Has been under fire for fighting unionizing attempts at Whole Foods last month its total market value passed one trillion dollars And Chris you know honest ad against the grains next. To me. From the studios of p.f.a. In Berkeley California this is against the grain on listener sponsored Pacifica Radio My name is c. S. Song. Alan Watts the philosopher and comparative religion scholar was one of the foremost interpreters of eastern thought and philosophy for audiences in the u.s. The author of more than 2 dozen books what's also happened to be a programmer a k. P.f.a. In Berkeley for 20 years beginning in 1953 Today we present portions of 2 talks that are part of the Alan Watts library collection a compilation of 28 hours worth of talks that Alan Watts gave over the course of 2 decades later this hour we'll present a talk called Insight and ecstasy but we begin with portions of a presentation by Watts on the fundamentals of Buddhism and by the way this sprawling 28 hour Alan Watts library collection is your thank you gift for a one year 180 dollar pledge to listener supported k p f $880.00 pledge to k p f a or more gets you this 28 hour Alan Watts library collection on 3 m p 3 C.D.'s The phone number to call any time this hour is 1804395732180439 k.p. F.a.a. Easily remembered as 1800 headache a p.f.a. 1800 Hey Kate p.f.a. We're also offering you an experience with me as your companion. And that experience is a group discussion a book group discussion focusing on one of Alan Watts his books The book is Become what you are this book group will meet twice there will be 2 sessions of 2 hours each that I will facilitate on the 1st Tuesday of November and of December that's the evenings of Nov 6th and December 4th in downtown Berkeley at a Bart and bus accessible location to be determined so for a 220 dollars pledge to k p f a a 220 dollars pledge to k. P.f.a. You can request as your thank you gift participation in these 2 book group sessions we are trying to limit attendance to a maximum of 12 people so if you're interested in this experience and I would love to meet you and discuss and explore the very deep ideas presented by Alan Watts in his book pick up your phone and call this number sooner rather than later 180-439-5732 again the 2 book discussion sessions will take place on Tuesday Nov 6th and Tuesday December 4th from 7 to 9 in the evening in downtown Berkeley at a bar to accessible and wheelchair accessible place to be announced but let us turn now to excerpts from a presentation by Alan Watts called Fundamentals of Buddhism when he refers by the way to go Tama he's referring to the 6th century b.c. Indian figure whom we identify as the Buddha we take up watch his talk as he's discussing a certain kind of freedom freedom from an emotional habit the habit of grasping. At one's own life at seeking for continuity. And you see the idea of continuity in Buddhist philosophy is that we desire continuity in order to perpetuate our past in our past in other words we have accumulated various things experiences material goods knowledge but use power so our. The desire for continuity is the desire for the perpetuation of a past self or string of selves with which we identify ourselves. And Buddhist inside involves the recognition that the past is perpetually vanishing. There really is no past to continue. And therefore to cling to it to identify oneself with it is to perpetuate an illusion resulting in incessant frustration. Now go to Mum made it very easy to summarize his teaching he was really quite an addict in what we call name on ics in putting things in simple forms so that they could easily be remembered. And he summed up the whole of his doctrine and what is called the 4 fold noble truths. And it's based on an old medical formula. In ancient India. As in almost all ancient cultures every activity was ceremonial ised and when a physician came to pay his call he gave his diagnosis in a ceremonial way he made for pronouncements the 1st pronouncement was the name of the disease the 2nd the cause of the disease the 3rd. The Cure ability of the disease can it be cured yes or no and if it can be cured the 4th pronouncement is the giving of the prescription. And that's exactly the form of go to moes summary of his doctrine. He said in other words the 1st principle is that mankind and indeed all forms of life suffer from a disease which is called in Sanskrit Duca and the most general translation of that word is suffering. The coming suffering in all its forms. Moral physical spiritual. But Western interpretate interpreters of Buddhism have sometimes represented him as saying that life is suffering period. In other words of enunciating a highly pessimistic and world hating doctrine that to be alive is to suffer and that in other words the amount of joy of positive pleasure in life is after all so negligible that the game is not worth the candle. Now if once that is the method of teaching of sages in ancient India. You have to realize that one of their fundamental pedagogical gambits. Is. To arrive at the point of view they wish to inculpate. By is exact method when we walk you know we put down maybe 1st the left foot then we shift to the right foot then the left foot then the right foot and in this way we go along neither to the left not of the right but straight ahead. And you find 2 that in thought. That the human mind tends to go from position to position but it it always when it settles on any fixed position we can