Outside Context

My favor­ite philo­sopher to listen to is, (apart from myself; as all philo­soph­ers love talk­ing to them­selves!) Alan Watts.

Wiki helps us with:

Alan Wilson Watts was a philo­sopher, writer, speaker, and stu­dent of com­par­at­ive reli­gion. He was best known as an inter­preter and pop­ular­izer of Asian philo­sophies for a West­ern audi­ence. He wrote more than twenty-five books and numer­ous art­icles on sub­jects such as per­sonal iden­tity, the true nature of real­ity, higher con­scious­ness, mean­ing of life, con­cepts and images of God and the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness, relat­ing his exper­i­ence to sci­entific know­ledge and to the teach­ings of East­ern and West­ern reli­gions or philosophies.

He was an amaz­ing speaker and a hol­istic zen mas­ter.  There are many clips and sites ded­ic­ated to his speeches, but here I present a real gem that I found on You Tube.  Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South­park fame cre­ated the fol­low­ing short anim­a­tion to explain one of the most import­ant of Watts’ ideas.  Ideas he under­stood rather than cre­ated, but still ones that he was a true genius at put­ting accross.

What is the mean­ing of life?  Click to find out!

I must say that I totally agree with him and for me this ques­tion is hereby answered.

Basho