Alan Watts - Solitude - Zen in Gardens and Architecture - Eastern Wisdom Modern Life

In 1959, Alan Watts recorded a series of television programs called Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life, including the recently-colorized Zen in Gardens and Architecture. Drawn by the magic and mystique of Japanese material culture, he toured Japan in 1963 and again in 1965 where he recorded his famous Japan Seminars… soon to be released on our streaming platform.
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“Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Alan Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the un-writable’. Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit. A fascinating entry into the deepest ways of knowing.” - Los Angeles Times
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[@phoenixbleu1730]

When one is in good company with oneself, one is good company with others.

[@knoxsouthy]

You can be alone yet not lonely.

[@user-mx2tm4rf6l]

I love your gentle voice master

[@9one9Music]

Zen exists. It's in a force of action or response.

[@9one9Music]

Zen doesn't require others.

[@TheLittleLambTalks]

I love being alone. But it’s nice to also have human interaction

[@forestfox1111]

My biggest crush in any realm ❤ the most extraordinary man...Alan Watts

[@Stanley-xc4yc]

1111 😊 synchronicity 🌈🔥. I got this message while watching something else related. I'm not even subscribed. 😊

[@ronamain8689]

The genius Alan ❤

[@JJNow-gg9so]

Loving solitude is so easy to do. 👍🙏☮️

[@user-qy1oz2qd1k]

Thanks Allan!

[@raimondsmackaitis6815]

Lets add some Watts to the soup where currently boiling are Professor Peterson with R.Das, so the soup come out complete with ingredients that compliment one and the other.

[@kyleadoup]

This is how I feel about silence too.

[@Jethro-tz6yd]

True

[@user-qp1zi8fn4s]

Oooooooo aye 😊

[@persephoneunderdark1597]

If you dont form the architecture of "you" in solitude, you will be clumsy in public

[@Blockwise2]

Thanks for sharing! Do you have a youtube link to the full talk? I’ve never seen this footage before

[@therussmeister]

There are some links in the description (three dots in upper right corner) I would look for it there .

[@AlanWattsOrg]

Try these:
alanwatts.com/ (digital downloads)
play.alanwatts.org/ (streaming)

[@Blockwise2]

@@AlanWattsOrg awesome!

[@chookinathunderstorm3446]

That is because you are not so often on edge as you are when having to be around other people and their various personal actions impinging upon your personal space, frequently causing chaotic interference with your well laid plans of action or your rest time.
This is why it is so easy to be a hermit monk living in a retreat with villagers bringing you your meals and nuns doing your cleaning.
Just thinking your own thoughts making your own plans and fulfilling them with nobodyelse there to shit you to tears by messing with you.
I heard a monk say that he did his own washing up once, ONCE, and was surprised to find he enjoyed the feel, sight and sound of the water over the gleaming dishes and his hands and how he was engrossed in every little movement and sound and the way the light hit the water.
Try repeating that many times a day for many days and many years with the usual aches and pains and a baby sat on your feet and other childten interupting you or needing you to go and see what the cause of that noise is all about. That is just ONE task to be performed deftly throughout chaos and then onto the next..no time to meditate upon it.
Maybe a monk could learn something surprising about trying washing up under those conditions. You certainly have to learn how to be knowledgable about how to go with the flow of chaos. This also promotes psychic intuition allowing you to predict quake lines forming amongst the chaos to lead you to sometimes catch an unexpected object flying through the air without even thinking about it. Or follow a gut instinct to a child jist starting to eat a crunchy, maggot filled, dead blowfly in the laundry.
Now I am living away from the family home at my 88 year old mother's house to care for her and sometimes she has to be away for a couple of weeks at hospital or in transition care.....and though I visit my family to check in on them, I don't tell them when I have all this spare, lovely quiet time here on my own.

[@user-ug3fd5ob5e]

First 🥇

[@Mysonicsuitcase]

I am First Last.

[@skylerreddy5436]

In simple words: he’s saying be or not to be…