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  • Alan Watts - Death & Nothingness
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  • @TheDerpyWalrus
    @TheDerpyWalrus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3748

    I was dead for 13.7 billion years, i can go for another long sleep.

    • @psilo8702
      @psilo8702 6 ปีที่แล้ว +212

      except this time you wont wake up!

    • @brando1up
      @brando1up 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Apparently...

    • @punisher6387
      @punisher6387 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Long sleep... *Forever*

    • @priilynx
      @priilynx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      i think time is infitnite and 13.7 just the age of the universe?

    • @bobwoods5017
      @bobwoods5017 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      We leave behind so much of ourselves and I hope to leave everything that I never needed in this world. Pain, both suffered by me and the suffering I caused others....

  • @rvsaraiva
    @rvsaraiva 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3517

    I never get tired of listening to Alan Watts.

  • @waedjradi
    @waedjradi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2345

    He was clearly on another level

    • @konradgladala9
      @konradgladala9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @Cupid nowhere, it ceases to exist.

    • @aohall
      @aohall 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Cupid he has one on consciousnesses. i’ll send it to u if u want

    • @williamhenley8593
      @williamhenley8593 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cupid It lives on

    • @Meow-gp5nk
      @Meow-gp5nk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @Cupid Where does concious thought go once you're unconcious during sleep? Right; that's your answer.

    • @eli-ti5um
      @eli-ti5um 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      not really, i manifested this thought at the age of 11 without any speculation on the subject

  • @mesau7268
    @mesau7268 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1609

    Alan just told me "dont be afraid of death" and i said "okay"

    • @johnries5308
      @johnries5308 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      What if I told you not be afraid to live

    • @moosestubbings1853
      @moosestubbings1853 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Have you ever tried ayhauasca?

    • @teflondejuanchosen4723
      @teflondejuanchosen4723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I love how you said that...okay

    • @Andy-gt8up
      @Andy-gt8up 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      i know it put me at peace

    • @Loagun
      @Loagun 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha ❤️

  • @Andres-jg5iz
    @Andres-jg5iz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +701

    My parents didn’t sign my permission slip to go on this Field trip

    • @iamstateofbeing7330
      @iamstateofbeing7330 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Andres716 Your profile picture is exactly how you should feel when your parents didn’t sign the slip for this trip

    • @TheCooksTV
      @TheCooksTV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      mind trip lol and eloquently said

    • @Andres-jg5iz
      @Andres-jg5iz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agent 47 fr though 😂

    • @j-dog7767
      @j-dog7767 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes they did, but you have to be 14+ for me to tell you about it😂🙃

    • @lostandfound2329
      @lostandfound2329 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Andres716 *laughs* thanks 😂

  • @StaticBlaster
    @StaticBlaster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” - Mark Twain

  • @Nisssssssssannnnnnnn
    @Nisssssssssannnnnnnn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2634

    Death is truly so beautiful. The moment we truly realize nothing really matters

    • @antoine1597
      @antoine1597 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      haha say that again please

    • @pewdiepiesmosh2055
      @pewdiepiesmosh2055 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Ant1 DEATH IS TRULY BEAUTIFUL

    • @antoine1597
      @antoine1597 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      "nothing really matters" oof like i can just jump of a ten story building

    • @Arian-gg2dq
      @Arian-gg2dq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      What about people that we love they don’t matter?

    • @daquickscopa39
      @daquickscopa39 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      @@Arian-gg2dq That is up to you, find meaning where you want it. If your family and friends mean something to you, then they mean something to you. Life is short and full of hardships, listen to yourself and find what is personally true for you in regards to the metaphysical. If in fact nothing really has objective purpose, who cares? What does that mean anyways? We invented the language, so go with it. If you find yourself upset at the fact that everything might not have objective meaning or purpose, just remember you are a subject, so you're subjective meaning is not any less valid to your personal experience. There are not rules to how you SHOULD feel, there are only the feelings. They are personal, nobody else can tell you to feel a certain way if you don't, and if they try you might feel resentful about the fact that they are. "I" do not have a problem with accepting the purpose in purposelessness, and there is only a problem if you get in your own way. Cheers

  • @Arian-gg2dq
    @Arian-gg2dq 5 ปีที่แล้ว +460

    If death is nothingness then death is not the problem life is the problem

    • @DhavalPatel-jy7qy
      @DhavalPatel-jy7qy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @ITS YA BOI MIKE WAZOWSKI yh u too thank you

    • @jamesbond2105
      @jamesbond2105 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ofcourse. Aa a kid i thought death was that wich scared me

    • @Feelix_music
      @Feelix_music 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why does life seek to persist?

    • @GarboTheGreat
      @GarboTheGreat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Alan does talk about that as well, in his lecture titled “suicide” also interesting if you ever want to look into it

    • @captainvoluntaryistthestat3207
      @captainvoluntaryistthestat3207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @ITS YA BOI MIKE WAZOWSKI
      You are the problem, fuck boy. The fuck you getting mad for on an innocent comment?

