I've begun to listen to Alan Watts more frequently. Little by little I think he could become the life coach I've always needed, and at 66 time is tight.
I'm not sure the time is ever wrong to attempt to improve one's self. I've a theory the reason we venerate the elderly is cause they tend to take time for introspection to make use of the experience they have usually. In every individual exist the potential for revelation based on the unique experience they've had in life. The longer and more tempered by introspection and worldly awareness that is the better.
@@s.h.1639 it's call presence of mind very difficult to achieve since the mind is always thinking and over thinking...most of us westerners suffer this addiction to thinking hence we are never in the present.
Holy shit....I discovered this when I was homeless after the pandemic started. When I let go of my belongings and my previous life and accepted my situation...I have never felt so free. I don't want to be homeless again hopefully but likely will but wow.
I know what you mean.. I came from being homeless before sitting here in my new home out in the beautiful country side tonight, havin a smoke, sitting by the window on this beautiful quiet night in South Texas....I tell of the times being homeless, on a mission to get up out of the streets every night...there was an ironic sense of freedom...the moments of quietness, loneliness, and experiences that the average "happy" person never has.
@@IAmRayAnthony that sense of freedom is amazing when you aren't tied to paying bills and working. makes you think what life could really be like if you had 100% freedom.
Something very similar when I hit rock bottom in the grips of chemical addiction plus mental disorders. After a while in treatment, I too found freedom in losing everything and starting over. I firmly believed the whole world needed treatment and a 12 step program. Probably wouldn't hurt! Haha. It saved me and I found happiness and finally some direction but the best was newfound faith that anything is possible if you work for it. Over 2 decades free and squeaky clean. No not everything is unicorns and rainbows but is better than it was before. If you don't change, you become stagnant. Change can be very good and miracles do happen even if you don't see them coming and the outcome is not what you predicted nor even thought it would be. ❤❤❤
@@pyewackett5 Nothing lasts forever. This is what makes life so precious. The knowing that everything that arises, will fall. It is what allows us to appreciate life, otherwise, what would be point of anything. Everything that has a beginning, has an end, and that end, is the means to a new beginning 🙏
I disagree. Ultimately if there is no self, then there is nothing that enjoys a special privilege of being alive. If being alive is a privilege then that denotes scarcity that pertains to an individual uniqueness, separate from everything else, which is not the case.
Ex wife’s mother in-law passed away. As they were cleaning out the house I grabbed a box of her Christmas decorations. No one else cared about the decorations. The nostalgia (wanting to experience those wonderful Christmas memories) wouldn’t allow me to let those little shiny trinkets go into the dumpster. Thanks for your comment relating nostalgia to the idea of accepting change. 🥺
@@DannyWJacoThere's always one who will carry on the traditions and keep them alive. And that's you. You've been graced with that gift. Feel favored. 🤗 Imagine how much happiness you will bring to others. ❤
I relate to your comment. At 63, so much seems to be changing in my life and there appears to be a necessary kind of sloughing off or letting go. If it must be then let us both celebrate the memories and grieve as we must. There's a new sunrise every day and there's always the horizon. I think excitement and/or comfort will be around the corner to meet you when you get there. Don't be in a hurry to move on too fast. There's richness in honoring what has been. But there is more in store. ❤
@@TheRealJoshW I'm sorry for your loss. That's a big turning point in one's life. Go easy on yourself. Not trying to be overly simplistic, but it will get better with time.
My wife left me for a divorced man 2 months ago...its hard adjusting to life without her....been together 20 plus years....i will adapt . Thank you for these videos.
“not being there is an essential component of being there” - alan, you just helped me make sense of my dad’s passing last week and i am grateful. thanks and see you out there someday good buddy.
Believe in yourself and your abilities. Embrace challenges as opportunities for growth. Surround yourself with positivity and supportive people. Remember that each day is a chance to make a difference. Keep going, and success will follow. Stay motivated!
If more people let these words penetrate their Yugen, we would make a happier world without trying. The richest moments, invisible elements, live timeless in the between.
