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.
…you take a class of people in any given society and say you so and so you started this trouble, away with you Hitler with the Jews, Away with you Louis Xiv with the huguenots. There have been many, many occasions in history when some particular group…
…work. When the systematizer the organizer gets the upper hand and when he imposes a very clear system on everything as Hitler did in Germany as any totalitarian does, then the disasters begin to happen. Because that kind of human organization has no…
…we think that killing people is an answer to a problem it's only temporary, because if you knock out, say a Hitler, Another one comes up, because you haven't understood the problem of this sort of manifestation. Anything that's destroyed with violence…
…environment. So therefore the image of yourself that you have is simply a caricature. Just when we make a caricature, say of Adolf Hitler and we pull down the hair and put a comb instead of a mustache you know we just associate Adolf Hitler's Image with…
…we are going to be very evil to someone, we have to define that person as outside the group. And so we, like when Hitler was going to persecute the Jews, they were defined as not really human. And likewise, if we are going to persecute the negroes we…
…about it years ago which has unfortunately sort of disappeared from the market. I met spiegelberg in 1936 originally as a refugee from Hitler in England, and he had just come out with the idea of the religion of no religion and it immediately struck a…
…say: if I really understand that all is the work of the divine, should I or should I not be angry when somebody like Hitler Destroys millions of Jewish people? Many people jump swiftly to the conclusion that of course I ought not to be angry and then…
…universe, the very fact that those objections occur, are an integral part of the harmony. So that if I feel furious with somebody like Hitler because he kills ever so many people like the massacre of the Jews, I would not say that it was wrong for me…
…if you get rid of it you would have problems. It's I could say for example that a character, a historical character like Hitler is someone about whom it is very natural for most of us to feel angry, and that's perfectly right that we feel angry,…
…it would be immensely enlightening as to his future course of action. In the same way for example in dealing with Hitler, our strategists I don't know if they did should have been students of astrology, because he was always consulting astrologers and…
…was always consulting astrologers and therefore astrology would be much more easy to penetrate than the I Ching, because you could know Hitler is looking all the time at his own horoscope. Well we have access to Hitler's Horoscope, and so we know what…
…effect there is always more violence, more bloodshed more trouble. It makes no difference whether it be chairman MAO or Adolf Hitler. So what instead, therefore if we see that you can't outwit yourself, you can't be, shall I say, unselfconscious on purpose…
…it would be immensely enlightening as to his future course of action. In the same way for example in dealing with Hitler, our strategists I don't know if they did should have been students of astrology, because he was always consulting astrologers and…
…was always consulting astrologers and therefore astrology would be much more easy to penetrate than the I Ching, because you could know Hitler is looking all the time at his own horoscope. Well we have access to Hitler's Horoscope, and so we know what…