  • @barrybignut7416
    @barrybignut7416 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1013

    I actually can't figure out if Watts take on death is calming or terrifying.

  • @cantspelltriumphwithouttru4277
    @cantspelltriumphwithouttru4277 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    My grandma lived a long life that ended very ill. She said in her hospital bed that if this was her quality of life she didn’t want it anymore. She refused to eat until she passed. I watched a hundred and five pound woman face death with no fear. I will always be in awe of her courage facing death. Love you Grandma, hope to meet you again some day!

  • @100-pc-notbot
    @100-pc-notbot 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1076

    When people ask me what I want..
    I want to not be.

    • @ProVeg
      @ProVeg 8 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      I get it mate. We're all here (nor not) with you.High five from the nothingness, hope you are well.

    • @satanismyfather4063
      @satanismyfather4063 7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Fuck. This really stuck with me.
      Damn.

    • @malabuha
      @malabuha 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      sheolthedark yes. and your wish already came true... confused by the idea of i. when you make the distinction between awareness and thoughts you will see that there is no you. just awareness of thoughts of you. your body and mind and everything is one organism and everything is integral part without which it could not exist. human form has the capacity for consciousness to know itself after it disentangles from mental dominance

    • @REDPotriats757
      @REDPotriats757 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      sheolthedark did alan watts make this statement?

    • @robertbrown3064
      @robertbrown3064 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I desire to be free from desire. I realize that that very desire is the only thing keeping me from attaining it, but I struggle with letting go of that desire. Some part of me fears letting go, fears that process of my ego dissolving. I see within me an infinite abyss, a great nothingness without end. I know I shouldn't fear it, that to embrace it wouldn't hurt, and yet still I cling to the idea of myself. Letting go of that idea before I die is my greatest goal in life.

  • @freddy2nt
    @freddy2nt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +253

    It took the universe 13.7 billion years to create me, to create you.

    • @tommysaia4005
      @tommysaia4005 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Maybe it took 15 billion years. Maybe 100billion years. No one knows the time. They make it up as they go.

    • @halcyon_daze9241
      @halcyon_daze9241 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@tommysaia4005 or maybe more than 100 billion and billion and billion and billion years ....or maybe since forever ....

    • @adamlunsford4301
      @adamlunsford4301 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Maybe it took "you" 13.7 billion years to manifest.?.

    • @9ipaye795
      @9ipaye795 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why I am the chosen one!
      Why I AM alive

    • @user-mq8tn9vy3m
      @user-mq8tn9vy3m 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Correction it took 13.7 billion years for you to gain consciousness

  • @mstokess16
    @mstokess16 4 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    I am not scared dying, im scared of leaving my love ones behind...until we meet again❤🙏

    • @johnathan_handler4531
      @johnathan_handler4531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      mstokess16 you are your love ones!!

    • @johnsky1009
      @johnsky1009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      mstokess16 they feel the same way as you. Until our time come will find out where we all go.

    • @Xentrippy
      @Xentrippy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      There's no meeting again once you die you won't even know that you existed

    • @cmcm6735
      @cmcm6735 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same here mstokess

    • @cmcm6735
      @cmcm6735 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Where you from

  • @LPVP123
    @LPVP123 6 ปีที่แล้ว +506

    Follow your dreams because ultimately you have nothing to lose 😊🌈

    • @brianlinville439
      @brianlinville439 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It is All ,dreams.

    • @litote9
      @litote9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      You might think differently if that led you to be sleeping on the sidewalk.

    • @brianlinville439
      @brianlinville439 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@litote9 -actually that , is the Divine also, everyone has a bit in the movie, every one a part to play, lesson to teach,=valid.

    • @Meow-gp5nk
      @Meow-gp5nk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@litote9 You'll still end up not existing in the end ... Although, it's much preferable to live well during the few years you do have ...

    • @deanoworley
      @deanoworley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And ultimately nothing matters.

  • @zom_tyt7382
    @zom_tyt7382 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    "Death is The Painful Truth, and Life is the Beautiful Lie."
    I love this Phrase so much.

  • @faroffsuns8011
    @faroffsuns8011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    I just realized that my future son and my future daughter are currently dead.

    • @piper-bw4lr
      @piper-bw4lr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      They’re not dead, they just don’t PHYSICALLY exist in your world yet

    • @paulb6805
      @paulb6805 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@piper-bw4lr They actually do already exist in the material world. He/she just hasn't arrived at that moment in "time" yet.
      There is nothing that just suddenly comes into existence. Everything that exists has existed, and will always exist.
      The change in things existing that we (human) experience, is actually our limited perspective of a material being moving between temporal "pockets".
      As I began to write this comment, the comment already existed in it's finished state. Only now do you perceive it.

    • @piper-bw4lr
      @piper-bw4lr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paulb6805 yeah that’s what I meant

    • @paulb6805
      @paulb6805 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@piper-bw4lr You're right my apologies. I got caught up in my passion for the philosophy.
      Good luck on your journey friend, may an interesting story be yours ...

