We're Already Playing But People Don't See It - Alan Watts Explains The Game
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 เม.ย. 2023
- An incredibly eye-opening speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts.
Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts - Extended Seminars - Human Consciousness - Nature of Consciousness 2 - Video Produced and Edited by T&H Inspiration
#alanwatts #t&h #consciousness
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
Alan Watts
►Speaker: Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
►Follow the Alan Watts Organization:
Speech courtesy of alanwatts.org
Instagram: / alanwattsorg
Facebook: / alanwattsauthor
TH-cam: / alanwattsorg
Speech licensed from mindsetdrm.com
Ways to stay connected with T&H and stay motivated:
▶Subscribe for New Motivational Videos :
bit.ly/thyoutubesubscribe
▶SHOP Motivational Canvases and Apparel! -
bit.ly/motiversityshop
▶BECOME A MEMBER of our loyal community-
bit.ly/thmembers
►Follow T&H:
Instagram: bit.ly/tragedyinstagram
Facebook: bit.ly/tragedyhopefacebook
Podcast: bit.ly/wisdomdailypodcast
Mindset App: bit.ly/M2SMindsetApp
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 truest Bodhisattva. No one else like him. He inspires awakening with speech alone. His words are like puzzles that are finding their spot inside your brain and you feel a connection with the whole.
what would we do without it ?
Well said my friend!!
AW was the shit!
I used to listen to Alan Watts a lot in past years, now hop on occasionally just to hear his voice which has calming effect on me, but why I'm writing this message is that after hearing his talking in some while or maybe months, even years later I get something from Universe like a situation which just confirms what Alan Watts has said and it settles down within me. I love this man, feels like an universe and infinite knowledge is just talking to me, would be interesting to hear his opinion on present times and future, like he predicted many many years ago precisely.
You Are also Bodhisattva. What AW says is in each one of us. Actually, there is not “each one of us”. There is only I Am That Which Is. Playing the game in a beautiful synchronization of illusory perception of separation. 😂 it’s rather funny. 🎉❤
"Do you define yourself as a victim of the world, or as the world?" Powerful!!
Neither. I'm in the world but not of it
@@Isaac5123 And there it is. The veil is lifted.
We are the world. there is no division. there is no me. No I.
Our bodies came from this world although who we truly are is more than that. We are infinite and pure consciousness
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” ― Alan Watts
Exactly...
This is called cult'urally indoctrinated.
TRUTH
This sounds deep but think about a sad feeling. We know what the word means and we relate it to a feeling in our heart that moves us In a direction opposite of a feeling that feels good. Just because someone long before us came up with the word does not mean the feeling is not ours and ours alone
@@hey_youtubeim_back2159 It does not mean that the feeling is ours? Who is this that possesses a sad feeling? Who is this 'I' that feels?
@@josephpercy1558 what is it that you are suggesting
I once told a friend during a 10 day wilderness hike that in my most awakened moments I am the world and everywhere is my home.He looked at me like I was crazy.I knew I was not, nor Alan either.
It's an extraordinary shift on perspective. Alan Watts words never fail to empower and inspire me.
I feel much the same. This man has had a powerful impact upon my life.
"To resist change, to try to cling to life, is like holding your breath."
-Alan Watts
If you're reading this, we need your involvement in the collective conscience to change the direction in which our world is falling. Your faith that we will come through to harmonic balance is paramount.
Only after a reset is that achievable, lets hope humanity doesn't fk it up when/if given the chance for another go at it. Lets hope the reset is not through nuclear war. Meteorite preferable. Always known this is not how we are meant to live, we are nowhere near in harmony with the earth. Can't change at least 50% of humanity so a reset necessary.
🙏
In total agreement!
Bless's from deep forests of Finland
The only real, small shame about listening to this is that if you've managed to make it this far, and fully comprehend all that he is saying, it is unlikely that if you shared it with most of your friends or family that they would either grasp, appreciate or understand the magnitude of what he unpacks.
