Agreed. Music in these types of videos take away from the message. In my opinion. Yes it can add emotion as it does in movies tv shows and "youTube" videos but that is entirely my observation. When listening to a speaker, such as Alan Watts, I like to be able to just listen and not be influenced by an added soundtrack. To Generate Wealth - I look forward to exploring more of your channel
say next, and wait for the next thought to come in, when I do this my mind chatter stops. If the next thought is pleasant, then I keep it and enjoy it, but if I don't like it I just say ok next, and simply wait for the next thought to appear. Works for me.
Be with the chatter, be still with it. Even the chatter will aligns with your heart with practice . Let it naturally work its way through, with the light of consciousness. The chatter is the practice.
@@Rfzinho09 if the thoughts are good, I don't mind letting them run. But if I don't like the thoughts and the effect they are having on my body, I would rather do the "next" thing. In that place of no thought is ultimate peace.
once when i reached a very high state of mind i realized that "the thing does itself". it's one of the most profound insights i can share. walk outside and try to let go of the walking process. you will find out the body will just continue walking, like the whole thing is an automated machine
You ever been driving in a car and you were thinking about something or focused on something so deep for a good amount of time and realize that you weren’t paying attention or at least you don’t remember paying attention to driving, but you did everything right and made it to your destination. Science will call it muscle memory, but I think it’s deeper.
mac miller said life is just a recital better remember all that you practiced. whenever you’ve learned stuff, it’s really drilled into you. your conscious brain can think of other stuff
Totally get what you mean, but I dont think thats what hes getting at. Thinking through things is totally good, and a very basic type of meditation. But theres a sense where if you think too much, you lose any sense of simply being here, noticing the temperature the atmosphere weather nature, people what theyre saying etc...
I discovered Alan Watts in 1962, The ArT of Zen. No you tubes then. This illustrated recording without hype or music is simple, clear and accessible. Thank you.
@@jamesheath9089 Watts lived a short life, preaching tasty inoffensive beliefs sweet as candy. There's a reason he is quickly being forgotten. Candy requires no special trick to make, and it makes for a very unhealthy daily diet.
@@jamesbarringer2737 Are there any thinkers/speakers you prefer? I'm being sincere, since your take on Alan Watts is what it is, I'm curious who you would consider more profound or insightful
@ If I were you I would take whatever I say with a great big giant block of salt. A very very wise man I worked for at the very start of my career - an unknown man but he was enormously successful in a tough field - told me,"Be careful whose advice you accept. Look at that person giving you that advice and ask yourself if that person has gotten what you yourself are looking for.". I myself am not someone whose advice I would rely on. But when I apply that rule looking for people who show the things I would like to show - a personal peace, a confident sense of mission, a genuine love for others, and an indefatigable optimism about just plain life, I end up with a short list of Christian pastors. If you don't think that path is for you, I completely understand, as I was a self-professed atheist then agnostic until age 29. But if you are open to that path, the most important speaker to me, who passed away a number of years ago, was Tim Keller, a very well known Presbyterian minister and church-planter. Especially look for his talks on overcoming dark times. th-cam.com/video/ulmaUtbayGY/w-d-xo.html He has a sermon that used to be titled "Satanic Exposition" (no longer on TH-cam under that name, but if you Google it it's on Facebook) that now has led me out of a number of very very emotionally difficult situations. Now I was already a Christian the first time I listened to this. I was listening to TH-cam on my commute home. The title attracted me to it, and for me (already a Christian when I heard it), I found myself crying like a baby by the end. I'm 99% sure that wouldn't happen to most people, but at that point I already had faith in Christ, and it made very real some of the things hardest to really believe - that you truly are loved, and loved passionately, by the God of the universe - that you mean more to God than his own life means to him (a mind-boggling thing if you can accept it). This sermon is completely up-front about the pain in life, and it does not treat it as an illusion, but it gives you real reasons (again, if you can accept them) for why you can and should have not just hope, but optimism and love. I'll be the first to say, having spent half my life atheist, and genuinely loving Hindus and Buddhists and Muslims (and feeling towards Jews as if we are real brothers) and aspiring to love all - I am the first to admit that this may not be the same help to you that it was to me. So Tim Keller's sermons, but especially those on dark times, helped me enormously. So have the talks of Tim Mackey, who co-founded the Bible Project, that is so successful on TH-cam. There are others. There are non-religious content providers I like as well, but the content that simply works best for me connects to my Christian faith. But again, if I objectively looked at myself, I don't think anyone should treat my opinions as anything other than just the opinions of some guy on the internet. Whatever the case I know one day you will find what you are looking for. Best, Some Guy on the Internet
Every night, I put on recorder in my phone and talk till am completely empty, and that leads me to a space where am absolutely free of thoughts and then I fall asleep, I love doing that.