    • @piper-bw4lr
      @piper-bw4lr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paulb6805 thats all good. What you said just reminded me about how I get to choose my story. Not sure if you’re into manifesting but what you said puts a good perspective on how easy it is. Good Luck on your journey too :)

  • @laniechrisgardnerasl8639
    @laniechrisgardnerasl8639 4 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    There HAS to be a reason that we are here. I will be damned if I am only here to pay my bills and die! Everyone is connected, everyone is here for a reason.

    • @tedbates1236
      @tedbates1236 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      There is mire to life than dearh. We are taught that we are accidents and life is meaningless. I tell you that is a lie from hel! God is personal. He knit you in your mother's womb. You are here at this time for a reason. And the reason begins with finding Him. He is not a distant uninterested God. He kniws when you sit down and rise up. He has numbered the hairs on your head. He came to this world in,the oerson of His Son. He was born of a virgin who was liwly and humble in heart. He was born in a small vilkagr called Beyhlrhem and was wraoed in rags and slept in a feed trough. It was poor despised sheoherds that the Father first called to see His Son. The rich wisemen were two years later when He was a todler and was in a house. He came to call to us to turn to Him for all we like sheep have gone astray and Je laid upon Him the iniquity if us all. This Christmas seek Him out and learn of Him and from Him. These words are words of life not death. And Jesus is the living Word of God. COME !

    • @BLITZY261
      @BLITZY261 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      To pay bills?

    • @mr.westin1313
      @mr.westin1313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      There is no reason. Reason implies there is a goal, or conclusion we are trying to reach, I don’t see that being the case. We are the only thing in the universe we know for certain where our existence precedes our essence. If you make a knife, you make it because you have something you need to cute. You have a purpose in mind for creating that knife. As far as we can tell, there is nothing we need to cut. No direct purpose for use being here. Life’s reason is what you make it to be. As long as it’s an authentic reason to you. And has meaning to YOU, that’s all that should matter in my opinion. Live your life for you, and no one else. Life is short, enjoy it, or don’t enjoy it, hate it or love it. The choice is yours

    • @laniechrisgardnerasl8639
      @laniechrisgardnerasl8639 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mr.westin1313 So you are saying that I don't ever need to have any goals or ambition (like most people these days)? I don't need to better myself, I don't need to make any decisions. Should I just sit on my couch and wait to die then??!!

    • @mr.westin1313
      @mr.westin1313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lanie Gardner if that’s what you choose to do then by all means go for it. It’s your life after all. I’m just saying it is my belief that there is no one true inherent meaning for each person in this life beyond their own interpretation of it. If YOU believe you have a purpose, no matter what it may be, then that’s all that matters right? Make your own meaning, accomplish your goals and live a full life, or you can sit on your couch and do absolutely nothing. Neither choice is inherently right or wrong. It is up to each individual to decide if their life has purpose and what that purpose might be.

  • @diamondharvest4344
    @diamondharvest4344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +525

    This was somehow ... so comforting .
    “The point of life is here and right now.”
    - Alan Watts

    • @daveyoneslimobi4525
      @daveyoneslimobi4525 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Satan would love for you to be comfortable in life thinking he doesn't exist, because that keeps you from finding your souls eternal Savior, Christ Jesus.

    • @Bey0ndNames
      @Bey0ndNames 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@daveyoneslimobi4525 seek help stop coping

  • @ianh8284
    @ianh8284 7 ปีที่แล้ว +429

    I don't fear it because it be the day i stop fighting living. Just quit following crowds and live your life true and kindly. Last 10seconds of sane thinking of my life, i want to feel i lived it true and not a big lie of guilt. You get one chance, learn from your mistakes and live it true.

    • @michele8491
      @michele8491 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ian humm sorry for answering months after your comment. I understand very well what you mean with that, it will be very relieving to get out of this dying flesh bags called bodys, but since I have to die anyway I want to explore as much as I can the "being alive". It's sometimes a miracle and sometimes a curse but it will end so just use the time you have and know that you won't get it back once you're dead/freed.

    • @timothyschuebel5367
      @timothyschuebel5367 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ian H I died for @20 seconds,,,, it was just the most peaceful feeling I ever had,,but in a split second I realized my mom would have to bury her son ,,,and bam I was back

    • @aohall
      @aohall 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Tgs T.Schuebel Tgs idk how i’m the only one responding to this, but did the doctors explain your “back to life” from their view ? and how did you get injured too ?

    • @disayamckay6722
      @disayamckay6722 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      i'm not afraid of dying, i'm afraid of leaving the ones i've grown to love throughout my life...

    • @fletcherbrockman6828
      @fletcherbrockman6828 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dude I genuinely love this

  • @robmitchell801
    @robmitchell801 7 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    I never get tired of listening to this guy. Comforting in a way. I see things different and am less anxious. A philosophy lesson for nearly free.

