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Ep. 11 – Essential Teachings from the Gita w/ Ram Dass & Alan Watts

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Absolute Reality of You and I Is Brahman

Brahman is the name they use for the ultimate reality which underlies this whole universe. As water cannot rise higher than its own level, thought cannot think what is higher than thinking. Our symbols for our ideas about this supreme reality are vaguish and voidish. Not at all because that reality is vague and void, but because thought and imagination are annihilated in trying to grasp it.

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