Alan Watts For When You Need To Stop Thinking
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I just watched this and was nice, although it's too sentimental for my tastes, the music in the background and the cloying images which match the words being spoken, and with a little bit too much psychedelia in the last section, and then the ending where what was all so trippy and cosmic is just whatever we're doing like at a campfire. It has to be understood that all these tricks of the trade of self help inspiration making doesn't work for me, but the ideas being expressed has a towering importance for me. Not to be doing one thing all the time, for there to be balance, a simple thing to grasp, and maybe to make it look all epic and wondrous will make it attractive for people who are distraught with life, at a low point in their lives, this kind of video can help, and I like it for that, may it do some good to someone over here at SW. ---- but back to me being critical, the use of terminology like zazen and bodhisattva to me at least confine the message, and make it more narrow than it could be. I see the teaching here as more basic and widespread than any one kind of belief. I want to see things that way at least, so that such a way of appreciating life need not require one to be a practitioner of something that also means being in actual harmony with other beings. When that dynamic is faced, I then see it as being impossible, for there is no possibility of working in harmony with other beings, unless I become independent. This kind of appreciating the simple beauty of reality must be free of all kinds of necessary harmonic functioning with other people. That's just how it is for me though, and I'm weird af.
I just watched this and was nice, although it's too sentimental for my tastes, the music in the background and the cloying images which match the words being spoken, and with a little bit too much psychedelia in the last section, and then the ending where what was all so trippy and cosmic is just whatever we're doing like at a campfire. It has to be understood that all these tricks of the trade of self help inspiration making doesn't work for me, but the ideas being expressed has a towering importance for me. Not to be doing one thing all the time, for there to be balance, a simple thing to grasp, and maybe to make it look all epic and wondrous will make it attractive for people who are distraught with life, at a low point in their lives, this kind of video can help, and I like it for that, may it do some good to someone over here at SW. ---- but back to me being critical, the use of terminology like zazen and bodhisattva to me at least confine the message, and make it more narrow than it could be. I see the teaching here as more basic and widespread than any one kind of belief. I want to see things that way at least, so that such a way of appreciating life need not require one to be a practitioner of something that also means being in actual harmony with other beings. When that dynamic is faced, I then see it as being impossible, for there is no possibility of working in harmony with other beings, unless I become independent. This kind of appreciating the simple beauty of reality must be free of all kinds of necessary harmonic functioning with other people. That's just how it is for me though, and I'm weird af.
46-50, M
