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Subject:
Talk by Alan Watts
Category: Relationships and Society > Cultures Asked by: apteryx-ga List Price: $2.80 |
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06 Mar 2004 18:37 PST
Expires: 05 Apr 2004 19:37 PDT Question ID: 314161 |
Sometime in the latter half of the 1990s I happened to hear part of a lecture by Alan Watts on a local PBS radio station. I was busy doing something else and only half listened until I heard an arresting line that I wrote down verbatim: ?It was apparent to many cultures but not to ours that mind and space are the same thing.? I took a few more notes (not necessarily direct quotations) as I listened to the rest of the talk: - The head is in the mind and not vice versa--inside an enormous network of relationships. No one head is of any use without the others and communication among them. - The mental life of one organism is a node in the network. - The space in which the network <missing verb> we basically ignore. Ignoring of the space between is why we don?t see connections among events and things. By now it's probably time to throw away the piece of paper on which I wrote those notes. Yet I'm curious after all this time: where and when was this lecture given, was it an isolated talk or part of a series, and is a tape or a transcript in some written medium available to the public? My notes say nothing about that, although it sticks in my head that this was talk number three of a series. I am hoping that perhaps a GA researcher is actually familiar with this lecture. A search on the verbatim line plus his name did not turn up a useful answer. I am not looking for links to Watts's publications in general or to others' writings on these and related subjects. I just want to know about this specific lecture, which obviously must have existed in some stored medium because it was not a live broadcast by Watts, who died in 1973. Thank you, Apteryx |
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Subject:
Re: Talk by Alan Watts
From: voila-ga on 07 Mar 2004 09:21 PST |
There's a short excerpt from "Swimming Headless and Wisdom of the Ridiculous" here: Search: "Alan Watts" "mind" "node" (cached view) http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:3ZaypDec-6wJ:fusionanomaly.net/alanwatts.html+%22alan+watts%22+%22mind%22+%22node%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 "There isn't a knower FACING the known. It would be more like, say, that if there is any knower at all, it contains the known. Your mind, if you have one, is not in your head. Your head is in your mind. Because your mind understood from the standpoint of vision, his space. The Chinese use this word 'ku' which means 'sky', 'space', and sometimes 'emptiness'... and there is a saying that form, or shape and color, and this, are said to be identical. Space or emptiness is precisely shape/color and shape/color is precisely emptiness. This is actually a Buddhist saying from the Treidia Sutra..." http://www.audiobooksdownload.com/Books/SP_ELEC_000005.htm *************** Something a little similar from the 'look inside' feature at Amazon: The Book : On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts p. 69 "Thus the soul is not in the body, but the body in the soul, and the soul is the entire network of relationships and processes which make up your environment, and apart from which you are nothing." *************** You might also email the wattstapes folks. Perhaps they have a global search mechanism for his lecture material. I thought this sounded like something from his Nature of Consciousness series but I'm not for certain. M.E.A. (Mastering Enlightenments Arts) P.O. Box 303 Olema, CA USA 94950 1-800-75-WATTS (toll free number for placing orders) e-mail: webmaster@wattstapes.com World Wide Web: http://www.wattstapes.com Best of luck, V |
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