Alan Watts For When You Think Too Much
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- A clarifying and powerful lecture from Alan Watts on Jesus and religion.
Original audio sourced from: Alan Watts, Extended Seminars, Early Radio Talks - Ghosts
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"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."
Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
Speaker: Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
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T&H Inspiration is on a mission to share inspiring wisdom. The goal is to have you pause, think, and reflect. Many of our videos revolve around the extraordinary teachings of Alan Watts that we produce with permission from the Alan Watts Electronic University.
T&H also films and releases original interviews with iconic people who have experienced successes, while also persevering through life's highs and lows. We look forward to sharing more of these perspectives and insights.
Our hope with these videos is to push your thinking. As Alan Watts said “No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.” - Alan Watts.
The highest state of mind is to have fun and laugh. Everything in life is a contradiction but we take it so seriously
The highest (most effective) state of mind is that "versed in action yet remaining unaffected by it" . That chosen action should be the service of others especially "The least" or pooreset and most despised. "I keep laughing instead of crying, I must keep fighting until I am dying". (Gandhi, Jesus, Paul Robeson).
Only Americans and NE Asians take life too seriously. In Latin America, Europe, and Russia people are much more vivacious and playful and freespirited. That's why I advocate going abroad to have real fun. America is too uptight to have fun. In America, the only fun you see is on a TV or movie screen, not in real life. But when you go abroad you see that there is fun in real life, not just on a screen. America is no fun, it only offers a boring routine. Go abroad to other countries and you will see what I mean.
Cosmic joke
Exactly! Absurdism is the answer in this insane world
And to “relax”. Michael J. singer
This is what makes the internet amazing.
Unfortunately the other half is negative. Imagine a world with all positivity
No good without the bad, you would know what good means if bad didn't exist
@@livinglife1089 Not possible, there's no such thing as light without dark or dark without light, joy without pain, indulgence without restraint, it all has to be balanced
I agree with most of that, but don't you feel that maybe the scales have tipped a little too much to the negative side?
@@rickduque5799You are right, I feel like it has become much worse since years ago, and it might get even worse before it starts to improve.
This man saved my life, and I'll always be grateful for finding his powerful message.
Same here buddy
Me too brother, I come back often to recharge when I leave to play the play and it wears me down.
Same here man
This _is_ a powerful message. It is the first time I have heard it stated like this. It makes sense.
I will have to absorb it. I'll have to see what it does to me.
I have been at odds with the circumstances of my life for a long time now. At odds with things I cannot change.
Maybe this will help me relax where I can and focus on changing the only thing I really can change. Which seems to be only myself.
Like I say, I will have to absorb it. I'll have to see what it does to me.
For some reason, it brings to mind a line from Kurt Vonnegut. "Here we are, in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
You’ll still die
It's always a great time to listen to Alan Watts
...all you need is a whole lot of 'word salad' and an accent and you too can be an alan watts...
Facts!!! 💯
All killer no filler
@@smelltestyou must be careful of the word salad.
He is my favorite music
Move through life slowly and appreciate what's around you and be mindful.Alan Watts is a inspiration
I couldn’t agree more. Every sunset, every rainy day, all the little details of this existence are precious and we become happier when we take the time to appreciate them.
"too much" technology. too easy available for today's Youth.
- Drugs aren't "drugs".
- Being too "serious for all End Of Days. :((
@@terrariumelio974 That's well put sir.
Life is meant to be an experience.
If you’re reading this comment, it’s too late, you’ve already been immensely blessed with an abundance of love, wealth, luck, health, joy, and whatever else your heart desires!! I’m so proud of you for surviving everything you’ve been through. This is your sign to go after what your heart most desires for the highest good, it’s your time....
At peace…finding joy in everything. Life is a blessing.❤️🙏
Beautifully said! Thank you!
No it justs means the choices you made worked out for you.
That is what I am thinking too. It’s not pessimistic to think of it as rational vs irrational that something worked and didn’t.
@@InvictusManeo.both ideas CAN be true.
