Alan Watts
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.
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.
…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. Buddha means one who has woken up, one who has become free from the spellbinding imposed upon us by words and ideas. Not that…
…the infection of peace that comes from this figure. And this is the figure of Amida Amitabha, not the historical shakyamuni Gautama Buddha living in India, but one of the jnani buddhas who is not manifested in the world. Now the religion connected with…
…say jesus Christ 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…
…avalokiteshvara is a manifestation of amitabha, the buddha of boundless light, who is one of five buddhas not manifested like Gautama Buddha in this world, but a representation of cosmic principles behind everything. Amitabha is known to the Japanese as Amida…
…the infection of peace that comes from this figure. And this is the figure of Amida Amitabha, not the historical shakyamuni Gautama Buddha living in India, but one of the jnani buddhas who is not manifested in the world now the religion connected with…
…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, rather as one allows a pool to be clarified.…
…jesus Christ 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…
…jesus Christ 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…
…the infection of peace that comes from this figure. And this is the figure of Amida Amitabha, not the historical shakyamuni Gautama Buddha living in India, but one of the jnani buddhas who is not manifested in the world. Now the religion connected with…