Viktor Frankl describes in his holocaust memoir that he witnessed a man having the most terrible of dreams violently shaking and screaming. He went to go shake him awake, to allow him to escape the suffering and he stops himself, knowing that he’d rather be in that dream than awake in this reality himself.
Sitting in bed and letting my worries take over. I watched this and it made me laugh. I really need to enjoy the ride and take it for the experience it is!
There's a mischievous vibe I pick up from this video which tells me life is playing a game until you wake up and see you where lost in it as Alan says and see the humour in taking it so seriously.
Indeed, enlightenment see's the game as it is. It is waking up before you wake up from here. In the world but not of the world. This place is simply some kind of crazy ego game, not sure you simply wake up and that is the end of it. There seems to be a returning process and a key to removing yourself from the cycle. It could also be considered a joke, we played on ourselves. We take it so seriously but it is all just potential for us to make out of it what we want, seems choosing to make nothing out of any of it is the process of getting out.
@@ne14truth bro ive been doing nothing for awhile. I suppose if you want to seriously indulge in the enlightenment of nothingness, you become a monk. And you work on your attunement towards that state of consciousness as your natural state of being through meditation, ceremony, etc. If you want some more depth heres this. Everything is nothing just as nothing is everything. If you wake up, you can wake up an infinite amount of times. It is pointless, the point is there is no end. Existence will collapse and reform forever. There will be consciousness and different rules to the universe unfathomable to us far beyond us, and which have already occured. One of the most interesting things to me, is if any of these things carry forward or backward in the flow of things. I think mostly if anything ancient like the strange phenomena like ghosts or strange occurences can be attributed to, it is far bygone aspects of reality. Or ones to come. Or those above, between, even on the physical plane we are in. We are confined to our current set of physical limitations. Our mind can go very far, but it has limits as well. Beyond that, there is the fact that it doesnt matter. Nothing matters either. The fact of any of this, does not matter. So to find what actually matters we need to consider our present reality. We are human beings. We are flesh. Physical. We have brains and consciousness. What I have found recently. Is that Free Will is powerful. It is a force excerted by yourself. I believe it is what gives purpose to the self. The active use of free will to exert your actuality upon existence. What are you working towards, what do you want, what matters to you? Is it ego, is it genuine care, what do these things mean. Philosophy basically. Ultimately though, we will die. And for us it will end. Theres nothing more to us honestly. But we can achieve an understanding, and live with it, without having to fear it. Fear. Fear fear fear. it is painful. So living without the fear of this death, this unknown, is that enlightenment? At a certain point, is enlightement just the way to say "Fully realized human being; achieving the capability of the mind and self which we are limited to"? Or is it somehow being more?
@@ne14truth Alan Watts was lead astray by the devil and he will be in hell for eternity, separated from God forever. This man was deceived and was a deceiver. This man used to be my guru and was leading me to hell with him, until Jesus Christ found me. This whole enlightenment game is just a distraction to keep us away from God. Jesus Christ is God, we are not. Do not be deceived by these lost people who tell you that you are on a mission to find yourself (and many say that you are god trying to have that self-realization) It is all a lie. You are on your way to hell, and the fire will never be quenched. But you don't have to die in your unbelief and burn forever. If you believe the gospel of salvation, you will live forever. Which is this; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:" You can scoff, laugh, deny this all you want, but now you have heard the gospel of salvation, and maybe you have heard it before, and maybe you turned a blind eye. But I must tell you that if you do not believe the gospel of salvation, it is because the devil came and devoured the word of God out of your heart, because he wants you to stay lost, because he is a murderer and a liar, and will keep your eyes blind from the truth, but God wants you to believe and be saved. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Please do not harden your heart. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.
Inimitable character he was and is still. The ending was just the right mix of hilarity and poignancy. I hope that, like him, I can stop taking myself so seriously.
Every oldschool gamer who used to get a new game and immediately enable all the cheats like invincibility, infinite money, all weapons, etc., and just go wild, will knows intuitively exactly what Alan Watts is talking about, and how absolutely correct he is. Initially the unstoppable power fantasy is a lot of fun, but it gets old quick and eventually it gets so boring that you start to understand that there's a lot more enjoyment to be found in having challenges and overcoming them without cheat codes. Then eventually you start playing Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring and realize that exaggerated, even brutal challenges are even more fun still! It seems like kind of a silly comparison to make, but I think it really does highlight and support the same idea about how struggles really are what you'd eventually choose for yourself if you could.
@@marselo1316 "You cant criticize shit souls games because my only achievement in life is killing bullshit bosses in those trash games" classic retarded fanboys to the rescue.
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” -Bill Hicks
"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten." Hunter S. Thompson
@@MrEpicFlair i don't think it's that simple. breaking it down to all of us being essentially the same person or simply one person, is to me like calling a tadpole a frog, or pepsi coke. yes consciousness is a manifestation of god, and therefore it is all a singular ecosystem; but there will never be another alan watts.
@@billytheblockomusexactly. we're all still individuals at the end of the day. we come from the same source, but our individual expressions are vastly different.
@@billytheblockomus What I was replying to is his statement "wish he was still around." He is still around, his teachings are him, his teachings are within me, He was the word, and I am his words. Anyway, if you have a different understanding and perspective. That's totally fine with me.. Safe trip! Be fearless, and play.
Finally, youtube algorithms suggested some worthwhile videos to watch. I like the way Watts is trying to say never let go of your child like curiosity and live a mechanical life where there are no dreams, excitement or freedom.