Talking to myself is a self-realization of the happenings and what has been left out during the unconscious mind. Yes, to make it productive the person needs to carry the burden of knowledge and effective wisdom. I am happy to see such a video on youtube. Thank you
I discovered how awesome it is to talk out loud. Idk about "talking to yourself" i sorta imagine talking to gods or the universe. I only talk to myself in the mirror. But talking out loud is powerful.
Was looking around on youtube trying to find a clip of a philosopher (or the like) speaking on death to use in a video I'm making right now. Clicked on this one knowing Alan Watts would have something insightful to say on the matter, or any matter philosophically speaking (not trying to glaze), and ended this video with some tears and a feeling of peace. It feels so important to be told that you are one with your happenings, and that the ego will do everything in its power to make you think that this world, that your existence, the happenings, are not good. To be reminded, that the ego is merely a pitfall of our evolutionary existence as a species and the minds ability and desire to assuage its own noise, feels like the kind of relief that you'd expect to pay for. I would like to start meditating, it might involve calm music at first, I'm not 100% sure what it will look like, but I feel like I have been given a beautiful place to start and the right headspace to see it for what it is. I don't know if anyone will read this, but if you do, please leave a reply and ask me if I meditated that day. It would not only help me stay accountable in my journey of reforming my mentality, but it would absolutely warm my fucking heart to know at least one person, even just once, lent a helping hand for someone they didn't know/will never know.
"You suddenly realize that everything that you are and do is at that level; as magnificent and as free of any blemish as the patterns in waves. The markings in marble. The way a cat moves. And that this world is really okay." So many people I know wonder how i can be so happy and content despite all of the impending catastrophes and systemic corruptions facing our species. This man sums it up wonderfully.
@larietournelle7904 Depends on what you mean by "world". If you mean the paradigm of human action on Planet Earth creating more suffering and harm than necessary, then no, the world is not okay. When I say "world", and I think when Alan Watts says it here he means the same, I mean the infinitely complex dance of energies the physical universe is. We attach labels and make judgements on these different "shapes" the small pieces sum to be, but it's all just a huge system evolving according to underlying rules, beyond any of our control. The universe is unfolding in the only way it could ever unfold, and who are we to say that this way is somehow "wrong" or "ugly" or "evil" or whatever. The world is okay because all things, "good" and "evil", are pieces of this beautiful show around and inside us. All we can do is bear witness to it.
@@guyedwards22 " le monde " pour les humains veut dire le monde humain. Si tu parles de la biosphère alors dit la biosphère. Si tu parles du cosmos alors dit le cosmos.
@@larietournelle7904 Whatever words we use, it's an all encompassing view to say that the cosmos is in order. The human "world" and our emotions about it are part of the cosmos just as much as wind, water, stars, and spacetime. The universe is playing out, we are playing out, predetermined, according to the laws of physics, in the only way it's all "meant" to. That includes all of human suffering and all of human joy. To say that anything is "not okay" is to compare it to some other state it could have been in and make a value judgement based on that comparison. All other alternative states that the cosmos could have been in, including our own human affairs, do not exist, and under my assumptions, never could have existed. They are not part of the story playing out.
Okay, I'm glad to know this is a video on meditation. I was about to say this won't help me at all if I closed my thoughts off and stopped thinking haha. I need my thoughts to continue flowing, it brings new ideas to me.
This really helped me enter a meditative state. That listening to the outside world without judgement instead of thinking really is a game changer and helped me stay in the moment. I can see how I was doing it wrong and why it’s so enjoyable.
This conscious eternal life is a gift and a grace, and we are just learning how to reciprocate with the Giver of this gift. Conscious life is full of personal qualities, appreciate it and protect it.
Talking to yourself is the most helpful tool whatever creator gave us. We can work things out internally without it ever passing our vocal cords and lips and if we do decided to talk to ourselves aloud in anger or sadness or in joy, I find it is truly the best and imo I think it shows you think and are interested in why we exist instead of being interested in distractions and more so the answers of the universe that can get you out of the gutter. "Hmm I wish more anime would be made..I watched them all." Uh make your own or just stop 😂 "Hmm I wish I can grow pot but it's too hard..ima keep bitching about it.." Put the pipe down, go put a seed in a pot and learn. The majority of ppl in existence baffle me. Few years ago working at a gas station this slow dude asked me if he should increase his tires air pressure in winter and if his tires needed air. Idfk man... (Internally I was fucking screaming omg, you got a phone and can't look it up?? I don't even drive and know the science of pressures in hot and cold, the entire education system is failing dude, why are you asking gas station clerk?)
I’ve developed a terrible habit of talking to myself,even just now I thought out loud I must stop talking to myself. I used to joke it’s the most intelligent conversation I had all day, now I’m not so sure.
Me too, but I've become noticeful about what's being said. Quiet time is essential, or how will you even know what your thoughts are? If it's a worry, there may be a need to plan. If it's judgmental, there needs to be a shift to evaluation and forgiveness -- though I find that forgiveness is always a work in progress. Try not to cherish old pain, it can become your treasure. I'm nearly 80 now, with more responsibilities to myself than to others. I'm more often free to say, "If not now, when?" and do as I like. Something for you anxious young ones to look forward to!
