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.
…of consciousness only, and it looks deceptively like what we call in western philosophy subjective idealism, as taught, say by Berkeley or Bradley, that in other words the only reality is your mind, as this is propounded in western philosophy. Everything…
…solipsists where they argue as to which one of them is the one that's really there. So the point of view of, say Berkeley or Bradley in the western tradition of subjective certain independent existence but as a mind, and that all particular minds are as…
…the part that very well is great, and those forms of philosophy which generally go under the name of idealism and would say Berkeley, to a paleo gratuitous. And to some extent the Buddhists tended to be saying that space is the basic reality, but they…
…metaphysics which went in exactly the opposite direction. They are generally go under the name of idealist, I mean we'd say Berkeley to Hegel, Bradley, and to some extent the Buddhists tend to be saying that space is the basic reality. But they…
…of things and tables are solid and they hit the table like Dr Johnson kicked the big stone to try and refute bishop Berkeley. But the situation of this is no different than the situation of seeing a rainbow. Note that for every observer the table is…
…the very sensitive man, who has fought for seven years to give you in Northern California, the privilege of having the only really free and unashamedly creative and adventurous radio station in the world. You know the address: kpfa, Berkeley 4, California.
…ago for funds for pacifica foundation so that they could provide me with a tape recorder to make programs when I'm away from Berkeley. The funds for the recorder have now been subscribed and so my hearty thanks to you all. Some years ago the composer…
…to be since observed by yours faithfully god, the great subjective idealists in the tradition of western philosophy are, of course Berkeley, the bishop, and Bradley, a f Bradley. And it's in some ways difficult to make out exactly what they were saying…
…is to say the world in the mind. Now the theory is incredibly plausible, as it has been stated by people like Berkeley and Bradley and the western idealists. But today it is about the most unfashionable philosophical theory in the academic world that you…
A little over six years ago, I began a series of radio programs over the mother station of kpfk that is kpfa in Berkeley, which have been running ever since under the general title way beyond the west. And I think I may as well take off for listeners…
…from the supermarket: yeah we used to go around at one or two in the morning around the safeways and fiddly wigglies in Berkeley with a shopping bag and hit the garbage cans out in the back and we'd get Chinese Cabbage, cabbage broccoli lots of broccoli…
…out because they didn't look sellable anymore. So I never bought any vegetables for the three years I was a graduate student at Berkeley and when I made meat it was usually horse meat from the PET store, because they don't have a law that permits them…
…called mankind. And today the logical positivists and behaviorists are examples of prickly people, and mystics and idealists in the Berkeley and sense are examples of gooey people. And this is an eternal debate. When you examine any substance closely you…
…mind only we come to this point of view with very different assumptions than were held by people like Hegel or Berkeley or Bradley, the great idealists of the European Metaphysical tradition and probably rather more akin to similar trends in Buddhist…
…of the way in which today this thing arises and the way in which it arose in the thought of a man like bishop Berkeley, is that the new idealism has a kind of curiously physical basis, when, one would argue, everything you know is in your mind and…
…school of consciousness only, and it looks deceptively like what we call in western philosophy subjective idealism as taught say by Berkeley or Bradley, that in other words the only reality is your mind, as this is propounded in western philosophy everything…
…where they argue as to which one of them is the one that's really there. So the point of view of say Berkeley or Bradley in the western tradition of subjective idealism is not solipsistic, but it is that everybody has a certain independent existence…
…print of the wheel of life, the Buddhist wheel of life. This painting was lent to me by Mr and Mrs Imamura of Berkeley in California he used to be the priest of the Berkeley Buddhist Church, and it shows the wheel of stages of existence through…
…This painting was lent to me by Mr and Mrs Imamura of Berkeley in California he used to be the priest of the Berkeley Buddhist Church, and it shows the wheel of stages of existence through which beings pass, clutched by the great demon of impermanence.…
…as very, very respectable scientists in psychology. They knew all about statistics and Timothy Leary, while he had been here at Berkeley, had done some very careful statistical analysis of psychological mechanisms and so on and got his doctorate and was a…
…talks from different periods in Alan Watts life. The first was done live on public radio in 1960 for kpfa in Berkeley, California. It was called the sense of nonsense. It's an academic discussion of the feeling of meaninglessness and how we make…