This seems a lot more plausible than the idea that everything, everyone, every particle in the universe, is on running on some Lenovo gaming laptop in some 8th dimensional creature's mancave.
@@PsychorGames This is an actual scientific speculation though although it was more an allegory for an AGI breakout. Rational animations did a video on it. Higher dimensional aliens running a computer simulation, sending messages through moving stars
I've been thinking about something similar. Just like we play computer games to experience things we can't, such as no permanent death, a 4th dimension or higher being may want to live through our limited existence as a way to experience things they cannot experience, such as surprise and not knowing what will happen.
May Alan watts walk alongside the mother and his teaching spread far and wide, as he had a bright mind and a sharp wit, to all who listened I wish to you a stern path of walking, May your strife be few and your triumphs be many.
I have independently thought the same thought and I've had the same discussion once sitting in a park to a bunch of friends a few years ago. They thought I was crazy.
'Seth Speaks' (along with other books in the Seth series) conveys the same insights, as do the accounts of those who've experienced near-death experiences. Alan eloquently puts into words a truth that many people have discovered in different ways.
As someone who dreams lucid dreams, I must say there is a huge difference between waking up after a nightmare and waking up after a N̵̨̧̢̮͕̼̭͖͔̤̼͆i̵̢̐̿̋̎̍̂̒ģ̴̟̳̳͚̲̻̽͆̈́̽́̄͑̎̃̑̀͑͊͝h̵̺̝̖͚͉͕̪̞͎͚̿̋̈́͒̍͑̂͘͘͘͝t̷̺̆͝ḿ̴̺̈́͆̓̿̎̑̕à̵̢̠̯̙͍̜̲̻͈̞͆̈́͋̒́͑͜r̵̙̩̥̆͐̓̋̉̌̓̄͜͠ȩ̸̖̪͓̖̻̪̓̑͌͒͌͒͌̎̒͒͠͝. The former is an "ah, okay so that happened" reaction. The latter a sweaty adrenaline-filled terror carrying over for a few seconds in reality.
For all those who are trying to demean him by phrasing him as a fake guru, he ain't a guru afterall. He was a writer and an orator who's interests were in philosophy. He was called a 'philosophical entertainer'.
Well, it was about 8 or 9 years of many sleepless nights during which I couldn't help but ponder on this exact video of his, before I just eventually learned how to relax. Or rather, maybe I un-learned how to tense up? Either way, should be much less time for you than it was for me. I'm of a very slow-witted variety.
@danielhererra29 Absolutely =) Meditation (or what Alan and many Hindu call Jhyana/Dyhana) has been a very central practice as one of several limbs of Yoga I've practiced over the years with any real regularity (though it is certainly not required for liberation). Highly recommend any form of Yoga to assist in coming to that "relaxation" I was alluding to before. But, remember; eventually, you are going to have to stop relying on practices of any sort for some "purpose" or "result". Eventually, you're just going to have to 'Be Here Now' as they say.
@@blargblarg-jargon9607 Reality can be cruel or fun. You can be happy or sad. It's your choice. Do whatever you think is best for you. Believe whatever you want to believe.
@@7letterbrandon439 are people not allowed to have fun in a comment section? It's not like we disrespected the guy, if anything we respected him by ironically comparing him to the wisest of the wise
I always think life is like this. A dream within a dream where all dream characters are dreaming too. To embrace the vibration of suffering, to feel like a mortal having possessed by a fatalistic love of fate. To be able to wake up, to dare and ask ‘was that a dream?’ One more time!
I consider Alan Watts to be one of the most important people to ever exist on Earth. If more people listened to him, and truly heard his words, we'd all be in a better situation, I'm sure.
When I listen to the ones like him, Krishnamurti, Ram Dass, Wayne Dyer, and others, I never have that feeling that they're dead, they seem alive to me, maybe they are, at least in the form of their teachings.
@@lucianoinso I haven't heard Wayne Dryer. Checking him out soon. I like Ram Dass, but he is waaaaaay too "optimistic" for my tastes. Alan is the perfect mix of yin and yang. The right amount of hope and reality check... I love your outlook on dead spiritual leaders... They live on through their work and th me lives they continue to help I feel like he
I've asked myself that question in the beginning! After thinking about it I realised it would be more like a curse than a gift. What can I do? Heal everyone on earth. No disease, no cancer. But then stop unjust deaths? No suffering at all? So that means no learning and no resilience/experience. It became so complex lol
I have conceived this exact thought experiment in my mind and contemplated on this question time and time again during my life. I was even contemplating about this during being in a dream state so the actual dream state of experience became a living thought experiment to me. I vividly remember a very realistic dream (essentially an intuitive distinction) in which I experienced myself speaking to someone, a figure of a man, then I suddenly had this deep strong sense of intution that this whole seemingly undeniably realistic situation and daily scene is "not real" - a dream or an illusion of a sort. I then expressed my amazement and sudden wonder and said what I had intuitively sensed to the figure of that man in front of me with whom I was speaking and "he" laughed at me while dismissing my thought as utter nonsensical vanity. But it was not a mere philosophical thought I use to have regularly, it was a deep intuitive sense of becoming awake and then, suddenly, I woke up in bed i.e experienced different state and asked myself sincerely: am I still dreaming? I asked that with profound rational - philosophical approach. I consider this thought experiment as an extended version of the philosophical argument known as the "dream argument" in a sense, or as another version of it. The more fundamental question I wish Alan Watts had addressed is: how would you know and verify, be certain about, that you truly woke up from a dream and not still being immersed in another dream, a continuent state of dream in which you dream yourself as being awake so you judge the previous state of subjective experience you had as a "dream" yet it is actually a dream "framed" within a dream and then the question repeats each time you allegedly "wake up" and that fundamental skepticism inevitably leads to infinite regression indeed. The true awakening and the authentic awareness therefore are when the very distinction between this ostensibly two states of subjective experience is no longer valid, meaningless and futile because this distinction is conceptual only, by which our mind generates a false presentation of the experienced reality which is utterly subjective to us and this creates the illusion of duality as if there is a dichotomous separation between "two" general states of our ONE experience although they are generally characterized by different subjective quality of experience, but if this distinction is taken simplistically, literally as if there is a dream vs a state of being awake and aware to reality, to the extent which we commonly consider as objectively reasonable and valid in the conventional and common sense (with ontological validity and certainty), then that distinction is essentially an utter fallacy in principle and an illusion of perception in a sense.
