It Will Give You Goosebumps - Alan Watts On Existence

[Uncle Joe]

[markodochartaigh]

1. We are even for an infinite amount of time.

Then we become odd for an instant. Then we become even again for an infinite amount of time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. We are ALWAYS odd, but sometimes we are also even. To be only even is to be dead. To be even AND odd is desirable

... but only as much as desire is inescapable.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

2. IOW...

Be here now.

Always loved this guy.

[LudwigPastorius]

3. A little wave bobbed happily in the vast ocean, enjoying the sun and the breeze.

Suddenly, it noticed the waves in front of it crashing against the shore, disappearing in a burst of foam.

"Oh no!" the little wave cried, trembling. "Look what's going to happen to me! We're all going to crash and be nothing!"

A larger, older wave nearby overheard the little wave's distress and asked, "Why are you so sad?" The little wave explained his fear of crashing and becoming nothing.

The big wave replied with a gentle rumble, "No, you don't understand, little wave. You're not really a wave; you are the ocean."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Waves are actually cycles, and all the particles in the universe are waves ("wave-particle duality"). We are the ocean.n

[Karadeniz]

4. I think people turn to philosophy or religious dogma if they havent had a meaningful

NDE or soul experience to open their minds to ultimate truths and systems.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. No. People turn with and without. People always want to know "What's goin' on?"

Look up "gradualism" vs "sudden" zen enlightenment ( "satori" ). Rinzai vs Soto zen. Of course, OF COURSE, there is no actual separation between Rinzai and Soto.

[malaise]

6. Profound

Thanks for this

Rec

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. About 2:35 poses the question "a class of all classes"

Reference Bertrand Russell's Principia Mathematica. He was a very powerful philosopher who also wrote a history of western philosophy, and was an outspoken pacificst and non-violent person.

[RVN VET71]

12. This is a bit off topic but Bertie was so disturbed by the Soviet Union's getting The Bomb

that he endorsed the notion of a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the USSR. I think this was at a time when the Soviet nuclear arms program was still in its infancy and the idea of pre-emptive strike did not same as horribly outrageous as it later did. The idea was to kill the infant (the Soviet nuclear arms program) before it could grow into a monster.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Man, that is one of his very best. Worth thinking about every word. . . . nt

[erronis]

11. I was prepared to not like this - not into metaphysics, etc. But it's well worth the watch.

I'll spin it up again soon. Thx.