Alan Watts: Man is a Hoax - Being in the Way Ep. 20 - Hosted by Mark Watts
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- Sifting down behind the cultural myth of man as separate, Alan explores how we are all actually Earth, the Universe, and the Big Bang.
In this episode of Being in the Way, Alan takes us on a journey from childhood to adulthood, highlighting how we are trained into separation from a young age, and forced to focus on the never-arriving “future,” rather than being present in the moment. Through this lens, he further spelunks the “hoax of man” and offers insight into how this sense of ego identity creates tension and frustration.
This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.
In this episode Alan discusses:
How from childhood onward we are constantly preparing for something in the future, rather than being present for life
The culture’s division of work and play, and the confused idea that money can buy you pleasure
Growing up in society, identity, defining a person, and being a “genuine fake”
How the sense of ego creates tension, separation, alienation, and frustration
The inseparable connection of the polarity of self and other
The dawn of creation and how we are not actually separate from the Big Bang
The 19th-century myth that man is a fluke in an unintelligent, automatic universe
“Your actual self-what is finally and fundamentally you-is not a separate and lonely part of the world, but the real you is the world itself, everything that there is, expressing itself as this particular organism here and now.” - Alan Watts
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I'm 24 and I'm just now hearing this man for the first time at 6 in the mornin . Amazing feeling
Lol yeah I remember Alan Watts for the first time. Truly brilliant and funny. Namaste 🌄
You’re very fortunate you found him at the age 24
He's a word technician!!!
@@shigeo44 im 20 and found ram dass online when I was 18. Then Watts, then Eckhart tolle, then Jack kornfield and Trudy Goodman, then Charles Eisenstein, then Dr Zach bush. I think there is a whole new breed of young people engaged with spirituality and I am excited to find/form community with them. These concepts and ideas excite me even more then the stuff I learn at the university and I hope to combine the two somehow some day. Also always very happy to go through comments under talks like this to feel some connection and love
28, I apparently wake up at 6am every day now lol. Been listening to Alan Watts for a few weeks now, I’ve felt so educated
During my mastectomy, the surgeon put me on a breathing machine. I had the experience of not being able to breathe in, even though I was under anesthesia. I thought, "Guess this life is over. On to the next." And then I had a kind of NDE, I guess. We've all been here before, and we'll all be back. Don't forget to smile. Peace, happiness to all beings everywhere
One of the most life changing experiences I have ever had was having past-life hypnotic regression. It enabled me to lose my fear of death as nonexistence and view it as opening a door and passing through into another room.
Beautiful,don't forget to smile, thanks🙏🙏🙏.
@@DilbagSingh-sp2yp th-cam.com/video/cKaEzqR4tEk/w-d-xo.html
😊
Good thank you
I wish not to come back
Alan Watts is still changing lives long after his death
In more ways than we can fathom
Yes,helped me get back to what shrooms did back in 18/19. Amazing
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LSD and three words, "This Is It," the title of an Alan Watts book unexpectedly zapped me to experience The Ultimate Reality way back in 1971.
undeniable :)
Death?
What I cannot fathom is the fact that such great minds have existed within our time and we still confuse everything. Such a shame we are.
You are not the body and mind in the first place ,you are Eternal Spirit trapped in the body and have become identified with the body as your true self.
Meditation - separation observation- is the ancient practice of putting the body and mind to sleep ( like a computer in sleep mode ) but staying AWAKE and ALERT inside until you experience yourself as eternal Spirit.....again.❤
Man is REAL but the socially engineered mask is a hoax
You're able to do all these things By just doing it as Alan says because you are a very profound ACTUALITY not a nothingness. Putting all his logical fallacies aside, The thing that Alan Watts is alluding to that's not real is the socialization that poisoned people when the organic divine ego was degraded and displaced. In this way the synthetic culture cultivated by elites (Tavistock etc.) created egos that did not correspond to the essence, the organic being. A lot of pathology and confusion surely will result. Rather than point this crime out He continues their work of socialization of a new ego now in the spiritual eastern format. To be clear, since people don't seem to grasp this, In man There is an essence and there is a personality : the personality is the software that is supposed to conform and subordinate to the essence. The essence is the throne of consciousness and conscience, therefore it is divine or if you prefer cosmic. but what Alan does is throw the divine essence out together with the bath water, to give you the supposedly positive message that the elites also desire you to have: that you are nothing and that will solve all your problems. By extension, Be happy and own nothing. Apply your critical thinking to everything Alan is saying and eventually you'll see what the real problem is.