  • @darby_hudson
    @darby_hudson 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1177

    What if we are already dead and our
    living right now is a massive flashback
    of our lives?
    Maybe it explains why ten years ago feels like
    yesterday, but the calendar says it’s a very long time ago?
    Maybe it explains dejavous?
    And perhaps explains fate? - because it’s a repeat?
    Maybe we are already ghosts?

    • @danieledwardsen7912
      @danieledwardsen7912 5 ปีที่แล้ว +151

      its because in truth time does not exist, time is of now and always will be it is just a tool of measurement, we are alive but we are also not alive, we are infinite hence the reason we choose reincarnation not to be infinite, to learn and help others, but if we are infinite and nothing is nothing then in truth what is infinite, infinite is nothing while nothing being infinite.

    • @Hawkeye-cm2pv
      @Hawkeye-cm2pv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@danieledwardsen7912 -- Oi! My head hurts!

    • @omerrisen7513
      @omerrisen7513 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@Hawkeye-cm2pv, your head does not exist so there is no pain but it also exist that's why it pains
      This is called infinite regret that why I read that comment but this is finite that you are reading this comment

    • @cellfishtechno144
      @cellfishtechno144 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Not a crazy thought because maybe thats the reason that we all have experienced Deja Vu moments at least once in your life, which is litirally means "Already Seen" in french.

    • @omerrisen7513
      @omerrisen7513 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@cellfishtechno144, Deja vu is the nothing but perception of predestination but man sees it's little

  • @Fireloop77
    @Fireloop77 7 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    "and behind that... another blank space" he ends on such a mysteryous note! He just makes you wanna live well and worry less

    • @usmanparker9183
      @usmanparker9183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep love him and love you too....♥️♥️♥️😊😊

  • @tonyavan1379
    @tonyavan1379 5 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Beautiful. I hope Alan has experienced it, just as he has lectured it

  • @Dewitt-b8n
    @Dewitt-b8n 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    We never truly die. It’s a reset button. Simulation replayed.

    • @lnfiniteFlow11700
      @lnfiniteFlow11700 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      that's actually my belief system

    • @Dewitt-b8n
      @Dewitt-b8n 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Nedd Flanders we wake up. We eat we shit. Wake up repeat. That's a simulation .

    • @suriyamuthumani4128
      @suriyamuthumani4128 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Dewitt-b8n holy fuck its our daily routine

    • @Xernive
      @Xernive 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@suriyamuthumani4128 Welcome to the simulation

  • @matts7925
    @matts7925 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I’m crying in front of my love right now listening to this with tears in my eyes because this is exactly how I feel

    • @MrJamiez
      @MrJamiez 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope you are doing well brother! ❤️

    • @johnsully8884
      @johnsully8884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alan watts saved me in some dark times in my life, #itsoknottobeok

  • @connerstone9195
    @connerstone9195 7 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    If when you are dead, you are as If you never have been, then thats the way you were before you were born

    • @realmma5212
      @realmma5212 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Conner Stone that's some beautiful shit

    • @nietzfritzchen
      @nietzfritzchen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So life is completely senseless lol 😂

    • @I_am_Alkebulan
      @I_am_Alkebulan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world

    • @Doodieinthahouse
      @Doodieinthahouse 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Quentin Butschlick watch the movie The Discovery on Netflix

    • @gabijasukyte238
      @gabijasukyte238 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How do you know so sure , you still alive so you don't know and just speculate as other humans with their beliefs

  • @thepresleyassignment
    @thepresleyassignment 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Death is not nothingness. We are eternal beings. We always have a future whether we are in these bodies or not.

    • @fullyawakened
      @fullyawakened 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Pretty wishful thinking. How high are you?

    • @KushMasterB
      @KushMasterB 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      hes not high at all.....im with you on that mickey! energy never dies

    • @onlyhuman5669
      @onlyhuman5669 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Idc

    • @gabijasukyte238
      @gabijasukyte238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe we are eternal beings , no one knows this is just theorie maybe more possible than nothingness but we don't know.

    • @222vessel
      @222vessel 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KushMasterB agreed!
      loss and gain is the same, energy is eternal

  • @skyravenxk2
    @skyravenxk2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    i wish everyone knew how sacred time is we all are going through this crazy moment we call life. sleep is my favorite thing

    • @Usul26
      @Usul26 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same here bro...sleep is the best thing to ever happen to mankind

    • @bosspoke
      @bosspoke 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Usul26 It isn't the best for everyone. Not the ones who continiously experiences nightmares, or dreams that just feels awful to be in.
      Sleep is great if you don't remember anything and wake up rested, or if you dream something wonderful and wake up rested.
      I've experienced both scenarios, but these late years it has almost entirely been the former. The negative aspect.
      So sleep is no longer great, same as awake-time, never true rest to be found.

    • @jazzcabbage9370
      @jazzcabbage9370 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bosspoke Low doses of psilocybin reduced my nightmares significantly. I felt the same way you did. Sleep used to be a relief to me, but when I started having constant nightmares there was never any relief. No rest. I was close to suicide, thankfully after the low doses of psilocybin, they reduced dramatically. Trauma can be a source of nightmares

  • @kimibugge6718
    @kimibugge6718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I have no words for this,
    This is on another level.