@@keep_walking_on_grass It's work, my friend. Tolle? Really? Your quoting Tolle? Suffering is not necessary at all; it is a by-product of lack of soul memory. This lack of soul memory -- spiritual Alzheimer's -- is not accidental. mRNA tweaking is not new.
I feel my life is about to change in ways I can't see. I can't shake this feeling no matter how hard I try. It's time for me to stop blocking what's coming and let things flow. TY for this video. 🙏
...after coming across the book, be here now, and immersing myself in its snippets of wisdom, all those years ago (around fifty!), the results are only now beginning to emerge from the haze. The wait has been worth it. These vids are keeping me bouncing along!
Life is a series of valleys and mountain peaks that we journey, only by going through the valley do we climb the next mountain and gain a whole new veiw.
How did you even create this? The imagery is stunning, the music perfectly balanced and the message from Watts is so profound. I'm stunned. It's beautiful 🎉
Kant wrote three centuries ago about the feeling of the sublime in nature. Moments you experience deeply when you behold scenes that overwhelm and words cant be found to describe. Indeed, they dont need to be found. Yes, we must learn to hear the quietness and look up to the mountains from the valley. All the rest comes by itself. Even the changes we are always so afraid of, will hurt less. If were not these frightening changes, we would become those wax figures in museums. Its amazing to see how Alan Watts could put so many important things in a only 10 minutes video together.
I would have never guess my daughters lives were going to turn out this way...may the Divine forgive me for all my faults and forgive them for what they have themselves done ..they have no clue as to what they do 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤
I was 4 years old when, after realizing we all die, saw that the only way life has meaning is because we die. I was amazed by this and did my damndest to let all the sad grownups in my world know there’s nothing to worry about. lol. I was sent for testing, etc before I got wise - we are all going to the same place but in different ways. The world and life are not in sync but we can be.
"and that "Nothing" is the obverse face of "Something" ... "not being there" is an essential component of "being there" And somehow he's helped me to be here better. So glad this gentle person has been.
Everything feels like it's falling away, and apart in my life. No friendship group, no work place I like, no family, no money, no partner. It's fucking hard not to stay invisible. Or to suck up.
I'm entering the "empty next" phase of life. It's an interesting time. I am acutely aware of my inherent desire to resist change, because, for me, change has almost always equalled loss. This video is amazing. I've been listening to Alan Watts for several years, but I somehow missed this video. Or, perhaps, I wasn't ready for it yet...until now.
We control nothing in life but our responses to it! At first, this may sound negative. But when you take some time to consider this, you realise that it's actually quite liberating. The illusion of control prevents life. The acceptance of no control and thus, no expectations, allows life to be lived to the fullest.
"Clinging" as Watts puts it, is what makes life, life. We fight to remain alive, we fight to keep our relationships and to protect our children, our rights. Life never really changes and constancy is the ideal aim, as Watts in another video would say. I cannot help but notice how Watts often contradicts himself as he wonders from one Eastern philosophy to another.
😊....I have not found him contradictory yet. Just in this video he gives an example of a university, whose building gets old...is razed down and a new one put up. So what changed? The building that represented the university was removed. But the university stayed, because it had become a pattern, a notion. The notion may not change...but matter is always changing. Always. Every second. It's getting old....deteriorating....growing....etc. always. That's a promise. 😊
@@Saral_Lekhi Read my comment again. I wasn't talking about the university but even there he is, in fact, wrong. The original university is gone! The only way a new University is the same, is the same way that any other University is the same.
Perspective. Every head is a world, yet we share so much in common. Many are parallels and/allegory. Everything is & isn’t. That came to mind many years ago while driving. As I looked at trees, I felt I went into a certain depth. It meant many things, and came around as there’s meaning & nothing to meaning. What is, also isn’t. These conscious shifts are har to fathom, it happens to so many people. It’s a great thing, it means a lot to me…I give it my personal emotional meaning, I guess bc I’m still conscious, or perhaps I want to give it meaning, while there’s absence of meaning to all this as well🤔And maybe such meaning will change according to my conscious awareness (alive or passed on), IDK 🤷🏼♀️ so mysterious, we know nothing about knowing. We just don’t…😑
Thanks, very helpful to be reminded of these truths that are so easily forgotten. I am VERY westernized so when I am hit with impermanence I go nuts. In this life I will always need rude awakenings as I don’t readily embrace Eastern philosophy even though I intellectually understand it. It’s just the way I am.
