Alan Watts on Pain, Suffering, Fear, Death
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- Inspirational Library presents Alan Watts (1915 - 1973) was an English writer, theologian, and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in England, he moved to the United States and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He wrote more than 25 books and articles on religion and philosophy.
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He is 100% right about everything in this lecture. The full experience of an emotion is the resolution of that emotion
which comes colorcalibrated to person to person.
So simply yet powerfully explained. Thank you Alan Watts and thanks for uploading his lecture
all the lectures by Alan Watts should be given with this kind of video having no background music.
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Yes thank you!!!
One of the best Allen Watts lectures! I try to listen to him every day. What a treasure
Do you know what the name of this lecture is?
I always come back to this talk from him. One if the best ones
Thank the Universe for Alan Watts.
Suffering is the best teacher 🧑🏫
I am Suffering it has taught me nothing but pain misery and regret
How old are you?
@@svenheuseveldt7188 I’m 43
@@svenheuseveldt7188 I am 43 I’m in a lot of pain
Yeah it’s just made me feel exactly as you said, I’m so numb fam
@@svenheuseveldt7188 I’m 43
He is the only one I know who gets somewhat close to truth, anyone else seemingly still enjoys the ride of ignorance. I feel alone with this profound understanding, the most intuitive thing for me is starving to death, that would fill me with joy, not responding to this environment of ignorance anymore and just fading
Yes... He is good. I especially like the way he explains complex issues in such a simple manner.
yeah he has a natural, simple mind. What would happen, if you have little to no barrier of expressing your natural thoughts and feeling you have ? Would be more interesting to experience than starving to death i guess
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Listening to Alan watts can be addicting....i love listening to most of the topics food,spirituality ,death,life taoism ,reality, and nothingness.
Addicted to the thought or topic of ‘nothingness’. I think you are seeing a reflection
He nails it…. brilliant!
While this is a rather optimistic view , It also brings awareness to how the avoidance of fear may lead to one’s hamartia. Fear is a natural consequence embedded in us by the universe itself meaning there’s a reason for it
Thank you sir
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Shut up that means your grasping that you suffer from aniety. I can save you a world of lustening to allan watts . Dont try in any aspect of your life leave it alone.
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Heck I’m suffering extreme depression and anxiety at the moment and for many months, he says to go in to it. I’m already in to it. I want io escape this
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@@monopolythesecondYes, good advice though not always easy to follow
In my opinion ACCEPTANCE is the only way through. Embrace the unwanted emotions & feelings & ride the storm out. The storm will pass. That way when the next storm hits you you'll be like Captain Ron from Forest Gump floating in the water when the storm passes lol. He was at peace.
I had an episode of depression last year after 10 months of a very difficult relationship. Since I knew Carl Jung (through Jordan Peterson) I knew that the gold is always hidden where the dragon is in the heroe's journey. And the dragon lives in the deepest and darkest place. The gold is the thing I need for my life to benefit me and everybody around me. So I took some weeks sick leave from work and just walked in nature every day, alone with my dog, looooong hours without distraction and without anything to do jus feeling my depression fully in my body. The complete introversion, the sadness without being able to relief through tears, the situation without exit, no resolution, all outer things didn't matter anymore, conflicts, relationships, work, life goals which exited me so much before.... Everything was grey and without much taste. The sadness was so profound that it silenced my thoughts, my inner critic. It was like a sacred sadness which pulled me out of my hyoeractive head into my heart and made my heard biiiiig and wide for everyone in the wolrd. The biggest asshole and the saintest saint and Everybody in between. I found my gold by going into the darkness intentionally. I am very grateful for this experience.
Hey brother, I pray that you are doing better as of late? Please take care and find your way somehow. Love from the Virgin Islands 🇻🇮
To me the sauna is, almost ironic,like a physical metaphor of what he describes as the oven. To me the message of this video. ‘ I’decide way before my body does in a way of how i will interpret the induced ‘pain/physical struggle’ as positive and most often even excitand ‘negatively usually’ in the first place.
Its actually changes everything now i can put these struggle puzzle pieces together with the right mindset. Or ‘right’, let i say ‘more freely and as desired’. I wonder of this is actually where i broke through and i get moving
14 Alan brings the fire
So this is what the Cenobites in Hellraiser/Hellbound Heart were teaching and exploring.
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Thanks for posting this, but why the incredibly loud sound at the end smack in the middle of the monk story?
Kids these days trying to be cool.
Thank you for your feedback. Will be more careful.
@@Inspirational.Libraryto teach you to appreciate all the moments there isn't anything distracting lol jk
Yeah that scared the hell outta me hahahaha
I'd like someone to explain how this applies to the infants vivisected alive in front of their mothers in Unit 731 in occupied Manchuria during the Second World War.
That's dukkha.
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Nah, that's the human race being too spineless to do the only noble thing it can do and allow itself to die out.
There's no rebirth, reincarnation, nirvana, or whatever soteriological fantasy you want to make up to make human existence seem meaningful or good.
There's only humanity wandering from holocaust to holocaust until we die out.
Why prolong the torment? Why not just stop having kids and get this shitshow over with?
Does somebody know the name of this Alan Wats lecture or where I can find the full version?
Theoretically and intellectually I agree with Alan, however when you are in front of a drunken, violent guy that has decided to harm you, all theories about diving into or accepting the moment, are worth absolutely nothing. Your instincts of fight or flight will run over whatever intellectual theories you may cherish.
Give you another situation off the top of my head. You were born in North Corea, you have a wife and 5 kids, and you see them one by one dying of starvation, what theory from Buddha or whoever can save you from horrible suffering?
Put into that situation, anyone would wanna live because life is beautiful where we are at right now so we aren't prepared for the opposite this doesn't mean go and live reckless. This just means you can try and survive as long as you can not because you will never die but because life is beautiful where you are currently at. I hope this helps
Sad situations... Will remember you in my prayers. Everything is temporary... it will pass.
@@Inspirational.Library Please do not expend your precious time in prayers for me, instead use your prayers to beg that you never ever be in situations as I have been.
@@MrTetsukobusorry to hear that brother, I wish your suffering is temperoraly and you ascend higher ❤
@@Grind_Your_Minds I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kindness and great compassion!
My soul melts under the fire of your great understanding of my comment. Ah! if all humans could have your level of understanding human race will be in a much deeper hell.
What is the meaning of the last zen story?
It goes on, who knows the last
Meaning in a way he's acting like an enlightened person, because he is weeping now because of the flow, not suppressing himself and thereby building up the suffering.
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