  • @PatchedThePipe
    @PatchedThePipe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    This is the way I’v always seen death! Come from nothing and go back to it. In a way we don’t fear death we fear not ‘being’.. but we had no fear before we were born right? And we shall go back to that.. no fear, no hurt, no pain, no stress, no worry etc .. sure that includes no love, joy, happiness etc but when we find those things in our brief existence they outweigh all the negatives do they not? It’s really is a case of make the most of today.. your a Alive now, your ‘being’ thinking & feeling now and death can’t change the fact that you had this moment

    • @paDroskee420
      @paDroskee420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Saintsinnz beautiful . Thank you ❤️☯️

  • @ashleyscott5166
    @ashleyscott5166 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    My dad passed away 3 days ago and this just helped me so much omg ❤️🥺 ima miss you so much daddy

    • @MrJamiez
      @MrJamiez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm sorry to hear that. May he reset in peace. ❤️

  • @damonhallsworth1948
    @damonhallsworth1948 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    When I’m asleep I’m at my happiest. I dread the thought that I’ll come back to live again. But when I’m dead I’ll never know.

  • @antoniapicher9300
    @antoniapicher9300 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love reading the comments after listening to Alan Watts, race aside, sex aside, age aside, religion aside, political views aside. Just people sharing their opinions and secrets. One of those rare moments where it feels like we bring eternal peace to the earth. Something that doesn‘t happen anymore

  • @adrianbecerra5139
    @adrianbecerra5139 7 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I miss you so much sister!!!! RIP Nidia becerra

  • @R4Y2k
    @R4Y2k 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
    I've decided to spend my days listening to those who came before, hear what they made from all this and then try to find a way out of this mess we got ourselves into ;-)

  • @ankitd9
    @ankitd9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Death is the one thing that's true and fair to everyone. One irrefutable reality that should make us humble, loving, and less anxious while experiencing this momentary pause called life in the eternal slumber called death.

  • @jamesgodden7760
    @jamesgodden7760 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I hope everyone really does rest in peace.

    • @surfinmuso37
      @surfinmuso37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That is such a nice thought man...u took the thought right outa my head...recently lost my mum

    • @jamesgodden7760
      @jamesgodden7760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@surfinmuso37 hope ur doing ok, it will get easier. May she rest easy 🙏

    • @surfinmuso37
      @surfinmuso37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jamesgodden7760 That actually means a lot right now-thanks...you are very thoughtful🧡

    • @solin1637
      @solin1637 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No one goes anywhere, life is eternal, we just change from this place to a non physical realm and then we come back in another physical form to continue creating, enjoying this physical reality and leave again to the other side.
      Either way here or there we continue creating, living and assisting others from the non physical realm.
      Everything is energy, and our consciousness continues expanding.
      ✨🌌🙌🐼✨

  • @jasonlowe9927
    @jasonlowe9927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Row row row your boat
    Gently down the stream
    Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily
    Life is but a dream...

  • @kam2566
    @kam2566 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Alan Watts is the main reason my heart keeps pumping blood within my body.

  • @LustfulLamb
    @LustfulLamb 8 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I love this. Such a smart man.

  • @RN-kz2of
    @RN-kz2of 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have listened to this over five times already, still, every time I hear it, it just puts me at ease and imbues a sense of tranquility. Such is the sheer power of Alan Watts words.

  • @smilelikeUmeanit90
    @smilelikeUmeanit90 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Nothing more liberating then listening Alan Watts talking about death :) Thank you Alan.

  • @mariemarquez6686
    @mariemarquez6686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I can't tell if his outlook on death scares me even more, or if it's deeply comforting.

  • @Flolanch
    @Flolanch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    His voice and videos are amazing … I listen in the dark … alone …. Mind blowing 🙏

  • @chrisigop4471
    @chrisigop4471 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I love the concept of death, nothingness forever

    • @dougvodogaz1494
      @dougvodogaz1494 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Chris Igop everything is energy and can't be destroyed only transformed so when you die your spirit which is also energy can't become nothing

  • @bcolson09
    @bcolson09 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “Forever and for never” for some reason that really spoke to me

  • @AR-fy2qo
    @AR-fy2qo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Talk to someone who is dying and the meaning of life and living becomes apparent. They see life with blinding clarity as their darkness approaches. Follow no one, compare to no one and just be someone. And that's you.

    • @finnnelson12345
      @finnnelson12345 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks .... your words came along just at the right time

    • @Riken1026
      @Riken1026 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      words are words at the end of the day, they don't change anything

    • @HooyahPeacock
      @HooyahPeacock 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I lived 10 days with a ruptured appendix... I should be dead. When you aren't a follower though you usually live a lonely life, at least I do.

  • @Mantyanubis
    @Mantyanubis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love you Alan Watts from the bottom of my heart.

