His words got me through the darkest time of my life and he has been a life raft that has kept me afloat through storm after storm ever since. Forever grateful to this man and to all who let this man influence the way in which they go through the world, thank you❤
The parable of the Chinese farmer was my introduction to A. Watts. That parable is mind expanding because you realize what little (if any) control you have over outcomes, as good or bad as they may be. That one really helped me to settle down.
I so very much love this awesome spirit. A while ago someone called him a hypocrite at an afterparty of a friend of mine....because of his struggles with alcohol. I believe that he saw how our planet could be and how it is...and had great difficulty with this. Everything comes from nothingness, in art/music we start with nothing and carve out "somethingness" out of this...this is art./musc....love/beauty .....I believe Alan does this with words. His amazing words are at the "border" of thinking and feeling...a "place" where the real magic happens (jmho). I wish everybody a happy, loving, and magical life 🙏 🍄
It’s interesting, Edgar Allan Poe was also an extraordinary linguist, albeit very dark. He was also known to be somewhat of an alcoholic, yet Alan and Edgar both have dramatically improved the quality of the human race by being none other than themselves. ✨
@@VicariousVue Hello friend, I agree. Dostoevsky is another (drinker and dark), great writer, he`s often quite depressing but a lot of common sense in his texts. Best wishes. I hope life is kind to you
Just be,, Domo. try this meditation use your mind to operate your lungs both in and out iiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnn oooouuuuuuttttttt put your attention of feeling light air energy go in to your heart chakra,, now how deeply can you get that feeling. you should feel something in 30 second's
Imagine a genuis philosopher like alan watts recommended an other great philosopher Laozu , yeah everyone here knows what its means 😊just mindblowing, i feel so lucky in life to discover ancient great wisdom. The pleasure of knowing and discover new ideas is princeless in my opinion.
Their wouldn't be philosophy without laotzu he's the foundation in which watt's walked upon, strange how people can't seem to recognise the root of the tree..🤔
We always act spontaneously, because what we think we are (the mind) only ever experiences thoughts and sensations. As Watts reminds us: "You don't control your thoughts. You don't control your feelings." We learn, thank God. And we have a conscience. But we're not in control. We think we are, and that's the source of our consistent clenching in our bodies. Start paying attention to the clenching (dare yourself to feel your anxiety at all times), while beginning to admit that no: nothing could ever choose its thoughts. It can only ever have them. Even God. What do I mean by this? Thoughts occur. Desires occur. How would you choose a thought? By looking in a bag of thoughts and picking one? How would you pick? By looking at each and admitting to yourself at least the thought or thoughts that make you feel desire (for the thought). And yet you don't choose if you feel desire. You just do, or you don't. And hence we're not in control. Of anything. Nothing could ever be. And yet everything is in accord with something (God, the Tao). We never know what we'll think next. Life is therefore the constant surprise that Chesterton talks about. And finally, since you're not in control, you can't choose to see this, you can't choose for my words to resonate with you. They will or they won't. And in that same way we can't choose to have faith (trust in God, or the Tao)... and since we can't choose to, we can finally relax about whether we have it or not. And that relaxing is faith.
I see what you’re saying.. as UG krishnamurti once said “there are no thoughts… what you are experiencing is not thought but about thought” Thought is always in the past. The thought MUST come before the recognition of that thought. Absurd Sounding I know… but impossible to deny.
Mr Watts gave no indication in talks or behavior that he was awakened or enlightened. But, that doesn’t mean he didn’t have something valuable to share. His talks on Buddhism are way off base but he also admitted he tried Zen for a week and left it alone because he found it “incomprehensible” or something to that effect. As I have experienced Watts, his most profound effect is that which results in you striving forward, deeper into the subjects of the contemplatives. And for that we can be grateful.
The name is Chuang Tzu, a Taoist philosopher in his own right. He is, in fact, the 2nd most popular Taoist philosopher. Where the Tao Te Ching seems dry and sober, Chuang Tzu's Inner Chapters uses humor and a sense of the absurd to illustrate Taoist principles. Sometimes his name is spelled Zhuangzi. There are uploads on TH-cam using both spellings (including some by Watts).