always point out that that position is an extreme. For example in scholastic philosophy in the middle ages when some Thomas Aquinas fastened on the idea that God is fundamentally ends all being. A Buddhist philosophy I would point out that he had settled upon an extreme that has an opposite nonbeing. And that therefore his position needs to be corrected by the opposite position somebody else should get up and say No no God is not being God is nonbeing. And from this facing of opposites with each other we arrive at what Buddhism is sometimes called the middle way doesn't mean the compromise position. The middle way is the doctrine of relativity. Of showing that all positions or experiences which we can formulate must always be perceived or no one by contrast with their opposites. So in other words but as doctrine that life is fundamentally the cause of suffering. Is an antithesis directed towards those people who believe that the object of life is to attain suka of sweetness pleasure he is saying in other words. You cannot experience pleasure except. In reference to non pleasure and therefore the more you pursue pleasure the more non pleasure will arise to frustrate you. The more you pursue public wants the more you will feel the impermanence of things. And so it is faster or when we are bent on enjoying ourselves we become at that very moment curiously aware of how rapidly time is slipping by when on the other hand we are not enjoying ourselves we become curiously aware of how time is dragging. So then do come. Arising from an exaggerated pursuit of its opposite becomes the basic characteristic of life. And he goes on to say in his 2nd principle that the cause of this. Is Trishna or grasping sometimes translated desire and indeed I believe the word Trishna doesn't the lie Etymologically the English word thirst. But Trishna is not quite desire for example one's appetite when your haven't eaten for some time and you get hungry this is not Trishna. It's a perfectly natural occurrence Trishna is based in turn on of it which means on wisdom or a simple lack of insight lack of consciousness lack of well a special sense of ignorance not the ordinary sense of ignorance of not being informed but ignore it's action based on ignoring something. And ignorance is not realizing the relativity of experience not realizing the inseparability of pleasure and pain existence and non existence life and death up and down good and bad. So that as a result of such ignoring it's wisdom people try to separate these opposites from each other to Caroll to gain the good ones and to exclude and I hate the bad ones. And as a result of that because these opposites are exist mutually. They go around in circles and that mutual existence of these opposites is a really seems to me the basic meaning of the doctrine of karma which is involved in Buddhism the doctrine of conditioned action which would appear to my eyes in the phrase this arises that becomes other words without this on the one hand this on the one hand always implies that on the other good on the one hand implies bad on the other is on its own. And so if a person a person becomes involved in karma involved in conditioned action leading to a vicious circle if he is ignored of the into dependence of all states of experience. So then the 3rd truth the cure of this suffering is the truth about Nirvana. Nirvana is most grossly mistranslated word in all foreign languages probably because we. Early scholars of Buddhism translated as annihilation and nowadays Nirvana means the state of being doped up to most people popularly used as being. In ecstasy or in a kind of dreamy bliss. And your father doesn't mean that at all it's a state of being very very wide awake state of being completely aware. But the etymology of the word. Is disputed there are several etymologies it you can offer and so I just choose the one I like and that is to blow out as when having tried to hold one's breath you discover that you can't hold it you lose your breath by holding it therefore you expire you day by rate. And so you heave a sigh of relief. And so Nirvana is the sigh of relief the x. Parish an odd piece by rationed. In other words the giving up of the attempt to clutch at life. To hold it in a fixed form to resist change to separate the good side of things from the bad side of Nihal ate the bad side it is the giving up of that fundamentally contradictory self contradictory kind of conduct. And so then in the 4th truth there is a set of the Noble Eightfold Path but as prescription for Dhokha. And the Noble Eightfold Path is really in 3 divisions one of which concerns itself with understanding might almost say intellectual understanding of the doctrine. The one is concerned with conduct and the 3rd part of it is concerned with the state of consciousness or meditation. Now to summarize them briefly the 1st stages of the path such as a right view or I prefer to translate the word some Yuck not so much as right but as perfect in the Greek sense of tell us or complete and. To have a complete view. Is a view which does not take sides which takes the middle path which in other words does not go off to extremes. And so on the part of the eightfold path is concerned with conduct but ism is often represented as having a very exalted ethical system and this is true in a way it does. But also one must recognize the difference between Buddhism and Christianity as an irate as Christianity is ordinarily taught. Is that these