Alan Watts also describes the concept of duality. That we see or perceive things only by their opposites (the mountain by the surrounding valley, or recognize different words by the small pauses beween them, and we only realize/appreciate things by their absence (or by the possibility of their absence).
"The Wild Swans at Coole" The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine and fifty swans. The nineteenth Autumn has come upon me Since I first made my count; I saw, before I had well finished, All suddenly mount And scatter wheeling in great broken rings Upon their clamorous wings. I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, And now my heart is sore. All's changed since I, hearing at twilight, The first time on this shore, The bell-beat of their wings above my head, Trod with a lighter tread. Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold, Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon them still. But now they drift on the still water Mysterious, beautiful; Among what rushes will they build, By what lake's edge or pool Delight men's eyes, when I awake some day To find they have flown away?
We control nothing in life but our responses to it! At first, this may sound negative. But when you take some time to consider this, you realise that it's actually quite liberating. The illusion of control prevents life. The acceptance of no control and thus, no expectations, allows life to be lived to the fullest.
Earth is a Dumping Ground of the Past-Lives who failed the test of the Harvest. Yugen: from Mu and the Deneb Galaxy came from the Past Lives here on Earth…..from MU!!!
Silvia Nakkach (Grammy-nominated @soundstrue recording artist and international sacred sound authority) teaches her dharma students - when they are ready to hear it - that 'Yugen' is 'Longing.' "If you understand this, you are beginning the practice of dharma."
Resisting change, it's like resisting the universe and time! Time gives us sense of existence, the universe gives us endless knowledge, change is a constant. Life isn't and is just part of change, a clog in the machine, the of change Resistance is part of the physics that keep the clogs of the machine moving, its all essential parts that move together and enact the essence of the universe.
We want to peak, but for that peak to be meaningful we have to experience valleys too. Good and bad aren't two separate things, they're two poles of the same thing. One end is good the other is bad. Light and dark aren't two different things, they're two poles of the same thing. Light. Enlightenment and Non-enlightenment aren't two different things, they're two poles of the same thing. Being confused and seeing clearly aren't two different states of being. They're two poles of the same state of being. We mustn't attain anything, we must simply shift what's already there.
As a recovering alcoholic. The one thing that broke my heart was to know he basically died an alcoholic. After all that search for meaning and explanation. He was basically demented and confused and scared and drank until he died.
Yūgen, what a beautiful philosophy. Release your grip on needing to know. Let the uncertainty be.
"living in the question"
mystery gives life beauty
❤
"Hold your breath and you lose it... Let it go, and it comes back to you!"
It’s everything
@@howdymac7975 hi everything (:
I've begun to listen to Alan Watts more frequently. Little by little I think he could become the life coach I've always needed, and at 66 time is tight.
Definitely
you know since I begun listening to Alan watts my fear of death is less than what it use to be an am not 66 am 40
I'm not sure the time is ever wrong to attempt to improve one's self. I've a theory the reason we venerate the elderly is cause they tend to take time for introspection to make use of the experience they have usually. In every individual exist the potential for revelation based on the unique experience they've had in life. The longer and more tempered by introspection and worldly awareness that is the better.
Time can never be tight. The present moment is the only one that exists. Either you are here or you are not.
@@s.h.1639 it's call presence of mind very difficult to achieve since the mind is always thinking and over thinking...most of us westerners suffer this addiction to thinking hence we are never in the present.
Holy shit....I discovered this when I was homeless after the pandemic started. When I let go of my belongings and my previous life and accepted my situation...I have never felt so free. I don't want to be homeless again hopefully but likely will but wow.