Agreed it is still us in the dream, regardless of our waking from it. Thats actually a comfortable place I believe. To exist inside all of it, and be able to put yourself out onto the world with an understanding of what that means. It ultimately means the same as anything else, that we are here regardless. Human beings, flesh, brains. And the stuff around you is made of the same stuff. Human beings.
And that's precisely why God allowed evil, became man, suffered a death he didnt deserve, and became the very savior of the people he allowed to experience life apart from Him. What a dream. What an amazing God we have.
“ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being a form of God, did not think identity with God a thing to be clung to but humbled himself and made himself of no reputation and was found in fashion as a man and became obedient to death, even to death of the cross” - Phillipians 2:5
up requires down, death requires life, sadness requires happiness so a god seeks to loose his power, to forget. how boring it must be to know everything. the eternal seeks the transient, the timeless creates time and the illusion of change. We are fractions and bits broken down from the whole, the everything, the all that seeks to know itself as it has forgotten.
Amazing words. It really feels like the more you are lost, the more happy you could become in the game. Look how the cosmos has lost itself, having the time of its life forgetting he is the only one, multiplied in myriads of beings experimenting themselves and itself.
In Hinduism there is concept of 3 states. The Jagrit:- The state when you are awake. Like going to College, stdhyt, watching youtube etc. basically what you do when you are not sleeping Swapna:- It literally translates to dreaming. Basically you when you are sleeping Sushupti:- It means deep sleep. When you are not dreaming of anything. Except these 3, there is one more hidden state called Turiya which is what Sir Alan Watts described in this video
What he is saying is written in hindu scriptures as it is, the world is a maya (dream) the only truth is when you wake up you then find out that you're brahma/purusha (god).
This dream is nothing but a drama with a script or a completed film that goes on repeating every 5000 years. We will always be here in the same manner over and over for eternity, coming from the soul world/ brahma tatva to earth accordingly. Very well sounds like a dream for all the eternal souls.
Because it doesn't matter if this is real or not - I experience it as real and that other reality doesn't actually matter until I wake up. So far this nightmare doesn't end and I don't wake up but I still have to live in it, still have to manage my feelings within it ...
imagine you woke up from a dream just to be in another dream then while thinking your awake now you decide to lay down your body for a rest. When you wake up your still in one Dreamrealm. And so you build your own parallel dimensions to get always one world away from your physical body
That's a great way of thinking about it. Jokes aside this is a way to think about life after death, after all if you consider the soul inside the body and how in medieval times it was seen as a cage for the soul, maybe this is a dream of the soul, maybe the body is a way to materialize the dream. Turning it into reality thanks to palpable matter because otherwise it would have no way of being an experience.
I did lucid dreams in my youth and did exactly what Alan teling here, fullfilling my dreams. I got bored and decided to see where my dreams would bring me. It helped me resolve my trauma and changed my life.
@bluekitkat1221 I've tried many methods but for ME, this one has worked the most...Wake up 2 hours before you "normally" do, and then go back to sleep. But as you're falling asleep, think very hard about what you want to dream about, repeat it in your mind constantly as you fall back asleep.
There is a books and a whole lucid dreaming wiki out there. Get to know what dreams are in a scientific point of view, read about techniques and explore yourself from there on.
I really think it’s the case. We are just consciousnesses putting themselves in these lives and forgetting their eternal and perfect state, to experience pain and pleasure.
Imagine you had a friend that just started smoking or gambling or something like that. You might tell them it isn't a good idea, at first, but eventually you would just let time be their lesson. You would expect them to suffer after a while and hope that they would learn. I like to think of God as doing something like this. He is waiting for us to learn our lesson from our own suffering. At first he did tell us not to do it, but that was over 2000 years ago. Now he is just letting us make our own decisions. " Carry on, my wayward son There'll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don't you cry no more "
The problem with his thoughts about God is that he is bringing his own human concepts about desire, reality, need etc. into the thought experiment but such a being would not be like us in these ways, God might be like us but he has a different context.
You are right in a way, but don't just look at humans, look at almost all other beings and things. They are born out of love, if you destroy something you cannot "use" it for reproduction, so every being and thing has this knowledge. So in a way everything has this basis. And to know what love is you also need to know what hate and destruction is, you can't have one without the other as Alan explained. Every being and thing in this existence knows this like it is common sense, but the human brain somehow sepparated from it and there is this idea of "illumination" or "awakening" that almost all humans seek, and it's that, knowing you are it, the whole cosmos it's you.