No I’m a lamp
One doesn't peer into the oven when baking a cake and half way through exclaim "Such a shame, this unfinished cake."
We're just not done yet ;)
Yeah but there are quite a few of us and instant mass communications are relatively new.
7 days ago I was guided by LSD and Shrooms through a Spiritual journey. I dug and dug through TH-cam to find this specific lecture/recording and eventually I did find bits and pieces of it along with other versions with compromised sound quality. A day later Mark and the team over at BHNN uploaded this beauty. There are no coincidences. This is much appreciated. 🙏
That’s a materialistic journey. A spiritual journey is consciousness working through YOU. No drugs will ever be involved with any sort of liberation/enlightenment. Namaste all
@Sierra Penner In your opinion
@@sierrapenner4805 Millions, including so-called primitive shamanistic societies, would beg to differ. In the West, psychedelics have kick-started ever-deepening spiritual journeys. My own personal feeling is that drugs can't definitively get you there (let's assume there is a 'there' for argument's sake), but do they have a role? Absolutely. Some are excellent at breaking through the crust of the 'reality' that we have constructed for ourselves.
I am more suspicious of dogma than I am of drugs 😉
@@sierrapenner4805-
I disagree. If it wasn't for LSD I might have never realized "This Is IT" - which is also a title of an Alan Watts book.
theres no spirituality in hallucination
Alan Watts was a gem and one of those rare intellectuals that were able to transcend their own cultural biases.
His nuances of understanding of the various faiths and ways of knowing entertain and fascinate. Thank you for publishing these recordings. They are butterfly wings stirring up understanding. :-)
Love the way your put that.
Wow! Lov'in it, Bro.Rowe, butterfly wings stirring up understanding! Did touch a nerve of JOY as this Papillon read thine comment! As does Alan & Mark, you seem to bring out the BEST in all of us! Shalom!
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He knows how to reach those who have no knowledge of the topics, and for that he is a great guide
Yes, it's also like he speaks at many levels at the same time. That's one reason that I listen to his talks many times over.
and for that only?
Absolutely and indeed.. most well said . I was a mere laman prior.. 😁
In my estimation, he is the greatest guide for that very reason - he makes the subject what it is: playful and fascinating and full of meaningful sustenance for anyone who's ever been conscious, even if one never has a cosmic experience.
@@thomasrutledge5941 I listened to "the game of life" today on repeat. And I used to listen to him more than a year ago and it just felt like I understood what he was saying but but without being able to explain it back. Feels nice to listen and finally fully understand it.
Alan watts and his prophetic voice was the sole soothsayer in my life when it was dark, painful and hopeless. Eventhough he is no more in this world. His fatherly nonchalant voice guides me and inspires me. Thank you for being the father i never had.
This is Watts' philosophy summed up in just a half hour. Beautiful! 👏👏👏👏
Yes
@@kbruff2010😢 I'm jrm😢 JJ
Thank you for putting your father's teachings up.. He has been the spiritual leadership I've needed to guide my spirit and soul threw this thing we call life. R.I.P DEAR TEACHER 11:11
I'm hearing this guy again and was wondering what this guy is like to people today...and it's 5am!.. first learned of Alan about 30 years ago: changed MY life. Glad to see it strikes you
alan watts is the very beginning of your spiritual journey. go deeper family, peace
Tomorrow never comes because the time of day is always Now.
Alan Watts is the man....still
Thank you for sharing this and all of the timeless information your father gave U.S. This information lives on in all of us, and must be shared by each person through our behavior and love for each other. Being that which you have understood is all that is asked. Become your authentic you is the all.🙏💜
As A Stranger of the Earth ….. such a beautiful interpretation…. Very interesting point to speak about ….🌞
Lsd and Alan watts are able to put into words what I can't.
Here and now happens to be with Allen Watts😊 Listening to his voice truly inspiring to his Knowledge.
I'm glad you Let your father do most of the talking now. Thank you.
One of the most beautiful videos I’ve seen!
This talk needs a billion views
TY Be Here Now. AW is one of my favorite mentors.
Good for you for finding him so young. You’re already ahead
Never heard of this channel. I made a song called “be here” so its funny this showed up. Great show.
Spoken like God,,,connecting the dots,,,Thank you for this.
