“So then the course of the world is a constant flow…”
Watts explores the idea that all beings are like whirlpools in a stream, forms that appear stable, yet are made entirely of movement and change. A meditation on impermanence, pattern, and the dance of existence itself.
Released this weekend on YouTube: Alan Watts’ remastered talk Being in the Way 2, now part of our growing full-length All Natural playlist series.
Filmed among the waterfalls and forests of Thailand, this visual journey pairs Watts’ reflections on energy, flow, and interconnectedness with immersive nature cinematography as a response to the growing wave of AI-generated imitations online.
Watch now on YouTube through the All Natural playlist series.
Transcript “So then the course of the world is a constant flow. I used the analogy last night of each person being like a whirlpool in a stream. Now, you see, the form of a whirlpool, as you watch it, remains fairly constant. But the water, it never stays in it, you see. So in exactly the same way, all things and all people, all plants and whatsoever there is, is a form of constant change. It’s changing perpetually, but it’s changing in a certain dance. And the form of the dance remains constant until you get bored with it or it falls apart”
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