If I were God and had infinite time and infinite power, I'd create this reality and experience it through conduits of flesh, and I'd relinquish control.
or you could read what Sartre said: hell is the others. Omnipotence is a paradox. If you have power over others, others are not free beings. You can't have power over others and interact with free beings, therefore omnipotence cancels itself. We are Gods, and we are here to interact with other Gods, in a world were we can kill and be killed. basically like a game of Counter Strike
I WOULD ALWAYS ADD AN EVENT TO LOO FORWARD TO THAT I STILL NEED TO PLAN, SO IN MY DREAM I WILL HAVE ALL I WANT AND STILL HAVE SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO, THESE ARE GOOD IDEAS LIKE A NEW PARK FOR MY MIND
Telling my kids this is obi-wan kenobi
telling my kids this type of jokes is peak humor
Haha I love it
Lmao😂
And Schwab is palpatine?
But in a manner of speaking you would be right! But Alan Watts is a real Jedi!
I have to say, waking up from a nightmare and realizing it was all a dream is one of the best feelings I've ever had.
true, especially if it was something irreversably bad
Viktor Frankl describes in his holocaust memoir that he witnessed a man having the most terrible of dreams violently shaking and screaming. He went to go shake him awake, to allow him to escape the suffering and he stops himself, knowing that he’d rather be in that dream than awake in this reality himself.
@ damn
Also then, it was kinda cool often to have had the nightmare, right? Like, wow, that was exciting and wild!
I thought he was going to say if you like it, dont forget to subscribe
Lmao
😂 brilliant
he died decades ago
@@badrlives*woke up
don't*
Sitting in bed and letting my worries take over. I watched this and it made me laugh. I really need to enjoy the ride and take it for the experience it is!
I read the video tile as "Alan Watts thoughts on exercise" and was therefore thoroughly lost and confused for nearly 4 mins
Me AF
That confusion was mental exercise. There, it came full circle 😁
:p
LMAO
🤣😂
There's a mischievous vibe I pick up from this video which tells me life is playing a game until you wake up and see you where lost in it as Alan says and see the humour in taking it so seriously.
Indeed, enlightenment see's the game as it is. It is waking up before you wake up from here. In the world but not of the world. This place is simply some kind of crazy ego game, not sure you simply wake up and that is the end of it. There seems to be a returning process and a key to removing yourself from the cycle. It could also be considered a joke, we played on ourselves. We take it so seriously but it is all just potential for us to make out of it what we want, seems choosing to make nothing out of any of it is the process of getting out.
@@ne14truth bro ive been doing nothing for awhile. I suppose if you want to seriously indulge in the enlightenment of nothingness, you become a monk. And you work on your attunement towards that state of consciousness as your natural state of being through meditation, ceremony, etc.
If you want some more depth heres this.
Everything is nothing just as nothing is everything. If you wake up, you can wake up an infinite amount of times. It is pointless, the point is there is no end. Existence will collapse and reform forever. There will be consciousness and different rules to the universe unfathomable to us far beyond us, and which have already occured.
One of the most interesting things to me, is if any of these things carry forward or backward in the flow of things.
I think mostly if anything ancient like the strange phenomena like ghosts or strange occurences can be attributed to, it is far bygone aspects of reality. Or ones to come. Or those above, between, even on the physical plane we are in.
We are confined to our current set of physical limitations. Our mind can go very far, but it has limits as well.
Beyond that, there is the fact that it doesnt matter. Nothing matters either. The fact of any of this, does not matter.
So to find what actually matters we need to consider our present reality. We are human beings. We are flesh. Physical. We have brains and consciousness.
What I have found recently. Is that Free Will is powerful. It is a force excerted by yourself. I believe it is what gives purpose to the self.
The active use of free will to exert your actuality upon existence. What are you working towards, what do you want, what matters to you?
Is it ego, is it genuine care, what do these things mean. Philosophy basically.
Ultimately though, we will die. And for us it will end. Theres nothing more to us honestly. But we can achieve an understanding, and live with it, without having to fear it.
Fear. Fear fear fear. it is painful. So living without the fear of this death, this unknown, is that enlightenment? At a certain point, is enlightement just the way to say "Fully realized human being; achieving the capability of the mind and self which we are limited to"? Or is it somehow being more?
Thats not ehat eblightenment means@@ne14truth
It...its not? And you didnt even say what it actually is? Ok dude @nolandderlugner1351
@@ne14truth Alan Watts was lead astray by the devil and he will be in hell for eternity, separated from God forever. This man was deceived and was a deceiver. This man used to be my guru and was leading me to hell with him, until Jesus Christ found me. This whole enlightenment game is just a distraction to keep us away from God. Jesus Christ is God, we are not. Do not be deceived by these lost people who tell you that you are on a mission to find yourself (and many say that you are god trying to have that self-realization) It is all a lie. You are on your way to hell, and the fire will never be quenched. But you don't have to die in your unbelief and burn forever. If you believe the gospel of salvation, you will live forever. Which is this; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:" You can scoff, laugh, deny this all you want, but now you have heard the gospel of salvation, and maybe you have heard it before, and maybe you turned a blind eye. But I must tell you that if you do not believe the gospel of salvation, it is because the devil came and devoured the word of God out of your heart, because he wants you to stay lost, because he is a murderer and a liar, and will keep your eyes blind from the truth, but God wants you to believe and be saved. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Please do not harden your heart. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.