Great stuff, I’m thinking of the Black Sabbath song Symptom of the Universe while I listen to this.
Black Sabbath is the G.O.A.T 🎸🎸🤘🤘 in my opinion
Same here
Your Father was is amazing, he has helped me see the real truth of life i feel so lucky to have found him, keep up the great work 🙌🏻👍🏻
I concur, he saved my life so many times , such a gift he was , I’m sure mark is so proud:)
I always told people that anyone with a personality is psychotic. A defined personality is like acting everyday
Good talk. Watts is pretty accurate in what he says in this, in my opinion.
Neautifuly and eloquently said.
brilliant, humorous, before HIS time.
STILL
I love this Man 💙🙏
I love this man!!!
Truly astounding.
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That was amazing and beautiful. ❤❤❤❤
Respect love and gratitude 🙏
Absolutely wonderful 😊
this is amazing ❤
This is a classic!
Love this man.
I've listened to several of these teachers of Eastern thought and I find watts to be the most helpful in understanding it from a western pov. Also I feel like he helps with the epistemology of philosophy rather than speak in riddles or bring in spiritual fluff. Anything "spiritual" he does say imo appears as a poetic expression on life. Where I hear others talk about breaking laws of physics like passing through solid objects or levitation, I don't hear such things from him. Maybe he has and I just haven't heard it yet, either way god bless everyone
He's my fav too, for all the reasons you mentioned. Watts has brought up paranormal powers before, and always immediately asks, "To what end?" I wish I had the quote at hand about Zen practitioners traditionally "not being all that impressed by such things," but alas - we need better ways of searching through hundreds of hours of audio recordings to find quotes. There's no "control + F" haha!
Watts' example of "dreaming any dream you want, every night" illustrates his (and Zen Buddhist) feeling on the matter of power/control, which is: if you were God, and you had the power to be anything you want, do anything you want, know anything you want, forever and ever and ever, wouldn't that get boring? What would you want? A surprise.
The development of skills, paranormal or otherwise, are great as long as you don't think they solve your existential problem.
Because skills are things that let you do and know, and PREDICT the future. Except fundamentally you don't want to predict the future (yes, we all want measures of stability). But fundamentally we also want surprise. We want story. We want NOT to know how it's gonna end, because every part of being a human and the human story is the tension / anxiety of working toward something without knowing for sure you'll be successful. And then, thus, the meaning/feeling of accomplishment that comes when you DO succeed (as compared to the times that you don't.)
The thing is, what we don't realize, is that we ALWAYS have surprise. Because we never know what we're going to think or feel next, nor do we ever control those things. "You don't control your thoughts, you don't control your feelings," was the Watts line I'd heard for over 10 years before it hit me viscerally about a month ago. I actually felt a measure of what he meant. We're not in control. Nothing is. "Neither fate, nor free will" said Watts in a conversation with Elliot Mintz (great interview on TH-cam).
No free will.
No one wants to talk about free will because the concept is so often overtaken by moral relativists who want to use the conversation to justify any action. And we don't want to hear that we're "not in control" - we immediately think we must be automatons and that's depressing. Except damnit, we don't choose anything. Just look at your thoughts. You don't choose them. Nor do you choose how anything makes you feel. And those two things (what you think of, and how that thing makes you feel) are the core of all conscious existence.
Yes, we have the feeling that we're choosing, but upon closer examination, what would 'to choose' be? Thinking about an option and seeing how it makes you feel, no? Except you don't choose how that option makes you feel. Yes, we learn, such that we feel differently about things over time and see the consequences of our actions. And there are always consequences, and we always have a conscience (even if it's not always correct). But we don't choose. I think the fallacy of 'choice' is at the heart of the human conundrum: a) we think we're in control, so we get resentful when suddenly life feels out of control... AND b) we get bored, thinking we're in control, not realizing every thought/feeling/action is actually a surprise.
When you realize you don't choose your thoughts, nor your feelings, you realize there's no 'you' doing anything at all. I think that's how the ego dies. But (and I've said this before), just writing it doesn't mean my ego dies. It doesn't work that way - you're not in control. None of us is.
And that's why Watts laughs kindly at supernatural powers.
Everything in what you said was bliss until god. Low capital was purposeful.
He had a brilliant mind and, crucially, the eloquence to relate his complex thoughts. Somehow he manages to be simultaneously straight-talking, as you allude to, and poetic. I'm so grateful his talks have been archived and shared.