I think it was by Lin Yutang, not sure, but I have 3 books about Chuang Tzu: Chuang-Tzu, by Fung Yu-Lan, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1991, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu, Translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, 1968, and The Butterfly As Companion, by Kuang-Ming Wu, State University of New York, 1990. chuang Tzu is a delight! Recommended!
I came to think about a different take on Wu Wei than Alan Watts. Instead of our choices being like a flipping of a coin, that God doesn't play dice, and that God (or the Tao) is the only power in the universe! Wu Wei is then the realization that we are already doing nothing. God is doing everything. "The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord." - Proverbs 16:33
Complimenti, ottimo lavoro..ma fammi capire: uno dovrebbe fare mansioni senza neanche che gli siano richieste e senza retribuzione? A casa mia si chiama sfruttamento..questo punto non l'ho capito..mi assumi per fare il centralino e devo pulire anche i bagni senza che nemmeno me lo chiedi, e alla stessa paga?
It has been stated that Watts liked his booze. So what? Many, many throughout history were drinkers. Churchill for one. Watts was a brilliant man. A legend.@@realburgergod
@@realburgergodAikido is only being used as metaphor here though, I feel this is barely relevant to the lecture. I don’t see how being punched in the face factors here.
I'm an beginner listener to Mr Watts, if anyone knows more about him, has he ever taken any mushrooms/ayahuasca.....? He must be to to have this kind of philosophy, he is unreal, one of the tops with Terence Mckenna/Jung....
I think he did experiment with psychedelics. But you do not need to do so to "have this kind of philosophy"... When I found Watts, what blew my mind the most was that We had the "same philosophy", ideas ect ect... He passed away almost a decade before I was born. Listening to Alan Watts has helped SAVE MY LIFE 💯💯🫂🕉️☯️
You underestimate him. He was an alcoholic, so maybe, but this has nothing to do with drugs, he just studied teology and philosophy. This is not his ideas, he presents ideas that are older than your country
Not only we inspire the bases of binary but also they are DNA code they are by six to count till sixty three plus zero ,the six symboles are tow by tow so the number sixteen is written as 001000 means in DNA TAT three by three means CT.Thymine,Cytosine, Adeline,Guanine.❤
@43:35 not a wise idea to turn off the engines in a typhoon - a ship needs steerage in a storm in order to avoid broaching...& thus turning turtle (upside down)...philosophers probably don't make good sailors!!
Who says he preached anything? Have you ever heard him preach abstinence? Unlike priests, he never claimed to be better or holier than anyone else. He didn't tell people how to live, he just presented ideas. Have some empathy
they had no microscopes but meditation on nature Shaw's you the same principle.6.12=72.2=144.30 degrees each =4320 / 360=12 if we take yin for 0 and yang for 1 .
I do prefer the black screen no unnecessary things noises music and such, I also think that Mr Watts wise man but right at the around 6 min mark he already changed some maybe all of the ways of menaing int the Tao Te Ching because he prefers to not take the meaning Tao as the way but tao as the course which is much different to me and changes most meanings i nthe Tao Te Ching again I personally think that Mr Watts was a very wise man but there are many thigns I never agreed with in his interpretations of things
BLACK SCREEN NO MUSIC FOR THE WIN. THANK YOU 🙏
What’s crazy is that I don’t think it’s completely dark…there is a barely discernible portrait of Alan Watts.
@@c.m.i.7824 Wow there is too!!
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Alan Watts cures my anxiety and calms my mind.
I often times find myself googling words that Alan speaks, absolutely love his talks.