I know what you mean.. I came from being homeless before sitting here in my new home out in the beautiful country side tonight, havin a smoke, sitting by the window on this beautiful quiet night in South Texas....I tell of the times being homeless, on a mission to get up out of the streets every night...there was an ironic sense of freedom...the moments of quietness, loneliness, and experiences that the average "happy" person never has.
@@IAmRayAnthony that sense of freedom is amazing when you aren't tied to paying bills and working. makes you think what life could really be like if you had 100% freedom.
Born free as free as the wind blows as free as tbe grass grows ...🙏🦋🦋🥳
Something very similar when I hit rock bottom in the grips of chemical addiction plus mental disorders. After a while in treatment, I too found freedom in losing everything and starting over. I firmly believed the whole world needed treatment and a 12 step program. Probably wouldn't hurt! Haha. It saved me and I found happiness and finally some direction but the best was newfound faith that anything is possible if you work for it. Over 2 decades free and squeaky clean. No not everything is unicorns and rainbows but is better than it was before. If you don't change, you become stagnant. Change can be very good and miracles do happen even if you don't see them coming and the outcome is not what you predicted nor even thought it would be. ❤❤❤
@@IAmRayAnthonyshoutout to my Texas folk. South Houston area for me just trying to build myself up again from the bottom. I wish you guys luck.
"To resist change, to try to cling to life, is like holding your breath" -Alan Watts
What nonsense that is though,
@@felixfedre518 it literally isnt
@@zandrokos He liked to cling to a bottle of whisky.
@@felixfedre518 honestly? me too. well for me it is beer and benadryl
@@felixfedre518 his personal life is separate from his lectures. You can speak truth separate from action
A thing isn’t beautiful because it lasts. It is a privilege to be alive. Take care of yourselves.
Mind, body, spirit 🙏
I disagree. Something of great age is vulnerable to current fads & fashions
@@pyewackett5 Nothing lasts forever. This is what makes life so precious. The knowing that everything that arises, will fall. It is what allows us to appreciate life, otherwise, what would be point of anything. Everything that has a beginning, has an end, and that end, is the means to a new beginning 🙏
nothing gold can stay
I disagree. Ultimately if there is no self, then there is nothing that enjoys a special privilege of being alive. If being alive is a privilege then that denotes scarcity that pertains to an individual uniqueness, separate from everything else, which is not the case.
stay gold ponyboy
When almost every aspect of your life changes it is hard, especially when you are a deeply nostalgic person, this helped a bit.
Ex wife’s mother in-law passed away. As they were cleaning out the house I grabbed a box of her Christmas decorations. No one else cared about the decorations.
The nostalgia (wanting to experience those wonderful Christmas memories) wouldn’t allow me to let those little shiny trinkets go into the dumpster.
Thanks for your comment relating nostalgia to the idea of accepting change. 🥺
@@DannyWJacoThere's always one who will carry on the traditions and keep them alive. And that's you. You've been graced with that gift. Feel favored. 🤗 Imagine how much happiness you will bring to others. ❤
I relate to your comment. At 63, so much seems to be changing in my life and there appears to be a necessary kind of sloughing off or letting go. If it must be then let us both celebrate the memories and grieve as we must. There's a new sunrise every day and there's always the horizon. I think excitement and/or comfort will be around the corner to meet you when you get there. Don't be in a hurry to move on too fast. There's richness in honoring what has been. But there is more in store. ❤
💯 agreed. Lost my Dad last year and now my model of the world has been nuked.
@@TheRealJoshW I'm sorry for your loss. That's a big turning point in one's life. Go easy on yourself. Not trying to be overly simplistic, but it will get better with time.
My wife left me for a divorced man 2 months ago...its hard adjusting to life without her....been together 20 plus years....i will adapt . Thank you for these videos.
Best wishes my friend
Time. Things get better in time
@@guntherkohler3076 Thank you.
@@guntherkohler3076 Or...not !
Things will get better in time.
"Life is life because it's always disappearing..." Alan Watts
“not being there is an essential component of being there” - alan, you just helped me make sense of my dad’s passing last week and i am grateful. thanks and see you out there someday good buddy.