What I've heard him say is (I'm paraphrasing), "We think we have a soul, a self, that can travel through walls yet that then begs the question, "How then can my soul/self move my arm?"
If levitation is indeed possible, then it wouldn't violate the laws of nature, because levitating would be something that happens in nature. The laws of physics would simply have to adapt, the same way it has always happened.
so nice to listen rich people telling you money it's not important
I knew a few wiggles in high school. Always with the pants sagging and the hop hop tapes.
I'm getting to the point now where I'm tired of being a slave to sexual energy. What is that, lower chakra? It's becoming more of a distraction now. Anyone else experience this in their journey? The whole thing seems empty to me. Just like materialism, it's so boring. There's literally nothing you could offer me in this world that I would want. I feel as though I've lived life so many freaking times. Hell, I've lived a thousand lives in one lifetime. Lol. It's like when you're thirsty and you reach for salt water. Unsatiated. Unsatisfied. Sex appears to be void of any significance other than procreation( obviously ), and temporary pleasure. It's child's play for the ego, just another trap to get caught in. I'm just venting here. Not denying any part of my humanity, I'm just bored with it. It's lost it's allure. Because at the other end of seduction, you're back where you started, still hungry. Like food or anything else that appeals to the senses.
Example of the matrix desensitizing human conscious reality FROM BIRTH in order to deceive creation/life making it seem less valuable than it really is. In turn they reinforce their own forms of measurement.
Hey brother, strong vent. I feel very similar energy. My relationship with sex and the energy it brings has been treated like something cheap and transactional. Between porn, dating apps, and hook-up culture I have become lost. Have done some research to see if I can get this energy and that piece of me back. I highly recommend getting the audiobook "Your Brain on Porn". That is if you think you may not like your relationship with it. As for humans, a long detox, followed by positive action everyday has started (I hope) to bring my soul back especially sexually. I mean a life with no intimacy is just gret to me. Hope this helps mate and may we all live for a full day.
@@thatsmymortgagebroker244 Appreciate your comment. Thank you! I think my negative association with sex goes back decades ago. I was exposed to sexuality alot as a kid, much more than anyone that age should. So I'm sure these events have influenced how I view sex, or at least the negative connotations surrounding it. I'm married now, but I feel very distracted by energy like this. Not by other women I mean. Just the dominating force that it's grown to be in my life. I feel like im being manipulated by biology. Lol. I'd rather not have a sex drive. Its just one more thought process that I have to make space for. Anyway, thanks for your honesty.
Yea mate, im sorry you had to go through that as a child. Our innocence is so unprotected and all we can do is stand by until we are old enough to protect ourselves. Dont give up, I also recommend psychedelic therapy. You may find solitude in the root of your pain by being able to go the core with a guided trip. If you ever need to chop it up just shoot me a dm. Have to keep our mental health in all aspects way up. The world needs good healed men.
I hear you brother
Love ❤️
I have "That Moment " quite often lately...
"Hey there, trape-tastic viewers! So, here I am, diving into the deep philosophical pool of Alan Watts' wisdom. It's like trying to balance on a tightrope while juggling existential questions. Just remember, if you fall off the trapeze of enlightenment, just laugh it off and embrace the cosmic circus of life. Let's keep soaring together, folks!"
can you share the intro music song ? stuck in my mind
I just took a drive down to the coast and had the "pleasure" of enjoying the riverside etc, without money i wouldn't have been able to get there
tomorrow is a very diffiuclt concept to comprehend as well as yesterday
Such a Topic …..Everything kind of grows at the moment for later but in invisible motive process to grow -with real disciplined-care acquired…. So true ….and important the feeling how to plant 😂Otherwise Consequences to Face -But Learn Learn Learn from -All -😂 For Your Own Whole …..🌞
My gran wrote something down it said “when I thought tomorrow wouldn’t come, it’s yesterday”
Alan watts would be great at reading the Mr men books. he has a voice just like Arther lowe. It's the first thing i thought of when i heard his voice.
