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Audible.com Release Date: October 23, 2018
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i cant believe the knowledge this man had at the age of 21. a complete genius. with a well rounded knowledge of all there is to know. he has greatly inspired me, i wish he were still around and i can only hope to incarnate some of his wisdom in my travels of this world.
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Happiness is seeing an old Alan Watts book brought back to life! And this one happens to be about happiness. How to be as happy as your dog, or at least as happy as our author, whom we are happy to meet again. As I open the book with anticipation, I realize that back in the day when Mr. Watts was with us and communicating, the advent of "Positive Psychology" was still years away. Today, as I review this idol's view on happiness, we have vast research findings that provide facts about what happiness is and how best to be favored by it. For one, we know that sharing experiences with others provides more long term happiness than having things. We know that folks who find reasons to feel grateful are happier than those who don't. Helping others provides happiness. We could Google for more of the research, but let's get on to getting into Alan Watts. He wrote this book when he was only 24 years old! It came out in 1940, and was then republished in 1953. It's almost 80 years old. hard to believe. To have the kind of ideas, and ability to express them so well, at such a young age, is certainly remarkable. I can't imagine offering any piece of wisdom to someone of my father's generation without hearing a comeback relativizing my statement and pointing out its weaknesses. Young Mr. Watts has no such concern. He begins with great confidence, as he is but passing along wisdom from time immemorial, from the oldest of the spiritual literature, of Vedanta. He confesses the truth from the get go, and quite simply. You can't run away from your feet, nor can you run after them. While some may write about how to obtain happiness by changing one's circumstances, he explains, and while others may write about how to obtain happiness by changing oneself, our young mister Watts notes that happiness is not something we obtain by doing anything to obtain it. Rather, happiness arises from knowledge, from the awareness of non-duality, which ends the illusion of a self that needs to find happiness. In other words, if you want to be happy, become enlightened! That puts it simply enough. One of the themes that Watts rides comes from his integration of Jungian psychology, with its resolution of the opposites, and Eastern philosophy that represents unity via the mandala of the yin/yang symbol. Suffering comes from separation, the opposition of self and world. Happiness comes from acceptance of both the reality and the illusion as partners. In fact, Watts considered this book to be about acceptance, profound acceptance, as the key to happiness. We are more familiar with the idea today, if no more poetic or as handy as Watts to describe the way we ride the paradox. It is interesting to read what Watts has to say about Christianity, especially in light of current events. He notes that the idea of acceptance is present, but quite hidden, in the doctrines of Christianity. He notes that this religion is based much more on adherence to doctrine while Eastern religions are more concerned with states of mind. If we turn to the Christian mystics, however, the theme of acceptance finds a place. Christianity provides a path for the non-mystic, to contemplate the heart of Jesus and note how it affects one's motivations. Somewhat like the Higher Power in Alcoholics Anonymous and their slogan, "fake it until you make it," acting in a manner similar to Jesus gradually brings about the inner experience of communion with Jesus, and thus God. The book is fun to read, not just because of Watts' readable style, but also because the positions he takes and the material he discusses, coming from an earlier era, and yet talking about the same things we talk about today, gives these themes an aura of inevitability and timelessness. I'm wondering if his words will have a special impact on today's readers. Reaching near the end of his offering, he quotes Saint Augustine, "Love, and do as you will." In this context, sin is more easily understood as "missing the mark," as Watts describes sin as "bad taste; it is sensationalsim as distinct from sensibility." Here he is introducing a note of the "postmodern" perspective (which I don't think existed as a vocabulary word during Watts' time) on what otherwise gets treated in a very dualistic manner. You don't need to be a fan of Alan Watts to enjoy and benefit from this book. Â
Alan Watts was a philosopher in the truest sense. He was beholden to no tradition. His awareness of Truth was not learned through rote memory nor some grand rationalization. Think the reality of the Gnostic experience vs the ritual of Organized Religion and the promise that someday you will meet your maker. Until then just do the best you can. The Religions of the World System would make a Sisyphus of each of us. It is better to stand on the rock than push it up the hill only to slide back down the hill only to push it again and again and again and where she stops nobody knows. The true gnostic experience gives us an eternal base from which to learn to think for oneself. The worldly way of Worldly Religion is to build one's understanding upon sand. The direct way, the Jesus Way, the Buddha Way, the Lao Tzu Way, the Rumi Way, is built upon the rock of God-given insight. To be fair to Worldly Religions I will admit that as far as institutions go they are for the most part like most other such institutions, biased. No corporate religion preaches the Sermon on the Mount. Not Really. Corporate Religion does not set anyone free. Corporate Religion is an oxymoron. Both words in their fundamental sense simply do not mix. What comes of the blind leading the blind is not being found but lost. Overly proud of dualistic thinking all corporate religions East and West preach relative truth as though it were absolute Truth. The Truth. A sermon preached by those that cannot see nor hear spiritual truth have not yet directly experienced the Truth for themselves and so cannot truthfully preach what they themselves do not truly know. Preachers of Division are not known by the likes of a Jesus. Jesus, the Buddha, et al, were not concerned with earthly riches, but with eternal riches. Spiritual riches. A Knowing that passes worldly understanding does not preach piecemeal sermons. The Good News is not about winning the Lottery. It is about winning eternity. Intellection, be it kataphatic or apophatic are by their divided nature always going to come up short. Being untethered by Spiritual Awakening is like a dog chasing its own tail. Until one has grown weary of living in the pig sty of the World System in its many guises one is and will remain lost. The prodigal son or daughter doesn't have to learn a system, they merely have to return to themselves, to their own inalienable true inner self. Knowing the Truth cannot be taught by anyone but one's own true self. Others can guide but they cannot do for anyone but themselves. Give up on the false and the Real will come to your rescue. Decide that the only truth you are interested in is the Truth and the whole Truth so help you Truth and the Truth alone shall set you free. Sit down in a cave or under a tree and don't get up until the false has fled and the Real will be known not through an elevated state of mind but a transcendent state of Being. Or, in your journey from false to false you might just have a Gnostic Experience on the Road to Damascus. The Spirit listeth where it willeth. No one tells the Spirit what to do. The humble or the weary sometimes just let go and God steps in. Call God what you will for I am speaking about that which is beyond words. Have no images before me. No pictures, no maps, no concepts. Until one has a direct experience with the Spirit of Existence one simply does not know what one is talking about where spiritual reality is concerned. Some things can only be said in silence. The great sages preach silence. All sermons from the valley are relative. It is to the oneness of the Summit that Truth is revealed to the sincere seeker. The hubris of intellect thinking too much of thinking is a dead end. The lesser cannot know the Greater lest it become one with the Greater. "From the first, totality is a unitive one!" Hui Neng. Truth is Unity. Unity is Love. God is Love. No Love, no God. All dogs are Dogs. Once seen the Truth is everywhere. Relative Religions would make what is Real unreal. Divided. There is no separate peace. The fallen mind would make straw dogs of each of us. Fakes. Conditional happiness is not true happiness. Happiness is not a goal, it is who we already are but have forgotten lost in the World Dream as it were. Its Wake Up Time. Read Watts, he was a far greater writer than me. His book "The Book on the Taboo Against knowing who you are" is one of the best explanations of the Truth I have ever read. All of Alan's books one way or another are about the effect of taking the Blue Pill. Sit down, shut up, and listen. Follow your breath home to a great Mansion with more rooms than can be counted built upon the rock of ages, the Truth.
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