Alan Watts Being in the Way23 Okt 2024

Ep. 32 – Zen and the Art of the Controlled Accident

Focusing on cosmic balance, Alan Watts outlines the fundamentals of Taoism and how to skillfully interfere with our environment.

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This time on Being in the Way, Alan Watts shares a lecture on:

The philosophy of Taoism
Taoism as the flow of things / the course of nature
The pervasive illusion of separateness and seeing it within our language
How we only experience the world bit-by-bit
A transformation of our everyday consciousness into oneness
How we are all indestructible beyond the ego
Life as a game of yin and yang, crests and troughs
The fundamental idea of mutual arising
How everything we do interferes with our environment
Learning how to interfere skillfully

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.

“We are not ordinarily aware of how we’re aware, and as a result of that, we don’t understand our connection with the world, and we don’t understand what our real self is. We get anxious; we’re afraid that death may be the end of us. This is, of course, the purest superstition, because everybody is indestructible.” – Alan Watts

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