Listening to Alan Watts has helped SAVE MY LIFE 💯🫂☯️🦋
His words got me through the darkest time of my life and he has been a life raft that has kept me afloat through storm after storm ever since. Forever grateful to this man and to all who let this man influence the way in which they go through the world, thank you❤
Well, he died from alcoholism lol
Like what Alan has said, if someone happened to benefit from his lectures...that's fine
Ditto! Alan Watts does what a good teacher does. He always turns my head inside-out, upside down then right side up. A true Master. 🙏 #Alanwatts
I concur💚💚💚
The more I listen to Alan Watts the more I'm inspired by him
The parable of the Chinese farmer was my introduction to A. Watts. That parable is mind expanding because you realize what little (if any) control you have over outcomes, as good or bad as they may be. That one really helped me to settle down.
Alan Watts does for me what a good teacher does. He turns my head inside-out, upside down then right side up. A true Master. ❤🙏 #Alanwatts
Allen Watts exposes the evil of the white man and his use of Christianity to conquer the world through there Bible
I so very much love this awesome spirit. A while ago someone called him a hypocrite at an afterparty of a friend of mine....because of his struggles with alcohol. I believe that he saw how our planet could be and how it is...and had great difficulty with this. Everything comes from nothingness, in art/music we start with nothing and carve out "somethingness" out of this...this is art./musc....love/beauty .....I believe Alan does this with words. His amazing words are at the "border" of thinking and feeling...a "place" where the real magic happens (jmho). I wish everybody a happy, loving, and magical life 🙏 🍄
Dont you just love humans who are jealous of ofhers brilliance! 🙏
@@bonim5180 when did they say that? Did you just make that up from what they said?
It’s interesting, Edgar Allan Poe was also an extraordinary linguist, albeit very dark. He was also known to be somewhat of an alcoholic, yet Alan and Edgar both have dramatically improved the quality of the human race by being none other than themselves. ✨
@@VicariousVue Hello friend, I agree. Dostoevsky is another (drinker and dark), great writer, he`s often quite depressing but a lot of common sense in his texts. Best wishes. I hope life is kind to you
A brilliant master in his own right. His messages teach us so much. I am always grateful for these presentations.
I have heard many of Alen’s talks, but never this one, amazing! Thank you
You're Welcome 😊 Please like and subscribe 🫠
It’s AI
@@ThePittasit's not AI, it's AW
Alan
I love his talks on Tao
This student was ready, THANK YOU teacher! I hope to listen and practice forever!
omg, finally a one without that tedious overplayed "emotional" music! LOVE!
At 42:00 minutes… brilliant explanation of Wu Wei.
Just be,, Domo.
try this meditation
use your mind to operate your lungs
both in and out
iiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnn
oooouuuuuuttttttt
put your attention of feeling light air energy go in to your heart chakra,, now how deeply can you get that feeling.
you should feel something in 30 second's
☁ Puff Puff Pass ☁ Namaste
10:00 consistency is the virtue of small minds
Listening to Alan Watts has become an obsession. I'm ready to learn now... 🙏
Did you know there's an Alan Watts App?
Alan Watts is my Guru 💫🕉
_Consistency is a virtue of small minds_
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Imagine a genuis philosopher like alan watts recommended an other great philosopher Laozu , yeah everyone here knows what its means 😊just mindblowing, i feel so lucky in life to discover ancient great wisdom. The pleasure of knowing and discover new ideas is princeless in my opinion.
Love your comment👍🏼
@@IAM-IAM-333 Thank you
Their wouldn't be philosophy without laotzu he's the foundation in which watt's walked upon, strange how people can't seem to recognise the root of the tree..🤔
The great Alan Watts.
Clarity on Taoism superb ❤
Yeah, we really need people to keep reposting these lectures. My favourite ones have been taken down.