MY God; it's so good to be alive!!
True !!
That's the hardest part about all of this is knowing that you can't force this on family and friends. We just have to keep moving with grace with hopes that they'll see for themselves that this is where true peace lies.
you never lied !!
@@rashadcallaway4800truth
the uni esse does just the same: keeps on existing despite our illusions of the self
Wow! Just Wow! I’m in tears. I love Alan Watts
Ive been listening to alan watts for about 15 years now. Its funny how he can point out every problem and solution to life and get 3.5k views. Meanwhile millions watch the news just to absolutely lose their mind.
spot on
That's why I voluntarily elected to cease slavishly tune in the nightly "news" and escape the onslaught of fear mongering, deception, consumerism, and indoctrination. What joy could be given the world if a movie exploring the legacy of Alan Watts were to be made, Madison Avenue be damned!
I usually listen to Alan Watts to relax or fall asleep, but this time his speech woke me up!!
It makes me sad that he's not with us anymore....SO powerful and wise his words are...
Yet here he is, still teaching. These videos keep his message alive and by extention, his presence.
@@richardgoodrich4783 my thoughts exactly
He's not dead.
Listen to the video much more closely.
He came to see me a few years ago via Shaktipat through a massive full blown kundalini awakening… He will come to see you if you want him to.
He is with us. Right here. Right now.
"but you begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental"
Yep. I felt that because I didn't believe in a world past this one- that there's a non-physical soul, I could see that I exist now because of the world, and I will come back again.
Fundamental existence. No need to explain why. I love how Alan Watts translates the zen riddles so well!
Hi just trying to fully understand your comment. So you now do believe in a world that transcends this one?
Wow ur breakdown is amazing
You're the universe experiencing itself
Whatever and whoever is/are making these videos, thank you
When you align yourself with your true self you can achieve what you want.
Yes and the greatest "achievment" is to become nobody.
I'm always happiest in the natural environment, amongst the trees, under the stars, away from society. Don't know what that says about me. But it's what I know. What I feel. Can stare at the stars for hours. Watch an ant colony at work all day. The natural world is what I revere.
Understand exactly 💯
So powerful.. i feel sorry for the masses that dont contemplate this beautiful reality
Yet you are the masses too.
@@michelekaspar8805 possibly..hopefully..but we are joyous for the beauty in reality..it is sad some are zombies nothing more
I disagree, a lot of the time I wish that I was back in the fold of this version of reality, being caught up in the drama is far more fun then being under the constant weight of knowledge that none of it is real. I often envy those that don't consider these thoughts, because they are truly living in an enriched drama, whereas I am aware that I'm only watching a movie, it makes it far less enjoyable in my opinion. They aren't zombies, they are just enraptured in the drama, and that's okay, it what this place is meant for.
@@Aetriex being aware that all of this plane of existence is just a small part of the source opens up the reality that there is far more DRAMA as you call it outside of this universe, in creation, knowledge and love which is far more interesting to me
Beautiful words, from a beautiful soul. 💞🌈🙏🌍
I don’t need words to hold my great granddaughter in my arms and feel the connection and love..
When our world is limited by time and space, we understand truth when it repeats itself in time and space..
This is so profound... So beautiful... Tears.
You are capable of achieving amazing things in your life!✨
You have within you the strength, courage, and determination to overcome any obstacle that comes your way!❤
Remember to always believe in yourself, to stay focused on your goals, and to never give up on your dreams!🙏
I think this is one of the most brilliant talks from Alan Watts
"The paper in our system is more valuable than the wealth. " . Let that sink in . Easily the most profound words I've ever heard in my life. Western civilization in one sentence.
It's so simple yet so many people miss it.
Too many people buy into the “Not Of This World” nonsense, and that mentality then destroys their entire view on life, and all beauty!
When they say “NOTW”, they are discrediting everything they claim to believe in, starting with God, the creator of the universe.
