Focusing on cosmic balance, Alan Watts outlines the fundamentals of Taoism and how to skillfully interfere with our environment.Find the full Zen and the Art of the Controlled Accident series of talks at <a href="https://play.alanwatts.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">play.alanwatts.org</a>.Today’s episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.betterhelp.com/alan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">betterhelp.com/</a><a href="https://www.betterhelp.com/beherenow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">alan</a>&nbsp;and get on your way to being your best&nbsp;self.This time on Being in the Way, Alan Watts shares a lecture on:<ul><li>The philosophy of Taoism</li><li>Taoism as the flow of things / the course of nature</li><li>The pervasive illusion of separateness and seeing it within our language</li><li>How we only experience the world bit-by-bit</li><li>A transformation of our everyday consciousness into oneness</li><li>How we are all indestructible beyond the ego</li><li>Life as a game of yin and yang, crests and troughs</li><li>The fundamental idea of mutual arising</li><li>How everything we do interferes with our environment</li><li>Learning how to interfere skillfully</li></ul>This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit&nbsp;<a href="https://alanwatts.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alanwatts.org</a>&nbsp;for full talks from Alan Watts.“We are not ordinarily aware of how we’re aware, and as a result of that, we don’t understand our connection with the world, and we don’t understand what our real self is. We get anxious; we’re afraid that death may be the end of us. This is, of course, the purest superstition, because everybody is indestructible.”&nbsp;– Alan WattsSee Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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