Sadly, the greedy relatives of Alan Watts try to take ownership of his work…
We always act spontaneously, because what we think we are (the mind) only ever experiences thoughts and sensations. As Watts reminds us: "You don't control your thoughts. You don't control your feelings." We learn, thank God. And we have a conscience. But we're not in control. We think we are, and that's the source of our consistent clenching in our bodies. Start paying attention to the clenching (dare yourself to feel your anxiety at all times), while beginning to admit that no: nothing could ever choose its thoughts. It can only ever have them. Even God. What do I mean by this? Thoughts occur. Desires occur. How would you choose a thought? By looking in a bag of thoughts and picking one? How would you pick? By looking at each and admitting to yourself at least the thought or thoughts that make you feel desire (for the thought). And yet you don't choose if you feel desire. You just do, or you don't. And hence we're not in control. Of anything. Nothing could ever be. And yet everything is in accord with something (God, the Tao). We never know what we'll think next. Life is therefore the constant surprise that Chesterton talks about. And finally, since you're not in control, you can't choose to see this, you can't choose for my words to resonate with you. They will or they won't. And in that same way we can't choose to have faith (trust in God, or the Tao)... and since we can't choose to, we can finally relax about whether we have it or not. And that relaxing is faith.
Great comment.
Well said :)
I see what you’re saying.. as UG krishnamurti once said “there are no thoughts… what you are experiencing is not thought but about thought” Thought is always in the past. The thought MUST come before the recognition of that thought. Absurd Sounding I know… but impossible to deny.
Wow, nice one 💪🏻
Love Alan Watts 💙
Alan watt's a true master
This one is one of my favorites of Watts. I love listening to him with darkscreen.
Thank you for publishing this on your channel. I've heard this one before and it's still my favorite by AW.
Excellent discussion of the tao...
Great lecture!!! ❤
16:24 ✨
So happy this channel does not ruins his talks with idiotic music
The best ❤
Wuwuwuwuwu my new philosophy
Black screen ok but we can’t see what he’s writing. I wish we had the words with the writing on the screen.
Thank you I enjoyed it
I love you Alan 🇺🇸🎈
😊
Mr Watts gave no indication in talks or behavior that he was awakened or enlightened. But, that doesn’t mean he didn’t have something valuable to share. His talks on Buddhism are way off base but he also admitted he tried Zen for a week and left it alone because he found it “incomprehensible” or something to that effect. As I have experienced Watts, his most profound effect is that which results in you striving forward, deeper into the subjects of the contemplatives. And for that we can be grateful.
Probably my favourite talk of his so far
We know EXACTLY what he's training for.
7:20 how is it spelled zhoan su?
Zhuang Zhou
Hi. Can anyone help with the name of the funny commentator, Watts refers to in the beginning? Can’t quite make out his name. Thanks!
The name is Chuang Tzu, a Taoist philosopher in his own right. He is, in fact, the 2nd most popular Taoist philosopher. Where the Tao Te Ching seems dry and sober, Chuang Tzu's Inner Chapters uses humor and a sense of the absurd to illustrate Taoist principles.
Sometimes his name is spelled Zhuangzi. There are uploads on TH-cam using both spellings (including some by Watts).
7:20
Where can I find this translation he mentions around 8'
I think it was by Lin Yutang, not sure, but I have 3 books about Chuang Tzu: Chuang-Tzu, by Fung Yu-Lan, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1991, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu, Translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, 1968, and The Butterfly As Companion, by Kuang-Ming Wu, State University of New York, 1990. chuang Tzu is a delight! Recommended!
Something I must learn.
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Yes..🙏🏽💯🥷🏽
I came to think about a different take on Wu Wei than Alan Watts. Instead of our choices being like a flipping of a coin, that God doesn't play dice, and that God (or the Tao) is the only power in the universe! Wu Wei is then the realization that we are already doing nothing. God is doing everything. "The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord." - Proverbs 16:33
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Complimenti, ottimo lavoro..ma fammi capire: uno dovrebbe fare mansioni senza neanche che gli siano richieste e senza retribuzione? A casa mia si chiama sfruttamento..questo punto non l'ho capito..mi assumi per fare il centralino e devo pulire anche i bagni senza che nemmeno me lo chiedi, e alla stessa paga?
Does anyone know how to spell the humorist philosopher Alan speaks of around the 8 minute mark? Thank you
Zhuang Zhou
Let’s watch the actual lecture and see his chalkboard visuals, please!
What is the name of the Chinese author he mentions at the 8 minute mark that sounds like joanza
Chuang-tzu
Zhuang-zi is the current romanization
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Has there been a better speaker?
