What is the role of silence in our lives?
Alan Watts had a lot to say about silence and how silence is golden in that it helps us to transcend ourselves and find a new way forward in our lives.
I was recently listening to an audio recording of Ala…
What is the role of silence in our lives?
Alan Watts had a lot to say about silence and how silence is golden in that it helps us to transcend ourselves and find a new way forward in our lives.
I was recently listening to an audio recording of Alan Watts where he spoke about silence and how silence creates an opportunity for us to grow and develop. In this video, I reflect upon some of the points which Alan Watts has made over the years regarding silence and how it is the secret to transcending yourself.
Alan Watts silence is golden takes us beyond the superficial level of thinking about silence as simply being something good. Alan Watts silence and reality is what lies at the core fo this video. We take a look at the silence and what opportunity it provides us in finding ourselves and in unfolding new dimensions in our life.
:Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English writer, speaker and self-styled "philosophical entertainer",[2] known for interpreting and popularising Japanese, Chinese and Indian traditions of Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.[3]"
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Lately Alan Watts is becoming increasingly popular on You Tube and social media in general. Why this interest in a man who died way back in 1973 is really quite amazing. So what is it, in this era of 15 minute fame, that Alan Watts remains so popular?
Alan Watts is still so popular becasue his thinking was both ancient in its origins in Taoism and at the same time his thinking was also cutting edge in that it ties in quite nicely with modern concepts of the law of attraction, the law of vibration, how..
