Likewise bad behavior can never be justified, it can be understood, forgiven, forgotten but never justified. It takes even more humbleness to learn from that source. It takes humbleness to accept that someone else is better at something than you are.

Especially in this realm of practical personal development, as in habits or behaviour we like to improve. These are of great benefit and will get many of us interested and searching for more, looking deeper.įor a real teacher (can be anyone or anything), for a real school of thought and for a real path you have to find purity. Remember that today and for all future, it’s only the recordings that are left, besides the books and some video footage. As if knowing more about the messenger will make us understand and embody the message more…Īlan Watts was some kind of messenger, he pointed to some aspects that can (if you pursue them for real) change your life for the better. It’s hard in our culture, that has an inherent addiction of adoring and focusing on the persona and not the message. If we focus on what ignites the greatness in a person, the messenger becomes irrelevant. But to what point? Do you know there are saints who actually were mass murderers? Still people pray over them. There are many wo/men that we can analyze like this. To justify or re-rationalize his life choices. One cannot think he didn’t regret it all somehow and the “life as a play” talk he gave was interesting and inspiring for us, but for him perhaps a way to distance himself from his own immature behavior. The fact he drank a lot later in his life means he probably felt much of the past coming back to him – or more simply put, that’s his own business. But, the women in his life knew what they were into and what kind of man he was, the choice was theirs. Second, having many marriages and cheating on your beloved one is stupid, disgusting, a lack of maturity, self awareness and respect. First of all, being an alcoholic is bad but it’s not the worst of crimes. I looked up some discussion about this dualism people find out about Alan Watts – I see that some people reevaluate their position on whether or not to continue to like Alan Watts (meaning feeling cheated while listening to the recordings). It’s hard in our culture, that has an inherent way of adoring and focusing on the persona and not the message. In both men, as with yourself, you can find faults and aspects of faulty character attributes that aren’t living up to some image, that once again, is based upon our eventual ego-biased belief system.

Krishnamurti as an example of someone who walks the talk and who never took money for opening his mouth, yet people swarmed to him. But what’s wrong with that? Now, we could take U.G. He even said in one of his lectures, that he was an entertainer of ideas and it pays well off. There are facts about Alan Watts being an alcoholic, a cheater on his wives and generally that he talked good and inspiring about ideas – but didn’t walk the talk or let his own talk make him better.

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