Namaste 🙏 thankyou God bless 🙌 🙏 💖 ❤️ ✨️ all😊
1,000’s of people love to listen to Alan. I do too. For me his talks simply confirm much that I have realised myself. However, it must be understood that he is simply a master of the English language and often a master of entertaining his listeners, but he was not living like the Person he endorsed to be the living incarnation of God, Adi Da Samraj. He said of Adi Da, “It is obvious, from all sorts of subtle details, that He knows what IT’s about, …a rare being.” If you wish to be truly enlightened then listen to Adi Da’s Teachings aswell. Thank you 😊
bhaaaaaaa
Well, "but he was not living like the Person he endorsed to be the living incarnation of God," First off, god should be spelled with a small G. Secondly, there is no necessity to live in a way that you think is correct. Once one understands the Ultimate Reality one realizes there is no special or good way to be. You're just trying to present yourself as separate. You aren't.
At least Adi Da practiced what he preached for others to practice, i.e. total and 100% devotion to Adi Da's every want and need. There's something to be said for consistency! Except for re-editing his books... in that sense he was a precursor to the way we handle online information, in the sense that it's not "set in stone" or even on paper anymore... today, the books could be fluid in the service of Adi Da's needs at that moment. But he did what he could with the technology of the day. Owning a publishing company, he did some good work. I've got a Dawn Horse edition of the Keith Dowman translation Divine Madman. They added some introductory material and illustrations, but you could take those or leave them. The personality cult... eh, it didn't seem like utopia, from a distance at least. The Tibetan Buddhists teach compassion training before the bed and graveyard stuff, and for good reason!
I don't. I heard a little from him and what he says is in no way original or profound.
I did obey - (concerning responsibilities being disciplined performed )..what made sense to obey …. But exactly never ever obeyed ….And in the mind always what it brings today for todays look and season and atmospheric states to change newly …..🌞
Todays living experience itself is a preparation for any next coming ….so be warm and bright today and live as a human being with all the packaging……🌞
Why am I listening to this… deep inside I know this is so true! Reality is so very depressing 😢
Hi, I’m interested in knowing what you found depressing?
Simply brilliant. Thank you for sharing 🙏
Everyone is on their way, they just don't realize it yet
Brilliant !
24:56 Sometimes metaphors can be incorrect but for the correct reason. We are all a natural part of the one energy that exist in and of everything we experience both internally, our minds and externally through senses. That can't be a result of a big bang simply because it explains nothing, and in a world where something exists anywhere we look at any scale or frame of reference it does.
If the world around us we see hear etc. came into existence by a big bang, then how does that expanding universe 1. Contain a vacuum? 2. What is still driving or pushing outward the expansion of the universe if it contains vacuum? The supposed "red shift" shows we are center and not all points moving away from center. A physical universe that follows the laws of force and motion, pressure and density, electromagnetism etc. would not drive expansion it would withdraw expansion.
Dont get me wrong I love Alan Watts talks. I've heard every one I could find multiples of times, they have greatly helped me with understanding much of the world and feeling ok about life and death. Someday we shall see if it helped.
Thank you
Thank goodness that women are ingenious!!!
10:43 THE WORD PERSON ,,,PERSONA THE MASK... etc.
Been listening to Alan Watts for about 8 months now @ 35 years. Very fascinating man. Really enjoy listening to his philosophy and words on all of his topics. The waking up app has a ton of sessions as well and is free if you email them.
All well and good...how does it pay my mortgage or any other bills for that matter?
What we are looking at is a technological shortfall .
Are we happier "when people identify us by our "social self"? Does it help make the feelin lighter?
EPIC MIND 😀🙏
3:04 my new ringtone…..
Alan was probably high when making podcasts, cause he only makes sense to me when I’m high try it
The end reminds me of a Cheech and Chong scene in up in smoke. “You feel better man”? Yeah says Cheech and then Chong screams at him and Cheech says why did you do that? That’s what the music at the end does.
amen x 100
Gracias!!
00:00:09 ♪ SYNDROME³
👍 The man of truth is ridden to All is One!
H.P.Lovecraft.
I wrote this about a month ago on a different Alan Watts video. It's gotten a lot of good feedback, and so I'm going to post it here because you may enjoy it:
The secret can be found by looking at the characteristics of your life so far (and Watts has said this). Look at your own mind. Look how it works.
Bam! There's a thought.
Bam! Another thought, perhaps contradicting the first.
And feelings (sensations in the body) that arise with those thoughts.
The secret: you've chosen precisely zero of any of those things. They just come into your mind and body.
Sit with that and you’ll realize actually you have no control. It's what Schopenhauer said - your desires, they're free. But only in the sense that they seem to be under no one's control, not even yours. You don't choose what you prefer. You just prefer.