@agingflowerchild I'm a procrastinator, but I revel in a fantasy of responsibility. I look forward to meeting other people like me through my work and looking out for others. I never want to be submissive again. And I always wonder if what im doing is right. Im still a bit sullen and sardonic, but If i do dislike a person now, Its mkre righteous, i used to hate people for no reason. Being judgemental isnt better but I know some people who who can only point to the enemy and not the issue. I dont feel like a man yet, but when decided on my goal and made something to aspire to, the greatest consultant became the second me I created in my head. I always talked to myself, but now that i feel i have things to say, i actually look forward to talking to other people now. Always trying to learn more. I hooe i get to your age and reflect on what I attempted with content.
Talk to yourself but don't answer. Yes i agree everything else is part of our body. The universe could be our soul and we are a physical copy of it. I don't rule it out I will find out one day. But we are keepers of this world. Let take of in a simple and refined way.
If the ego were so inconsequential, you wouldn't habe to exert so much energy telling yourself and others that this was so. It would just be so, and we would all agree. 😮
Spend some quiet time just being before bed... Sleep will be a continuation of this time..... Never give up learning..... Suppose this is a duality thing....
Sometimes I find myself creating fake interactions in my head, the emotions will build and I’ll find myself talking to myself in my head. I shake it off with a quick “wtf are you doing?”. Not good to be in your head too often.
lmao, that's funny. I wonder if I change it to Farmer Fran from the movie Waterboy, then I could just start ignoring it cause I wouldn'tt understand that deep Louisiana accent.
This made me think.. when I play guitar, when I work, go on walks etc. I feel this exact experience, I go blank and feel as if I’m rather experiencing what I’m doing rather than actually doing it.. almost like an auto pilot.. it makes one think that maybe we are just an observer of the the thing we think is us.. you may think you make your own decisions and you could maybe prove this by going and robbing a store or something out of character to prove you have control of your actions.. but who are we to say these things happening and the actions we produce aren’t predetermined and we are just observing and feeling rather reacting more so than actually doing?
There is a close parallel, perhaps even the same thing described differently, between Alans "awareness" here and the "metaconsciousness" described by Bernard Kastrup. I wish their lives had aligned in time so they could converse while we listen.
Talking to myself led me to reason out the intelligence on the other side of life, and now we're in constant, overwhelmingly-positive contact. So maybe Alan is somewhere being an identityless piece of furniture for the universe to rest its feet on, but I'd like to be me, thankyouverymuch.
Based off the title alone i came here to say, do not ever stop talking to yourself. Philosophers are reknowned for having terrible practical insights. Not only should you talk to yourself and flesh out thoughts, you should use that process to reflect. You should also strive to have a plethora of personal time; an individual who does not spend time alone talking to oneself does not know oneself at all.
I think a balanced approach is ideal. Too much self reflection can actually be a bad thing if you're preoccupied on negative thoughts. For every successful person out there, there is another on the verge of suicide.
@The_Raven_River this point cuts through the fog of B. S. that we should just let go of our internal monologue/dialogue. If we really think about it: First of all, If we only applied language to when we interacted with others, how well do you think we would actually utilize and develop our language? We would be terribly inept at it, and I would wager that we might not even have the ability to carry on with language/communication at all, due to not having the practice of internally forming concepts into verbal language Second, if you were just always “living in the moment“, you will have to block out anything that does not have to do with your immediate sensory intake. Well, the problem with that is that you will not rehearse what had happened, and you will have no conscious memory of anything. You would not take any conscious information with you. The words and concepts that Alan Watts tell us here is in one respect, profound. But on the other hand in practical usage of “always being completely absorbed in the present moment”, stifles some of the main attributes of our core personality traits as humans: communicating, and conceptualizing. There are definitely times that meditation is healthy and beneficial. But it is not the sole ingredient of a healthy functioning human mindset. There are other times where “anti-meditation“ is exactly what’s called for
I think I understand what you are saying, however we do need to stop talking to ourselves from time to time. We are NOT our thoughts, we are the witness to them. Talking is a left brain activity: insights, perception, creative processes are primarily right brain activities. I refer you to the book "The Master and his Emmisary" by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrest). One cannot stop one's tbouchts; thinking is what the brain does, but by being silent you can become aware that thoughts are only tbat: they are not reality (when you think about this, it's obvious since we ha e entirely contradictory thoughts and ideas all the time, they cannot all be true). So taking time to recognise this is important and is also demonstrably good for both oneself and those around us.
nothing is wrong with talking to yourself talking to yourself can bring new internal and exernalenlightening, talking to yourself(peptalsk) can get you through tasks and so forth.
