In this remastered talk from the Tao for Now series, Alan Watts explores how our experience of reality is shaped by the selective nature of our senses – and by the mental habits we inherit long before we know we’re choosing anything at all. Using vivid images of vibrations, music, and childhood perception, he reveals how our labeling of experience as “good” or “bad” traps us in a rigid game of control.
Watts guides us toward a simpler art: feeling life directly, without forcing, naming, or trying to improve ourselves.
Meditation, as he describes it, is not effort – it is the release of compulsive complexity, the relaxing of the endless verbal chatter, and a return to the only place we ever truly are: the present.
This talk moves from the nature of energy to the freedom of “no-mind,” inviting us into a way of being where experience is allowed to unfold on its own, without resistance and without judgment.
Tao for Now is part of the Eastern Wisdom audio collection, and brings together Alan Watts’ essential teachings on flow, perception, and the natural ease that arises when we stop trying to control the mind with the mind. This episode, Meditation and Flow, offers a clear doorway into a more effortless relationship with experience.
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“Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Alan Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the un-writable’. Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit. A fascinating entry into the deepest ways of knowing.” — Los Angeles Times
Video recorded in Kintamani, Bali, 2025
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