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Alan Watts Philosophy Lecture

Alan Watts Lectures

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What You Are Feeling Is Just One of the Thoughts

What you took to be the thinker of thoughts is just one of the thoughts, he says. What you take to be the experiencer of experience is just part of the experience. So there isn't any thinker of thoughts, feeler of feelings. We get into that bind because we have a grammatical rule that verbs have to have subjects. When I say I am feeling, what I mean is there is feeling here. And so then there's a silence and this is a deeper level of meditation. In that silence, you suddenly begin to see the world as it is. You don't see any past and you don’t see any future. You can't put your hand on

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