Ep. 31 – Religion of No Religion

Alan Watts Being in the Way

Explaining the delicate balance of religiousness, Alan Watts lectures on the principle of leaving no trace.

“Religion of No Religion” is part of the Japan Tour 1965 series of talks that you can listen to in full over at the Alan Watts Streaming Channel

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In this episode, Alan Watts explains:

• How the highest kind of a Buddha is like an ordinary person
• Imitation and how all religious comments about life become cliches
• The way of the enlightened man as the track of a bird in the sky
• Zen Buddhism and the dance between metaphysical and ordinary
• Balance and compatibility between universality and the particulars
• The problem with being too spiritual or too worldly
• The connection of all events in the universe, past, present, and future
• How everything in the universe depends upon each other

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.

“All religion, all religious comments about life, eventually become cliches. That’s why religion always is falling apart and becoming a certain kind of going through the motions, a kind of imitation of attitudes.” – Alan Watts

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