Alan Watts’ timeless wisdom offers clarity on how to free yourself from unrealistic expectations and embrace love as a state of being rather than a fleeting emotion. By watching, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of human connection, discover why disappointment often follows romantic ideals, and learn how to approach love with maturity, authenticity, and inner peace. This isn’t just a speech—it’s a life-changing perspective that will help you see love in a way you never have before.
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Why the Knower Cannot Be “Known”: Advaita Vedanta and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad asks, “By what can one know the Knower?” Modern neuroscience and philosophy of mind echo the same puzzle in the “hard problem of consciousness.” Instruments and theories can track brain states and behavior, but never Awareness itself—the very light by which all knowing occurs. Advaita Vedānta makes the radical move: the Knower is not an object of study but the Self, svayam-prakāśa, self-luminous. To seek it as an object is like the eye trying to see itself. Liberation lies in abiding as That, not in endless inquiry.
Know Thyself
“The problem with us is that we are so busy trying to understand the world and others that we have … More