c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…if you make an awful lot of it by being a successful guru you give the REST Away or do something creative and imaginative. Allen Ginsberg has a foundation. He makes a great deal of money by being a crazy poet and he gives all that he doesn't need to…
…fun, because this whole scene is so beautiful, well it's the difference between some stuffy old Buddhist Priest humming a sutra and Allen Ginsberg you know they go on for interminably. They're sick of it, but they get paid for it. This is magical. But…
…Ginsberg you know they go on for interminably. They're sick of it, but they get paid for it. This is magical. But when Allen Ginsberg chants the sutra, everybody gets in a circle and he gets these little bells and they get going. It's just like a jam…
…conversation, if I may say so. So there is, you see always the response to psychological attack an invasion of privacy, as Allen Ginsberg does it: if anybody presses on him too hard, he'll strip. Naked and if anybody challenges him to fight he said: all…
…what you're doing than if you were, for example doing it for kicks. Now there's a curious thing here. I have noticed with Allen Ginsberg that when he chants Hindu Sutras, he doesn't do it in a pious way, right there's a joyousness and there's a feeling…