Finally a video showing him talking without annoying music and sound effects, please post more ❤
Inimitable character he was and is still. The ending was just the right mix of hilarity and poignancy. I hope that, like him, I can stop taking myself so seriously.
Well said, especially the last part resonates with me
My reaction to him laughing at the end is like “what a nut job” - but I feel like he doesn’t speak falsehood… 🤔
Same here Buddha
@@djecchi8768 one must lose their mind if they are to gain a new one
@@voracion "You have to lose your mind, if you want to come back to your senses" - Alan Watts
If you like it , crazy . If you don't like it what fun it would be when you wake up . Wow
What a magical laughter he has, he laughs with certain irony, with such pleasure and the certainty of "I know what I am saying that is why I laugh".
Yea this video hit me on a spot in the brain, i didnt know existed
Wise words, old man. This is why he had the highground. This is why Anakin should've given up
Bro 😂
It is one of my greatest fears.
To find out that I am in charge.
Deep
Not absolutely!
Every oldschool gamer who used to get a new game and immediately enable all the cheats like invincibility, infinite money, all weapons, etc., and just go wild, will knows intuitively exactly what Alan Watts is talking about, and how absolutely correct he is. Initially the unstoppable power fantasy is a lot of fun, but it gets old quick and eventually it gets so boring that you start to understand that there's a lot more enjoyment to be found in having challenges and overcoming them without cheat codes. Then eventually you start playing Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring and realize that exaggerated, even brutal challenges are even more fun still!
It seems like kind of a silly comparison to make, but I think it really does highlight and support the same idea about how struggles really are what you'd eventually choose for yourself if you could.
It wasn't a silly example but a relatable one.
Fromsoft trash are just artificial difficulty games for pumping fake-playtime. But yeah, i get the gist of what you are implying.
@@bronzejourney5784 just say youre not good at them bro its ok
Have you not played Sekiro, mate?
@@marselo1316 "You cant criticize shit souls games because my only achievement in life is killing bullshit bosses in those trash games" classic retarded fanboys to the rescue.
What a thought experiment?!, what a guy?! And what a fucking brilliant laugh this man has.
This is a famous analogy or explanation of world and God in advait vedanta.
Thanks for the insight
He was a chronic alcoholic as well
What’s that got to do with anything 😂
Im following his teaching :D
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
-Bill Hicks
love it.
Love old Hicksy for this!
But I do feel sorry for you if you didn’t copy and paste this
RIP Bill Hicks
@@jaunty_tunes nah he won’t rest in peace, and that’s the way he likes it;)
"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."
Hunter S. Thompson
"What fun it will be when you wake up" is such a nice way to put that. Ima use it for sure.
“If you like it, crazy” lol I love him so much. Wish he was still around
You're him though. 😂 As I am him.
@@MrEpicFlair i don't think it's that simple. breaking it down to all of us being essentially the same person or simply one person, is to me like calling a tadpole a frog, or pepsi coke. yes consciousness is a manifestation of god, and therefore it is all a singular ecosystem; but there will never be another alan watts.
@@billytheblockomusexactly. we're all still individuals at the end of the day. we come from the same source, but our individual expressions are vastly different.
@@billytheblockomus What I was replying to is his statement "wish he was still around." He is still around, his teachings are him, his teachings are within me, He was the word, and I am his words. Anyway, if you have a different understanding and perspective. That's totally fine with me.. Safe trip! Be fearless, and play.
@@MrEpicFlair This is perfect answer.
alan surely knows watts up
Great simplification of advait vedanta ❤
Amazing perception this talk has influenced upon me. . "Well I'll be enlightened NOW" ❤
Finally, youtube algorithms suggested some worthwhile videos to watch. I like the way Watts is trying to say never let go of your child like curiosity and live a mechanical life where there are no dreams, excitement or freedom.
Let's infuse more thought experiments into conversations
This seems a lot more plausible than the idea that everything, everyone, every particle in the universe, is on running on some Lenovo gaming laptop in some 8th dimensional creature's mancave.
Indeed
😂😂😂
No, it's both plausible. This one just sounds nicer to you
Well of course, even if we are running on an alien man cave computer, said alien is just god experiencing reality that way
@@PsychorGames This is an actual scientific speculation though although it was more an allegory for an AGI breakout. Rational animations did a video on it. Higher dimensional aliens running a computer simulation, sending messages through moving stars
I've been thinking about something similar.
Just like we play computer games to experience things we can't, such as no permanent death, a 4th dimension or higher being may want to live through our limited existence as a way to experience things they cannot experience, such as surprise and not knowing what will happen.
Just wait until you wake up from a dream...in a dream! When I came back to my waking life I was so happy when I got up I couldn't describe it...
Man’s looking and sounding like a Jedi
I'd like to wake up.
You wouldn't like that, in fact that why you're here
@@AnatolieLupacescu How do you know what he would like?
@@elusive9240 because I've seen it
@@AnatolieLupacescu Whatever.
Would be a waste to wake up not having experienced all the other dreams you could have dreamed of
May Alan watts walk alongside the mother and his teaching spread far and wide, as he had a bright mind and a sharp wit, to all who listened I wish to you a stern path of walking, May your strife be few and your triumphs be many.
I have independently thought the same thought and I've had the same discussion once sitting in a park to a bunch of friends a few years ago. They thought I was crazy.