Alan Watts quite literally changed my approach of how to understand the whole of existence and the universe itself.
For me the same. He is gold - even with all his dings and oddities. Would have so enjoyed meeting this person ....
@@rudolfboukal1538 same same I would have loved to be on one of his retreats.
Same. A single sentence I heard him say changed my entire perception on reality and I had just come across the video by pure chance, wasn't looking for anything inspirational or spiritual. The video was called The Real You. He says.. "You are something that the whole Universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is something the whole ocean is doing"
@@PrimeNPC I know that recording of him (Probably most of all of them there are) and this sentence rings so true!
Me to, but this is all intellectual understanding, go to Jesus and everything will be clear with true love 💖...because the universe os the most living thing there is
"People survive until they don't".
Simple yet profound statement.
We do until we don't.
@@shovethatupyaNSmokeit by the time I realized it, all I can do is laugh at myself.
Drinking alcohol excessively doesn’t help with survival.
@christophers.1517 lmao you sound boring and judgy. Here for a good time, not a long time. You migbt die driving in your car. Better to enjoy the wine and pass on the traffic 🎉
Being too critical (judgmental) doesn't help with survival either. I take the good I can get - even if its just a pebble from the sands of a vast shoreline ... its still a treasure for me.@@christophers.1517
Something I have taught myself is if you keep thinking about something, you arent going to come to a conclusion and keep thinking and make more problems.
I needed this, thank you
some say thinking about things is the problem
~the human mind has another, parasite mind, feeding on it and usually keeping our attention trapped
(not my own idea... so i can't explain better)
@@R.Pi_II you like Gad Saad?
This is wisdom
@@R.Pi_IIso true.
He captivates me everytime I listen to him
Imagine what it's like to hear him as well.
I feel like my life has changed. Something amazing has happened, and this is what it feels like..
I'm just beginning this journey, but I love what I see already 🌟
The instant moment when you realize the nature of it all, is when you continue living as it is. Be this you, now, here. Smile, laugh at the astonishing amazement of it all and continue being this version of you. Don't run to the mountains and preach, dont change your name and begin a pilgrimage to the temple; just live.❤❤❤
❤
Anazing
At peace.❤️🙏
Nice .... you figured it out. Smiles!
Don’t move through life to fast, to be at your best and enjoy the most slow down take time for your mind
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast
@@ngc5195 aye sir
Maybe you should have sped up a little in 3rd grade grammar class…hard to take you seriously
*too
God knows it is difficult to me..:)
Such a beautiful soul, his words always shine through this could of confusion I have manifested.. isolated at the moment focused on problems, forgetting it’s a journey and nothing is permanent asides from impermanence. Have a great day anyone reading this ❤
somebody recently told me that your mid to late twenties are your hardest time. you're either having kids or getting married or going through heartbreak and those stresses. you're adding on fitting yourself into the daily life of society, and where you place in the world. you're adding on all of the death you and your family is going through with its oldest generation or your grandparents, aunts, uncles, moms, dads. you're witnessing friends you grew up with end up down the wrong path and pass away to something either horrific or natural. this is by far the hardest time of your life. you learn the most about living at this point in life. to those who are also currently going through this. please... keep your head up and just keep pushing forward. you got this.
20s were the best time of my life. Not a care in the world. For me, life got difficult when I got married and had children, which is a paradox because I love being a family man. But I started CARING more about EVERYTHING. Money, politics, status, the future, the past… None of those things crossed my mind when I was single in my 20s. I assume it has to do with 4 children naturally forcing me to have a vested interest in the future. I love my life, yet I’m still angry and stressed. I’m listening to AW to try and figure this out.
Depends on the culture you are born into ... whatever period maps to your parents passing while new kids joining the fold ... kids can really f**k up a marriage ... immensely bittersweet ... the U-shape is real.
Thank you ♥️ needed to hear that today
Hey remember, there is very good saying- what’s not killing today-makes you stronger tomorrow.
