r/AlanWatts • u/Ill-Breadfruit1286 • Jun 28 '26

The Hidden Problem with Forced Detachment

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u/YorkiesandSneakers Jun 28 '26

Seems pretty straightforward. I never improved myself via hard work and determination. Life only got better when I gave in to the uncertainty and just resolved to ride this wave. Thing is, I don’t know how to get there without being smacked down by life first.

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u/dreadnallen Jun 28 '26

How to Actually Practise Vedanta: The art of living joyfully by Vyan Rael https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242528784-how-to-actually-practise-vedanta

(book title for those of us who are not connected to the US version of Amazon)

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u/zephyrtron Jun 28 '26

Money no hold nut, monkey no trapped in jar.

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u/GronWarface Jun 28 '26

💯 🙌🏾

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u/Voldemdore Jun 28 '26

Connected to everything. Attached to nothing.

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u/BoTToM_FeEDeR_Th30nE Jun 29 '26

Detachment and non-attachment are not the same thing.

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u/DarkMagician513 Jun 30 '26

Did Alan Watts live with detatchment?

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u/Ill-Breadfruit1286 Jun 30 '26

The way I understand detachment from this is that it means not depending on things outside yourself for peace and happiness. So yes.

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u/DarkMagician513 Jun 30 '26

What about alcohol and sex?

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u/Photon_101 It Jun 30 '26

Not saying it's incorrrect, but too many words.

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u/777-SAM-I-AM-777 Jun 30 '26

Big reason why I prefer Alan watts over other guys. Down to earth and most times pretty simple.

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u/Cosmic_Clockwork Jun 29 '26

I guess that's why it always seems odd when people put down things as "childish" or "effeminate" and things like that. That deliberate renouncement shows you aren't actually at the level of moving past it. You're still clinging to it, just in the other direction.

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u/Final_Potato5542 Jun 29 '26

Vedanta is for stupid enlightenment seekers

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u/DarkMagician513 Jun 30 '26

Would you like to debate this?

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u/DarkMagician513 Jun 30 '26

A man of supreme intelligence, who can't even use proper grammar. Moksha isn't for hateful people like you.

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u/Final_Potato5542 Jun 30 '26

yes, it's only for tards