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.
…ancient and modern times people who suddenly had this happen to them this is the description given by a very famous man, Richard Buck, who wrote a book called cosmic consciousness. Now listen, all at once, without warning of any kind, I found myself…
…you don't like, when you do like it, you're willing you do like. And the people who have the sort of experience that Richard Buck was describing here the cosmic consciousness or whatever are those who wake up to this fact that you never at any time…
…but to remind the monarch of his humanity so that he would never, never get too stuffy. You remember perhaps the lines in Richard Ii where the King says: within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a King, keeps death his watch. And there…
…The court fool is much more effective than the priest to remind the King that after all he's human. And you know how in Richard Ii, where the fool is called the antic, the King says: within the hollow, crown that rounds the mortal temples of the King,…
…court fool is much more effective than the priest to remind the King that after all, he's human. And uh you know how in Richard Ii, where the fool is called the antic, the King says: uh within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a King,…
…funny people and they sat at the foot of the King's Throne to remind the King not to take himself seriously. You know in Richard Ii, Within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a King keeps death his watch. And there the antic sits the…
…nor cold? He said where's that? The teacher said: in summer we sweat, in winter we shiver. So it's different from in Shakespeare's Richard Ii, where Bolingbroke is about to be banished and John of gaunt I think it is says to him: to all places under…
…on the surface to require brute force, see if you could use another technique. The story you know of the meeting of Richard the second, Richard the first, the lionheart King, with the sultan. And Richard draws his enormous two handed sword. You know the…
…to require brute force, see if you could use another technique. The story you know of the meeting of Richard the second, Richard the first, the lionheart King, with the sultan. And Richard draws his enormous two handed sword. You know the trick and takes…
…technique. The story you know of the meeting of Richard the second, Richard the first, the lionheart King, with the sultan. And Richard draws his enormous two handed sword. You know the trick and takes an iron bar and goes bam, you know, breaks it.…
…was liable to go absolutely overboard for exotic and foreign ideas until I read the extraordinarily wise commentary that he wrote to Richard Wilhelm's Translation of a Chinese Taoist text called the secret of the golden flower. It was Jung who helped me to…