This is one of several animated short films set to the audio recordings of philosopher Alan Watts (1915 -- 1973). From what I can tell, the animations were made several years ago and were produced by the makers of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park infamy have recently (and quietly) been dishing out some ill animation slices that illustrate gems from the archives of Alan Watts. Check 'em out.
http://souljerky.com/_media/swf/alan_watts_i.swf
From Lecture of Alan Watts
*souljerky.com
This is brill... wondering if it's part of something larger...
ReplyDeleteOh yes... just a part of something larger,
ReplyDeletecomplicated, expanding from within
and gradually complicates itself
expanding outward
like a bud blossoming
like a seed turning into a plant...
"I", an island of consciousness locked up in a bag of skin facing outsiders, in the sense that what is out side me is not me...
".... I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made....." - A.E. Housman
Where there are rocks,
watch out, watch out!
Because the rocks are
going eventually
to be alive....
Huh? 1:29 LOL
For every outside, there's an inside,
and for every inside, there's an outside.
And although they are different,
they go together...
That which you really are,
fundamentally and forever,
is the WHOLE of being...
All that there is, the works - that's you.
The whole cosmos expresses itself
in you, in you, in you,
with all the different variations.
"For whom the LORD loves He chastens...
when's He's gonna hit next?" :-)
Being a stranger in the earth...
In constant contentiousness
with everything around you.....
Utimately, realize that
the external world
is our body extended...
Thanks so much! I hope to watch and get back to you... This is exactly what I was looking for.
ReplyDeleteI posted those animations to the Buddhist Travellers group when I saw it yesterday. I'm sure they enjoyed it also. :^)
ReplyDeletehttp://roulette404.multiply.com/video/item/330/Alan_Watts_The_Entertainer
You're welcome.
ReplyDeleteAlan Watts is the
perfect spiritual teacher -
with him, even the most obfuscating
facts of life comes unraveled
with unmistakable crystal-clearness
and humor......
Good to know they enjoyed it.
ReplyDelete(Oh, I'm a Buddhist Travelers member, too,
non-active, though :-) )
There are many paths to
perfect enlightenment as
when we cultivate a
natural awareness of "things".
Alan Watts with his
characteristic clarity,
can be likened to spiritual ophthalmologist,
making people see into one's nature
and become enlightened....
Lol, I'm still confused though. ;-) pondering it though... I liked the floodlight image of mystical experience, though this does not match anything I've experienced.
ReplyDeleteSame sentiments...
ReplyDeleteAll seems abstract,
yet with a bit of
"floodlight" consciousness
(not a bit, double-dosed,
more like it LOL),
taking baby-steps
towards more understanding...
To see the other side of the coin, or dice, or ... Absolutely I try to do that all the time, to be balanced. I never think of that as floodlight consciousness, more of a point consciousness from a point of neutrality.
ReplyDelete"... and so, we see ourselves as confronted by a world that doesn't give a damn about us."
ReplyDeleteI suppose my question would be, when, where and by whom was it ever implied that the world SHOULD give a damn about us? And, if we do declare that it is implied by our very existence that a particular entity or something conscious should care about us, are we not stating that this entity does in fact exists and is conscious? Because if we truly believe that this entity does not exist, why would we even think to bring up the possibility that it, or any other part of the world, should have the obligation to care at all?
~Manfred