  • @NeurotiQ
    @NeurotiQ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "The second thing it makes me think of is when I’m dead I am as if I never had been born, and that’s the way I was before I was born. Just as I try to go back behind my eyes and find what is there I come to a blank, if I try to remember back and back and back to my earliest memories and behind that - nothing, total blank. But just as I know there’s something behind my eyes by using my fingers on my head, so I know through other sources of information that before I was born there was something going on. There were my father and my mother, and their fathers and mothers, and the whole material environment of the Earth and its life out of which they came, and behind that the solar system, and behind that the galaxy, and behind that all the galaxies, and behind that another blank - space. I reason that if I go back when I’m dead to the state where I was before I was born, couldn’t I happen again?"

  • @ther6989
    @ther6989 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is what I've been trying to tell people that are afraid of death. I had never heard this snippet before and I always told people that there would be no more "you" to experience fear. Even if there is an afterlife, you leave your nervous system behind I would think. I am more afraid of life than death. There is pain in life but death? No pain. No fear. I hope..

  • @peterjohnson1332
    @peterjohnson1332 5 ปีที่แล้ว +308

    Nobody really knows anything do they.

    • @trials6502
      @trials6502 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Alan said that everyone is wrong, and it's wonderful.

    • @BySwizhy
      @BySwizhy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Simp Detector everything is wrong because nothing is right

    • @bogusmcbogus2637
      @bogusmcbogus2637 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Depends on how you define knowledge.

    • @edgarmendoza2204
      @edgarmendoza2204 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what a bold statement.

    • @Tconeriffic1
      @Tconeriffic1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Correct

  • @aynoooooo
    @aynoooooo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I’ve been listening to allan for years now. trying to understand everything he taught, is marvelous. watch the videos over and over again, I like listen to him while I go shopping, when i’m walking, when i’m in my car. everything he says is so profound and deep. I was so afraid of death before now I accept it with a positive attitude. the circle of life is so beautiful. also makes me very depressed I most admit. philosophy is so interesting and profound but sometimes I wish I didn’t knew all that, always watch people living life way better than me and be more happier by not knowing all this things it makes me wonder if this knowledge will make you happier or way more depressed. also I can’t explain those things to people they just don’t get it or don’t care, I would like to talk to someone like allan about soo many things, he is like the grandfather/friend/father/I never had, full of wisdom and lessons to teach

  • @tylarh852
    @tylarh852 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Listening to Alan watts, looking at this eclipse just hits different.

  • @charlesmiller6281
    @charlesmiller6281 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    And one day you look up at the starry sky and say, "Why, that's me!"

  • @tkx86
    @tkx86 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This always leaves me with a smile and a tear.

  • @aadzaad
    @aadzaad 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    We are living the same life over and over again

    • @SkeletonPink
      @SkeletonPink 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've seen it too

    • @acehilm.
      @acehilm. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Is it possible our perception of this world is merley an outlet of consiousness as whole. And that when we cease to exist in this plane, we cease to exist again until the universe dies and re-expads again; in the exact way it always have, to life the same life over again for eternity?

    • @Chim-iv6nh
      @Chim-iv6nh 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@acehilm. i wouldnt mind lol I'm going to make the most of my life, or the least, because that's already predestined, I will live my life to the fullest, i dont know why but that theory makes me very happy:)

    • @komododragon85
      @komododragon85 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Chim-iv6nh same here my friend. Gives us the chance to change mistakes. Therefore, i hope in our next life we ll be the best version of ourselves, the happiest version with our family and loved ones. What ever it is..i hope we are truly Happy

    • @mikepeterson5199
      @mikepeterson5199 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope not

  • @stevewright4576
    @stevewright4576 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wonderful, makes me appreciate each day, when we die there is no after, enjoy yourself, help others, when your time is up that's truly the end...

  • @pravisravindranaath4836
    @pravisravindranaath4836 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is the best ever insight that I have ever heard. Experiences of the blind, pure soul where thoughts and conflicts are restricted.

  • @chellebelle318
    @chellebelle318 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    RIP Jose 11/7/16

  • @olo3113
    @olo3113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Death is a transformation. Spirit is immortal

  • @jacobgonzales6830
    @jacobgonzales6830 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This makes a lot of sense and actually pretty comforting.. 😊

  • @kwakekamdivasi591
    @kwakekamdivasi591 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Wow! Alan, it's year three since I heard you for the first time, but you still blow me away. You just had this weird and beautiful way with words, it's priceless!

  • @whodaydreamer6249
    @whodaydreamer6249 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -Epicurus

  • @IamWAHID
    @IamWAHID 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    when an athiest dies:
    "wtf why am i still concious?"

    • @surfinmuso37
      @surfinmuso37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Athiest =an absence of belief in the existence of deities....or a lack of self delusion....or coming to terms with reality.
      It has little to do with this.

    • @IamWAHID
      @IamWAHID 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@surfinmuso37 Athiests believe that death is the end of everything. that we are a collection of materialistic elements which is somehow alive and thinking but after you die thats it. nothing more. blank.

