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.
…movement in any organized sense which seems to have originated in Germany. Some years ago in Germany there was a woman called Elsa Gindler, and she happened to have a serious case of tuberculosis. Her doctors told her that at that time, many years ago,…
…non interference with the tao, that is to say with the course of nature. But you see, in describing the way that Elsa Gindler went about this, you can see at once that non interference is a highly difficult thing requiring a great deal of intelligence.…
…kind of method. I think particularly, for example, of Charlotte Selva, who works in New York, who also was a student of Elsa Gindler. I've been looking at an article she wrote some time ago in the bulletin of the general semantics people in which she…
…speech in literature. Perhaps I might introduce this by a story which Charlotte Selva once told me about herself and her study with Elsa Gindler. One of the things that Elsa Gindler tried sometimes to get her students to do was to make a drawing of the…
…this by a story which Charlotte Selva once told me about herself and her study with Elsa Gindler. One of the things that Elsa Gindler tried sometimes to get her students to do was to make a drawing of the way in which one feels one's own body.…
…blobs and indeed one of them was simply a blank piece of paper with a small black spot on it. And she said that Elsa Gindler walked along the drawings making various comments about them and when she came to the one with the black spot she said: oh I…
…said: oh I see you still have that tension in your left hip and Charlotte was expecting, you see that at the time that Elsa Gindler arrived at her she would compliment her on what a really sensitive drawing she had done of her own body. But when she…
…from the very great differences which exist between one individual physical organism and another, to trust what Charlotte Silver and Elsa Gindler used to call one's own inner. This is, I suppose, the most difficult thing to explain in words because when…
…movement in any organized sense which seems to have originated in Germany. Some years ago in Germany there was a woman called Elsa Gindler, and she happened to have a serious case of tuberculosis. Her doctors told her that at that time, many years ago,…
…non interference with the tao, that is to say with the course of nature. But you see, in describing the way that Elsa Gindler went about this, you can see at once that non interference is a highly difficult thing requiring a great deal of intelligence.…
…kind of method. I think particularly, for example, of Charlotte Selva who works in New York, who also was a student of Elsa Gindler. I've been looking at an article she wrote some time ago in the bulletin of the general semantics people, in which she…
…speech and literature. Perhaps I might introduce this by a story which Charlotte Selva once told me about herself and her study with Elsa Gindler. One of the things that Elsa Gindler tried sometimes to get her students to do was to make a drawing of the…
…this by a story which Charlotte Selva once told me about herself and her study with Elsa Gindler. One of the things that Elsa Gindler tried sometimes to get her students to do was to make a drawing of the way in which one feels one's own body.…
…blobs, and indeed one of them was simply a blank piece of paper with a small black spot on it and she said that Elsa Gindler walked along the drawings making various comments about them and when she came to the one with the black spot she said: oh I…
…said: oh I see you still have that tension in your left hip and Charlotte was expecting, you see that at the time that Elsa Gindler arrived at her she would compliment her. On what a really sensitive drawing she had done of her own body. But when she…
…the, the very great differences which exist between one individual physical organism and another, to trust what Charlotte Silver and Elsa Gindler used to call one's own inner. This is, I suppose, the most difficult thing to explain in words, because when…