Listen again 👍😇
This scares me and comforts me at the same time
Terrifying and precious - his wisdom is sublime
The silence can be deafening.
The line about “life requiring so much effort,” while death is something you relax into, really is enlightening
This has been the best grieving advice I've ever heard
I’m so grateful for the skillful teachings of these deep truths. My world is better because Alan Watts existed.
WE NEVER EXISTED LOL
To say we exist is wrong. To say we don't exist is wrong. SILENCE IS THE ONLY RIGHT ANSWER.
@@felixmoyoedonmi i know what you do not know is NOTHING.
The world is not better or worse my friend, in Alan Watts' words "the world simply IS".
Yessss
Believe in yourself and your abilities. Embrace challenges as opportunities for growth. Surround yourself with positivity and supportive people. Remember that each day is a chance to make a difference. Keep going, and success will follow.
Stay motivated!
Love this!
❤❤❤
If more people listened to this man, it would be a happier world.
it is not about the person, it is about the teachings.
If more people let these words penetrate their Yugen, we would make a happier world without trying. The richest moments, invisible elements, live timeless in the between.
@@anaiis_salles Eckhart Tolle says, suffering is necessary, until it's unnecessary. /end quote / Not many are born with wisdom and awakened.
@@keep_walking_on_grass It's work, my friend. Tolle? Really? Your quoting Tolle? Suffering is not necessary at all; it is a by-product of lack of soul memory. This lack of soul memory -- spiritual Alzheimer's -- is not accidental. mRNA tweaking is not new.
@eldiablo4966 you kidding?
I feel my life is about to change in ways I can't see. I can't shake this feeling no matter how hard I try. It's time for me to stop blocking what's coming and let things flow. TY for this video. 🙏
Life is a beautiful, fragile gift that should be treated as such.Always try to embrace what is constant (change).
This video suggestion came at a perfect moment.
Nothing is a coincidence
I can't stop listening to Alan Watts, I love the ocean, the sea, the lakes and the rivers.
It flows with such harmony.
The council still acknowledges Alan Watts as the greatest wizard of all time.
"Not being there is an essential component of being there." I could meditate on that for weeks
Gosh…🥹yeah
Lots of Buddhists do meditate on this for a lifetime, or lifetimes.
Not being there ,is an essential part of being there ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤just amazing ❤
Boy! he nails it every time. His thoughts haven't died. ❤
...after coming across the book, be here now, and immersing myself in its snippets of wisdom, all those years ago (around fifty!), the results are only now beginning to emerge from the haze. The wait has been worth it. These vids are keeping me bouncing along!
Life is a series of valleys and mountain peaks that we journey, only by going through the valley do we climb the next mountain and gain a whole new veiw.
Wise words....❤
Not being there, is an essential part of being there ❤
....and that is how being is made up. (Superb!!!!)
How did you even create this? The imagery is stunning, the music perfectly balanced and the message from Watts is so profound. I'm stunned. It's beautiful 🎉
With his penis
Kant wrote three centuries ago about the feeling of the sublime in nature. Moments you experience deeply when you behold scenes that overwhelm and words cant be found to describe. Indeed, they dont need to be found. Yes, we must learn to hear the quietness and look up to the mountains from the valley. All the rest comes by itself. Even the changes we are always so afraid of, will hurt less. If were not these frightening changes, we would become those wax figures in museums. Its amazing to see how Alan Watts could put so many important things in a only 10 minutes video together.
I would have never guess my daughters lives were going to turn out this way...may the Divine forgive me for all my faults and forgive them for what they have themselves done ..they have no clue as to what they do 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤
‘Not being there is an essential part of being there. That’s the way being is made up’
Brilliant❤
I love how you keep finding new, beautiful speeches. This has been the best grieving advice I've ever heard.
Alan Watts was amazing. Love listening to his thoughts. He has changed my life.
I was 4 years old when, after realizing we all die, saw that the only way life has meaning is because we die. I was amazed by this and did my damndest to let all the sad grownups in my world know there’s nothing to worry about. lol. I was sent for testing, etc before I got wise - we are all going to the same place but in different ways.