And so it's not that you're under the control of others or the universe (determinism), it's that 'free will' is an illusion. Choice is an illusion. Not just for you, but for anything.
How do you choose? You think about something and see how it makes you feel, right? But you don't choose how it makes you feel. How would you choose your thoughts? By thinking of one and seeing how it makes you feel.
But this isn’t a trap, because a) we never know what we’ll think of next, nor how anything will make us feel the next time around, and b) we DO learn.
So, if you prefer logical, pragmatic thoughts, it's likely because you’ve learned that the consequences of logic and pragmatism tend to FEEL better to you. And thus our preferences change and we are able to see past our own noses and predict the consequences of our actions.
And there are always consequences, even if it's just the voice inside that says "That was a good thing you did," or "Shame on you." That voice never goes away (to all the silly moral relativist children about to pipe in). But we don't choose.
Yet our unwillingness to feel things (and to stay in our brains and think instead) seems to be what holds us up. Thankfully we can learn to feel things. To put our focus on body sensations (anxiety is the main one) and feel them. Try it. Just for a few moments.
Feel where you feel anxious in your body. Feel the muscles there, tight. Just feel them, and they'll start to relax. Points of tension seem to relax to the extent that you are willing to feel them. Be patient - it takes a few moments of holding concentration. And once relaxed, the tensions often come back.
So it’s not precisely “getting them relaxed” that’s the point, because that suggests there’s an end goal (some state of perfect relaxation). I don’t think so. Rather, the goal seems more simply to dive in, over and over, and feel completely the sensations that are emerging. It’s the feeling-without-resisting that begins to truly calm the mind, because you realize “Hey, I CAN feel this” - that thing you’ve been resisting. It’s simple, I know. Now try it again for longer.
You’ll realize that you have an innate fear of feeling those pockets of anxiety you find. But also that it’s the fear of feeling the anxiety that IS the anxiety. And that's what anxiety is. The fear of feeling.
So you clench. And that clenching stops you from being the relaxed, playful human you can be. It's actually you not feeling life, preferring to keep thinking about how things ‘should be’ or how you ‘should feel.’ Again the secret is just to feel whatever is happening right now.
So if that’s you chastising yourself because you can’t seem to do what I’m suggesting, then feel the chastise-ness. Feel what that emotion does in your body. The clench. The buzz. The tension. The tingle. Whatever it is, feeling the clench is what unclenches it.
Unclenching doesn’t mean you lose your conscience. You still value what you value, you simply see more relaxed, fun ways to get there. It’s the difference between being offered drugs and lashing out with some sort of implicit or explicit “How dare you offer that trash to me,” versus smiling and saying, “No thanks, but thanks for thinking of me.” Conversely, in the drug-offering scenario, unclenching also means allowing yourself to feel that first emotion (the emotion of ‘how dare you’) if that’s what courses through you in that moment.
So put your imaginary mental cursor on body sensations as often as you can remember to. I learned to do this for singing, but I’ve realized the willingness to feel can be cultivated in other parts of life, too. While walking. While talking to people. While working. Just feel, and see how you start to handle each part of your life.
If you forget (you realize you’ve been caught up in some inner story for minutes or hours) it's ok - you don't choose your thoughts! But you DO learn, so have faith that you can learn to do this. Do it lots, and watch how your brain starts to heal itself in the calm, in its ability to feel again and not run from everything.
Imagine being a person who could valiantly feel every emotion. It’s a different kind of bravery, isn’t it? Not ‘in control of the world,’ and not even ‘in control of oneself’ (as much as you want to be), but simply honest. “Here’s the sensation I’m having now.” Notice I don’t call them emotions, because the word ‘emotion’ seems to add the weight of the conceptual label you’ve given them - ‘sorrow,’ ‘anxiety,’ ‘anger’ - and the idea of the emotion gets in the way of you feeling the body sensation that it brings.
And again, I’m certainly NOT suggesting we act on every emotion or that any given emotion is ‘justified.’ Rather, it’s what’s happening in your body right now and you can choose to clench against it or not.
Just feel what you’re shown. It’s surrender. It’s faith.
You know it's your fear of feeling that's in your way, that makes you clench, and that makes you react with hostility to the world around you. Our devils are our fears of feeling and the egos that arise by thinking we're in control. Except we’re not in control - nothing is. But we can learn.
And feeling the body sensations (the physical act of surrender and having faith) seems to be a secret no one quite remembers.
