Alan Watts – Philosophy of the Tao: Flow, Balance, and the Course of Nature

Alan Watts explores the timeless wisdom of living in harmony with the natural flow of existence.

Through the principles of yin and yang, wu wei (effortless action), and the inseparability of opposites, Watts reveals how the Tao – the Course of Nature – is not something to control or define, but to flow with.

Alan goes on to shows how life and death, being and non-being, effort and ease all arise together in the great rhythm of the universe. To live fully, we must learn to let go, to trust the way, and to see that change itself is life.


▶ Who is Alan Watts?

“Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Alan Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the un-writable’. Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit. A fascinating entry into the deepest ways of knowing.” — Los Angeles Times

Video recorded by Logan Dennison, 2025, Pecatu, South Kuta, Bali