ethical ideas are not commandments they are really forms of expedient conduct the Buddha counseled his followers to take upon themselves certain obligations they have not killing not stealing and not exploiting the senses of not getting drunk or intoxicated with poisons not lying not because these were against the will of God or against the fundamental laws of the universe but because they are inexpedient forms of conduct for a person who wants to wake up call if you get thought only doped up you're not liable to be very wide awake. And then finally the end of the path the last stages of it are concerned with one state of consciousness. With the process of what is sometimes called meditation. Of bringing one's mind to its maximum awareness through clear recollection. And then finally the attainment of what is called somebody which means integrated consciousness consciousness no longer under the influence of up India. No longer bamboozled. By the apparent separateness of things which are really inseparably interlinked. Unless somebody could be called Integrated unified consciousness in which it is seeing that the subject to know is inseparable from the object. That man is inseparable from the totality of life and so on and so forth so that somebody at the end of the Earth might be described as being the entry to or realize a shrew the making Greil of the state of Nevada which constitutes in time being it would. Alan Watts the philosopher lecturer author influential interpreter of eastern thought and philosophy scholar of comparative philosophy and psychology he wrote more than 25 books I'm c.s. Song and this is a listener sponsored k p f a the program is against the grain and I am presenting an excerpt I have been presenting an excerpt and I will present another excerpt in a few minutes from a sprawling collection called The Alan Watts library collection it's on 3 m p 3 C.D.'s and it is 28 hours yes 28 hours Alan Watts speaking about eastern thought and philosophy Alan Watts hosted a k p f a radio program for 20 years beginning in 1953 his books have been translated into at least 11 languages and as I mentioned he wrote more than 2 dozen books he held a master's degree in theology for a number of years he taught comparative philosophy and you are listening to a small portion of an amazing library collection a collection on audio on 3 m p 3 C.D.'s It's $180.00. Dollar pledge to k.p. F.a. It's our thank you gift for your pledge of support to k.p. If in the amount of $180.00 or more 180-439-5732 is the number 180-439-5732 or 1800 headache a p.f.a. 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We are also offering an experience which is a book group discussion which will include fellow k p f a listener and supporters and myself I will be of the facilitator of 2 book group discussions 2 sessions of 2 hours each that will meet on the 1st Tuesday of November and the 1st Tuesday of December that's November 6th and a 2nd then December 4th Nov 6th and December 4th in downtown Berkeley it will be in the evening from $7.00 to 9 pm and of the location will be announced but it will be Bart and bus accessible and wheelchair accessible for $220.00 pledge to k. P.f.a. You can request as your thank your gift participation in these 2 book group discussions and the focus will be one of Alan Watts is very popular books this book is Become what you are that will be the book and we will talk about it and investigate it and explore the many ideas that he brings forth in that book on November 6th and December 4th in downtown Berkeley from $7.00 to 9 pm a $220.00 pledge gets you that book group session 180-439-5732 extension 1800 headache 8 p.f.a. 180-439-5732 I would absolutely love to meet you I would love to hear about what you think about what you are reading from Alan Watts we've presented Alan Watts various lectures by on watts over the years I know many people are engaged with him are very interested in him oh many have asked before for this Alan Watts library collection yours for $180.00 pledge that's as good a deal as we can give you by the way as a thank you gift $180.00 pledge 28 hours of Alan Watts talking to you and sharing his insights into eastern philosophy. 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Radio broadcast his radio program on k p f a which ran from 1953 to 1973 Well this is our chance to sit down and really discuss and share our ideas and our impressions of Alan Watts and what he's what he is saying and I love Eastern philosophy I've learned a fair amount over the years about Buddhism and Taoism I taught a community class at one point on dollars I'm taking and several classes on Buddhist and I was I've gone to Dharma lectures hundreds of them over the years so if this is a topic that very interesting to me and while I'm not an expert on Buddhism I would love to be able to sit down with you and talk about Alan Watts and what he is saying in this very interesting book become what you are 1804395732 again $220.00 for the 2 session book discussion $180.00 for the Alan Watts library collection and we have a special combo pack which is the Alan Watts library collection plus the 2 book group discussions on November 6th and December 4th and Berkeley in the evening that's a dollar a day. For k. P.f. a $365.00 pledge to k.p. F.a. Gets you both the Alan Watts library collection and this 2 session book group discussion join me or join the folks who have gotten the library collection over the years and have