20s is easy, when u r young, you need to test it out this world, try many things, because you know you can recover easy and keep going since all life in front of you…for me from 35s my life start getting more difficult as more understanding time is very important in our life and we should not waste it for nonsense…but I’m happy, no regrets!
Keep going brothers/sisters- never give up,
One Life!
Jokes on you, I drank my way through my twenties, have no family, and I'm in complete chaos and disarray two months from hitting 37.
I love it when Alan Watts says "phony". We're all individual parts of the same thing. When one is doing well, we're all doing a little better. Appreciation and love encourages and enhances. Questioning and challenging inspires growth in new ways. (My 2 minutes of wisdom from being 'in the zone' right now - thank you)
In a fragmented part of this, my take on the "material world" expectation of happiness: As a man nearing retirement, I do not reflect on what wealth I missed out on or should have had as a middle-class American. I am grateful for my health which is still good, a roof over my head, food in the refrigerator and clothes on my back. People who today judge me on what I do or do not have - who once made me feel inferior in society - I now look upon them with contempt. If that is the measure of one's true character and worth in their eyes, then I pity those whose real values are truly lost.
“Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” If I may, because I love so much of what you said here, move your contempt and pity towards compassion and forgiveness and you will see an end to your suffering.
@@kblenseigne Thanks, but I am not suffering whatsoever. I know what is important to me. That's simple.
I try not to look on them with contempt but sad for them. They do not know the meaning of life yet.
buddy, don’t miss the point. STOP WORRYING ABOUT IT. Just live! have a good life and enjoy it
@@lindasharp8523there is no meaning, u missed the whole point, that THERE IS NONE 😂
Last night I couldn’t sleep…Having palpitations for my dreams that I haven’t realized… I know this is definitely a sign from the universe for me to calm down but mehn… it’s easier said than done. I’m so grateful for this message this morning. I hope I can find a way to deal with my desires better
Hey Tutu, I relate so much with this.
I've been finding it hard to sleep for some nights now. I've got dreams and sometimes when I think about the country, economy and all that I just feel despair that I may not be able to live these dreams.
@@stanleyezepk hi Stanley, I get you, it’s easy to say oh don’t worry things will be fine and honestly I wish I could say that and mean it but like you said for us living in Nigeria, among other millions of problems, it can feel like you’re in a boiling pot with no way to come out of it…
But I do know that no matter how bad life gets one can rise up from the worst with the right attitude and determination… so allow yourself to feel how you feel, cry if need be.. that’s where I am now… I give myself the grace to feel down because I am human after all but I keep at the back of my mind that someway, somehow, when this feeling is gone, I will rise again, better and stronger… these challenges are what makes us and the bigger they are the stronger you become if you maintain the will to overcome them...
I wish you the best Stanley… keep your head up regardless, things will get better for you 💕
"I had a dream"...
Replace HAD with RECEIVED.
I received a dream.
A dream that felt oh so gooooood.
Where did that good feeling dream come from?
From Consciousness itself.
Which means the plot line has been received. Therefore the details will start flowing.
But for that you must believe in the dream. You must acknowledge it. And ask the Universe for more.
It must happen. It is law. The Universe wants it. And you are the conduit.❤
@@framhouse2935 wow this is lovely! Thank you
@@framhouse2935Why is recieved a better word to use?
Life, as it seems, is one consistent series of ever changing and evolving elements…
I believe that is each individual’s job to experience those elements to the fullest; and to use that to help teach the youth of your life the things your weren’t taught, that you wish you were…
Obediently yours
Such wisdom spoken so authentically by a true human such huge lessons from such a short 'explanation'
I recently had a mushroom trip that predicted a break up. I was tripping alone and kept seeing my own eyes watching me on my walls. I thought I was going to throw up, I got really sweaty, cold, and scared. Then a voice echoed in my head that said “you’re only doing this to yourself” and it all went away. 2 days later I get dumped and all those feelings I’d normally feel after a break up didn’t come. I’d already felt them. I was okay not being okay with it. I think I’ve finally figured out that walking away especially if you continue in pursuit of improving yourself is the best way to handle that kind of rejection. And not out of revenge. Just love for yourself. You can’t control another persons actions, words, anything really. But you can control yours.