    • @surfinmuso37
      @surfinmuso37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@IamWAHID No, sorry, u misunderstand. Atheist | Definition of Atheist by Merriam-Websterwww.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › atheist
      Atheist definition is - a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods : one who subscribes to or advocates atheism
      A-theist=no- god.
      The rest is just, like your opinion man.

    • @IamWAHID
      @IamWAHID 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@surfinmuso37 yep. thats the word meaning of athiest. but have you seen an atheist speak about life and death? not about gods or spirits.

    • @surfinmuso37
      @surfinmuso37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@IamWAHID no, it just means they don't believe in imaginary sky daddies

  • @mindstormtoys1165
    @mindstormtoys1165 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing truly amazing & utterly timeless! People will still listen to Alan Watts 500 years from now and this will still make perfect sense of the human existence.

  • @cheesesteak3377
    @cheesesteak3377 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i love these, so much they just make me realize how much everything matters, and makes everything seem so peaceful. It also makes me cry, but not for sadness, but for the thoughts that go through my mind as i listen and begin to think, harder and harder about what reality even is, what is love? i’m in love, but how can i feel such a strong connection with someone, how can i truly feel the way i do about this one person. It an uncontrolled feeling, love is. An unforgettable thing really, it makes us realize how strong our feelings can truly be.

  • @healingmelody112
    @healingmelody112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Whoever is reading this now, remember:
    You can achieve anything you can imagine. You are the light, that radiates love and compassion!
    Feel the abundance in your heart and be sure that you are not alone on this journey!
    Feel the power within and be the creator of your own reality!
    Blessings to all beings!
    Love and Light!

  • @6bmw
    @6bmw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i have learned to accept death i am not afraid of it in the slightest. i have been dead for infinity and am okay with starting a new life when i die. time is relative and it’s fascinating to learn about. that is why i got my degree as a theoretical physicist

  • @darkun3287
    @darkun3287 6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I'm afraid of what isn't there though.
    The void is the terrible part.

    • @FlipGz
      @FlipGz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      You are the void separation is an illusion

    • @dinurawthar8247
      @dinurawthar8247 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hy

    • @Nethescurial95
      @Nethescurial95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The void is God and where God resides. He has lain dreaming there since the beginning of time. Everything and everyone is a part of those dreams. When we die, we go back into the void and join another dream.

    • @leansephbishop4309
      @leansephbishop4309 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FlipGz define that more for me :)

    • @gabijasukyte238
      @gabijasukyte238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Void is peace if it's what AWAITs there , not care about this hello world would be best experience .

  • @michaelduarte8057
    @michaelduarte8057 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Listening to Alan Watts on his perspective of death makes me fear it less. Back to nothingness, back to what you were before you were born. Now that doesn’t sound so bad does it. 🥺

  • @qtchickn615
    @qtchickn615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had been thinking so much about death and our existence and the strangeness of it. How can something nonexistent suddenly exist and then become nonexistent again? This video made me feel better about the concept of reaching nonexistence.

  • @Kamabushi999
    @Kamabushi999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have listened to this so many times..
    it soothes me
    it calms me
    his voice and accent is very right.
    I never expected in the twilight of life to begin to get ready with the help of this man who has been dead what ? 47 yrs?
    its awesome....all who listen are so lucky

  • @arcadiosantos4924
    @arcadiosantos4924 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Death is gods one of gift to you he let's you rest after trying your hardest to live like everyone else

  • @ezrahambiliki4962
    @ezrahambiliki4962 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Death is somehow a continuation of where we stopped/paused, before landing on Earth. Just as one isn't able to remember their experience before Earth, so shall it be after Earth, memory wiped like machine, yet the spirit continues its journey of purpose beyond Earth. There's life after Death, though not the Earthly kind of life; more like a spiritual life. Another experience after this life is what awaits us all.What's exactly out there nobody knows, but am no pretty sure there's more to it than we've come to learn about it.

  • @smartin91
    @smartin91 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Goosebumps listening to this, I think of all the people I love & the hope that they are at peace.
    I think if the people who once graced this earth & left us to another part of the journey.
    It’s painful to think of death but this guy is incredible, with or without the music

  • @dios.9586
    @dios.9586 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have a really bad problem with coping with the thought of death. It keeps me up most nights because it always seems to somehow come into my thoughts and i just don’t know what to do about it, because I’m not really in control. Nothing really helps and I end up watching videos like this and it still doesn’t make it any easier.

  • @twitch-snowyy-tv6566
    @twitch-snowyy-tv6566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The Life don’t exist, the life is Death

  • @ProdyM82A1
    @ProdyM82A1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I have a friend, a girl, who is very intelligent and articulate, who was born blind and hasn’t the faintest idea what darkness is. The word means as little to her as the word light. So it is the same for you: you are not aware of darkness when you are asleep.
    If you went to sleep, into unconsciousness for always and always, it wouldn’t be at all like going into the dark; it wouldn’t be at all like being buried alive. As a matter of fact, it would be as if you had never existed at all! Not only you, but everything else as well. You would be in that state, as if you had never been. And, of course, there would be no problems, there would be no one to regret the loss of anything. You couldn’t even call it a tragedy because there would be no one to experience it as a tragedy. It would be a simple - nothing at all. Forever and for never. Because, not only would you have no future, you would also have no past and no present.

