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.
…exactly the same thing as we mean by existence when we use the word being, and we in order to. For example when Dr Johnson heard of Berkeley's Philosophy that everything existed only in your mind, his response was to kick a stone, as if to demonstrate…
…damn it, sit in lecture rooms and give tables as examples 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…
…is at the moment, it is matter. Most of us go along with a sort of folkloristic vernacular approach to matter you know like Dr Johnson who felt that he could kick it and he succeeded. But if I was talking with a physicist from caltech just the other…
…you smell, it seems somehow a little bit of a rude question. There's a famous story you know about that Great British Literatus, Dr Johnson, who got onto a stagecoach one day and this was in the 18th century when people didn't bathe as much as they do…
…exactly the same thing as we mean by existence when we use the word being and we in order to for example when Dr Johnson heard of philosophy that everything existed only in your mind his response was to kick a stone, as if to demonstrate that's the…
…know they always bang the table and say now does this table have reality or not, see and they bang the table. When Dr Johnson heard about bishop Berkeley's Theory that everything is in fact mental, he disproved it by kicking a stone and said: surely to…
…find their way by it but we, when we say it's like the person who was alleged to have got into a coach with Dr Johnson, a very fastidious lady being in the 18th century when people weren't very fastidious about washing she looked at him and said: sir…
…recognize consciously because we are not attending to it and the word smell means bad smell it smells. You know the story about Dr Johnson, who never bathed you know, and he was traveling in a coach and a very dignified lady got in and sat down and…