I talk to myself because I am trying to solve problems. I am constantly asking and answering questions either in my mind or verbally. Basically, I do the Socratic method on myself. Sounds weird but it works.
ADHD makes it much harder to stop the mind chatter. It‘s ruined my life as I‘ve never been able to focus so learning, hobbies, careers, relationships have always been very difficult. Something to do with an overactive Default Mode Network.
Amen But our overactive mind was a gift; evolution would not have spared our type otherwise. Hard things makes the chatter go away but in a world of convenience it’s difficult to know what those hard things are Good luck
I too have adhd and I started telling myself I can hyperfocus on anything important to me including clearing the mind. I stopped telling myself it’s hindered me in any way and focus on its positives. It’s actually easier for us than others you just are too focused on what society has told you adhd is. They don’t want us to use our hyperfocus and other talents.
Not only "stop talking to yourself", but quit arguing with someone who is not present... whether or not that someone is actually in the room with you!
I needed to hear this. Thank you. 🙏
Ya I suffer from this greatly. I'm haunted by the 'not present entities'. Sometimes I think they're the reason some people believe in demons.
@@youdontknowme2325 But I'm the only one who listens!
💯 I learned to stop wasting time on fake arguments years ago and I save soooo much stress.
Alright smartass, how am I supposed to keep myselves company
Thanks for posting with no music. I totally appreciate it.
I on the other hand would like some ambience or gentle melody.
@@TheDeepening718That's what's missing. I couldn't put my finger on it.
Thank you for not ruining this with too-loud music that so many other of these kinds of videos have.
Yes. This. Thank you.
Is the sound ruining it or are you ruining it?
Agreed. Music in these types of videos take away from the message. In my opinion. Yes it can add emotion as it does in movies tv shows and "youTube" videos but that is entirely my observation. When listening to a speaker, such as Alan Watts, I like to be able to just listen and not be influenced by an added soundtrack.
To Generate Wealth - I look forward to exploring more of your channel
Agreed!❤
You're ruining this thread 😂@@SoccerGurl8P
I'm not going to stop talking to myself. They are the best conversations i have in life.
If you stop, you'll converse with something even greater than the self. Break out, brother. Do not fear.
@@Lefty248sounds like spiritual hogwash
Yeah not gonna stop conversing with the realest guy I know
say next, and wait for the next thought to come in, when I do this my mind chatter stops. If the next thought is pleasant, then I keep it and enjoy it, but if I don't like it I just say ok next, and simply wait for the next thought to appear. Works for me.
Be with the chatter, be still with it. Even the chatter will aligns with your heart with practice . Let it naturally work its way through, with the light of consciousness. The chatter is the practice.
Good tip, thanks for sharing.🌼
Brilliant idea
@@Rfzinho09 if the thoughts are good, I don't mind letting them run. But if I don't like the thoughts and the effect they are having on my body, I would rather do the "next" thing. In that place of no thought is ultimate peace.
@@PWealthUkandu awesome, I practice doing it all the time.
once when i reached a very high state of mind i realized that "the thing does itself". it's one of the most profound insights i can share. walk outside and try to let go of the walking process. you will find out the body will just continue walking, like the whole thing is an automated machine
The relief of not worrying about "how the universe does things" and suerendering to life's flow is absolutely peak existence
Damn I've experienced that too
Like being in flow when playing sports, it‘s wonderful experience.
You ever been driving in a car and you were thinking about something or focused on something so deep for a good amount of time and realize that you weren’t paying attention or at least you don’t remember paying attention to driving, but you did everything right and made it to your destination. Science will call it muscle memory, but I think it’s deeper.
mac miller said life is just a recital better remember all that you practiced. whenever you’ve learned stuff, it’s really drilled into you. your conscious brain can think of other stuff
Talking to yourself means thinking and thinking.
I voice out my thoughts so Im literally talk to myself
Totally get what you mean, but I dont think thats what hes getting at. Thinking through things is totally good, and a very basic type of meditation. But theres a sense where if you think too much, you lose any sense of simply being here, noticing the temperature the atmosphere weather nature, people what theyre saying etc...
Alan Watts Was A Great Gift, Thank You Allen Watts & Blessings Always!!!
I discovered Alan Watts in 1962, The ArT of Zen. No you tubes then. This illustrated recording without hype or music is simple, clear and accessible. Thank you.
@@jamesheath9089 Watts lived a short life, preaching tasty inoffensive beliefs sweet as candy. There's a reason he is quickly being forgotten. Candy requires no special trick to make, and it makes for a very unhealthy daily diet.
@@jamesbarringer2737 Are there any thinkers/speakers you prefer? I'm being sincere, since your take on Alan Watts is what it is, I'm curious who you would consider more profound or insightful
@ If I were you I would take whatever I say with a great big giant block of salt.
A very very wise man I worked for at the very start of my career - an unknown man but he was enormously successful in a tough field - told me,"Be careful whose advice you accept. Look at that person giving you that advice and ask yourself if that person has gotten what you yourself are looking for.".