Good job.
The idea that you're only doing it to yourself is so powerful! Wow!
I love magic mushrooms
That was just a bad trip, it didn’t predict anything lol
That wasn't a prediction, that was a teaching. The mushrooms gave you the tools to deal with your pain and overcome it. With mushrooms, nothing is random. They provide another prespective of what is really important in the end of the day while letting go the baggage that we don't actually need to be happy 😊
You guys do a great job with the video clips - thank you for sharing 🙂🙏
This man is amazing for real❤❤...his knowledge and wisdom is on another level
Thank you Mr Watts
And the uploader and video editor thank you 🙏🏼
God bless each and everyone here today 🙏
Absolute Game changer 🙌 I give thanks @AlanWatts
I needed this today thank you
The problem isn't the people who think too much. The problem is the people who don't think enough - or who don't think at all.
You can't let them worry you
Or feel.
Alan, thank you ❤
Awesome. I've just had new insights so am grateful to you and Alan.
Love the amazing nature and purpose and connection to everything . Watts helps put me in the right perspective.
Patterns are somethings we can step back and look at, if we take those moments to do so. We are not the work we do . Don’t let that be the first or 2nd thing we ask people when we meet.
"Words of Wisdom" What an Inspiration.
life isn’t a problem, life is a process 🧐
Wonderful.
The most beautiful thing I have ever heard.
Thank you for your efforts keeping his work alive
And rhythmically moving..wonderful!
Cheers!
God Bless Thank you 💙
Love all these videos
Thank you 👍
Life is a leson, make it a positive growth.
Thank you Alan
3:00
People talk about survival instincts.
You survive until you don't.
What happened to the survival instincts when you don't survive?
🐧🌱🌹🌱🦅💝🕰🕰🤩
All the stuff are stuff because you don't examine them closely enough or your instruments aren't fine enough.
It's all pattern, behaviour.
It's a transaction. Everything is in transactional relationship with everything else.
9:07
Everything is the whole complex.
Every organism is part of the environment.
🌹🚣♂️👍😇🤠🕰🏘🍒
We are what is happening! No more ghosts.
Life isn't a problem, not a contest between ourselves and our environment.
Thanks Alan. 24 October 2023.😂🦅💝😇🤠🌟🍁🕰👍🚀
Needed this right now!
Really nice edit! I love alan and i love your channel. Cheers!
This man is the universe speaking to us
It's all a matter of perspective. Nothing is eternal, our mood, our view, what is good, i.e. what is right or what is wrong. But that's how the universe is, it's constantly changing. Viewed in this perspective, I fully agree with the author that the problem does not exist, because only we make it so, from our point of view it is a problem, but from his point of view it could be for the others an opportunity, like death, an opportunity for another life for another way(form/body) of life. We should celebrate, because as they said a long time ago: His soul has been set free.
❤bless you. Be happy
Danke!
We are exactly who we are supposed to be. If I am lost in my ego, with all its pleasures and suffering, I am meant to be lost. If I seek and find enlightenment, I am supposed to be enlightened. There is no nirvana without samara.
Life inseparable from life❤
Imagine if every person on this planet was to adopt this genius’s ideas? What a world it would be
There is an enchanting voice of Alan . I would like to see him and Noah Harari debate philosophy.
Sometimes I just sit down, look at my window and listen to the wisdom of Alan Watts .
“ I like myself better when I’m drinking”
Alan Watts I couldn’t agree more ❤
If only Alan Watts knew how many lives he has saved or changed for the better. It will be endless.
everyone should listen to this
If you’re in your head, it’s a trauma response. First thing is find ways to get into your body. Somatic therapy, tantra, dancing, walking.
