Challenging conventional ideas of sex and marriage, Alan Watts discusses surrendering to the divine madness of love.

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In this episode of Being in the Way, Alan Watts ponders:

• Falling in love as one of the most insane things we can do
• The idea of marriage versus the experience of falling in love
• The secret intent of the Christian repression of sex
• Sexual yoga and seeing our partner as a mutual guru and student
• The unpredictability of falling in love
• Being truthful and setting each other free within a relationship
• Love and the act of surrendering to another person

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“Love is an act of surrender to another person, total abandonment. I give myself to you. Take me. Do anything you like with me. So, that’s quite mad. It’s letting things get out of control. Actually, the course of wisdom (what is really sensible) is to let go, to commit oneself, to give oneself up, and that’s quite mad. So we come to the strange conclusion that in madness lies sanity.” —Alan Watts

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Alan Watts reveals the harmony of embracing our human role while also recognizing that we are the entire cosmos.

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This time on the Being in the Way podcast, Alan Watts discusses:

• Remembering our inherent oneness with all things
• Living on two levels at once: the relative world and the ultimate reality
• Understanding life as a “controlled accident” and learning to play our social roles on demand
• Pretending not to notice the fundamental light of existence
• Seeing life’s most serious predicaments as part of a cosmic game
• Recognizing how our fascination with details can cause us to lose sight of the bigger picture
• Engaging fully in the game of life while recognizing our true nature

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

"Deep down, who are you? That’s the thing that’s been forgotten. That’s the underside of the tapestry, the thing that’s been left out because what we are carefully taught to ignore is that every one of us, fundamentally, deep, deep inside, is an act of, function of, performance of, manifestation of the works, the whole blinking cosmos with all its galaxies.” –Alan Watts

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Dismantling the illusion of separation, Alan Watts shares how recognizing our fundamental unity with the universe transforms the way we live, perceive, and prepare for death.

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This week on Being in the Way, Alan Watts lectures on:

• Playing hide and seek with our true selves
• How your body knows that you are one with the universe
• Seeing things versus noticing things
• The yoga of preparing for death
• The partial view that the ego keeps us trapped in
• The continuous energy of our bodies
• Dissolving the distinction between voluntary and involuntary behavior
• The transaction between the individual and the world

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

“Doesn’t it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing and that you’re doing all of this and you never had any education in how to do it? You never learned, but you’re this miracle. From a strictly physical, scientific standpoint, this organism is a continuous energy with everything else that’s going on. If I am my foot, I am the sun. Only, we’ve got this little partial view. We’ve got the idea that ‘I’m just something in this body’, the ego, that’s a joke.” –Alan Watts

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