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Topic: "The Joyous Cosmology" by Alan Watts
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Valus
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posted October 27, 2010 04:17 PM
The Joyous Cosmology
Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
by Alan Watts http://www.amazon.com/Joyous-Cosmology -Adventures-Chemistry-Consciousness/dp/0394702999/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288210028&sr=1-1
See Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ki8RDzS1A
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SunChild
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posted October 30, 2010 10:48 PM
Thanks for link, I was about to buy but I ended up purchasing The Wisdom Of Insecurity, I added the above to my wish list. That book was calling me. IP: Logged |
starr33
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posted November 03, 2010 06:36 PM
I like Watts. I'll have to check it ou this weekend. Thanks.IP: Logged |
Valus
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posted November 09, 2010 03:14 PM
You're welcome.  I read The Wisdom Of Insecurity fifteen years ago.
I remember really liking it, but I never read more Watts. Strange that someone who seems so centered and spiritual
had two broken marriages due to his own infidelity. I guess nobody's perfect. 
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starr33
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posted November 13, 2010 12:13 PM
Nope.IP: Logged |
SunChild
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posted November 15, 2010 07:19 PM
no, no ones perfect... how you fair depends on if you try and justify everything or, if only you could just be honest...???
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posted November 16, 2010 05:11 AM
As far as I know, Alan Watts was an alcoholic and died of it. I love this man and his words of wisdom too. IP: Logged |
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posted November 16, 2010 05:16 AM
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Q. You've mentioned Alan Watts several times and I know that you've been with him when he was teaching. What was he like to be with? A. You see Alan Watts was very creative. When he drinks he's very clever. He was in a class, you know, at night time, he was all drunk. But his lectures were never boring. He was a tremendous entertainer. He said, "I'm an entertainer, I'm no Buddhist philosopher." Q. Alan Watts actually died from alcohol, didn't he? A. Oh yeah. At that time he drank whisky by the bottle. Q. But how could that tie in with the Tao? A. That's from the Tao! The fact that he drank is totally in tune with the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove-his utter disregard for convention. One of the sages, a famous poet called Liu Ling, had a servant who followed him carrying a jug of wine and a spade. In this way he always had some wine to drink and his servant would be ready to bury him if he dropped dead during a drinking bout! It's in the Tao. So Alan Watts' drinking is quite Taoistic.
http://spiritualmutt.blogspot.com/2007/08/alan-watts-died-of-alcoholism.html
Love what people have to say in this thread:
http://alanwatts.tribe.net/thread/4748b465-2d8c-4cf9-ba3b-851182732d32
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posted November 16, 2010 05:18 AM
He writes of alcohol and his relationship to alcohol in a number of his works, including his autobiography. He harbors no guilty or shame in often enjoying and inebrieted state - in fact, he writes about how the guilt that Western Civ. people associate with drinking might be related to why we associate the term "alcoholic" with the image of a "problem drinker." I..e., What does it mean to be an alcoholic? Does it have a pejorative connotation? Well, perhaps that is simply cultural. He points out, for example, how Japanese people (in his time and before) might drink quite heavily (yes, even Zen masters) and would be considered clinical "alcoholics," but they were "happy" drunks - always pleasant beautiful people.IP: Logged |
SunChild
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posted November 16, 2010 05:49 AM
Interesting. IP: Logged |
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