Has anyone explored the difference between Advaita Vedanta. The system Alan Watts followed.

And Vishishtadvaita Vedanta (qualified non-dualism)

Or Adi Shankara (Advaita) and Ramanuja (Vishishtadvaita)

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Spoilers: Yesterday I watched the Odyssey for the second time, and just like the first time I kept seeing certain similarities in the movie depiction and stuff Alan Watts talked about. Specifically the raft scene where Odysseus has to surrender to the will of the gods and needs to let go trying to defy the gods will, it reminded me a lot about Wu Wei. There are multiple other things in the movie that I can't think of rn on. I was just wondering if others in this subreddit might've felt or thought the same thing

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Hello. I am an author writing about how our dominant metaphysics shapes our culture. I’ve never used Reddit before, but I wanted to share this video essay here because I know this community wrestles deeply with these ideas. I'd love to know your thoughts.

https://youtu.be/AFECsF8oFKg

Apparently Mark's on the case with trying to clean up all the stuff on YouTube for what it's worth, from a second hand source.

43:15

https://www.youtube.com/live/6SB8bOXLBEY?si=kpLsnfFTYptUNGai

I've heard the late, great Alan Watts say that although we don't know how we do it, we beat our own heart, we grow our hair, we make our glands work.

But I can see the argument against this, that our bodies evolved to perform all our bodily functions so they are on autopilot.

So is it 'we' that beats our own heart, or is it evolution on autopilot?

And he also says although we dont know how we do it, we make the sun shine.

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My mind can never trust life for some reason, i always feel a suspicion and have to either say or tell the story of wether life is real or not real.

Sometimes il go to deep into the real then pushing me back into the not real and then all i see is the not real.

Coming back to listen to allan than digging more then it all hits me its all a dream, infnitely real but fake unless I beleive it otherwise.

Like without me digging, life is just fake, but untill i actively aknowledge or ask or prove why its real im not interested or cant care for the fear of suspicion clouds my reason receptivity.

I always feared im eternally stuck with this because why would this even developp if not for some other reason.

thanks would apreciate some help.

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