I needed this
“I“ GET “IT“ AND IT’S “SCARY“ AND LOVING!!!🕊💫 (“SCARY“BECAUSE THESE AFFERMATIONS CAME TRUE)
Thank you T&H for posting this and so many other valuable video - particularly those by Alan Watts. And LOOK, almost 450,000 views. There is so much not worth seeing on YT - I am glad that you are making it possible for something like this - of this quality - to be accessible to the many that could find relief in viewing this! Thanks Again!!! Like and of course, subscribed (some time ago).
*Hey I'll refer you to this dude online who guided me through my first ever experience,he got all kinds of psychedelic stuffs and he also ship discreetly to any location**
He's on telegram¿¿¿
Coldtrips ✓✓✓
Please spell his name right. It's Alan Watts.
@@lindaw.5836 Sorry about that. I don't know why I didn't catch that - or even better where that spelling came from. I'll edit it now.
Amazing
What he describes is what I believe to be a feeling I have felt in the climax of psychedelic experiences. Subjective problems seem insignificant when the perspective of being is that everyone and everything the self included is intertwined and coexisting in transaction.
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i have yet to try psycedelics but plan to very soon. i am curious where my mind will go.
Its interesting that once you get into psychedelics, you start to see the same pattern expressed by them everywhere. You see patterns seen by others, which has little to do with psychedelics, but orientate about the same idea. An eye-opener, really. I really appreciate having opportunities in my life to try them and afterwards discover the same states without them.
How to get enough to eat is in fact a real “problem” for some.
One Watts obviously never had to deal with or he wouldn't be talking lightly about it.
I doubt he ever did one day's work to put food on his table. He reminds me if the rich who tell poor people they need to learn to budget if they can't afford to buy food.
There is only what one can and cannot do. Ignore the things you can effect and you will suffer by your own means. If you are unable to accept your current limitations and define yourself by what you cannot do then you will see yourself as nothing. To be something you simply have to do something.
no, you got it totally backwards
Buddist and Zen and the Tao predates western culture and christianity by many centuries
when you understand there is only one lifeform on the Earth, and you are part of it, part of the entire Universe, there is no good or bad, sucess or failure
there is only Life as it exists in the present
the thoughts running thru your mind are the illusion
the Universe is the only reality
Great
So much wisdom but still fall into the trappings of alcohol, drugs and depression
He did ? Wow so human then .
he said if you try to be really a saint you loose the human side of you... meaning you annoy everything around you
if you try to be very very perfect you can achieve it but you won't enjoy being a human being
even God is a little mad
it's not depression, it's being human
@@mainman3941you know God?
@@solb101we are God
I think he’s saying that no matter what you go through, what you feel and what we become in life life/nature is going to happen and when nature/life happens we have no control of what will happen but we can control the feelings towards it, if we believe in the positive energy as much as we do the negative then your feelings about the situation could be different,
These days we are trained mentally to go by what we think we should feel about neg/pos situations,
For instance once we’re born we have no control over what the future will naturally bring however we are taught and trained as to what love/hate is, this is why we have different cultures a different way of thinking because thats what they are trained to think therefore feeling can be adjusted towards different scenarios
Nice to think like this when you’re sitting in your armchair in front of the fire, but the truth is it is not in our nature. I am bloody freezing I wake up every morning worrying about how I am going to eat and pay bills. You cannot think the way you do when you’re in the bad place it is only for other people who are comfortable
You are so right , But you will find that even if you were rich life still seems this way. I make 2 grand a month that don’t stop me from thinking in all facets I Ben homeless and occupied by life but I taken control and my thinking is solid stream. Realize to free yourself from society you must work to end the enslavement. Start a career invest but some land first take away society’s grip of bills and rent every month. Takes work to end work live cheap below your means save the rest when you start from the bottom position yourself in the advantage and mail it home all the way go to work save buy land.
That’s real
Of course we still have to work to survive. But we can keep this shit in the back of our heads so we never take anything more seriously than is necessary.
That's because you're not living in the natural human habitat, where we evolved for tens of millions of years; that's a key aspect Alan is completely neglecting to mention. In the tropical equatorial rainforest where we belong it's warm (but not too warm, just right, exactly what we evolved for) all year round, with less temperature variation over the course of an entire year than within every single day. Rainfall is constant there, with no pronounced dry or wet seasons (let alone unnatural crap like winter), and food grows in abundance all year.
