Alan Watts has earned a reputation as one of the foremost interpreters of Eastern philosophies for the West beginning at age 16 in England.
That was when he wrote an essay for the journal of the Buddhist Lodge in London and began to develop an audience of millions who have been enriched through his books, recordings, TV, radio, and public lectures.
In all, Watts wrote more than 25 books and recorded hundreds of lectures and seminars, all building toward a personal philosophy that he shares in complete candor and joy with his readers and listeners throughout the world.
His overall works have presented a model of individuality and self-expression that can be matched by few philosophers. Pacifica Los Angeles (KPFK.org) continues to air Watts on Sunday mornings and during Something's Happening at midnight on Thursday nights overnight to Friday.
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"Buddhist Radio" is Wisdom Quarterly's name for KPFK's Something's Happening with Roy of Hollywood, which airs Sunday mornings at 8:00 am and Thursday nights at midnight. Alan Watts is featured as are other notable Buddhist names. With the recent passing of radio innovator Roy Tuckman, Pacific Free Speech Radio, Los Angeles, is continuing the series.
Don't forget to not take anything too seriously. Happy listening!
Some great quotes from The Works of Alan Watts
"A ready wit goes with the Tao" (WQ).
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do, you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax and float."
"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky; you look in you."
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
"I owe my solitude to other people."
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes."
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
Buddhist Radio Los Angeles (Something's Happening with Roy of Hollywood Tuckman on KPFK 90.7 FM) carries on even though the world has lost Roy to Mara, the Grim Reaper. A broadcaster with a speech impediment seems to be keeping the torch going, if not Tuckman's wife the nurse.
(Spiritual Library) Alan Watts explains Hinduism completely, which should give some insight into what Mahayana or popular Buddhism is, deviating quite a bit from what the historical Buddha Siddhartha Gautama taught in opposition to the Brahman priests of proto-India (or the remnants of ancient Bharat).
Great Bharat (Maha-Bharata) is a great ancient civilization that is part of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro surrounding Gandhara.
Could anyone call Roy Tuckman "healthy"?
So Brahmanism, which modern Hinduism claims as its cornerstone as the preservation of the Vedas, goes way back. So, too, does Buddhism because of previous teaching buddhas (samma-sam-buddhas) the historical Buddha named and talked about.
They existed kalpas ("aeons, epochs, ages") ago; however, the Sanskrit word kalpa (Pali kappa) is a variable term.
It can mean an ordinary lifespan for that period, geologic time, cosmic time, lasting from 120 years (like today) or millions and millions of years, or even periods so staggering as to boggle the mind that attempts to contemplate them.
There is the great kalpa, a day in the life of Brahma (the Supreme), a night of Brahma, a chaotic period before things reform again for another cycle. There is the indeterminate kalpa which may last even longer. One might imagine Big Bangs and Big Contractions, long periods of evolution, long periods of devolutions, and even interstitial periods of chaos before things impersonally organize themselves again.
The Buddha talked about previous buddhas from kalpas ago. How long ago was that? It seems that some of them were within history and, of course, most of them were prehistorical. Alongside buddhas teachings, there seem to have been Brahmin priests with their Vedas or "Books of Knowledge" handed down by the devas (shining celestial space beings who came to earth to help humankind), which we might think of as "angels" or "gods" or "demigods."
Roy of Hollywood Tuckman, Something's Happening, Pacifica L.A. (KPFK.org), Wisdom Quarterly
"Not What Should Be, Not What Might Be, But What Is" by Alan Watts
(Look Within)
Alan Watts fits right in with YouTube Myth & Religion Part 1 | Motivational Speeches. For more inspirational lectures and motivational speeches on YouTube, let's begin with Myth & Religion Part 1: "Not What Should Be, Not What Might Be, But What Is."