really a learned a ton about eastern philosophy including Buddhism and Hinduism and Taoism and Confucianism from. One of the most influential interpreters of eastern thought and philosophy. And I want to return now to more of the phone number again 1800 Hey Kate p.f.a. Or you can pledge securely online a cake p.f.a. Dot oh ard she now let us return to more of. The Alan Watts library collection this is another talk that is part of the collection it's called Insight and ecstasy I think it's terribly important to understand that if you're interested in Eastern philosophy if you're studying Hindu is a more Buddhism or something of that kind. Was the object of attaining ecstasy that this is a complete misunderstanding that must really be a distinction between acts to say that is to say the thrill of the kick the delight the joy of a mystical experience and the experience itself because the experience itself. May or may not have exodus as a consequence that is simply a byproduct the experience itself is always a matter of insight and the insight the understanding of the way things are what you are what life is. May indeed produce ecstasy because sometimes this understanding is an enormous relief. And. That is the reason when one has been battling say with some tremendous problems of only finds the whole thing disappears when you've been terrified at something or anxious about something and all the grounds for anxiety vanish and very naturally you feel enormously happy and joyous. And also I would add that the kind of insight which is the essence of the core of this sort of experience has a way of making the ordinary everyday world seem extraordinarily beautiful and that again is a byproduct whereas things before seemed rather dim and oppressive you know how even on a fine day if you're feeling sad or depressed the actual landscape somehow looks dim whereas on the other hand if you're feeling wonderful the landscape itself looks wonderful and so in the same way one has had certain insights which bring about an extraordinary sense of relief from the oppression of certain problems then very naturally everything in the world looks a lot better and you could even go so far as to say it seems transfused with the Divine Light speaking 1st of all from say a Buddhist standpoint there's no doubt in my mind that the insight in question that constitutes what is called Sartori in zen. Or in more general Buddhism Botti which means awakening and this is not the vision of something like a god underlying the world. Although Buddhist philosophy occasionally uses expressions like the great void or such ness of the Dharma Kaya the absolute reality. And thus gives the impression that it has a belief in some sort of continuum underlying the world in rather the same way that water is a continuum in which fish movement is the continuum in which men move there are many many texts in the literature of my hyaena Buddhism which explicitly deny that this is the meaning. It would be much more correct to describe what they call the void as a state of complete mental clarity. In which one ceases entirely to be bothered by false problems because the basic thesis of but his philosophy is that the sufferings we agonise of mankind especially the psychological ones derive almost entirely from false problems from bothering our heads over questions that are not real questions at all and when these problems are solved when it is seen that we were asking the wrong question. Then one gets this astonishing sensation of seeing that problems exist only as it were in a mental fear they exist as a result of thought whereas the Weald which is not thought the world which simply is is entirely free from problems. Now of course that is something extraordinarily contrary to our general common sense we think the physical world is full of problems and we have thought as a valuable instrument to enable us to solve them. And its true thought is a valuable instrument but valuable we might ask for whom valuable for those who can use it but not so valuable for those who are used by those who in other words are hoodwinked by thinking. Into problems which would not exist otherwise and which really have no reason to exist not at the stake as a simple example. The common philosophical problem with which we've been obsessed in the West centuries the problems which are called ontology are the Study of being in the problems of the piston mileage or study of knowledge . These problems very largely have to do with the inquiry as to who all what I am that supposed to monitor and who or what the whole universe is that is on television. And. They derive from what appears to be the common sense feeling that processes of any kind actions of any kind have to have behind them an agent. In other words if we know. We ask very natural the question Who or what knows if we see a movement or an action we ask who or what moves and underlying the whole history of scientific inquiry into a quite recent times that has been the to know what ultimately underlies the process of the universe. And you see this has its roots in the historic division of life into to categorize the categories substance and out of function we. Always seem to feel that wherever we see activity operation movement energy that there must be some thing which does it. Now many of you who've read the writings of that extraordinarily interesting American linguist of Benjamin people off will remember how he pointed out the arbitrariness