Alan Watts on Symbolic Reality vs. Real Reality – Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 30
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Published 2024-05-02
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"Symbolic Reality vs. Real Reality" is part of Flow, a three-part session in the TAO for NOW series of talks that you can listen to in full over at the Alan Watts Streaming Channel: play.alanwatts.org/
This time on Being in the Way, Alan Watts discusses:
Being aware of all sensory inputs while meditating
Allowing oneself ‘to be’ in a non-conceptual way
Confusing the world of symbols for reality
The limits to what we can enjoy in a material sense
The uselessness of guilt
Money, tithes, and western religion versus gurus
Why our motivation and intention matters
Experiencing life naked and directly
The Taoist approach to letting go of your body-mind
Using all five of our senses to witness our surroundings
This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.
“The point is to be wide, wide awake and aware of your total sensory input without confusing it with the symbolic world of words and concepts so that you experience life naked and directly. Experience YOU naked and directly, without having in your head the concept of who you are a a role player, as a personality, as an ego.” – Alan Watts
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All Comments (21)
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I was told to listen to Alan Watts when I was 18, I am 74 now...thank you so much for your special genius and profound being.
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Your father was just fantastic speaker and still is the best 👌 you must be so proud of him.
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How easily he can talk about deep subjects and ends up laughing 😂❤❤❤
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The Man who showed my own door to the void where I can enter only alone!
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Thanks for curating and sharing these talks. Nice intros too! ❤
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Thank you. Please post more new sessions soon ! 😊
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24:29 the point is to be wide, wide awake and aware of your total sensory input without confusing it with the symbolic world of words and concepts
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Thank you. I used to listen to him on the radio in the nineteen sixties.
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So grateful. Thank you Mark ❤ thank you Alan ❤
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Listening to Alan Watts has helped SAVE MY LIFE 💯🫂☯️🦋
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Hey Mark, I just want to say I’m grateful for you putting all this audio out. I know that you are trusted source of actual lectures from your father. I came across a tik-tok clip of a computer saying things in your father’s voice which I don’t believe he actually said (nothing slanderous or anything). It’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between an actual talk and a manufactured one.
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I got a "second wind" once when riding my bike. It was strange and amazing. I thought I was "in the zone" , maybe even the twilight zone😂 It was completely spontaneous and I have not created it again or maybe I am and have become desensitized 🐟
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It never fails. I sleep deeper and better.
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Thank you! Haven't heard this one, enjoying it quite a bit
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Thank you, Mark.
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Thanks Mark ❤
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Awesome.
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😅 I bought a t shirt with this marvelous photo of your dad in his office and the caption “ Did you forget to dance” I thought I bought a yellow shirt but it turned out to be pink. I wore it and got funny looks is I am ninety. So went home and folded your shirt and framed it with only the picture of and his office showing. So when I walk my man’s den Alan Watts greets me. me and reminds me dance in all my activities.
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Thanks for sharing.
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I wish I would have known about Alan Watts earlier, he is just spectacular.
