Ep. 2 – Dropping Out From Karma

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Zen, Eastern Philosophy, Dao, Spirituality, Tao, Education, Society & Culture, Buddhism, Alan Watts, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Self-improvement, Taoism, Being In The Way

4.9 • 748 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In the second episode of Being in the Way – an Alan Watts podcast exclusively on the Be Here Now Network – Alan's son, Mark Watts, shares background on Alan's early life, before introducing two of his father's specially curated dharma talks: Taoist Way of Dropping Out From Karma (Part III), and Wisdom of the Ridiculous.

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"The whole conception of nature is as a self-regulating, self-governing, democratic organism. But it has a totality; it all goes together. This totality is the Tao." – Alan Watts

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1:58.7	Today, we're going to hear part three of Taoist way of dropping out from
2:02.8	karma. And also we're going to hear a talk called The Wisdom of the Ridiculous, which comes from the
2:08.7	Lao Tzu tradition expressed in the Tao Te Ching. Recently, I've had a few conversations with people
2:14.9	that would like to know more about my father's background and are having a hard time reconciling his worldview with the other philosophies that they know
2:23.1	about. So I thought I'd do a little bit of storytelling. Talk a little bit about my father's early
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