of this distinction between events and things. How for example he showed that very often in our language. Phenomena which are clearly events on masquerading in words which seem to suggest that there are things and he made some most interesting discussions in his book Language thought and reality about what we really mean by the distinction between these 2 classes. To which we assign in our language nouns for things and verbs for events but of course in recent philosophy it's become more and more clear to us. That we can use verbal language or process language or operational language to discuss almost anything we want in a natural phenomena can be described as doing rather than being and in general this is a very useful way of talking about things we in other words dispense with an unnecessary duality in language an unnecessary distinction between process and entity and what appear to be entities can always be described in terms of perhaps a slower type of process than the things we've normally described by by verbs. And if we consider this then. Stop talking about everything that happens in process language an operational language. We suddenly see that things are entities that is to say the who all want that done something the agent behind the act these things completely disappear a famous instance which was gave of this was in the Hopi language that when we say light flashed the hope is just a flash and he pointed out that's much more accurate because the flashing is of course the light. But. In this way we have created a thing behind the act which is a sort of ghost. And. The objective of Buddhist discipline is as one of those in Moscow put it to beat the ghosts out of you now or in the same way you see when we know something we act it's a very basic common sense supposition. But we are the agent behind the actor but in other words behind thought there's a thinker behind experience and experience. Behind perception he perceiver. And we are all of us who see tremendously concerned with this image the do of the agent which has become our image of ourselves you might call it our self image if you speak in a psychological jargon and this is the thing we're all concerned about its future its history its destiny what's going to become of it and so on and so forth but through planet it can turn out that this thing that we fancy ourselves to be simply is a figure of thought or a figure of speech and is not there at all and the only reason why this makes us feel astounded and bothered and unbelieving is the momentum of a habit of thought we although we may it may become sort of intellectually clear to us that this is so we still have deep in us the habit of attributing all actions to an agent and it's difficult for us to realize to become really clear that this is only figurative that there is no as it were a distinct order of being that is the doing as distinct from the deed so. One is then confronted when one realizes this vividly and with the astonishing realize ation. That one is not this entity that one supposed oneself to be that one is not being pushed around by the laws of physical necessity the difficulty is you see that the thought is as it were a system of symbols that stands apart from life and represents it just as words stand apart from things and represent them they don't really stand apart from the words and noises and thoughts are sensations or images and they only apparently stand apart well as we identify ourselves to so large an extent without thinking process we naturally come to feel that we are to stand apart from life and as a result of this we have the customary feeling that when we are not distracted with ought we are have a curious feeling of emptiness of having no time of being very well just being evaporating histories but of course if you stand apart from life you're dead but we don't really stand apart but we think we do and therefore when one recovers from that illusion and the sense of one's separateness of one's being a thing an agent simply disappears it's not a kind of fatalistic situation because the feeling of fatalism is that one is the agent but one is being pushed around. And so this disappearance and this loss of the sense of separation between the subject and the object the thinker and thought and in term of thought and life could be called you see a sense of unity to which one might if one were a Christian give the sense of union with God but a Buddhist doesn't give it that sense and the sense it involves release from the problem of oneself the lifting of a colossal burden from one shoulder. May ensue ecstasy. But the ecstasy itself has nothing to do with it it's simply a byproduct of the inside of living in a physical world that is totally free from. Most of the sort of problems if not all the thought problems about which we continuously be top bodies and brains. His name is Alan Watts he had a radio program on k p f a for 20 years beginning in 1953 they were enormously popular and he was also popular with the public with the Us public with the Western public because he wrote books and he lectured and he philosophized and he interpreted Eastern thought and philosophy for Western audiences he was praised by people like Joseph Campbell he studied with the Buddhist scholars d.t. Suzuki and Christmas Humphreys he wrote lots of books his books have been translated into at least 11 languages and we are so happy I am c.s. 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