The world and life are not in sync but we can be.
lmao🤣🤣❤️
So true. Every word. Love Alan Watts.
“What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.”
- C. G. Jung
Alan Watts never fails to bring tears to my eyes and enlightenment to my soul. ♥️
Very interesting how Alan Watts has found a new audience on the modern-day Internet.
VERY interesting guy!
Acceptance is everything
...only if it can also accept resistance !
I love how you keep finding new, beautiful speeches
😓Thank you Alan.
I felt it, got to me in a bitter sweet way🕉
Oooh how happy it is to see there is no lasting happiness in the world...🙏
@@John-sr2hc The only joy that truly lasts.
We must except change and grow with it! :)
...police! Open up! Be accepted or rejected, an exception can help put across your real meaning, affecting you? What's the effect then? 🤔🙄😜
Alan drank his way through his life choices - Bravo Alan.
I don´t even know who I am. How could I possibly know who Alan Watts was ?
Yugen -- marvelous to ponder... Mystery of Living
Beautiful...💜
Truly beautiful 😍.
"and that "Nothing" is the obverse face of "Something" ... "not being there" is an essential component of "being there"
And somehow he's helped me to be here better. So glad this gentle person has been.
Way before his time and so wise!
Thank u Alan watts “I am “ greatful.🙏🏻❤️🌏💯♓️A perfectly imperfect powerful mind sandy wolcott 🙏🏻
The longer you grasp, the longer you suffer.
1. I really need to start taking notes on this stuff.
2. Yay something I haven't heard before.
One of the best Watts I have heard in years. Thanks 😊
How absolutely beautiful. He really was a bodhisattva. Thank you.
I love you Alan, thank you for saving my life.
brilliant man
Everything feels like it's falling away, and apart in my life. No friendship group, no work place I like, no family, no money, no partner. It's fucking hard not to stay invisible. Or to suck up.
OMG ! Hidden wisdom is here !
Needed to hear this, thank you
I'm entering the "empty next" phase of life. It's an interesting time. I am acutely aware of my inherent desire to resist change, because, for me, change has almost always equalled loss. This video is amazing. I've been listening to Alan Watts for several years, but I somehow missed this video. Or, perhaps, I wasn't ready for it yet...until now.
We control nothing in life but our responses to it!
At first, this may sound negative. But when you take some time to consider this, you realise that it's actually quite liberating.
The illusion of control prevents life. The acceptance of no control and thus, no expectations, allows life to be lived to the fullest.
Thanks to you for compilation; thanks to Mark Watts for safeguarding his father's legacy.
Praying for you 🙏☮️🌎
Absolutely BRILLIANT!!!!
Allen Watts matches Osho alot. Grateful !
Gotta learn the hard way and I have to learn because I've been chained! Without a lie it's hard and terrifying but im in it now.💯
I really wish I could’ve met this man.
"Clinging" as Watts puts it, is what makes life, life. We fight to remain alive, we fight to keep our relationships and to protect our children, our rights. Life never really changes and constancy is the ideal aim, as Watts in another video would say. I cannot help but notice how Watts often contradicts himself as he wonders from one Eastern philosophy to another.
😊....I have not found him contradictory yet. Just in this video he gives an example of a university, whose building gets old...is razed down and a new one put up. So what changed? The building that represented the university was removed. But the university stayed, because it had become a pattern, a notion. The notion may not change...but matter is always changing. Always. Every second. It's getting old....deteriorating....growing....etc. always. That's a promise. 😊
@@Saral_Lekhi Read my comment again. I wasn't talking about the university but even there he is, in fact, wrong. The original university is gone! The only way a new University is the same, is the same way that any other University is the same.
Your wrong
Perspective.
Every head is a world, yet we share so much in common. Many are parallels and/allegory.
Everything is & isn’t.