'Seth Speaks' (along with other books in the Seth series) conveys the same insights, as do the accounts of those who've experienced near-death experiences. Alan eloquently puts into words a truth that many people have discovered in different ways.
This man was really a genius, seems like god hinting us about the structure of the game (our universe/reality)
Thanks for sharing this video
As someone who dreams lucid dreams, I must say there is a huge difference between waking up after a nightmare and waking up after a N̵̨̧̢̮͕̼̭͖͔̤̼͆i̵̢̐̿̋̎̍̂̒ģ̴̟̳̳͚̲̻̽͆̈́̽́̄͑̎̃̑̀͑͊͝h̵̺̝̖͚͉͕̪̞͎͚̿̋̈́͒̍͑̂͘͘͘͝t̷̺̆͝ḿ̴̺̈́͆̓̿̎̑̕à̵̢̠̯̙͍̜̲̻͈̞͆̈́͋̒́͑͜r̵̙̩̥̆͐̓̋̉̌̓̄͜͠ȩ̸̖̪͓̖̻̪̓̑͌͒͌͒͌̎̒͒͠͝.
The former is an "ah, okay so that happened" reaction. The latter a sweaty adrenaline-filled terror carrying over for a few seconds in reality.
Thank you 🙏 🙇🏻♂️ 🙇🏼. Way to make the worst of circumstances a win/win just by changing which way your mind is facing!
This man is a freaking Genius.
I LOVE HIM.
Man this really was a *thought exercise*
For all those who are trying to demean him by phrasing him as a fake guru, he ain't a guru afterall.
He was a writer and an orator who's interests were in philosophy. He was called a 'philosophical entertainer'.
Ah shiet, I was going to sleep so well tonight
You’ll go to sleep and wake up again either way, no need for worry 😉
Well, it was about 8 or 9 years of many sleepless nights during which I couldn't help but ponder on this exact video of his, before I just eventually learned how to relax.
Or rather, maybe I un-learned how to tense up?
Either way, should be much less time for you than it was for me. I'm of a very slow-witted variety.
@@ADPax10ever try meditating?
@danielhererra29 Absolutely =)
Meditation (or what Alan and many Hindu call Jhyana/Dyhana) has been a very central practice as one of several limbs of Yoga I've practiced over the years with any real regularity (though it is certainly not required for liberation).
Highly recommend any form of Yoga to assist in coming to that "relaxation" I was alluding to before. But, remember; eventually, you are going to have to stop relying on practices of any sort for some "purpose" or "result". Eventually, you're just going to have to 'Be Here Now' as they say.
I don't see how this helps me live a better life
It's to bring awareness to yourself. We are never going to agree on the true basis of reality. So it's fun to think about infinite possibilities.
@@justinmann9440 here we have another alan watts apologist trying to extend what dumb crap alan said to try and make sense.
@@blargblarg-jargon9607 Reality can be cruel or fun. You can be happy or sad. It's your choice. Do whatever you think is best for you. Believe whatever you want to believe.
@@justinmann9440 thanks for telling me i can be happy or sad, truly prophetic sagelike wisdom only a 3 year old could contemplate sophistically.
@@blargblarg-jargon9607 Good luck.
I was getting wrapped up in the problems of my life. Well found
Is he wearing Jedi robes? He was like the real Obi-Wan Kenobi, only better. Alan Watts is/was awesome.
He was the Qui-Gon Jinn of the real world no kidding
Wish we could wear such robes without judgment in modern times. Not only does it make you look like a Jedi but it's probably very comfy too 👌
@@andrewg9107 i mean you can if youre mentally strong enough, makes you look like a wise man so you bast take some notes from the jedi temple
Bro spoke considerably knowledge then we joke about it. Good job child
@@7letterbrandon439 are people not allowed to have fun in a comment section? It's not like we disrespected the guy, if anything we respected him by ironically comparing him to the wisest of the wise
Wonderful video. I would call that "The Dream of Your Life" 😁❤
I always think life is like this. A dream within a dream where all dream characters are dreaming too. To embrace the vibration of suffering, to feel like a mortal having possessed by a fatalistic love of fate. To be able to wake up, to dare and ask ‘was that a dream?’ One more time!
Like when you like something so much, you say: Let's do it again!
The attitude of faith is to let go and become open to what is revealed to you- Alan Watts
I could dream peaceful dreams forever and be satisfied eternally 😊
One of the best minds EVER
I forget he's dead sometimes ..
Continues to be a guru/ spritual sage and guiding elder even after death.
What an incredible "self" that was huh?
I consider Alan Watts to be one of the most important people to ever exist on Earth. If more people listened to him, and truly heard his words, we'd all be in a better situation, I'm sure.
When I listen to the ones like him, Krishnamurti, Ram Dass, Wayne Dyer, and others, I never have that feeling that they're dead, they seem alive to me, maybe they are, at least in the form of their teachings.
@@lucianoinso I haven't heard Wayne Dryer.
Checking him out soon.
I like Ram Dass, but he is waaaaaay too "optimistic" for my tastes.
Alan is the perfect mix of yin and yang.
The right amount of hope and reality check...
I love your outlook on dead spiritual leaders...
They live on through their work and th me lives they continue to help
I feel like he
Neville Goddard the goat tho
@@lucianoinso listened to Wayne Dyer... Good good stuff. Thank you!
