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.
…method for changing your state of consciousness. In other words it's not a system of ideas such as propounded say by Plato or by Kant or by Hegel. It's a dialectical method that is to say dialectic being in the sense of a Discord between a teacher and…
…that you can't look up the teachings of Buddhism in the same way that you could look up the teachings of Hegel, Kant, Spinoza, Jesus Christ, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle and so on. They don't exist they've never been written down. All that has been written…
…that you can't look up the teachings of Buddhism in the same way that you can look up the teachings of Hegel, Kant, Spinoza, Jesus Christ, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle and so on. They don't exist they've never been written down. All that has been written…
…is something like Judaism or Christianity, then Buddhism is not a religion. If philosophy is something like the speculations of Kant or Hegel, then eastern thought is not philosophy. The nearest thing to eastern philosophy in the west is psychotherapy,…
…are we going to make it? Three: where are we going to put it? And four who's going to clean up? Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Descartes are all discussing these four questions. Now you see, but if you begin at the beginning who started it? That's a misleading…
…for changing your state of consciousness. In other words it's not a system of ideas such as propounded say by Plato or by Kant or by Hegel. It's a dialectical method that is to say dialectic being in the sense of a discourse between a teacher and…
…is something like Judaism or Christianity, then Buddhism is not a religion. If philosophy is something like the speculations of Kant or Hegel, or even modern philosophers such as Ayer and Reichenbach, then eastern thought is not philosophy. The nearest thing…