Alan Watts: The Middle Way to Freedom | Buddha’s Eight-Fold Path

Alan Watts – The Eight-Fold Path (Out of Your Mind, The World As Emptiness – Part 1)

Alan Watts unpacks the Buddha’s Noble Eight-Fold Path — not as “rules,” but as a complete and balanced way of seeing, living, and awakening. With his wit and clarity, Watts reveals why “right” is a mistranslation, and how samyak truly points toward wholeness, balance, and the Middle Way.

This lecture blends humor (a classic story of Dr. Suzuki forgetting the second step) with timeless insight on the path of understanding, conduct, and meditation.

✨ What you’ll explore in this talk:

➡️ Why the word samyak means “complete” rather than “right”
➡️ How the Eight-Fold Path is divided into wisdom, conduct, and meditation
➡️ The Middle Way as a point of balance, not dogma
➡️ The Eight-Fold Path as a way of dissolving suffering, not adding rules

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