I’m watching this when I should be sleeping so safe to say I’m not dreaming
I find dreams are reflections of who you were and who you are, if you don't like the reflection, maybe it's time to become someone new.
what a man he was 😂😂 I just love him❤❤
I've asked myself that question in the beginning! After thinking about it I realised it would be more like a curse than a gift. What can I do? Heal everyone on earth. No disease, no cancer. But then stop unjust deaths? No suffering at all? So that means no learning and no resilience/experience. It became so complex lol
Wow. That was really cool!
cigarette in one hand, got to be a beer or scotch there as well. Now thats a jet set guru.
why so negativ?
@@oACDCo according to who.
@@chiptowers1 " jet set guru" definitely sounds negativ to me
@@oACDCo well if it's negative to you then it's negative to you. Sounds like you are the only one so far.
@@oACDCo Dont try to reason with minimum wage worker, they are too busy drowning in their bitterness to be of use to anyone.
Amazing voice (that's why it's sampled into music like Triphop, so much)
I have conceived this exact thought experiment in my mind and contemplated on this question time and time again during my life.
I was even contemplating about this during being in a dream state so the actual dream state of experience became a living thought experiment to me. I vividly remember a very realistic dream (essentially an intuitive distinction) in which I experienced myself speaking to someone, a figure of a man, then I suddenly had this deep strong sense of intution that this whole seemingly undeniably realistic situation and daily scene is "not real" - a dream or an illusion of a sort.
I then expressed my amazement and sudden wonder and said what I had intuitively sensed to the figure of that man in front of me with whom I was speaking and "he" laughed at me while dismissing my thought as utter nonsensical vanity.
But it was not a mere philosophical thought I use to have regularly, it was a deep intuitive sense of becoming awake and then, suddenly, I woke up in bed i.e experienced different state and asked myself sincerely: am I still dreaming? I asked that with profound rational - philosophical approach.
I consider this thought experiment as an extended version of the philosophical argument known as the "dream argument" in a sense, or as another version of it.
The more fundamental question I wish Alan Watts had addressed is:
how would you know and verify, be certain about, that you truly woke up from a dream and not still being immersed in another dream, a continuent state of dream in which you dream yourself as being awake so you judge the previous state of subjective experience you had as a "dream" yet it is actually a dream "framed" within a dream and then the question repeats each time you allegedly "wake up" and that fundamental skepticism inevitably leads to infinite regression indeed. The true awakening and the authentic awareness therefore are when the very distinction between this ostensibly two states of subjective experience is no longer valid, meaningless and futile because this distinction is conceptual only, by which our mind generates a false presentation of the experienced reality which is utterly subjective to us and this creates the illusion of duality as if there is a dichotomous separation between "two" general states of our ONE experience although they are generally characterized by different subjective quality of experience, but if this distinction is taken simplistically, literally as if there is a dream vs a state of being awake and aware to reality, to the extent which we commonly consider as objectively reasonable and valid in the conventional and common sense (with ontological validity and certainty), then that distinction is essentially an utter fallacy in principle and an illusion of perception in a sense.
Agreed it is still us in the dream, regardless of our waking from it. Thats actually a comfortable place I believe. To exist inside all of it, and be able to put yourself out onto the world with an understanding of what that means. It ultimately means the same as anything else, that we are here regardless. Human beings, flesh, brains. And the stuff around you is made of the same stuff. Human beings.
And that's precisely why God allowed evil, became man, suffered a death he didnt deserve, and became the very savior of the people he allowed to experience life apart from Him. What a dream. What an amazing God we have.
“ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being a form of God, did not think identity with God a thing to be clung to but humbled himself and made himself of no reputation and was found in fashion as a man and became obedient to death, even to death of the cross” - Phillipians 2:5
One of my favourite speakers ever excellent work
New creator
New creator unite
Keep on shining
this is not what i needed to hear high asf on a monday😭
In that case, I think I'll be ending this dream here pretty soon.
please don't.
up requires down, death requires life, sadness requires happiness so a god seeks to loose his power, to forget. how boring it must be to know everything. the eternal seeks the transient, the timeless creates time and the illusion of change. We are fractions and bits broken down from the whole, the everything, the all that seeks to know itself as it has forgotten.
Amazing words. It really feels like the more you are lost, the more happy you could become in the game. Look how the cosmos has lost itself, having the time of its life forgetting he is the only one, multiplied in myriads of beings experimenting themselves and itself.
Alan Watts, doing that thing Alan Watts does! Gotta love it!!
Thanks for uploading this masterpiece video
Wise words from master Obi-wan!
Imagine Some day you wake up just to have deep regrets or anger on yourself of not enjoying your dream.
In Hinduism there is concept of 3 states.
The Jagrit:- The state when you are awake. Like going to College, stdhyt, watching youtube etc. basically what you do when you are not sleeping
Swapna:- It literally translates to dreaming. Basically you when you are sleeping
Sushupti:- It means deep sleep. When you are not dreaming of anything.
Except these 3, there is one more hidden state called Turiya which is what Sir Alan Watts described in this video
interesting, but why not say 4 states?
What he is saying is written in hindu scriptures as it is, the world is a maya (dream) the only truth is when you wake up you then find out that you're brahma/purusha (god).
This dream is nothing but a drama with a script or a completed film that goes on repeating every 5000 years.
We will always be here in the same manner over and over for eternity, coming from the soul world/ brahma tatva to earth accordingly.
Very well sounds like a dream for all the eternal souls.
Interesting dream and drama almost have the same letters!
