Alan Watts

[Marl0_on]

alan watts alıntılı imzası olan birisini görünce açıvereyim dedim. bahaneyle bu mükemmel insan hakkında bir iki konuşuruz, bilmediğimiz şeyler öğreniriz.

[bingildak]

son 6 aydır falan sürekli olarak seanslarını dinliyorum, bitirmiş direkt.

http://8tracks.com/martyroberts24/greatest-alan-watts-moments

burada orjinal olmasa da birkaç kesit mevcut, kimdir nedir merak edenler için.

audio collection burada, eğer beğenirseniz kesinlikle tavsiye ederim.

http://alanwatts.com/

youtube üzerinde ayrıca playlisti var "alan watts" diye aratınca çıkıyor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ERbvKrH-GC4

music and life

In music, though, one doesn’t make the end of the composition the point of the composition.

If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest; and there would be composers who only wrote finales.

People go to concerts only to hear one crashing chord - because that’s the end.

Same way in dancing—you don’t aim at a particular spot in the room; that’s where you should arrive.

The whole point of the dancing is the dance.

Now, but we don’t see that as something brought by our education into our everyday conduct.

We’ve got a system of schooling which gives a completely different impression.

It’s all graded—and what we do is we put the child into the corridor of this grade system, with a kind of “c’mon kitty kitty kitty…”.

And yeah, you go to kindergarten, and that’s a great thing, because when you finish that, you’ll get into first grade.

And then c’mon, first grade leads to second grade, and so on…

And then you get out of grade school you go to high school—and it’s revving up, the thing is coming…

Then you’re going to go to college, and by jove then you get into graduate school, and when you’re through with graduate school, you’ll go out to join the world.

And then you get into some racket where you’re selling insurance. And they’ve got that quota to make. And you’re going to make that.

And all the time, this thing is coming, it’s coming, it’s coming—that great thing, the success you’re working for.

Then when you wake up one day about forty years old, you say “My God! I’ve arrived! I’m there!”

And you don’t feel very different from what you always felt.

And there's a slight letdown, because you feel there's a hoax.

And there was a hoax.

A dreadful hoax.

They made you miss everything. By expectation.

Look at the people who live to retire, and put those savings away.

And then when they’re sixty-five, and they don’t have any energy left, they’re more or less impotent, they go and rot in an old people’s “senior citizens” community.

Because we’ve simply cheated ourselves, the whole way down the line.

We thought of life by analogy was a journey, was a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end.

And the thing was to get to that end.

Success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you’re dead.

But we missed the point the whole way along.

It was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing, or to dance, while the music was being played.

[bingildak]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUXodFgbDfQ

[knox]

hayatin sirlarini mi cozmus napmis

[Fistan]

dinlerle falan ilgilendigi icin zamanini bosa harcayan bi adam

[bingildak]

hayata dair düşünmeyi seven biraz felsefe ile ilgisi olanların çok hoşuna gidebilir. fikirleri ve düşüncelerini mantık kanalından götürür dinden çok. adam rahip ama bu din böyle yapar bu doğrudur hepiniz bu dine gelin tarzı convert etmeye yönelik dialoglara girmez. oturma odasında bilge bir adamın hayata dair konuşmalarını dinliyormuşsun gibi. gayet keyifli, espriler karıştırılmış, basit örneklendirilmiş, güncel ve modern dünya gözünden yaklaşıyor varoluş* ile ilgili mevzulara.

wikiden hayatına dair ufak bir alıntı

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest but left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Living on the West Coast, Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He also explored human consciousness, in the essay "The New Alchemy" (1958), and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962).

Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. His legacy has been kept alive by his son, Mark Watts, and by many of his recorded talks and lectures that have found new life on the Internet. According to the critic Erik Davis, his "writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity."[3]