@@dark-cn9yq Hey there dark 69’r, how you doin? Just because we quote “scripture”, it does not mean we necessarily believe it. It is however, more affective in getting a point across to those that still believe the holy Bible is the inspired word of God.
Nobody made you read these comments, and nobody is pushing anything on you. You need to realize that “demons” only exist in the mind of those who fear them.
Speak for yourself.
@@dark-cn9yq projection. Prove there is no God and you might deserve the life you have. We're waiting.
We don’t deserve anything in life. I grew up Christian and not for one instance did I believe it. Religion was created by humans to create meaning that it obvious. Religion is a reflection of us and I think that even the saints didn’t really believe this real thing. God is in all of us, we are the universe there is no good or bad just the universe and if god is the universe then he also holds no judgement. Religion was used as a tool of control and still is today, constantly in history actors have used religion to justify any action. The crusades for example the pope just made it up for political reasons, there was no other reason. Believing in religion is you hiding behind a tool, a mask. Life just is and you can’t accept this so you allow religion to spread its thorns. Let me remind you god (if he does exist) didn’t create religion, humans created it. God has nothing to do with it. Humans created the bible, god didn’t.
You are very unique.
Just like everyone else.
Alan Watts is a Legend, We are all one, and many all at the same time. We are also at one with the cosmos, and with all those who live in the cosmos. As Alan said I am the fabric of everything. I am everything!
thank you for making these!
AMAZING!!! Thank you… so resonated with me and many others , I am sure💜💜
I love listening to Alan Watts - I wish it were without the dramatic background music.
Outstanding! Bravo Mr. Watts
Ich liebe ihn, Alan Watts, einer der besten Bewusstseinslehrer und Erklärer....
Absolut. ❤
What he is saying (i think) is that we are all asleep when we are playing our roles in this span of life we have at work, and socially etc. All the identities beliefs ascribed meaning we have attached to ourselves is a complete illusion and an act, parts we play out unconsciously. But every now and then, usually early hours of the morning going to toilet from bed I will be struck powerfully by a realisation that all I have done, all I have attached all my beliefs etc are complete illusions and completely meaningless, it literally strips away everything instantly. And I feel completely alert completely conscious with absolute clarity that everything is an illusion except exactly what I feel when this thing, this massive slap that strips me to my core. I used to be shook from it and instantly scramble round my head for some quote or belief system to counter act it to comfort me and make me feel safe from it again but now I make myself feel it and like when it strikes me because I believe this is kinda what he’s saying that is who I really am just a piece of life when stripped of all the illusions I have accumulated since I was conscious enough to start being sucked in by them, that thing that hits in the early hours is real and that’s why it demolishes the illusions in an instant. It’s a smack that wakes you up.
Anyone else experience this. Or anyone agree disagree or add?
I like the way you’ve phrased this! The one thing I keep coming back to is why does human nature lead is to the point we are at? We play these games and roles to inevitable have the death of our physical body. Does it come down to love between people and nature? A love that sees past these boundaries and rules? What is the driving force that leads us to the complexity and belief that we have a story that needs to be lived and realized?
I am currently in a struggle against anxiety attacks. I usually wake up in anguish.
Three days ago, the words 'fear is an illusion' came to my mind and were very soothing. I've been thinking about them for days, and this morning I stumbled upon... this.
@@bentleymusic03 thanks for commenting! My personal conclusion to what I think your getting at and I think your asking, why do we do all this searching for meaning and achievement, identities etc repeating it daily and never ever finding it and when we think we might possibly have finally found it or are on the right path to it, it seems to slip away again and the cycle begins all over.
My personal conclusion is that there is nothing to live out or some meaning to life to find in it all, no matter what you do or achieve, no matter what title you have it is all futile and like you said it leads us all to death. Now what I have just said is quite difficult and maybe depressing for someone to hear which then could lead to “oh what’s the point then may as well kill myself” or it leads people to leap to religion or a man made belief system which assign a meaning of life to you, and you feel good again safe and like your heading to a better life but in religion and belief system they all tell you there’s another life waiting a better one an after life! But this is just another way of saying that then this life is meaningless if we are just living by divine rules and systems to reach this better life sod this one!