I myself am not someone whose advice I would rely on. But when I apply that rule looking for people who show the things I would like to show - a personal peace, a confident sense of mission, a genuine love for others, and an indefatigable optimism about just plain life, I end up with a short list of Christian pastors.
If you don't think that path is for you, I completely understand, as I was a self-professed atheist then agnostic until age 29.
But if you are open to that path, the most important speaker to me, who passed away a number of years ago, was Tim Keller, a very well known Presbyterian minister and church-planter. Especially look for his talks on overcoming dark times. th-cam.com/video/ulmaUtbayGY/w-d-xo.html
He has a sermon that used to be titled "Satanic Exposition" (no longer on TH-cam under that name, but if you Google it it's on Facebook) that now has led me out of a number of very very emotionally difficult situations.
Now I was already a Christian the first time I listened to this. I was listening to TH-cam on my commute home. The title attracted me to it, and for me (already a Christian when I heard it), I found myself crying like a baby by the end.
I'm 99% sure that wouldn't happen to most people, but at that point I already had faith in Christ, and it made very real some of the things hardest to really believe - that you truly are loved, and loved passionately, by the God of the universe - that you mean more to God than his own life means to him (a mind-boggling thing if you can accept it).
This sermon is completely up-front about the pain in life, and it does not treat it as an illusion, but it gives you real reasons (again, if you can accept them) for why you can and should have not just hope, but optimism and love.
I'll be the first to say, having spent half my life atheist, and genuinely loving Hindus and Buddhists and Muslims (and feeling towards Jews as if we are real brothers) and aspiring to love all - I am the first to admit that this may not be the same help to you that it was to me.
So Tim Keller's sermons, but especially those on dark times, helped me enormously. So have the talks of Tim Mackey, who co-founded the Bible Project, that is so successful on TH-cam. There are others. There are non-religious content providers I like as well, but the content that simply works best for me connects to my Christian faith.
But again, if I objectively looked at myself, I don't think anyone should treat my opinions as anything other than just the opinions of some guy on the internet.
Whatever the case I know one day you will find what you are looking for.
Best,
Some Guy on the Internet
@@GusNorco YOURSELF ?
Really nice reflection, didnt know i needed that. Keep up with the great work.
I stopped talking in my head for around 3 years and i found that it's very useful in many ways to combine both ways of mental behaviour.
would you mind sharing more details of this?
Any examples?
Every night, I put on recorder in my phone and talk till am completely empty, and that leads me to a space where am absolutely free of thoughts and then I fall asleep, I love doing that.
Awwww I’m doing this now. I’m sleepy now.
I use my recorder to empty my mind as well. Talking to life instead of someone else.
@@senitastillwell5040 OMG im going to do this!!!!!
@@Royal_Lynnhow did it go?
@@juniorsanchez7441 I record videos in my phone and then delete them. I be exhausted.
“Try to think what it would be like to go to sleep and never wake up” hit me deep. I have the craziest dreams.
Haha me too. I couldn't think of anything worse than living in my dreams forever. But I'd like to sleep...
I like this thought. I feel extremely exhausted when waking up. Every time. I've tried a LOT.
Talking to myself is a self-realization of the happenings and what has been left out during the unconscious mind. Yes, to make it productive the person needs to carry the burden of knowledge and effective wisdom. I am happy to see such a video on youtube. Thank you
Crying in bliss as I recognize the entirety of the Now - get an ad.
😂😂😂😂 life is a comedy, not a tragedy
Lol
@@SuperWubDubit's whichever you choose
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I discovered how awesome it is to talk out loud. Idk about "talking to yourself" i sorta imagine talking to gods or the universe. I only talk to myself in the mirror.
But talking out loud is powerful.
Agreed. I do the same. It feels god. Some people think i´m nuts but who cares about them. Maybe they need to do that too.
God bless this man. He is the voice of my deepest self.
I loved hearing Nietzsche's parable of Ends and Goals paraphrased here synthesizing with Watts perspectives ❤
Was looking around on youtube trying to find a clip of a philosopher (or the like) speaking on death to use in a video I'm making right now. Clicked on this one knowing Alan Watts would have something insightful to say on the matter, or any matter philosophically speaking (not trying to glaze), and ended this video with some tears and a feeling of peace. It feels so important to be told that you are one with your happenings, and that the ego will do everything in its power to make you think that this world, that your existence, the happenings, are not good. To be reminded, that the ego is merely a pitfall of our evolutionary existence as a species and the minds ability and desire to assuage its own noise, feels like the kind of relief that you'd expect to pay for. I would like to start meditating, it might involve calm music at first, I'm not 100% sure what it will look like, but I feel like I have been given a beautiful place to start and the right headspace to see it for what it is. I don't know if anyone will read this, but if you do, please leave a reply and ask me if I meditated that day. It would not only help me stay accountable in my journey of reforming my mentality, but it would absolutely warm my fucking heart to know at least one person, even just once, lent a helping hand for someone they didn't know/will never know.
