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.
…order to try and translate this into language, you may use a deterministic way of talking, as grodek saying the it lives you, as Ramakrishna said of the mother kali, the mother goddess. Oh mother I am the cart and you are the horse, or you are the…
…it you can have a wonderful time. Let's take for a very controversial issue. All spiritual people are generally against lovemaking. Ramakrishna used to speak about the evils of woman and gold. I've already demonstrated the evils of gold, but what about the…
…cool. That's the whole art of Zen, you know is cool Hinduism? The Hindus come on a little strong. When someone like sri Ramakrishna Pretty much openly announces that he's the godhead, that's a little tough. And when sri Ramana accepts the puja of all the…
…although sometimes it takes longer to get in by the back door than by the front door. Nevertheless it has certain advantages. Ramakrishna said there are many entrances to a house. One entrance is the way the garbage goes in and out another entrance is…
…symbol of wealth, as if it were something that was valuable in its own right. That's the confusing money with gold. When Ramakrishna said that one of the evils of the world was gold he was, I think, perhaps unconsciously quite correct. There's a story…
…That's the whole art of Zen, you know is cool Hinduism the Hindus come on a little strong. When someone like sri Ramakrishna Openly, pretty much openly announces that he's the godhead, that's a little tough. And when sri Ramana accepts the puja of all…
…mother that eats its spouse, and kali is the principle of total night. And yet there are those in India like sri Ramakrishna, for whom kali is the supreme mother goddess, because she is two faced. She is playful and terrifying, loving and devouring,…
…mother that eats its spouse, and kali is the principle of total night. And yet there are those in India like sri Ramakrishna, for whom kali is the supreme mother goddess, because she is two faced: she is playful and terrifying, loving and devouring,…
…finding out instead of crucifying him. There have been many people in India who knew they were god in disguise sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Krishna himself, buddha, everybody they discovered it because it's not an exclusive claim I alone am…
…be in that state of consciousness and at the same time carry on everyday life. We hear of Great Hindu Mystics like sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ramana Maharshi, who spend hours and hours in samadhi. They sit there with their eyes closed in sheer rapture, out of…
…now as a fool. Thus they appear on earth, the free men. And if you read the biographies of the early life of sri Ramakrishna or sri Ramana Maharshi, they are absolutely wild. Now not all of this you see again just as in reading zhuangzi you mustn't…
…to be in. Such perfect accord with the process, let me remind you of a celebrated tale that was told by sri Ramakrishna. This world is the illusory outward form of the one eternal divine brahman underlying the entire process. And having sat and listened…
…and shouted at him: hey you get out of the way. This elephant isn't very nice. But the disciple thought: now the master Ramakrishna has told me that I am brahman and that everything is brahman, and therefore the elephant is brahman and therefore it will…
…him into the ditch where he was scratched with the brambles. Well he was very upset and he came crawling back to sri Ramakrishna and said: master, you have deceived me. I understood that everything is brahman, that I am brahman and all other creatures is…
…because I figured that I was brahman and the elephant was brahman and I could come to no harm. You stupid man said sri Ramakrishna, you didn't realise that the voice of the mahout was also brahman and you should have heeded that too. So also in this…
…union with god. Now my assumption, my opinion, is that jesus of nazareth was a human being like buddha, like sri Ramakrishna, like Ramana Maharshi, Etc. Who Early in life had a colossal experience of what we call cosmic consciousness. Now you don't…