Alan Watts Being in the Way

Ep. 8 – Man and Nature

Nov 25, 2021

58:20

Episode guests

Alan Watts

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The Reality of Ourselves

01:12

The Western Theory of Nature

00:54

The Tao of Nature: A Comparison of Chinese and Judeo-Christian Ideas

01:28

The Purposeless Life

01:38

Introduction

3min

The Real You Is Not a Puppet Which Life Pushes Around

4min

We Need a New Kind of Consciousness

2min

We Do It but We Don't Know How We Do It

1min

The Relationship Between Man and Nature

3min

Is There a Maker?

3min

The Ultimate Reality of the Universe Is the Self

3min

The Three Theories of Nature

4min

Don't Trust Yourself

4min

10.

The Goody Goodies Are the Thieves of Virtue

3min

11.

A Judge With a Sensation of Justice

4min

12.

The Chinese Organic Theory of Nature

3min

13.

The Art of Painting a Landscape

3min

14.

The Order of Nature

4min

15.

Governing a Great State

3min

16.

Scholarship Is the Most Important Thing in the University

3min

17.

What's Purposeless?

4min

18.

The Glory of God

2min

19.

Man and Nature - The Essential Lecturer's Album

3min

In this intimate session, Alan Watts shares distinctive philosophical vantage points outlining humankind's relationship to nature.

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Welcoming listeners into a seminar session from SMU in 1965, Mark introduces the pivotal Alan Watts lecture, 'Man and Nature,' which he describes as one of his father's most engaging talks, positively focused on ecology and our relationship with the natural world and ecosphere.

This series is made in partnership with the Alan Watts Organization. Discover the official Alan Watts archive at alanwatts.org

Today's talk comes from the Tao of Philosophy from Mark's specially curated Alan Watts Essential Lectures Collection

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