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.
…for yourself this is one of the great koan problems in Zen produce you find out who you are. When for example, sri Ramana Maharshi, that Great Hindu Sage of modern times, people used to come to him and say who was I in my previous incarnation? You…
…people because they do things that holy men are not supposed to do. I mean characters like Gurdjieff and even sri Ramana Maharshi and so on are very, very unpredictable. They're weird but always surprising. Zen masters I know many. You never know what…
…the radio. We pick up what wavelength we're on. So then, when inquirers used to come to that great modern Hindu Saint, sri Ramana Maharshi, and they'd ask him all sorts of silly questions like who was I in my last incarnation? What will I be in my…
…the radio. We pick up what wavelength we are on. So then, when inquirers used to come to that great modern Hindu Saint sri Ramana Maharshi, and they'd ask him all sorts of silly questions like: who was I in my last incarnation? What will I be in my…
…a mask worn in Greco Roman drama. So if you come on to the guru and say: well he asks you who you are, sri Ramana Maharshi when anybody came to him and they said to him, as people do, who was I in my last incarnation or will I be reincarnated…
…want to become enlightened, I want spiritual wisdom. Ah and the guru looks at you and says: who are you? You know sri Ramana Maharshi, that Great Hindu Sage of modern times. People used to come to him and say, master, who was I in my last incarnation,…
…and I don't know what to do about it because it's all going to fall apart. And so the teacher says whether it's sri Ramana Maharshi or whether it's a Zen Teacher who is mixed up in this thing, who are you who asked this question? Show me, find…
…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 take it too…
…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 have to be…