So the only thing Alan is ultimately wrong about here is the survival instinct, which isn't a "spook", but a basic fact of evolutionary biology; but in our natural habitat that comes down to avoiding predators (which are few, really only leopards, which tend to avoid humans due to our size) and avoiding conflict, while temperature and food never is a problem or something you'd ever have to worry about there, and certainly not something as bizarre as "paying bills", which is literally slavery.
Find your gift and celebrate it 💜
Video transition are amazing
Know that the universe loves you! ❤
the highest state of the higherself is to love SELF only and care about others but only love SELF the reflection is incredible from others, what you think you BEcome
Exactly! So within so without is absolutely 💯
Beautiful video.
Watts is my guru ❤
I just found out that I’m having a baby boy. Thanks for this video.
Congrats! Teach him to love what is good! Don't let him learn hate, start now reaching, Bruce Lipton helped me understand how I my mind was programmed, understanding the subconscious mind will help you understand the dangers your child will face. Do a great job, his future depends on you!
Congratulations 🎉 He will be healthy
I feel like ive just had a wave of enlightenment come over me that I've never experienced before. It was a lot to take in at first but now I know its guiding me in the right direction. I've never felt like this before and I fear that my family will struggle to intergrate into their reality. I dont know who to speak to about it as I feel like Im on my own. I live in London. Could you please point me in the right direction?. Id like speak to someone.
Thank you
Greg
id speak with you about your enlightenment im curious to see your perspective as i don't have many people to talk with either
@@insomniac1232 Maybe we should all get together and talk because I would like to know as well and Would like to talk with someone. you guys got discord , Instagram etc ?
Same here !
I feel the same
Follow your heart! Everything follows the path of least resistance. Do not think that you must work towards any “goal” or awakening. Everything you need is already inside of you. Allow the universe to flow to and through you, without ego. You are God in the most humble measure.
You have to float above life to enjoy his words, but you have to learn how to float first. Until you can float, you just can’t understand. Your head is buried so deep within the noise of reality that you cannot simply let go. You have not sufficiently suffered, but we love you and are patiently waiting for you to meet us up here.
Depression has me and I don't know how to let go of it. Intellectually, what my brain tells me is all lies, but I can't stop myself from believing it.
@@margewisniewski149
- The feeling arrives before the thought perhaps? (When I’m depressed it does)
- Life is a whirlwind. I have been feeling kind of depressed lately too.
- I know one thing that helps me personally:
- Meditating on the silent stillness of the moment
- Repeating a mantra or two:
- “Let it be as it is”
- “This too shall pass”
- “I am right here, right now. This moment is precisely what I am seeking” (this tells me that what I am searching or striving or wishing for is in the immediate present)
- We are all looking for an excuse to be here now. Whether we are aware of it or not.
- Raise your hands above your head (reach for the sky) while smiling. (Your body will naturally release feel-good hormones) try it, it’s how I get my daughter to calm down and switch her mood. Works every time (sometimes it takes a few tries, but it’s neat to see) helps me too.
- It also helps when I take a minute and remind myself that EVERYBODY on earth is suffering and insecure. There are no exceptions.
- Take aim at something simple and achieve it. (Fold your clothes, wash your car or any minor task) the feeling of achievement helps too. (Little hacks that help me)
@@margewisniewski149
- The feeling arrives before the thought perhaps? (When I’m depressed it does)
- Life is a whirlwind. I have been feeling kind of depressed lately too.
- I know one thing that helps me personally:
- Meditating on the silent stillness of the moment
- Repeating a mantra or two:
- “Let it be as it is”
- “This too shall pass”
- “I am right here, right now. This moment is precisely what I am seeking” (this tells me that what I am searching or striving or wishing for is in the immediate present)
- We are all looking for an excuse to be here now. Whether we are aware of it or not.
