Mythology of Hinduism 3

Wow. Alan Watts is deep. He had my attention at first and I understood the basic jist of what he was saying and then he just obliterated my head. I'd never thought of dreaming like the way he explained in the podcast. It was sort of interesting, and was also very true. The only problem with what he was saying would be the whole falling into dreams for 75 years. If you think about it, you would go out and chase danger for thrills and change because you would get bored of having everything you want all the time. This can be compared to teenagers. We've been tired of having hat secure place where everything is nice and happy and we explore danger and thrills. This is due to not only lack of judgement, but also want of some change and thrill. It is true what he said about how we use technology for our every need. We use it for pretty much everything which is now coming back to haunt us because of pollution, laziness of people, expenses, and also war has been more prominent with better technology. I don't agree with his statement that all futures are past and that they have already happened because I can do things tomorrow that I have never done before. Maybe it's just me but that statement doesn't seem right. I really liked how Watts linked the gods and the religions to play through music and dance. This really puts things into perspective. He seems to like to use play and music together because I was watching a video on YouTube and he was talking about how we can make work play by treating work as play and becoming fascinated by moving cars, building things, treating peopled, etc. His comment about how the self is both the audience and the actor to Hindus was confusing at first. Actually, now that I think of it, it does make sense because people do tend to hide from themselves. Sometimes we will fool ourselves into thinking that we feel emotions or want to do things when we don't actually want to. In other words we hide ourselves from our true feelings about things all the time because of what society, our peers, or the government want from us. I really liked how Watts talked about music and dance, although I do think that art could be put into that category. Art, dance, and music all are forms of expressing oneself and are not done for a purpose such as getting somewhere or doing something. They are a representation of how a person is reacting/feeling about him or herself, feeling about life, and feeling about the world in general. These arts try to evoke emotion from viewers and listens and/or present the emotions that the artist(s) is feeling. I didn't really care for his way of saying that play has many different meanings. It seemed to sort of take things a little overboard to me. The views that Alan Watts has are very interesting and I don't mind listening to him too much. The audio files are a little rough because a moving picture always makes things more endurable. I might look into what he has to say a little more in the future.

Comments: I commented on Kurtis and Tyler's blogs. I agreed with Tyler in that it was easier to understand when we learned it in class. I also agree that it was really tough to understand, but I found that a second viewing really helped me get a grasp on things. I agreed with what Kurtis was saying but I mentioned to him that he sorta has to look at things from a whole new angle and that will help him understand them. I told him that same thing that I told Tyler which was that a second viewing helps out a lot.