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
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.
“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
Listen to more Alan Watts talks:
Being in the Way Ep. 1: Alan shares a dharma talk on Taoism, the interdependence of nature, and dropping out of karma
Alan Watt’s son, Mark, shares background on Alan’s early life, before introducing two of his father’s specially curated dharma talks focused on karma, in Being in the Way Ep. 2
Therapy, religion, mystical experiences, & Jesus: Being in the Way Ep. 6
The connections between Taoism and relativity, technology and human evolution, culture and separation: Being in the Way Ep. 3