- Raise your hands above your head (reach for the sky) while smiling. (Your body will naturally release feel-good hormones) try it, it’s how I get my daughter to calm down and switch her mood. Works every time (sometimes it takes a few tries, but it’s neat to see) helps me too.
- It also helps when I take a minute and remind myself that EVERYBODY on earth is suffering and insecure. There are no exceptions.
- Take aim at something simple and achieve it. (Fold your clothes, wash your car or any minor task) the feeling of achievement helps too. (Little hacks that help me)
Floating is nice. But people generally have a hard time floating if their basic needs aren't met.
And this is unfortunately the reality we live in.
Some issues you can let go of, and that is a privilege. But telling someone who is disabled and/or can't afford to eat to "Float above life" probably isn't going to have the same effect as someone who is at least living in some form of perceived stability.
@@Panda72021exactly
Family is my problem- walking away is the solution ❤
In time, this shall pass.
Why are humans capable of using the spoken word to this rarefied and exalted manner so uncommon in present Western culture?
Because we currently have a culture of hate and division. So many people are focused on hating people that they never met because someone else they never met told them to. If we could learn to listen with intent to learn instead of waiting to respond and scream at them for being "wrong". We have to learn to push out these caricatures of hate we've created and actually learn to love and embrace each other.
Seems to speak quite plainly to me. Thank goodness!
Because the dominant philosophy here in the west is that of science and science is within the paradigm of Duality.
Duality is the very thing Alan watts attempts to explain away because it is the primal illusion.
Our schooling system is one of science so we do not breed anything other than dualitic thought here in the west 🙏
Alan watts was also a master of satsang. The original and most direct method of awakening, its also kind of a lost art amoung the spiritual community ATM, especially with the commercial rise of yoga and sitting meditations and all that new age stuff people get drawn into by the "spiritual" marketing.
because western society is so focused on material things and people have gotten caught in this neverending cycle of working to get stuff and upon realizing you dont have enough stuff you have to work more. overconsumption is cancer to humanity. becoming homeless and losing everything broke me out of that feedback loop.
@@gunguntrio1247 division itself is not wrong. as a gay male i will not reach across the aisle to those who are advocating my genocide and destruction. i hope those people will find a way to understand i am not that different from them but it is not my responsiblity to put them on that path.
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I'm 65 yrs old,,,still cry at my fathers passing,,3 years later he was 85 yrs.old,,,,I started thinking ,since Dads funneral,,,,what happens at death,,,is this it,,,Its fearful for me just thinking we just die,gone,,life is over,,..as the years go on..closer to the end..
Get to know Jesus.... there's more after this!!
Wish we were all a bit more gnorant when it comes down to knowing that we're going
@@jeffharris8166this is such an incredibly simplistic thing to say as a comment on a video of Alan Watts.
@@lukebennellick4315 just making it easy for you. Also, cool comment bro 👍
Death doesn't exists. It's just your ego that will truly end. You'll live forever. Life after life.
The description of this video says "A clarifying and powerful lecture from Alan Watts on Jesus and religion." Not once was that ever mentioned in this video. Thanks, I wasn't looking for a lecture on those subjects anyway.
Thanx
If you’re reading this, may you find the peace your soul is searching for. We are all one, a unified consciousness and thus we are never alone, always with one another in spirit ❤
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This is THE TRUTH
Nerve system. That’s what keep it in shape. That’s the real hidden knowledge but only if you’re genius you can understand the depth of the phrase
I’ll never understand why people add generic music to the background of Alan’s teachings
I can't understand it either.
Stop the soundtrack.
Let’s just hear what is spoken.
Don’t criticize condemn or complain. Dale Carnegie The mindfulness to pause and reframe.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it 🔥
Alan speaking about principle one of the principles of systems science - interesting.