Did you meditate today?
@mattmarino9300 I did not unfortunately, but I did today. Thank you 🙏🏻
Love you bro. Keep going
"You suddenly realize that everything that you are and do is at that level; as magnificent and as free of any blemish as the patterns in waves. The markings in marble. The way a cat moves. And that this world is really okay."
So many people I know wonder how i can be so happy and content despite all of the impending catastrophes and systemic corruptions facing our species. This man sums it up wonderfully.
The world is not okay
@larietournelle7904
Depends on what you mean by "world". If you mean the paradigm of human action on Planet Earth creating more suffering and harm than necessary, then no, the world is not okay. When I say "world", and I think when Alan Watts says it here he means the same, I mean the infinitely complex dance of energies the physical universe is. We attach labels and make judgements on these different "shapes" the small pieces sum to be, but it's all just a huge system evolving according to underlying rules, beyond any of our control. The universe is unfolding in the only way it could ever unfold, and who are we to say that this way is somehow "wrong" or "ugly" or "evil" or whatever.
The world is okay because all things, "good" and "evil", are pieces of this beautiful show around and inside us. All we can do is bear witness to it.
@@guyedwards22 " le monde " pour les humains veut dire le monde humain. Si tu parles de la biosphère alors dit la biosphère. Si tu parles du cosmos alors dit le cosmos.
@@guyedwards22 là tu t'engouffres dans l'absurdité du langage humain, pas dans la complexité du réel
@@larietournelle7904
Whatever words we use, it's an all encompassing view to say that the cosmos is in order. The human "world" and our emotions about it are part of the cosmos just as much as wind, water, stars, and spacetime. The universe is playing out, we are playing out, predetermined, according to the laws of physics, in the only way it's all "meant" to. That includes all of human suffering and all of human joy.
To say that anything is "not okay" is to compare it to some other state it could have been in and make a value judgement based on that comparison. All other alternative states that the cosmos could have been in, including our own human affairs, do not exist, and under my assumptions, never could have existed. They are not part of the story playing out.
Okay, I'm glad to know this is a video on meditation. I was about to say this won't help me at all if I closed my thoughts off and stopped thinking haha. I need my thoughts to continue flowing, it brings new ideas to me.
Best Alan Watts video I've seen, thank you.
This really helped me enter a meditative state. That listening to the outside world without judgement instead of thinking really is a game changer and helped me stay in the moment. I can see how I was doing it wrong and why it’s so enjoyable.
This is top of Alan Watts with briliant direct path exercises. Thank you!
Thanks for the beautiful message with NO stock new-age MUSIC. Brilliant!❤
Just stumbled across this video while literally talking to myself outloud. 🕺
I laughed and cried ... It makes sense but hard to grasp when i am always grasping.
I love to talk with intelligent people!
"Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment."
Thanks you for sharing real Alan Watts and not stupid AI
That was the most helpful explanation of meditation I've ever come across
Such a beautiful presentation
The animation & subtitles make it easier for everyone.
One of the best by Alan Watts
This conscious eternal life is a gift and a grace, and we are just learning how to reciprocate with the Giver of this gift. Conscious life is full of personal qualities, appreciate it and protect it.
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He never says, "Stop talking to yourself indefinitely" or "Try to stop thinking permanently."
Clickbait.... 🙄
The interesting thing is why we always click on this misleading titled videos....
1:30
he does actually
@@makadoz But he means in a way where it happens without forcing it.
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This helped me the very first day. Amazing 🎉
so glad this wasn’t ruined by a loud of obnoxious capitalistic ad
Talking to yourself is the most helpful tool whatever creator gave us. We can work things out internally without it ever passing our vocal cords and lips and if we do decided to talk to ourselves aloud in anger or sadness or in joy, I find it is truly the best and imo I think it shows you think and are interested in why we exist instead of being interested in distractions and more so the answers of the universe that can get you out of the gutter.
"Hmm I wish more anime would be made..I watched them all."
Uh make your own or just stop 😂
"Hmm I wish I can grow pot but it's too hard..ima keep bitching about it.."
Put the pipe down, go put a seed in a pot and learn.
The majority of ppl in existence baffle me. Few years ago working at a gas station this slow dude asked me if he should increase his tires air pressure in winter and if his tires needed air. Idfk man...
(Internally I was fucking screaming omg, you got a phone and can't look it up?? I don't even drive and know the science of pressures in hot and cold, the entire education system is failing dude, why are you asking gas station clerk?)
I was just talking to myself about this!
I can't do math at all without talking to myself. When I talk to myself my brainpower increases. It helps me process my thought and study.
I’ve developed a terrible habit of talking to myself,even just now I thought out loud I must stop talking to myself. I used to joke it’s the most intelligent conversation I had all day, now I’m not so sure.
wow this gave me lots to think about!