So my belief or way is that yes it is all meaningless but I find my own meaning in what I do it’s my own personal existence up to me to live how I choose, my life my fate are my own. If you choose to see through the ridiculous routine of everyday life and realise it’s meaningless you will not feel it as suffering because you are no longer searching and asking for a universal meaning from a world that is silent and always will be if you ever ask what you asked earlier. If there is a place that transcends this world, as a human being that is to say with a humans limits and capacity you will never be able to know that there is. Has anyone ever claimed to have been answered? No. So live this life the one you can feel, resist, smell, touch, see the only one you and I have ever had life or consciousness in, unless your aware of one before or have seen one I haven’t, and find your own meanings in what you choose to do. Don’t take work, life or anything to serious it’s all illusions. See everyone and everything for exactly what it is and who they are, what’s obvious and under your eyes. It’s freeing.
Also this is just an opinion I’m not telling anyone this is the gospel, and apologies for the length I’m not the best at explaining myself in short!
@@alexandervonprellwitz1735 thanks for commenting, my thoughts on what you say are, that the waking up in anguish which I think is similar to what I was saying about when it hits me smack in the face in the early hours. So maybe like me you can perceive it differently and maybe see it’s the illusions you have accumulated like myself over years and also wen very young with an undeveloped mind that cause the anxieties, because they are just imaginary we don’t know how to stop them because it’s our intelligence that’s doing it the one thing we need to stop them, your intelligence is turning against you when you need it to work correctly for you. So the waking in anguish or like mine when I said it instantly demolishes anything I believed or thought of myself, identities etc it’s actually trying to wake you up and show you, you are not any of them anxieties it’s actually trying to help you see you are just a human being a piece of life just like anything alive on this planet, and anything alive on this planet will eventually pass by and die you are no different from anyone or anything alive only humans illusion themselves we are more than we are. see with clarity anything troubling your mind is nothing more than an illusion it is not real in any form. Strip yourself of them all until you finally get all the way back to your bare flesh and the reality you are just skin and bones anything else is imaginary. A good way to start is to just write what you feel, think, or just whatever comes out.
@@sinky187 There are simply no words to express how much your words have made my inner world shake and resonate . I'm being completely honest.
Then I ask the world , which you're included in it , " Why should I still be playing the game?
" Wouldn't it be better if I just leave it all behind and just go somewhere else give love to everything and live outside of the game as possible? "
Isn't this why the old sages just went to a mountain by themselves, to just get out of the game , this made up society, this fake scheme of things? which is obviously a huge matrix and concepts all made up ?
I love breathing in beautiful.
🙏🏻
Love You; other Me. 💕😘🎶🍻🙏🏻🍷🌹
Best start on some Content Ma'am; because I'm definitely Subscribing to You
Time to Wake-Up!
"The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself."
--Augustine of Hippo
My psychiatrist told me that I'm not playing the same game of life that everyone else is playing.
I can tell you put so much effort and passion into making this video. It definitely shows!
The physical world is designed to deceive. This is the game that We are playing even though most are blind to it. Discernment is key in a world of deception. We All must learn to discern to earn the burn ❤️🔥
Really Excellent Video! … The essence of Alan Watts 😁
Thank you!
The most soothing kindest voice I've never heard ... My busybee mind calms on the pillow as he lulls me into wakefulness!
PS- Competing for Pillow Talk is Terrance McKenna with his sing-song voice lullabying me into jungles of deep cellular memory.
Deep deep deep...💜 Lovely, uplifting...🙏
A lot has changed for the better. I gave this speech in 1981 because I knew I would want to remind myself in 2023.
If a mere actor can make you cry, what do you think I can do as the fabric of existence.
What can you do? to achieve harmony as a collective. In the here and now.
Thank you so much for being.
Another great video! Thank you!
thank you!!!
