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.
…and perhaps you have to understand what jham is by going back to the fundamental idea or I really should say non idea of Gautama the buddha from whom all this springs. The word buddha is not a proper name, it's a title, and his proper name is Gautama.…
…late phenomenon out of Indian Culture, the dates are a little bit more certain than they are with Hinduism. So we know that Gautama the buddha lived shortly after 600 BC, but we are very, very uncertain as to what he taught. There are two great sections…
…a doing, a karma, in just the same way as the sun, the galaxy. Or shall we be bold to say jesus Christ or Gautama the buddha? How can I say this without offence, without seeming proud, haughty and pretentious? I simply and even humbly know that I am…
…And in this way, Buddhism which I suppose you know is a method of changing consciousness discovered or invented by a man called Gautama, who lived in India Shortly after 600 b c who was given the title buddha, because the word means the awakened one,…
…late phenomenon out of Indian Culture, the dates are a little bit more certain than they are with Hinduism. So we know that Gautama the buddha lived shortly after 600 BC, but we are very, very uncertain as to what he taught. There are two great sections…
…a doing, a karma, in just the same way as the sun, the galaxy. Or shall we be bold to say jesus Christ or Gautama the buddha? How can I say this without offence, without seeming proud, haughty and pretentious? I simply and even humbly know that I am…
…a doing, a karma, in just the same way as the sun, the galaxy. Or shall we be bold to say jesus Christ or Gautama the buddha? How can I say this without offence, without seeming proud, haughty and pretentious? I simply and even humbly know that I am…
…some conjecture about the exact dating of individuals at this time, but it was during this period that there lived a man called Gautama, and Gautama was the son of a King or perhaps tribal chieftain, who lived very close to modern Nepal in the north of…
…about the exact dating of individuals at this time, but it was during this period that there lived a man called Gautama, and Gautama was the son of a King or perhaps tribal chieftain, who lived very close to modern Nepal in the north of India, and…
…we should correctly say jesus the Christ, Jesus the anointed one and in the same way one should say not Gautama Buddha but Gautama the buddha, for buddha means an awakened one, a man who woke up, who, in other words you must understand this term within…
…an illusion resulting in incessant frustration, resulting indeed in that very vicious circle which the symbol of the wheel represents. Now Gautama made it very easy to summarize his teaching. He was really quite an adept in what we call mnemonics, in…
…the one who is awake, the wake, as in the man who was called herriwood the wake in early English History. So Gautama the wake would be an excellent translation of Gautama Buddha wake up. So meditation, then is a process of clarifying your consciousness,…
…the son of a very, very powerful King and when the astrologers got together at the time of his birth, they said: this boy, Gautama, is to be a chakravartin. The question is in what sense of the word will he be a chakravartin? Will he turn the wheel…
…there comes into the world what you might call a big buddha, a very important one, and such a one is said to have been Gautama, the son of a prince living in Northern India, in the part of the world we now call Nepal, Living shortly after 600 BC.…
…doctrine of the world as the void. This doctrine did not emerge very clearly, very prominently in Buddhism until quite a while after Gautama the buddha had lived. We begin to find this, though becoming prominent about the year 100 BC, and by 200 AD it…
One thing do I teach o my disciples: suffering and deliverance from suffering. It was in this way that Gautama the buddha living in the sixth century b c gave the gist of his whole teaching, and it's for this reason that many commentators and critics of…
…you engage yourself in a relationship with the buddha, or with one. I mean there are hundreds of buddhas. One we call Gautama is just the historical buddha that everybody knows about but one buddha leads to another because as a result of his relationships…
…600 years before Christ, One of the main forms of Indian Spirituality was the search for liberation through extreme self mortification. When Gautama the buddha himself was a young man, he was the son, as you probably know, of a North Indian Tribal King in…
…some conjecture about the exact dating of individuals at this time, but it was during this period that there lived a man called Gautama, and Gautama was the son of a King or perhaps tribal chieftain, who lived very close to modern Nepal in the north of…
…about the exact dating of individuals at this time, but it was during this period that there lived a man called Gautama, and Gautama was the son of a King or perhaps tribal chieftain, who lived very close to modern Nepal in the north of India. And…
…we should correctly say jesus the Christ, Jesus the anointed one, and in the same way one should say not Gautama Buddha, but Gautama the buddha for buddha means an awakened one, a man who woke up, who, in other words, you must understand this term…
…an illusion resulting in incessant frustration, resulting indeed in that very vicious circle which the symbol of the wheel represents. Now Gautama made it very easy to summarize his teaching. He was really quite an adept in what we call mnemonics, in…
…in India Somewhere between 6 and 500 BC there is always some conjecture about the exact period that there lived a man called Gautama, and Gautama was the son of a King or perhaps tribal chieftain who lived very close to modern Nepal in the north of…
…Somewhere between 6 and 500 BC there is always some conjecture about the exact period that there lived a man called Gautama, and Gautama was the son of a King or perhaps tribal chieftain who lived very close to modern Nepal in the north of India. And…
…we should correctly say jesus the Christ, Jesus the anointed one, and in the same way one should say not Gautama Buddha, but Gautama the buddha. For buddha means an awakened one, a man who woke up, who, in other words you must understand this term…
…an illusion resulting in incessant frustration, resulting indeed in that very vicious circle which the symbol of the wheel represents. Now, Gautama made it very easy to summarize his teaching. He was really quite an adept in what we call mnemonics, in…
…And in this way, Buddhism, which I suppose you know, is a method of changing consciousness discovered or invented by a man called Gautama, who lived in India Shortly after 600 b c who was given the title buddha because the word means the awakened one,…
…title, not a proper name, same way as Christ means the anointed and it's not the surname of jesus. So buddha is not the surname of Gautama, it means the one who is awakened from the root in sanskrit, buddh b u d h to know the man who woke up, who…