I can’t believe I ever thought this guy was deep and insightful
😂😂😂 right
I appreciate that, but i am going to continue talking to myself
Psychopath
Think you might have missed the message mate but no worries and all the best....
Lmao true
Me too, but I've become noticeful about what's being said. Quiet time is essential, or how will you even know what your thoughts are? If it's a worry, there may be a need to plan. If it's judgmental, there needs to be a shift to evaluation and forgiveness -- though I find that forgiveness is always a work in progress. Try not to cherish old pain, it can become your treasure. I'm nearly 80 now, with more responsibilities to myself than to others. I'm more often free to say, "If not now, when?" and do as I like. Something for you anxious young ones to look forward to!
@agingflowerchild I'm a procrastinator, but I revel in a fantasy of responsibility. I look forward to meeting other people like me through my work and looking out for others. I never want to be submissive again. And I always wonder if what im doing is right. Im still a bit sullen and sardonic, but If i do dislike a person now, Its mkre righteous, i used to hate people for no reason. Being judgemental isnt better but I know some people who who can only point to the enemy and not the issue. I dont feel like a man yet, but when decided on my goal and made something to aspire to, the greatest consultant became the second me I created in my head. I always talked to myself, but now that i feel i have things to say, i actually look forward to talking to other people now. Always trying to learn more. I hooe i get to your age and reflect on what I attempted with content.
Talk to yourself but don't answer. Yes i agree everything else is part of our body. The universe could be our soul and we are a physical copy of it. I don't rule it out I will find out one day. But we are keepers of this world. Let take of in a simple and refined way.
idk why people give this guy so much credit. look how he ended up!
that is not the end of the wise but of the foolish
Do you know what lecture/s this audio is from? This lecture resonated with me more than most.
If the ego were so inconsequential, you wouldn't habe to exert so much energy telling yourself and others that this was so. It would just be so, and we would all agree. 😮
Whose effort?
That was some pretty mind bending stuff. Thanks you for this.
Excellent. Thanks for posting! ❤
Overthinking is one of the root causes of misery.
Weird timing on the ending but I suppose it’s actually absolutely perfect 😂
Maybe I have issues but the concept of stopping thinking is completely alien to me.
I don't know why I bother talking to myself. I never listen.
Lol
Dont smoke crack, dont smoke crack, dont smoke crack, (lights crack pipe) maybe just a little crack
You suck
Lol
Classic
1:45 saving this to myself
Everything you experience exists, dreams, physical, mental, everything is experience.
Some say the answer is not to question, but I’ve always been too curious. How can I give up seeking when learning is what I love?
Spend some quiet time just being before bed... Sleep will be a continuation of this time..... Never give up learning..... Suppose this is a duality thing....
Sometimes I find myself creating fake interactions in my head, the emotions will build and I’ll find myself talking to myself in my head. I shake it off with a quick “wtf are you doing?”. Not good to be in your head too often.
I second: Thanks for posting with no music. A lot.
This was incredibly interesting!
I changed the accent of my inner voice to that of Crocodile Dundee..G'day , Mate !
lmao, that's funny. I wonder if I change it to Farmer Fran from the movie Waterboy, then I could just start ignoring it cause I wouldn'tt understand that deep Louisiana accent.
This made me think.. when I play guitar, when I work, go on walks etc. I feel this exact experience, I go blank and feel as if I’m rather experiencing what I’m doing rather than actually doing it.. almost like an auto pilot.. it makes one think that maybe we are just an observer of the the thing we think is us.. you may think you make your own decisions and you could maybe prove this by going and robbing a store or something out of character to prove you have control of your actions.. but who are we to say these things happening and the actions we produce aren’t predetermined and we are just observing and feeling rather reacting more so than actually doing?
There is a close parallel, perhaps even the same thing described differently, between Alans "awareness" here and the "metaconsciousness" described by Bernard Kastrup. I wish their lives had aligned in time so they could converse while we listen.
12:30 onward is his most important work EVER.
But will I still say stuff like "most important work everrrr" after listening to it? :p
An eloquent alcoholic is not a way to be guided as you live your life but I'll always love Watts and Partridge in equal measure.
Talking to myself led me to reason out the intelligence on the other side of life, and now we're in constant, overwhelmingly-positive contact.
So maybe Alan is somewhere being an identityless piece of furniture for the universe to rest its feet on, but I'd like to be me, thankyouverymuch.
Excellent! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥🔥
No music, Thank you😊
Thank you for not adding music!
If it only was that simple. Just shut up. But the harder you try, the louder it gets.
don’t try just let it happen
Just like the song from Tama Impala, "Let it happen".
Beautiful animation, thank you!
The definition of the term time is moment. When we are saying time after time we actually means to moment. All the time is basically now,
Wow, amazing. Cheers.
"There's no stuff. There's only stuff that makes up the stuff!"
