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.
…of the Christians you see is they have this inimitable ability to read beautiful English Bible translated under the reign of King James, and it is so exquisitely done with the Jews were great poets and it is very readable. Pali scriptures are boring…
…what of it was spurious. But you simply cannot disconnect the church and the Bible unless you believe superstitiously that the King James Bible was delivered in the year 1611 by an angel from heaven and that precedes all prior documents. Most Bible Bangers…
…that god is knowledge, because knowledge and love are originally words having much the same meaning and Adam knew his wife. As the King James translates it, to know, in other words is to make love, and we say to make love is to have carnal knowledge of…
…is a passage in st Paul's Epistle to the philippians which I'm going to translate in a slightly different way from the King James: let this state of consciousness be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus who, being identical with god, thought not…
…scriptures. The advantage of the Christians you see is they have this inimitably beautiful English Bible, translated under the reign of King James, and it is so exquisitely done and the Jews were great poets and it is very readable. Buddhist Scriptures are…
…rose from the dead, the first person he met was Mary Magdalene who immediately ran to embrace him and he said not as the King James Bible translates it do not touch me. The Greek Haptomai doesn't mean touch so much as it means cling to do not cling…
…in the book of proverbs where the divine wisdom, which is god's creative power is represented as playing, but in the King James Version it's translated: rejoicing. Now to rejoice is something that one can do very properly. You can rejoice by singing the…
…because I say I am a son of god. No answer, because I said I am a son of god. It doesn't say that in your King James Translation it says I am the son of god and you'll see the the italicized and you will think that that is for emphasis if you…
…see the the italicized and you will think that that is for emphasis if you don't realize that passages in italics in the King James Bible are interpolations by the translators. So son of in Hebrew and in Arabic means of the nature of when we call…
…is a passage in saint Paul's Epistle to the philippians which I'm going to translate in a slightly different way from the King James: let the state of consciousness be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who, being identical with god, thought not…
…troubling. When a person who is brought up in Arkansas and has no other religion than the fundamentalist interpretation of the King James Bible slips accidentally into a mystical experience, there is no other way to describe what has happened to him than…
…him after his resurrection and she immediately ran to cling to him and he said: do not cling to me. It's translated in the King James Bible: do not touch me. But the Greek word haptin means to cling to. Don't cling to me, don't cling to anything of…
…spontaneous, goodness only knows what would happen. Jesus, you see said to do that. He did. And everybody reads it in the King James Bible where it means nothing: take no thought for the morrow what ye shall eat, what ye shall drink and wherewithal ye…
…aspect and to try and understand a religious text that in its whole structure and idea is as totally different from the King James Bible as anything you could imagine. Now we are, you see, conditioned to think when we say the word scripture, you think…
…as anything you could imagine. Now we are, you see, conditioned to think when we say the word scripture, you think of the King James Bible, and this is a very elegant piece of late Elizabethan English which was brought down by an angel from heaven in…
…and spencer, produced this piece of literature. And so we compare every other scripture all over the world by comparison with the King James Bible, the authorized version as the British call it. And so when you compare that with a Buddhist Sutra you say:…
…Sutra you say: oh dear me, this isn't the same thing at all. And very few scriptures of other peoples stand up to the King James Bible. You can find bill will bring you in some chairs. Here you are right behind you. I suppose the only things that…
…in the book of proverbs where the divine wisdom, which is god's creative power is represented as playing, but in the King James Version it's translated: rejoicing. Now to rejoice is something that one can do very properly. You can rejoice by singing the…
…is personalized and speaks and says that her function is always to play in the presence of the most high. Unfortunately the King James, which is a very dignified translation of the Bible, says rejoice, but the Hebrew says play. And so he said that this…
…to the major court, which is hellfire. And then if you keep reading on in the gospel, you know everybody reads in the King James Bible Whoever says thou fool shall be in danger of hellfire. And because instead of using quotation marks it uses a capital…
…It had nothing to do with paternity, it's simply an expression. So when he said, if I say I am a son of god and in the King James Translation it's all loused up by going I am the son of god which is not in the original Greek it is simply I am a…
…because I say I am a son of god. No answer, because I said I am a son of god. It doesn't say that in your King James Translation it says I am the son of god. And you'll see the the italicized and you will think that that is for emphasis if you…
…italicized and you will think that that is for emphasis if you don't realize that passages in italics in the King James Bible are interpolations by the translators. In Greek, leaving out the definite article is equivalent of having the indefinite article:…
…seem to believe that the Bible descended from heaven with an angel in the year 1611, which was when the so called King James or more correctly authorized version of the Bible was translated into English, I had a crazy uncle who believed that every word…
…say I blaspheme because I said I am a son of god? Well there's the whole thing in a nutshell, because if you read the King James Bible that descended with the angel, you will see in italics in front of these words: son of god, the son of god because…
…to play before the divine presence and especially to play with the sons of men. The word in Hebrew is play, but in the King James Translation it is rejoice, because that is a more sedate word than play. You may rejoice in church but not play. You may…