Allan Watts on thinking

[tsuki]

The whole lecture is very interesting, but I am specifically pointing to 1:09:37.
This is the part in which he talks about thinking with the 'empty mind'.

Just as a curiosity to explore.

[Faceless]

I have heard this one as well. When I started to investigate what had happened to me I stumbled upon this and was shocked at the similarities in what he discusses with my own experience. 

 

[Faceless]

Points at words, thought-thoughts, (inward happenings), are actualities just as much as a rock, tree, and mountains in and of themselves. 

And that through the false division we introduce fragmentation into the equation, which in itself is manifested by this duality between the thinker and the thought, the experiencer and the experienced, and the observer and the observed. When in actuality, there is only thought-thoughts, an experiencing, and an observing. 

As Watts says, “ the inside is not separate form the outside”, or “people are not separate from the world, but are  something the world-universe is doing.” Or as I have put it “THE HAPPENING” 

Or as he has said, “just as an apple tree apples, the world peoples.” ?

Good stuff. 

Indeed so @tsuki, ??

Edited August 12, 2018 by Faceless