  • @ahmdkazd9435
    @ahmdkazd9435 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a soul .your existence is a blessing to all of us Alan .may God bless your soul forever.

  • @irishvikings
    @irishvikings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I truly understand this man, and if you think of it. Alan Watts is doing what he's saying right now. No regrets, no sorrow, no nothing like he's floating. Rest in piece Alan Watts....i wish I truly got to meet you.

  • @albertvillanueva9213
    @albertvillanueva9213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “Death is the oldest lie of humanity” Albert U.V

  • @mirtalks1406
    @mirtalks1406 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've always loved Alan watts and his husky voice ❤

  • @alvyarnob2454
    @alvyarnob2454 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It really makes me wonder about life. We are all here with or without a reason. Let's enjoy the life.

    • @stonearecool2645
      @stonearecool2645 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/uD4izuDMUQA/w-d-xo.html ye bro no reason

  • @ketwals2723
    @ketwals2723 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ich love that dream realm of non-existence...its pure peace and awsome bliss. I enter that dream-realm every night and love it or when I are in a meditative pure prestine state...its awwwwwe .
    Only a created I needs that physical I dream realm... .4 a short amound of time its fine...but death is always ur true Love...ur pure bliss and most rich...magically and delightful dreamer state where nothing is needed...no lack...no drama...no tension...no stupidity or such negativity exist in here...its a devine state...pure bliss and beauty in benevolence 4 all .Aum

  • @santanabanana843
    @santanabanana843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “If I’m dead, I am as if I never had been, then that’s the way I was before I was born”

  • @Varis1up
    @Varis1up 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "if the wrong man uses the right means, then the right means work in the wrong way." - Alan Watts

  • @ryansparrow2319
    @ryansparrow2319 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I could spend hours listening to his talks. There is something calming about his voice that counters the immense amount of perspectives and ideas he floods your mind with.

  • @brentonfantozzi4129
    @brentonfantozzi4129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We are perpetual emotional energy. And energy can never be destroyed, it can only transform.

  • @neerajvashisth191
    @neerajvashisth191 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If i born with out any hesitation
    So simply one day i die without any hesitation
    Love you Yogi alan watts
    Tear on my eyes

  • @TylerMckissack
    @TylerMckissack 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The moment I realized that there is nothing to be afraid of, I imagine is how Harry Potter felt when he realized he is a wizard.

  • @thatflightsimguy
    @thatflightsimguy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I lost my daughter during labour last month. This brought me some comfort. Thank you.

    • @MrJamiez
      @MrJamiez 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm very sorry to hear that! May she reset in peace. ❤️

  • @isabelhearts8453
    @isabelhearts8453 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Powerful. Honestly, I could listen to this again and fall asleep in peace, wake up feeling blessed 🦋

  • @samwilkinson2534
    @samwilkinson2534 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "It will be like you have never existed before" Thanks Alan really making me feel better.

  • @madness5373
    @madness5373 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This guy gets me in my feelings and that's impressive since I'm do numb to a point I don't feel any more shit man

  • @chrisrubino9289
    @chrisrubino9289 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a brilliant man,. Dr. Alan watts. So inspiring!! Thank you!!!

  • @cianpritchard1961
    @cianpritchard1961 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We all agree with Watts. And it doesn't worry me, because I know there are millions of people with the same mindset as him, and I.

  • @MynameJeffX
    @MynameJeffX 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Love the music

  • @itsJordaan
    @itsJordaan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +235

    Try listening to this when you're high.

    • @naturalisted1714
      @naturalisted1714 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bluelaade Watch my video "a Redefining of Reincarnation for a Scientific Age" th-cam.com/video/QtxMz0pFBrQ/w-d-xo.html
      Or "soulless reincarnation"

    • @brianlinville439
      @brianlinville439 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      You don't get it, listening to Alan Watts, is, the high.

    • @brandong3385
      @brandong3385 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Brian Linville Truth...

    • @MysterE991
      @MysterE991 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      always man

    • @bobwoods5017
      @bobwoods5017 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Mushrooms would be best...

  • @wearealljustclowns
    @wearealljustclowns 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    116k views and im the first like...i feel that the death aspect has still grasp on so many of you..the more you come to know death..the more life shines..the more peace wil enhance in your existence. see in detail more of what youve never seen..though weve never seen anything..play the game that says you have seen things..embrace existence in its entirety..and look harder with an open child like mind. unite with each other and share lessons that there is nothing to fear..lessons from tibet. the tibetan book of living and dying is a great teacher. meditate..contemplate..but realise we are already there..you just come to view it clearer..nothing to fear. #weareone

  • @jtmsl
    @jtmsl 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Alan watts takes me into battle for every event his words are so powerful that after i listen to him i feel as if i could take on the world