That came to mind many years ago while driving. As I looked at trees, I felt I went into a certain depth. It meant many things, and came around as there’s meaning & nothing to meaning. What is, also isn’t. These conscious shifts are har to fathom, it happens to so many people. It’s a great thing, it means a lot to me…I give it my personal emotional meaning, I guess bc I’m still conscious, or perhaps I want to give it meaning, while there’s absence of meaning to all this as well🤔And maybe such meaning will change according to my conscious awareness (alive or passed on), IDK 🤷🏼♀️ so mysterious, we know nothing about knowing.
We just don’t…😑
It does feel good after a while once you stop clinging though. Waves of bliss will fill your void
Wow! I am speechless. so powerful. i am about to watch it again and i sure it wont ne the last time
Thank you for this wonderful video 🙏🏾
Thanks, very helpful to be reminded of these truths that are so easily forgotten. I am VERY westernized so when I am hit with impermanence I go nuts. In this life I will always need rude awakenings as I don’t readily embrace Eastern philosophy even though I intellectually understand it. It’s just the way I am.
Fantastic! Thank you so much ❤️
Beautiful
Alan Watts also describes the concept of duality. That we see or perceive things only by their opposites (the mountain by the surrounding valley, or recognize different words by the small pauses beween them, and we only realize/appreciate things by their absence (or by the possibility of their absence).
Very inspiring thoughts. 🙏
Absolute truth 🙏
"The Wild Swans at Coole"
The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine and fifty swans.
The nineteenth Autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.
I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.
Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold,
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.
But now they drift on the still water
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake's edge or pool
Delight men's eyes, when I awake some day
To find they have flown away?
THIS MAN!!!
Thank you! ♥️
We control nothing in life but our responses to it!
At first, this may sound negative. But when you take some time to consider this, you realise that it's actually quite liberating.
The illusion of control prevents life. The acceptance of no control and thus, no expectations, allows life to be lived to the fullest.
You found the perfect visual accompaniments to every phrase - lovely, well done. Thank you.
Thank you for this message… i needed it…
Beautiful video
Cling on for dear life is my mantra as you've seen in action, I'm not leaving all my children alone, never
Go with the flow of the Water of Light and See the One who Created all things in Life! This is: The Law of One……
Earth is a Dumping Ground of the Past-Lives who failed the test of the Harvest. Yugen: from Mu and the Deneb Galaxy came from the Past Lives here on Earth…..from MU!!!
Thank you for making this ! Please please make more !
Wonderful film and images bravo!
Hope you are ok .sending positivity and love
Thank you.
The TH-cam algorithm dropped this banger on me ? Aight you got something right sarah.
Brilliant . . . Thank You Kindly for sharing
Silvia Nakkach (Grammy-nominated @soundstrue recording artist and international sacred sound authority) teaches her dharma students - when they are ready to hear it - that 'Yugen' is 'Longing.'
"If you understand this, you are beginning the practice of dharma."
Beautiful!
This is class...thank you for putting this together..
Resisting change, it's like resisting the universe and time! Time gives us sense of existence, the universe gives us endless knowledge, change is a constant. Life isn't and is just part of change, a clog in the machine, the of change Resistance is part of the physics that keep the clogs of the machine moving, its all essential parts that move together and enact the essence of the universe.
😇Thank you.
We want to peak, but for that peak to be meaningful we have to experience valleys too.
Good and bad aren't two separate things, they're two poles of the same thing. One end is good the other is bad. Light and dark aren't two different things, they're two poles of the same thing. Light.
Enlightenment and Non-enlightenment aren't two different things, they're two poles of the same thing.
Being confused and seeing clearly aren't two different states of being. They're two poles of the same state of being.
We mustn't attain anything, we must simply shift what's already there.
I agree
I love this man !❤
Beautiful! Thank you!
You can’t change some people and it’s not your fault
Never follow anything anyone ..just lead by ur own conscience
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
This topic was really interesting!
As a recovering alcoholic. The one thing that broke my heart was to know he basically died an alcoholic. After all that search for meaning and explanation. He was basically demented and confused and scared and drank until he died.
Apparently he was still holding on to his "self".
He was human with human flaws. You need to separate the message from the messenger
Alcoholism is a disease, no one’s ever said Alan watts was a saint or anything remotely close to that
What a genius