Ep. 4 – Our Place In The Universe
Alan Watts Being in the Way
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4.9 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Uncovering how we arise mutually with all things, Alan Watts examines our place in the universe and how very natural it is to be human.
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Continuing the last episode's dharma talk on Taoism, relativity, and the connections between you and not-you; Mark introduces part two of his father's classic talk, Being in the Way – a fundamental lecture by Alan explaining mutual arising within the context of a human-populated, yet ever-changing universe.
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"You can be untaught. In other words, your mind can be wiped clean, and you can experience yourself as a whirlpool of energy in a stream which is the Tao, which is the total course of nature, the energy field of the whole cosmos." – Alan Watts
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| 1:35.3 | If you take a worm and bruise it, the worm wiggles, both sides of the bruise, but it can't make |
| 1:41.5 | a wave wiggle through the whole length of the worm. |
| 1:49.9 | And there was a very strange man called Wilhelm Reich who said that most people have a thing like the worm's brew across their diaphragm, so that they find difficulty in wiggling all the |
| 1:56.9 | way through. So in exactly this way, Taoism teaches you to wiggle all the way through, not only from |
| 2:05.1 | foot to head, but from one end of space to the other. |
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