Alan Watts - Re-examination of ''Common Sense''

"Out of Your Mind" Lecture on "The Nature of Consciousness"
Born in England in 1915, Alan Watts attended King's College School Canterbury, served on the Council of the World Congress of Faiths (1936-38), and came to the United States in 1938. He held a Master's Degree in Theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and an Honorary DD from the University of Vermont in recognition of his work in the field of comparative religions. Alan Watts become widely recognized for his Zen writings and for The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. He died in 1973 at his home in California. For more than forty years, Alan Watts earned a reputation as a foremost interpreter of Eastern philosophies for the West. Beginning at age sixteen, when he wrote an essay for the journal of the Buddhist Lodge in London, he developed an audience of millions who were enriched through his books, tape recordings, radio, television, and public lectures. In all Watts wrote more than twenty-five books and recorded hundreds of lecture and seminars, all building toward a personal philosophy that he shared in complete candor and joy with his readers and listeners throughout the world. His overall works have presented a model of individuality and self-expression that can be matched by few philosophers. He held fellowships from Harvard University and the Bollingen Foundation, and was Episcopal Chaplain at Northwestern University during the Second World War. He became professor and dean of the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, made the television series "Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life" for National Educational Television, and served as a visiting consultant for psychiatric institutions and hospitals, and for the United States Air Force. In the mid-sixties he traveled widely with his students in Japan, and visited Burma, Ceylon, and India.
Track: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Oh Shenandoah
Album: Nixon

[@hamidcoolboy]

Since I have started listening to Alan Watts, I have realized that many things that I didn't pay attention before to things that were playing a really big role on how I lived my life and I didn't even know it.

[@marcpreston1]

Alan Watts is wonderful, love his perspective on life and his wisdom.

[@christophermirkovich7290]

It's Zen

[@wbworkout]

Excellent and it was a nice touch to put the song in the background. I sang in a choir in college that sang that exact arrangement. Lovely!

[@HumanMBSConsciousnes]

Common- 1. belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question
2. pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or culture; public
3.joint; united
Sense- 1. a feeling or perception produced through the organs of touch, taste, etc., or resulting from a particular condition of some part of the body: to have a sense of cold.
2. a faculty or function of the mind analogous to sensation

[@torytaylor693]

We still have not learned, as a society, "handle our technology with more common sense". There is still NOT enough love in this world. WE have a long way to travel in order to fulfill Alan's prophecy.

[@ShakinJamacian]

Tory Taylor Does this not begin in realising the ego is an illusion and does not exist? How can we use technology well in a world caught in the illusion of a self somehow separate from the interconnected, interdependent nature of the cosmos? Nearly every modern issue today is from the root of ego, by creating divisive thoughts between things.

[@tagsdaddy]

If we all loved each other they would loose all power..

[@brienmaybe.4415]

@@tagsdaddy Who is they? Those evil doers are you too. Humans must understand, you need ego if you want a universe. If you have no ego, you have no universe that contains all the stars and planets in it. Welcome to reality.

[@brienmaybe.4415]

@@tagsdaddy I only exist in your mind prove me otherwise.

[@TaylorTauaWisdomFaithAction]

Thank you Myna

[@HumanMBSConsciousnes]

According to these definitions, it is an extra sense that we all share beyond sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste. We have all heard of a 6th sense. Some of us have even experienced it. I would venture to guess these are one and the same. Ignoring any sense just seems like a bad idea. So why do we do it?

[@iroulis]

Because it is beyond ego's control.

[@HumanMBSConsciousnes]

Is the term common sense so common that we no longer pay attention to what it actually means? I mean we differently don't pay attention to the sense it's self, but what if that's only because we don't know the real meaning of it. The essence of what it really is.

[@tagsdaddy]

We Walk The Sky television is the common sense now..

[@JifunzeKitu]

i am real touched by the background sound track, is there anyone who can help me to find such kind of musics?

[@romino23]

The Mormon Choir

[@blkcpdconure]

You make some good videos

[@stpeter2214]

Jim Rohn is a grand master teacher lm starting to think that Allan is also in the same level.

[@catalinrazvanveverita6603]

WE ARE ONE WITH THE NATURE FIRST OF ALL BECAUSE THAT IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT UNIVERSE, CLOSEST AND OMNIPRESENT! I NATURE MEANS MYSELF, THE TRUE SELF OF HEAVEN THAT IS THE NATURE!

[@NickatNite511]

I want to like the video.... but it's at 420. I can't ruin it

[@timbertacoma2466]

Alan Watts & The Mormon Choir in the same video.....hmmmm

[@iroulis]

Contrast.

[@briantolster]

I 16th second comment.

[@selvmordspilot]

I second first comment.

[@niharikajolly]

i third first comment