Not one whose voice was recorded 😂
Let there be light and let the light be divided by night, was not referring to rotation of planets.
..just sayin
Allen Watts is 50% bullshit and 50% profound wisdom.
That’s what makes it beautiful and human.
Where's the bullshit? That for all his understanding he drank like a souse?
@@TheVgasm Akido is absolute bullshit.
Watts speaks of combat as somebody who has never been punched in the face and it shows.
@@TheVgasm how do you mean drinking like a sous?
It has been stated that Watts liked his booze. So what? Many, many throughout history were drinkers. Churchill for one. Watts was a brilliant man. A legend.@@realburgergod
@@realburgergodAikido is only being used as metaphor here though, I feel this is barely relevant to the lecture. I don’t see how being punched in the face factors here.
Bu xiang qing?
I'm an beginner listener to Mr Watts, if anyone knows more about him, has he ever taken any mushrooms/ayahuasca.....? He must be to to have this kind of philosophy, he is unreal, one of the tops with Terence Mckenna/Jung....
I think he did experiment with psychedelics. But you do not need to do so to "have this kind of philosophy"... When I found Watts, what blew my mind the most was that We had the "same philosophy", ideas ect ect... He passed away almost a decade before I was born. Listening to Alan Watts has helped SAVE MY LIFE 💯💯🫂🕉️☯️
@@josephslinskey 100% true, he was just another level human being
You underestimate him. He was an alcoholic, so maybe, but this has nothing to do with drugs, he just studied teology and philosophy. This is not his ideas, he presents ideas that are older than your country
@karolinawww6834 haha, nice one 👍
12:05
I’m sure this never used to have adverts
Not only we inspire the bases of binary but also they are DNA code they are by six to count till sixty three plus zero ,the six symboles are tow by tow so the number sixteen is written as 001000 means in DNA TAT three by three means CT.Thymine,Cytosine, Adeline,Guanine.❤
@43:35 not a wise idea to turn off the engines in a typhoon - a ship needs steerage in a storm in order to avoid broaching...& thus turning turtle (upside down)...philosophers probably don't make good sailors!!
What does the A.I. say to you while you are listening to this?
If he lived as he preached why did he booze himself to death?
Humans will be humans..
I could propose a couple of possibilities but I am uncertain whether or not they would be correct.
It was time, how do you wish to go? I ask because no one way is really any better than any other.
Congested Heart failure is what killed him not alcoholism
Who says he preached anything? Have you ever heard him preach abstinence? Unlike priests, he never claimed to be better or holier than anyone else. He didn't tell people how to live, he just presented ideas. Have some empathy
Modern library edition of the wisdom of Lao Tzu translated by lin yu tang
6:21 _Old Boy_ hmmm 🤔
The last 11 minutes is mana.
they had no microscopes but meditation on nature Shaw's you the same principle.6.12=72.2=144.30 degrees each =4320 / 360=12 if we take yin for 0 and yang for 1 .
I do prefer the black screen no unnecessary things noises music and such, I also think that Mr Watts wise man but right at the around 6 min mark he already changed some maybe all of the ways of menaing int the Tao Te Ching because he prefers to not take the meaning Tao as the way but tao as the course which is much different to me and changes most meanings i nthe Tao Te Ching again I personally think that Mr Watts was a very wise man but there are many thigns I never agreed with in his interpretations of things
mama mama
Too many ads destroying beauty
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turkish language please
NO ads please who cares about the screen or the music when there’s ads every few mins! ONE MINUTE INAMD ALREADY AN AD..I’m out.
Jesus is truth
And yet you ended up here...
@@karolinawww6834 Jesus is truth
@@alexpop854neither of them exists. Deal with it
@@farrider3339 I'll pray for you
Frontier Justice
Alan Watts? More like Gavin Butts
Wu wei should be studied away from alan watts because new translations have become a better guide that werent available.
Coin is just 2 sided but you can use dice or seberal dices
Not impressed....
Ads. So obnoxious.
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