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.
…they're used. Sanskrit is quite precise, but citta is the basic term and reality itself is called in vedanta philosophy, sat citta Ananda sat means real. This word the root Sa in sanskrit is what is manifest and is really there. It comes from breathing…
…from breathing out you make the sound Sa, and so it's really there. Citta is it is conscious, has the quality of consciousness. Ananda means bliss, because reality, if not blissful, would not be. The game has to be worth the candle or it would stop. If…
…as distinct from a right hand point of view. It is at the point where pain turns into ecstasy. There is another point where bliss, Ananda, turns into ecstasy and they meet like that. So a girl in France who is being made love to and is in a state of…
…can you benefit your life? In the sutras the answers are written also: one answer is no, the other answer is yes. One day Ananda was standing beside the buddha fanning him. The buddha asked: Ananda, is it going to rain today or not? Do you think that…
…written also: one answer is no, the other answer is yes. One day Ananda was standing beside the buddha fanning him. The buddha asked: Ananda, is it going to rain today or not? Do you think that the monks can beg food today in the town or not. Ananda…
…asked: Ananda, is it going to rain today or not? Do you think that the monks can beg food today in the town or not. Ananda did not answer the buddha. Instead, he left the place where the buddha was and went among the monks. He told them what the…
…I sacrifice my own desire, my family, and put on the buddha's robe and speak about Buddhism? What is the benefit? When Ananda asked the monks, what is the benefit in asking such questions, the monks answered: asking about the condition of the weather,…
…it roughly corresponds really. I've tried to find the nearest sanskrit word to glory and it's not easy but I think it's Ananda, which is usually translated: bliss, and the brahman, the ultimate reality, is defined in Hinduism as sat chit Ananda, which is…
…it's Ananda, which is usually translated: bliss, and the brahman, the ultimate reality, is defined in Hinduism as sat chit Ananda, which is sat reality, chit, consciousness, Ananda, Bliss, a combination of all three. It is the feeling that ultimately the…
…bliss, and the brahman, the ultimate reality, is defined in Hinduism as sat chit Ananda, which is sat reality, chit, consciousness, Ananda, Bliss, a combination of all three. It is the feeling that ultimately the world game the hide and seek, the shiva's…
…the way they're. Sanskrit is quite precise. But chit is the basic term and reality itself is called in vedanta philosophy sat chit Ananda. Sat means real, uh, this this word the root Sa in sanskrit is what is manifest and is really there. It comes from…
…from breathing out you make the sound Sa, and so it's really there and chit is it is conscious as the quality of consciousness. Ananda means bliss, because reality if not blissful would not be. The game has to be worth the candle or it would stop. If…
…purana, maitreya, maitreya niputra, the venerable subuti, the venerable rahula, and with them yet other disciples, as the venerable Ananda, still under training, and two thousand other monks, some of whom still under training, the others masters with six…
…go to something else which stands, as it were, transcending these two opposites, above and beyond them which in sanskrit is called Ananda. That word is usually translated bliss, but in a rather unusual sense. There is a poem, again from the tradition of…
…has a very special meaning. It isn't bliss in contrast to agony, and I think probably the best way of translating the word Ananda is to use the English word ecstasy. Now, then our problem is simply this: how is it that through a profound going into…
…profound delight at the state, the inner feeling of her union with the divine. And this is exactly what is meant by Ananda: Ecstasy for pleasure and pain in their most intense forms both producing that we could call ecstasy. A very striking illustration…
…pain? What do the Hindus Mean when they say that brahman, the absolute reality, is satchitananda, sat reality, chit, consciousness, Ananda, Bliss what is Ananda? What is metaphysical bliss? Joy beyond pleasure, pain, good evil. Has such a conception even any…
…Hindus Mean when they say that brahman, the absolute reality, is satchitananda, sat reality, chit, consciousness, Ananda, Bliss what is Ananda? What is metaphysical bliss? Joy beyond pleasure, pain, good evil. Has such a conception even any meaning? Well, in…
…really isn't anything that you can do to transform your consciousness into, shall we say the state of pleasure or Ananda, Bliss, ecstasy, especially the very high ecstasy of everyday consciousness. There's nothing, and I worked on this especially through an…
…with the white beard that sits on the throne and that has royal prerogatives. God in Indian Mythology is the self, sat, chit, Ananda, which means sat. That which is chit, that which is consciousness, that which is Ananda is bliss and in other words re…
…in Indian Mythology is the self, sat, chit, Ananda, which means sat. That which is chit, that which is consciousness, that which is Ananda is bliss and in other words re the what exists. Reality itself is gorgeous. It is the plenum, the fullness of total…
…up. And until they do that, Christianity will remain pretty dead. It's interesting that the buddha had a disciple by the name of Ananda who loved the master very much and was sort of his very close personal friend, and he was the last of all buddha's…