Every Sunday morning at 8:00, Roy Tuckman presents a segment of Something's Happening (his midnight show, weeknights on Pacifica Los Angeles at kpfk.org). This half hour of Alan Watts provides a short Sunday service of sorts for a Buddhist and Eastern twist, following a long Black Christian service with gospel singing and celebrating.
Let's open our eye, our third eye, and look within with Alan Watts (playlist). Who's Alan Watts? Born on Jan. 6, 1915, he passed on Nov. 16, 1973. He was a British writer and lecturer on Buddhism who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy, particularly Zen and Hinduism and Taoism, for a Western audience. See more at en.wikipedia.org
What is Nirvana? The closest thing in Christianity and Judaism and Islam, the Abrahamic faiths (rooted in Sumerian religion), might be GOD.
Not God (Maha Brahma the Supreme), the personal divinity, but what in Hinduism is called Brahman (godhead, godhood) -- divine awareness, omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, touching and merging with Source -- the supreme reality behind all illusion.
Sex is like that, a sampling of that, as Usama bin Laughin was hinting at yesterday when he lost his religion and became a bad Muslim.
For many of us, it is only during sex that we merge with something bigger than ourselves and are relieved of our small sense of self, selfishness, and limits. It's as if we touch the Buddhist teaching of selflessness or emptiness or pure freedom (anatta), the insight that all things are actually impersonal and therefore not worth clinging to or getting angry or confused about (manifestations of the Three Poisons greed, hatred, and delusion).
Roy of Hollywood Tuckman, Something's Happening A and B (KPFK.org/archives, 90.7 FM Los Angeles or kpfk.org, midnight to 5:00 AM); Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly
Roy of Hollywood turns Thursday nights (beginning at midnight in what is technically Friday morning, July 19) into a kind of Buddhist Radio broadcasting center, featuring Alan Watts (who is also featured on Sunday mornings at 8:00 AM) and Jack Gariss and notable teachers like Shinzen Young, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, and other prominent Americans particularly from the SoundsTrue.com catalog. Listen free for 90 days following the broadcast in the Archives as illustrated above. More
Roy of Hollywood (Something's Happening), KPFK; Dhr. Seven, S. Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly
It's amazing but little known that Los Angeles gets Buddhism over its airwaves [and online at archives.kpfk.org, (800) 735-4230]
The amazing Pacifica Free Speech Radio station KPFK.org (90.7 FM) is the ultimate source of independent programming in a town littered with bad commercial radio.
This is thanks to Roy of Hollywood, whose main show, "Something's Happening," plays overnight and is available free for 90 days in the archives.
Zen Teacher/"Spiritual Entertainer" Alan Watts is played on Sunday mornings at 8:00 am and Thursday nights. This week also featured Jack Kornfield, Pema Chodron, and others.
Buddhist Radio comes on Pacifica Los Angeles (kpfk.org) and plays Alan Watts on Sunday mornings at 8:00 am.
What is the real cause so we can prevent it?
Roy of Hollywood Tuckman's "Something's Happening A and B" comes on most weeknights from midnight to 6:00 am, when we enjoy DemocracyNow.orgwith Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, and Nermeen Sheikh.
Precious Buddhist talks about meditation and spirituality come on, often courtesy of SoundsTrue.com with Tami Simon. Many famous authors -- such as Jon Kabat-Zinn, Shinzen Young, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Pema Chodron, Joan Halifax, and Alan Watts -- are featured. They are then also available in the Pacifica Archive (archive.kpfk.org) under "Something's Happening" for a few weeks.
The show goes on for hours, often tackling some of the most important medical issues of the day: vaccines, cures for many "incurable" diseases, wonderful treatment, natural remedies, and things your doctor and dentist will never tell you about because it is not in the financial interest of the medical associations that license and therefore govern all licensed doctors. A doctor would have her/his license pulled and open her/himself to prosecution and censure for telling a truth that cut into the paychecks of colleagues, no matter what harm silence is doing to patients and us all. KPFK
Scroll down to Sunday, September 16, 2018 8:00 am show at archive.kpfk.org.
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