Now that's motivation!
Amazing reflections!
Thank you ✌ 💜 ✌
Powerfull. thanks!
This was truly wonderful ❤
Wow, powerful, thank you. I guess I need to hear this🌼
Love it!!
Thank You!
Alan progressed as a philosopher throughout his life. Near the end he was talking about this human experience as a great play, like a movie, and he said when we die we return to the green room and take off our costumes, take off our masks. Had he lived longer, he would have logically had to ask: Who scripted each role? And he would have rejected the idea that some sort of singular personality called "God" wrote each role for the literally ZILLIONS UPON ZILLIONS UPON ZILLIONS of roles on this earth alone. For you see, each living creature is playing a role and that includes living creatures such as all the insects in the ground and all bacteria and other microbes as well. The microbes within you are perfect spirits just like you -- they could have chosen to be a human personality instead of a microbial one supporting the biological body of a human.
Alan was the greatest philosopher in living memory, but that doesn't mean everything he said was "right". It was a work in progress and he died young for a philosopher. Whenever you hear him say something that doesn't really make any concrete sense, then trust your intuition and common sense about it. It makes no sense to attribute the creation of life to something vague like a "universe" or "God" or "Nature". Had he lived longer, he might well have realized that the answers to the fundamental questions about Philosophy & Spirituality must meet the criteria of being the epitome of Simplicity, Fearlessness, and Good News for All living creatures. Any answer that feels vague or impossible to visualize must be rejected. Any answer that has even a hint of fear in it must be rejected. Any answer that is not as simple as possible and seems even a tiny bit complex must be rejected.
I am not saying he was wrong to say the things he said, but I am saying, because he was almost constantly touring and giving these talks over many years, that what you hear are reflections of his ideas as he progressed towards the simple, fearless, good-news truths. And he was cutting edge for the times he lived in. He was an antidote to white, middle class, Christian indoctrination and/or the emerging atheistic religion called scientism.
'christian indoctrination'... or Watts was another victim of the deception from the most powerful created being in this universe, Lucifer.
This type of thinking originated from "white" Indo-Europeans 1000s and 1000s of years ago, and it only recently came *back* full circle with the likes of Alan. We are beginning to rediscover what we knew many millennia ago, and the only thing that prevented this from happening sooner certainly wasn't white people.
Thank you 😊❤💝
Powerful.....❤
His words alone can awaken those who are sleeping. No need for a mountain top hermit mode. Just listen to his wisdom and you can feel the truth resonate and Soul knows.
Amazing man
Excellent!
Too many people buy into the “Not Of This World” nonsense, and that mentality then destroys their entire view on life, and all its beauty!
When ignorant people say “NOTW”, they are discrediting everything they claim to believe in, starting with God, the creator of the perfect & beautiful universe.
“And God saw that all creation was good” and very beautiful!
Sweet. Thanks.
Whether comedy or tradgedy, I did it.
So profound. 😎🙏
As i am ❤
Its very hard to live it even if you understand it and work it every day.
That's why a spiritual practice like meditation helps to integrate teachings like these into your live
Divine consciousness is the truth
LEGEND ❤️❤️
This human was born before his time.
I needed to watch this
beauty !
Awesome speech. Thanks for this great compilation.
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🔥
We feel the felt sense of fear before we learn to think. Our thoughts are just 1 trigger to this sense.
Fearless and immortal.
Amazing talk about ourselves! 😅
The Profound Massage Of Wisdom!? Mental Yoga satisfyingly enlightening!?
He helped me navigate my breakup in 2020 and the Pandemic.....❤❤❤❤❤
After speaking to many people, the pandemic caused a lot of them to end relationships for a myriad of reasons. Alan has helped me navigate through the break up, and helped me to be a better person.
What a legend!!!!
eye opener
I am responsible for this life? I just love that. Thank you who ever you are ;) I am happy. . ...
Supper Brilliant. Magic starts at 4:37
Nobody knows if they want truth until you get it.
