clarity into wrestling minds
If west start to embrace eastern traditions,we will get to see loads of enlightened soul like alan watts.Much respect to your Father.
Thank you for sharing Mark ,
Leaning more about you and your farther is a real privilege 🙏
Mr. Mark I love your father and I love you too as I do love myself. Thank you so much for giving us all this 🙏🏾. ( sorry for my broken English since my mother language is Arabic )
Thank you for continuing to share your messages we love him❤
This is Alan watts at his very best!!
I beat a heroin habit (of years n years) because of going to a long term treatment in Queens for 8 months and Alan Watts and Ram Dass I believe helped my brain heal in such a profound neural connective way. Much love Mark. Thank you for all you do. I love all you and I thought I was evil. I did bad things in my old life. Im a really kind soul and those 2 humbled my impulsive destructive ways. I have maybe 3 friends that havent died from opiates. 3 passed in the past month. Over 30 are gone. Nothing eases that pain. But I accept it. Life is just so precious and if any of you ever need a shoulder or a person to talk to bc your down and out you please reach out. We are all so connected (when we dont fall for Oz.) Sorry. Passionate rant lol
Nice to meet you Mark Watts
Thank you for this moment, young Watt.
Hello 3rd watt i am 4th
Jeesh.....this man was so ahead of his time....🙏
Thanks for the good work 🙏.
Listening to your father has changed my life
Forever love to you and your father. He truly has found a way to do it without his body, and I'm so grateful for the work you two have done. Thank you.
Such a broad picture of LIFE. Thank you, it is much needed to be integrated in every culture. Beautiful, we are awakening to that..🌠
My only regret is that I didn't find Alan Watts long ago....thank you
Following the success of the Way of Zen, which I devoured as an undergraduate back in the late 60's, I became upset with Watts for appearing to have succumbed to commercialism - hair grown long, robes, lots of books coming out. Observing that happening was as disappointing as it was to watch Dylan go electric! Fifty years later, I'm loving all of the lectures of his that I can find and I am grateful that I've been given this additional opportunity to benefit from what he had to share. Watts had learned the joyful lesson of how to not take himself too seriously and how to have fun with living. I hadn't learned that yet. All of the props I watched materialize around him were but joyful ornaments of Watts' self-awareness doing its happy dance. He had learned from the Gurus that he studied how to be a joyful rascal! Bless him! And I do so very much appreciate getting to bask once again in his rare and inimitable lucidity! This is the good stuff! Thank you, Mark, and to all responsible. Neil Hundtoft
A joyful rascal is how I have always felt and wanted to be but never have the description as such. Thank you for giving me this, friend.
@@rotomwash0355 Cool! Peace and joy.
Musicians never get bored as WE know that being in the moment with music, achieving absolute frequency, no one could ever get bored. It's like achieving Transfiguration!💎
I am a music teacher, former performer, and I can tell you that during the time I am immersed in teaching a student, I am in an alternate reality....it is never boring...
Absolute frequency!!! Reeeeee
Bless you, blessings to you and all that's dear 😘 to you and your family friends and followers too God bless you all 🙏
That is my favourite Alan Watts chapter 👍
Love, intelligence and consciousness are the components of Alan Watts lectures and shining personality.
He is unique and his teachings are eternal. Thank you for all the knowledge and inspiring talks.
All the best.
A great insight and just listening to his philosophy is rewarding
Your father has help me so much. Im very grateful to him 🙏
I love Alan Watts too much
peace to all beings
Here’s a head trip, non sentient stuff is made of exactly the same stuff we are made of therefore rocks, mountains, sand, flowers, trees etc ad infinitum is also sentient.
Spend enough time with a rock and it WILL talk to you. ❣️⚛️
I love everything your father
talks about
I didn't know who he was
I said who is this man talking about the nature of life
Brilliant and beautiful things
I am very grateful to hear and learn from
Thank you for sharing your
father and his wisdom
✨✨✨
Thank you Mark!
Great stuff. Been listening to your pop for years, still am.
Heard some great stories about him and Ram Dass, Leary and others hanging together tripping and chatting.
Thank you, very interesting talk! Happy to see Alan's Son is continuing to promote his work!
God bless your father Saul, he become my teacher and one of my favorite celebrities as we say in this day.
All respect for you and the all family, and I hope one day you can visit me in Paris. ❤️
What a wonderful contribution thank you so much for sharing these recordings
Damn, he was good. So connected and funny. So grateful for these videos. Thanks for sharing them 🥰
I wish they would more of the visual recordings of Alan’s talks. His drawings and physicality is essential to some of his talks.
Thank you very much for sharing. Alan Watts an extraordinary being
Wow, thank you!
I am joyful to hear a descendant of Alan Watts. Truly grateful to your father and you ❤️
My goodness Mark Watts
Do you know I started listening to Alan Watts in approximately 1972 off of Qui PFK Pacifica radio he came on at midnight on Sunday or Saturday I don’t know it doesn’t matter
Them later during my life I had a cassette recorder and I would record his everything
And then when my son turned about 20 I told him and his friends they were all going to the University I mentioned Alan Watts to them
And one of them heard some hip-hop piece where they sampled Alan Watts speech
Then my son downloaded all of Alan Watts lectures on a thumb drive for me oh my God
Yes so my son was 20 so when I started listening to Alan Watts I was approximately 20 so it’s gone full circle but of course I wanna watch and his your father Mark yes talks and insights and making a Sol think about things well is forever precious
thank you for posting this
for people like me lost until found.
Mark Watts, its a real blessing to be able to listen to a descendant of a wise and great man.....Alan Watts
I’m so thankful for Alan Watts perspective’s Thank You for putting this up, and Plz continue…PeAcE
So ahead of his time, timeless
He is such an interesting thinker. I'd like to see a TV show about him time traveling into the future.