@@swatikumari1992yes it always repeats
@@swatikumari1992no lol
@@swatikumari1992yeah well fck them. How stupid it is to keep coming back to suffer
Because it doesn't matter if this is real or not - I experience it as real and that other reality doesn't actually matter until I wake up. So far this nightmare doesn't end and I don't wake up but I still have to live in it, still have to manage my feelings within it ...
Very far ahead of his times. He was a great mystic. West missed him.
This is where inception was derived from
imagine you woke up from a dream just to be in another dream then while thinking your awake now you decide to lay down your body for a rest. When you wake up your still in one Dreamrealm. And so you build your own parallel dimensions to get always one world away from your physical body
❤ that is actually quite helpful. thanx
Bro just described my whole life story. Crazy.
That's a great way of thinking about it. Jokes aside this is a way to think about life after death, after all if you consider the soul inside the body and how in medieval times it was seen as a cage for the soul, maybe this is a dream of the soul, maybe the body is a way to materialize the dream. Turning it into reality thanks to palpable matter because otherwise it would have no way of being an experience.
'Speak with the local Wizard. Increase your Int by +1 afterwards.'
The monologue of a highschool "intellectual". Can be distilled into "what if life is a dream?". Have heard it a million times
Maya
Within us is an infinite experience beyond thought, focussing on that infinite experience, only then can the mind become still.
I did lucid dreams in my youth and did exactly what Alan teling here, fullfilling my dreams. I got bored and decided to see where my dreams would bring me. It helped me resolve my trauma and changed my life.
How did you lucid dream if I may ask
@bluekitkat1221 I've tried many methods but for ME, this one has worked the most...Wake up 2 hours before you "normally" do, and then go back to sleep. But as you're falling asleep, think very hard about what you want to dream about, repeat it in your mind constantly as you fall back asleep.
There is a books and a whole lucid dreaming wiki out there. Get to know what dreams are in a scientific point of view, read about techniques and explore yourself from there on.
Holy crap this was the video I needed
God that laugh at the end and that smile, just like Billy Butcher.
Perhaps collectively we have the power to change the dream for the better without having to "wake up". I prefer to believe that.
Virtual reality that can turn the last few minutes of your life into another eternity in another realm of being.
I think he saw straight through me at the end
I really think it’s the case. We are just consciousnesses putting themselves in these lives and forgetting their eternal and perfect state, to experience pain and pleasure.
This feels like a good simulation creepypasta story.
When a man has experienced all the pleasures possible, he will turn to pain.
Yeah, would be nice to wake up about now so I can fine tune this whole difficulty setting.
The man took 3 minutes to go from point A to point A.
Oh man why did I chose to be in that dream. When I wake up I will chose a relaxing dream the next time.
I had enough of spicing it up im on strong sedatives allready
Lol
LMAO me too
Imagine you had a friend that just started smoking or gambling or something like that. You might tell them it isn't a good idea, at first, but eventually you would just let time be their lesson. You would expect them to suffer after a while and hope that they would learn. I like to think of God as doing something like this. He is waiting for us to learn our lesson from our own suffering. At first he did tell us not to do it, but that was over 2000 years ago. Now he is just letting us make our own decisions.
" Carry on, my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more "
Little kids dying of cancer will be pissed with god when they get to heaven.
I love this guy's laugh so much!
That laugh in the end 🙂......
Bro changed million or more lives without even knowing
I wish that when we die that there is a person at the end of the tunnel, like him, telling us what thw fuzz was about.
The problem with his thoughts about God is that he is bringing his own human concepts about desire, reality, need etc. into the thought experiment but such a being would not be like us in these ways, God might be like us but he has a different context.
You are right in a way, but don't just look at humans, look at almost all other beings and things. They are born out of love, if you destroy something you cannot "use" it for reproduction, so every being and thing has this knowledge. So in a way everything has this basis. And to know what love is you also need to know what hate and destruction is, you can't have one without the other as Alan explained. Every being and thing in this existence knows this like it is common sense, but the human brain somehow sepparated from it and there is this idea of "illumination" or "awakening" that almost all humans seek, and it's that, knowing you are it, the whole cosmos it's you.
@@ArthurM1863 I disagree you are not God, you are like him but you obviously did not create yourself.
@@Ryan-vc4lr What are you calling "you"? I could have created myself if I'm also everything that surrounds me.
@@ArthurM1863 You're not that is just nonsense and you know and I know it but believe it if you want to I guess...
If I were God and had infinite time and infinite power, I'd create this reality and experience it through conduits of flesh, and I'd relinquish control.
I love it. And imma be in it for a Lil while
Almost everyone is looking for a leader. And there are those looking for disciples. He was the latter.
The laugh at the end. 👌
Why would i dream of a guy who spoils all the fun for me right now?
because thats your reminder that you have had enough
That is exactly why.
or you could read what Sartre said: hell is the others.
Omnipotence is a paradox. If you have power over others, others are not free beings. You can't have power over others and interact with free beings, therefore omnipotence cancels itself.
We are Gods, and we are here to interact with other Gods, in a world were we can kill and be killed. basically like a game of Counter Strike
I'm scared if we wake up reality is so horrible we dream for a fantasy fun dream to escape.
I WOULD ALWAYS ADD AN EVENT TO LOO FORWARD TO THAT I STILL NEED TO PLAN, SO IN MY DREAM I WILL HAVE ALL I WANT AND STILL HAVE SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO, THESE ARE GOOD IDEAS LIKE A NEW PARK FOR MY MIND