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 unknown. There is a book of that title written by a 14th century British Monk, anonymous, and he got it from Dionysus the Areopagite, who assumed the name of st Paul's Athenian convert. He was a Syrian Monk living in the 6th century. Both meister…
…in the 6th century. Both meister Eckhart, St Thomas Aquinas, John Scotus Origina and many other Great Medieval Theologians studied Dionysus the Areopagite. He wrote a book called the theology of mystica in which he explains that in order to come to full…
…add anything to him, he didn't have to do it he was under no compulsion. So he did it out of what Dionysus the Areopagite calls hyperpleries, or we would just anglicize it, hyperpleries, superfulness, in other words for kicks. I mean you know we don't…
…and behind the image of profound and abysmal darkness, there's something else which we can't conceive at all. Dionysus the Areopagite called it the luminous darkness. Nagarjuna called it shunyata, the void, Shankara called it brahman, that which can…