Wow... brilliant. What a useful thing to know. World changing
In the stuff being endless it has no meaning other than existing in the moment
What are you gonna change in the world?
It was for the people who discovered bacteria and atoms
Based off the title alone i came here to say, do not ever stop talking to yourself. Philosophers are reknowned for having terrible practical insights. Not only should you talk to yourself and flesh out thoughts, you should use that process to reflect. You should also strive to have a plethora of personal time; an individual who does not spend time alone talking to oneself does not know oneself at all.
I think a balanced approach is ideal. Too much self reflection can actually be a bad thing if you're preoccupied on negative thoughts. For every successful person out there, there is another on the verge of suicide.
You shall know a fool by his many words.
J.C.
Take captive your thoughts.
J.C.
🤗 I agree. Very poignant.
@The_Raven_River this point cuts through the fog of B. S. that we should just let go of our internal monologue/dialogue.
If we really think about it: First of all, If we only applied language to when we interacted with others, how well do you think we would actually utilize and develop our language? We would be terribly inept at it, and I would wager that we might not even have the ability to carry on with language/communication at all, due to not having the practice of internally forming concepts into verbal language
Second, if you were just always “living in the moment“, you will have to block out anything that does not have to do with your immediate sensory intake. Well, the problem with that is that you will not rehearse what had happened, and you will have no conscious memory of anything. You would not take any conscious information with you.
The words and concepts that Alan Watts tell us here is in one respect, profound. But on the other hand in practical usage of “always being completely absorbed in the present moment”, stifles some of the main attributes of our core personality traits as humans: communicating, and conceptualizing.
There are definitely times that meditation is healthy and beneficial. But it is not the sole ingredient of a healthy functioning human mindset. There are other times where “anti-meditation“ is exactly what’s called for
I think I understand what you are saying, however we do need to stop talking to ourselves from time to time.
We are NOT our thoughts, we are the witness to them.
Talking is a left brain activity: insights, perception, creative processes are primarily right brain activities. I refer you to the book "The Master and his Emmisary" by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrest).
One cannot stop one's tbouchts; thinking is what the brain does, but by being silent you can become aware that thoughts are only tbat: they are not reality (when you think about this, it's obvious since we ha e entirely contradictory thoughts and ideas all the time, they cannot all be true).
So taking time to recognise this is important and is also demonstrably good for both oneself and those around us.
Thank you for the video ✨
Very helpful presentation
nothing is wrong with talking to yourself talking to yourself can bring new internal and exernalenlightening, talking to yourself(peptalsk) can get you through tasks and so forth.
Who else was talking to their self when they come across this video??? I was 😂😂😂😂❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😮
haha same
Me 😂
Thanks for not adding background sound...❤
I talk to myself because I am trying to solve problems. I am constantly asking and answering questions either in my mind or verbally. Basically, I do the Socratic method on myself. Sounds weird but it works.
The presence of awareness
Meditation is just sitting on the floor with your eyes closed. Nothing more, nothing less.
Cool graphics! Love no music!!!
Beautiful!
Does anyone know if this talk is on Waking Up? If so, could you point me to the title? Thanks!!
Where can I hear the rest of what he was beginning to say before the clip ended?
Only in silent meditation do I ever find reason...and there is no 'reason' for it.
Alan Watts and I...same page.
I say it to myself and I agree…
The video ended as he was saying something intriguing. It'd would be great to know how i can find the rest of what is said
Who else is buckling up for a BM that will also qualify as “waiting for the guidance of the voice of all things”?
Both sides of everything is always is always turning in on itself, so any directional choice made will shift ?
when we get up to go somewhere we also don't think or tell our legs ok walk we just move its very curious
I’m not talking to myself, I’m commenting on TH-cam. COMPLETELY. DIFFERENT. I ASSUME.
boring..
I'm not talking too myself, I'm talking to my cat. He may not always be there at the time but sometimes you have to express ideas to someone.
I almost broke my vocal cords from yelling at myself.
Im suffing from something. Social isolation?
ADHD makes it much harder to stop the mind chatter. It‘s ruined my life as I‘ve never been able to focus so learning, hobbies, careers, relationships have always been very difficult. Something to do with an overactive Default Mode Network.
You are not alone. Or are you? JK 🙃
Amen
But our overactive mind was a gift; evolution would not have spared our type otherwise.
Hard things makes the chatter go away but in a world of convenience it’s difficult to know what those hard things are
Good luck
I too have adhd and I started telling myself I can hyperfocus on anything important to me including clearing the mind. I stopped telling myself it’s hindered me in any way and focus on its positives. It’s actually easier for us than others you just are too focused on what society has told you adhd is. They don’t want us to use our hyperfocus and other talents.
@danielgrigg1425 no it isn't it's a complete error... a wrong turn. Insane idea
@@brianneml2979hyper focus on one thing is an adhd thing as well
Beautiful ❤
What is the original audio from Alan watts called?