The fact that he nailed a prophecy of the internet, when not many had envisioned anything remotely as vividly accurate.
Perhaps the best Alan Watts lecture. Thank you so much.......Sal : )
what a Human Being!
This is my favorite episode from this network of Alan Watts series. I share it with as many people as possible. This has done so much good for me and the people in my life.
I am always amazed how ahead of his time your Father was. I can only imagine how lost people where when Alan was discussing the prediction of people connecting to others via technology and organizing into a larger body like cells. As a Molecular Biologist, I am mind blown 🤯
Incredible- Thank you 🙏
Thank you, bless you
Alan, always on board with your thinking man
He predicted the future or and our now so precise and accurate in the first 10 minutes of this video. His awareness and ability to be connected to his true god self is incredible.
Thank you for the work you put in to bring us to a better understanding of things. Always raises my mood
Keep posting Alan had help me so much eternally grateful
OH MY GOD....i listened alan for years.he is always my companion but i never knew about his life.i didn't try to know.alan was helping me in every way alwyas with me.whenever i felt disconnected he showed me the cosmos and the devine play.its reallt timeless i felt i met him.today realising you are his son.my eyes are filled with tears..thank you mark you are doing really great work.your father is a genius.
Alan, thank you for having been THE A V A T A R of the NEW AGE conciousness, joining east and West, South and north of our planets men and women
Loved it. Thank you 💕
These presentations I have have only recently discovered and I njoy them very much.. Some of the most profound knowledge and very helpful for helping my understanding of being..
I've been listening to your father for a couple of years now, and I honestly had no idea he passed in 1972. So many times I've felt like he was speaking to me in present time. Even as I write this while failing miserably to hold back tears (the video is still playing in the background) and he made the comment of "eyes getting in the way". Then he goes into the subject of emotions which is applicable because presently I'm experiencing a very emotional state. Even now he's still speaking about things significant to me. I'm beginning to question my own sanity because of the consistency of this ongoing continuance of him addressing various concerns that are presently active in my consciousness. The odds of this experience of repetitive pattern are absolutely astronomical, and absolutely impossible to be coincidental. Which compels me to wonder if this is just some kind of psychosis or schizophrenia right before he says, "You may think I'm speaking to some schizoid universe..." in which he teaches that we are (the I AM) the Universe so it applies to self as being God. Which the response in connection to that had a sort of a comedic effect that cheered me up a little. It's rather unbelievable, and without a doubt some kind of synchronization. As if he's synced to my thoughts. I had to stop the video in order to finishing writing this without it happening again. I'm sure you're already aware of this, but your father is very alive today, here in the now, still teaching and helping thousands of people awaken all across the world listening even this very second. He's conquered death many times over because even now so many years later he's still actively being a Guru for literally thousands of people and counting. He's seemingly more active in the world than ever before. I can only imagine how grateful and incredibly amazing you must feel to be able to say that you're the son of the legendary Alan Watts. A true Immortal.
As one is.
What an amazing experience. It truly does make you feel connected. Whenever I reach for Alan Watts he always says exactly what I need to hear. Simply you being the Universe. Almost like having a dialogue with the universe
You are not alone I to think and feel the same sometimes I'm in awe that it might be true I just know it is
just know there are no coincidences in the Universe, only "a happening", and so , we say, in the Native American way, that we are all Related, connected, through our ancestors, and that brings us all to the center of here and now.....Amazing how many similarities, between the ancient hunting cultures there are.......the ancient Chinese, and the ancient American , shared many things in common....the Great Mystery, the Great Void, the Tao, is all the same......Seeing ourselves, as simply, being a part of the Universe, connected, is not any different than the understanding of Life the master of Tai Chi sees.....in the Oneness of All Being......the same.......So do not feel alone, do not feel like you are going crazy just because you are starting to wake up to the reality of the Connection you have to the Universe...... It is all you... You are all It.....Relax, enjoy the ride, the spectacle, the Rainbow......You ARE the Rainbow, in a real sense, because as science teaches us, the rainbow would not even exist, if we were not here to see it, it is "in our mind", yet, it is there, out in front of us for all to see, (as long as they are standing near to us to see it too)...
@@timmccarthy3034 this sounds really nice first thing read today. When it comes down to "they" being close enough to see it though the whole sentiment seems to fall to pieces some how. Idk.
What an amazing, intelligent being.
Thank U so much! He makes a huge positive difference in my life.
Thank you, Mark. Appreciate your dedication because its my benifit.
Thanks for uploading this.
Thank you! If I haven't heard these speeches my life would still be miserable and sad. I look forward to more.
Thanks for sharing ur dad's work
I’ve been listening to your father since high school. His ideas and choice of words can rock your perception of reality, and what you believe it is. Good to see tradition is carried on.
Wonderful to discover you, Mark. Your dad was always a very enigmatic figure for me over the years. It's nice to have you here as a kind of touch stone to bring his voice and character a bit more down to Earth for me.
I hope that life is treating you and yours to the joys and marvels worthy of Alan's loved ones. He helped shape so many others for the better, after all ♥️
I love you Mark.❤
Wonderful
Absolutely Tremendous
Great Video
😊🏴☠️
Thank you! So much comfort and kindness - thank you to everyone involved to make this happen here now💙
I love it how when u hear a talking i can instantly go check the year it was spoken...an i know it was 60 to 90 years ago...u can taste an feel tje genuine voice an audio...of truth of a friend giving real advice...when they say...look here at this u know this is a lie....an here we see this truth...not like today where all are trying ti sell u all...all the time hiding the truth as long as they can....peace to u and peace to all...