I think it could be broken down lto some things I've heard Alan Watts say: Is growing my hair and nails, breathing my lungs, beating my heart, circulating my blood, something that is happening to me or something that I'm doing?
Do you have a tl:dr summary?
@@lookhereboy8638 tl:dr...start reading and if I don't hold your interest, then stop :)
Are you still the actor playing a part Even when the play is over?
@@marksoffian5568 Thank you for the question. Truth is, I have no idea. My guess, if I have to guess, is there's something amazing (but perhaps temporary) afterward, in the same vein of how 'waking up' is the feeling of something amazing here, now. What that 'something' is (heaven, etc), what experience could even be when your body is gone, I have no clue. And if we're reborn, well, that's nice to believe now, but it doesn't change anything much, in the sense that none of us actually knows who we were in previous lives.
But life is now, here, this. The less we think about the future and what's to come, the more we realize that the magic we're looking for is here and now too. But again, you can't force yourself to see or feel any of that.
Rather, if you can teach yourself to, over and over, place your mental cursor and feel anxiety in your body (in the same way you can get the tip of your finger to buzz just by thinking about it for long enough) and if you do this trick while doing something else you enjoy (for me, it's singing), you can lure yourself into flow state (even just for a few moments). My head suddenly feels clear, the task becomes effortless but more meaningful than ever, and things 'make sense.' And, in the words of the Tao, you become "kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king."
It's some combination of feelings of "Oh, THIS is what it's all about," and "Wow, if this is what it's all about, this is very, very worth it."
It's feeling the wonder that's hidden in the world, and knowing that this process we're part of is right, even all the time we spend NOT feeling it.
I call it 'touching the magic.'
It may only be for a few moments, even a few seconds, but it's so rich that you can't help but give in to the fact that yes, you just experienced something very different, and that you don't even need it again right away - knowing it's there is enough.
I only say all this because if you can start to feel it now, life becomes about cultivating that feeling (touching the magic), but not in a manic or obsessive way. Rather, you know it's there, you know you need to experience it from time to time, and you start worrying less about what may 'come next,' existentially.
And it all seems to come from something very simple - your willingness to feel things now.
He gets it.
As a parent, I was glad when my kids went to school. It gave me a break and it was free childcare. The thing is, what do we replace the human progression through life with? Yes, Watts' observation of life are true, but he offers no replacement or a better way. He spent his life mocking humanity from a point of privilege. Why did he believe his diatribes were more valuable than any other educated and reasoning persons rants? He stated the obvious far too much and isn't really addressing intelligent minds. The audience he needs to address are too stupid to follow his thoughts, while the rest of us wallow in his comforting upper class English accent, without really listening to him at all. It's a mish mash of thoughts, delivered with an annoying arrogance. I can't abide him personally.
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I Never Herd Of Thiz Man But He Speaking Real Logic.Remindz Me Of George Carlin But Not Az Raw
Wish I had a father like you. Wish I had a father.
This what my boss is doing . ...he promised to teach me all the skills...but so far he only teach a little....it's been a yr and half
the world's all-time champion airhead.
6Jun 2003 Pls review 30 minutes into the presentation Christians are now, Screaming in the streets."
Thumbs up for this lecturerer and thumbs down on lies proof it
If Van Morrison approves then I'm in
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It takes one to know one
I CANT STOP LAUGHING. I CANT STOP HOWLING AT THE MOON STARING BACK AT ME !?!? silly silly little sapes running round Henny Penny the sky is falling. IM DYING WITH LAUGHTER AT ALL OF YOU. go get em. Bully for you. Tally Ho
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This doesn't make sense to someone who starts off poor..... they experience life from childhood, with all the disadvantages that lie ahead.... and still thrive, it's the ones who graduate that takes everything from the poor to make themselves rich.
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Of course money buys pleasures. With money one buys oneself a good coat to protect oneself against the cold. Actually I once was a homeless and went into a fish and chip (fries in the USA) shop and asked for chips, but told him I had no money. I was told, "no money no chips". Of course we need money and money does buy pleasures.
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Not a stranger of the earth. I'm a symptom of the universe.
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When idea properly used … noun verb connection father mother connection…. Like In the Nature - intelligence … in animalistic world- not very familiar intelligence how they communicate in the air signals ( the whole instinctive science in their memory ..)…😂what and how in Human Higher Mind Communication……?….Idea in Action….in some sense ….🌞
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