Amen brother Watts 🙏 thank you 😊
Everything is as it is right Now. It's eternal and it just is what it is Now and Forever Just as it Is. Just part of the One that is All and the All that is One. NOW! WOW!💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
This kind of universalism is what the Scriptures warn against. There is nothing eternal on earth, the heaven and the earth shall pass away, Says The Lord. But He shall abide forever. The earth and heavens cant have a beginning and be eternal at the same time. But God, The Father promises all that would believe on Jesus Christ, eternal life. True everlasting life. All you need to do is put your trust in Him, and call out to Him for salvation. Salvation for what? We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. In the eyes of Holy God, all sin deserves death.
Death in scripture is defined as total separation from God, or in other words Hell, where God's wrath will be poured out on sinners. We have all broken Gods law, and we need to be put under His grace. He poured His wrath out onto Jesus Christ so that all who would receive Him, and believe on His death, burial, resurrection- would have everlasting life.
@@FaithInJesusOnlynotbyWorks I think u may be barking up the wrong tree. I think most people know who the real enemy is n it's not Mr. Watts or me he's just a very imperfect being who discovered a few beautiful n perfect truths and tried to express in a very imperfect way. The one that is All and the All that is one is Christ ! Not only the perfect truth but perfect Love n light that came into this world n lived a perfect life n was not only crucified for our sins but was the embodiment of perfect Truth Love n Light. The word still is throughout the bible for a very good reason, Just, Be Still and know now I am God. Be still in this one eternal moment n you'll definitely know God more n more. As Mr. Einstein said ( If mankind hadn't invented time, everything would happen at the exact same moment) and he knew what he was talking about! And so did Christ !!! It's just my opinion but I think ur attitude may drive more people away from Christianity and Christ at a time when every single man woman n child needs Christ in their life more than at any time in history. N I'm sure we can agree on that.😊 It just seems like a more open n loving kind n patient approach by helping others to experience Christ themselves weather as a group or alone Will work better. Actions really do speak louder than words n if we all including Me just use less words n more action we'd all be better off. God bless you and I know you meant well!!! ❤️❤️❤️💯💯👍
Thank you God, thank you for this exceptional video
I am amazed at him.
How is not having food not a problem? I understand that existential questions aren't but food is not a ghost that haunts your mind!
I am sorry, you missed the point....
Very profound! Holism is a great way to look at life but we should also accept that examining the components that make up that holist structure helps us to understand the big picture.
It takes both kinds.
what do you mean
@darkwingmot Looking at the big picture is fine but if you want to know how it works, you have to dissect it.
@@warren52nz understand "how it works" is very vague idk what ur trying to say but its fine i dont need to :)
@darkwingmot Example: We see the Sun rise every day and holistically, we embrace the dawn of a new day but if you want to know how that happened, then you need to look at the movement of the Solar System.
Get it now? 🤔
@@warren52nz yes ofc thats very simple, but I just dont know what that has to do with this video? :D
I love a presentation called "For When You Think Too Much" that never mentions the word "think" at all.
It is mentioned. You were too busy thinking instead of listening, try again.
Problems are only challenges, so treat it as a game. Life itself is a game so just play.
I like the selection and most of the video. I also like generally to have music with these Alan Watts videos. But this one is a bit much. I like the music a little more chill. Still a good video, thanks
I want to see this philosophy standing up to the reality of your family starving to death or succumbing to illnesses. We have a duty to actively improve our lives.
Perhaps Alan’s soporific voice makes it sound separated from what you consider REAL LIFE but he does state that it is not passive acceptance.
It’s a very developed state that can seem too simple- and in fact is easily falsified by not being awake enough and leaving everyone to make up for the lack of responsibility for your actions, I’ve known plenty of people like that.
My suggestion would be to look at your last sentence and see how many assumptions you’ve used to make that statement. I’m not saying you are wrong, don’t let yourself get distracted by trying to prove me wrong, just look deeper into your statement.
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your unconscious mind has been perfectly capable of keeping you and your family alive and well
without the illusion of your ego self messing it up fatally
its the ego that brings trouble and death, let it go, you will excel more than you can imagine
@@kenwittlief255 you don't make any sense, you're probably high. So if you see your kid dying of starvation it's your ego to blame, got it.. lol.