Love Watts. Don't consider myself the victim, but this does make me just wanna stay at home :)
2:10 - Fast-forward at least fifty years or more since he said this, and now it's more like $130 and there's quite literally hardly anything in the shopping cart.
... On this subject, I recommend the song, put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up, by Harry Nilsson
The truth will set you free.
Had to watch this a couple of times.
Persona lly funny parts of realization, stark reminders and creation of new ideas and hidden dangers.
Things i knew , just a bit more refined and palatable.
Espantoso!
Obrigada.
Valeu!
"I am responsible for my Life. I did it. " Changes everything.
i taught this guy everything he knows ...old AL is jockin my style
I found you the way the spirit found me
Awesome! Could you tell the name of the music during the last two minutes?
👌👌👌
The Games We All Play
I started in this Chase by playing in Forrest's fun house of puzzles, but do you also realize that I am also playing a "game" alongside yours. In fact, there are at least four games being played out:
- a game created for play by the originator of the game - but to be played by participants with an intended "known" outcome
- a game being played by the participants and resulting in being watched by the originator of the game as it is played out in unknown ways
- a person is playing the game for the creator's reasons, but seen being played from their own participant's perspective (multiple participants = possibly the same multiple perspectives = unknown variables)
- a person is playing the game for their own reasons, unknown to the originator of the game being played
...but yet, even still, there are the fifth and sixth reasons this game is being played, built into the game as well - which results in the "games" that will play out afterwards, as 'bi-products' of the original singular game.
The fifth is the reason or outcome that is of the original "projection" by and of the creator and their game - both being viewed from the creator's perception. The intended reason the game was created.
The sixth is the reason or outcome that is of the original "projection" by and of the player and their game, and how the game can benefit their life - which is being viewed through the participant's/player's perception.
And yet, we can now realize that there is a seventh reason. One that plays on the outcome to begin, yet another game. Also a "bi-product" of the initial game, but also the goal of both the creator and a player.
In summary:
1. The creator's game with the intended / "planned" outcome
2. The player(s) playing the creator's game being watched by the creator - unknown variables are in play
3. The player playing, but from his/her perspective - controlled variables by the player(s)
4. The player(s) playing for reasons unknown to the creator - controlled variables by player(s) w/unknown results being watched by the creator
5. The projection and perception of the game by the creator, unknown to the player(s) - the intended reason for the game
6. The outcome of that projection or perception by the player(s) - how will it benefit the player(s) - their intended outcome
7. The true outcome of the game - the actual result of the game as viewed by the creator and players - Fate/Destiny?
Can one even tabulate the odds of all of these variables and come up with a statistic that ultimately succumbs to be the same result?
Unfortunately, no one knows they are playing the "7th game", because no one told them they were. And yet, we can see they/we are playing with a full throttle, in order to complete the initial game we all set out to play.
A game that no one knows the results, but once they start playing, the results show the player what they are actually playing for.
Oh sure, disappointment is playing too. The players know it is there, but they sometimes push it aside, in hopes to see that it never surfaces in front of them.
We see the endless loop it creates for an individual, yet, the participants don't.
How do we proceed to have a winner in a game that is not controlled by us?
Easy, we guide the game to our liking. We know the plays ahead of time, in order to steer and stay a course we create.
We know that there aren't any established rules -- so why not allow us to create the rules?
Could you share the name of the soundtrack at the very end? The one listed during the credits at 10:25 is a different one. Thanks
It seems kind of sad and lonely--the "I", the God, is only one. It divides and creates many little lives, but in the end, all of the separate lives are really just one....the one singularity, that desperately wants to know "other". Each one of us is the fabric and structure of existence itself, and it all amounts to that one great thing....one lonely, great thing that must divide itself and forget itself, in order not to feel so alone.
Agreed.
Wowweeee.
❤❤❤❤❤
More motivation
I DID IT...I F only we all took full responsibility for our actions and inactions we would be unable harm one another physically and emotionally.. which is the game we play.