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My brother always told me, “there are no mistakes to be made in music. You always keep going with it, no matter what you do, just keep going with it.” It’s completely true.
1:55 Guilt is destructive emotion. People take symbolic methods of expiation instead of taking practical steps. You lick your wounded ego. 5:31 Freedom is freedom to make mistakes, and be a fool! Then don't do it again, or do it less often! Thanks Alan. 25 September 2023.🦋🦋🦋🌻🌻🌻🌻🌹🌹🌹🌹
It is really important to make mistakes in Art. As an Art Teacher I was always rescuing screwed up art work and insisting it was kept. Later on when the student did work they were really proud of, I'd refer to their rejected work. If they hadn't made that 'mistake', they wouldn't have discovered this new work they were proud of. This was so obvious, kids stopped throwing work out. This is how we learn to have confidence in our own processes. Our work is individual to each, and that is where we must be brave.
I did the best I could at the moment. I acted the best I could based on my traumas and programming as I could at the time. No guilt as I acted as I did because I couldn't have acted any other way at that moment. Why? It's because it's how I acted. If you can pick up what I put down than guilt does not exist 🙏😇🤗🦋❤️❣️
I think people usually do their best from the level of consciousness they’re at and under their unique challenging often severely so circumstances. So we all make mistakes and act terribly at times and God/The Divine Loves us Unconditionally and forgives us completely because they understand us completely and why we did what we did. We must learn to Love and forgive ourselves and others in the same way.
I love how his mind is able to articulate basic human behavior and actions in a way that closes the gap of the past and condenses it into just listening to him Absolutely beautiful
This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my TH-cam channel 8 months ago about self development. Now I have 778 subs and > 300 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.
I remember one of the last statements my ex wife threw at me was. I don't want to work all my life I want to relax and live. Indicating that I am not able to provide enough for her to do so. Money sadly is power and respect to most.
I do this excercise sometimes. I did a mistake. A huge one. That led me here wherever this is. *This* by no standard is good. Mainly because of past one huge mistake mentioned earlier. So I think and wonder sometimes - if i could go back and not do that one mistake would I be okay even though it means i wouldnt be"here" even though it's not perfect "here" . So far for almost two decades answer always been no. Funny and excruciatingly annoying.
@@neelroy2918 I have thought about “what ifs”, everyone does. This isn’t a bad thing to reflect. I fell into a trap with it tho. I let it consume me with regret. It destroyed me twice. All those lessons are the measure of my life now. I have examined my life down to the very second, that things would have been different, I know in my heart the way things were supposed to go and were planned for me. All conditions have to be perfect for an angel to kiss an elf but those conditions can never stand the test of time. It just means that the Elf and the angel will always have that memory of that time, when all conditions were perfect.
If you learn and grow beyond your mistakes, and help others to grow beyond theirs as a result, you have turned the mistake into something decisively better, or to good, or totally remedied a situation. So healthy growth finally occurred, instead of a wilted wasteland of mistakes.
Interestingly, this video popped up while I was pondering a "mistake" from many years ago, that I may have to face again soon. I need to ponder this, maybe learn.
My band director always told us "If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud." Meaning don't be so afraid of making a mistake that you're barely playing.
The only way to eternal life is through God's blameless son Jesus who died for our sins. Believe, repent turn away from sins and get baptised. Be not deceived by any other incorrect teachings or beliefs. Please read bible book Luke for full salvation details
For me the biggest challange in regards to finding a vocation has been that if I experience that I get too good too fast at something, I almost immediately lose interest in it. I can definitely see though how learning to play and make mistakes and accepting those would benefit me greatly...
When you are conscious guilt is a detriment to your awakening and healing. When you are unconscious no guilt or remorse fuels the unconscious behaviour.
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When you act according to society. You will be controlled and manipulated by others. When you finally have enough. You stop caring and beginning to see how they do things. Because society has corrupted the mind to think that their way is the only way and therefore it is easier to control the masses. Never feel guilty and let others reveal what they are to because they do not see what you see. I feel sorry for those people still believing blindly. I can see the truth.
@@bellavia5 We and animals alike, share the same barbaric instinct of survival deep within, but (some) humans have learned or better say grown towards a common (consciousness) understanding that it is important to be somewhat civilised... unfortunately, its like a delicate balance between our primal instincts and the societal structures, like a house of cards, one build upon layers and layers of common understanding and education to sustain its stability. Without shared values it (the card house) will collaps into dictatorship of the strongest without any common sense or reason. I know this sounds dark, also I understand what you meant with what you brought up, still, it is both wrong and right, just ask your loving sweet cat which is sitting on your lap what she did last night when she was outside all night,... People should know better, but we all turn a blind eye when its not happening in front of our doorstep. While we may have developed complex social structures and moral codes, we are not immune to the impulses of survival and self-preservation. In a rather naive way, we often turn a blind eye to suffering and injustice when it doesn't directly affect us. It's a human failing that we must constantly strive to overcome, but don't. The darker side of human nature that can emerge in the absence of social constraints, racism, homophobia and a lack towards respecting animals and elderly people are highlighting signals of a crumbling card house. Our collective responsibility lies in the well-being and safety of others whilst keeping in mind the complexities of societal dynamics, like a reminder that civilisation is an ongoing project, requiring constant vigilance and effort to uphold the values we cherish. We may strive for civility, yet often turn a blind eye to injustices happening elsewhere, hence, we are still fallible beings. It's a complex and multifaceted issue, with no easy answers. But perhaps by acknowledging these darker aspects of our nature, we can better understand the challenges we face and work towards a more just and equitable society and world. Civilisation is not a static state, but an ongoing process requiring constant vigilance and effort. We must continuously challenge ourselves to confront our own biases and prejudices, and to actively work towards a more just and equitable world. Therefore we should have people, not politicians, but actual humans beings that think work develop and reason beyond the greed reach of corporations and those well known hate fabrics which push their bestseller books and indoctrination's down our throats and minds like malware right after we had our first grasp of air at birth. We need minds rather than political leaders who are willing to listen, learn, and evolve, rather than clinging to outdated ideologies or serving the interests of the few. The future of our or any civilisation for that matter rests and depends on our willingness to confront the darker aspects of ourselves and strive for a better future ALL together. To weed or carefully filter out those who inflict trauma is the only thing which should be focused upon, other than that, same trauma will reach our own doorstep eventually, just so to become animals alike once again.... Do over think it, lol, this isn't personally addressed to you Bellavia, ❤
@@serpenteve Animals, lack the capacity for moral reasoning, therefore are not seen as capable of sinning.... but in reality, this view is wrong and not justified as such, its based upon an old concept. Just like people (programmed) in clinging to a deteriorating Bible concept of Jesus, whilst they are them, themselves already what the wish, seek, fear, submit and follow into eternity, just like an obedient blind soldier on the battlefield, lost in confusion of what is. Anyways, most mammals and primates have proven this to be wrong already... The traditional view that morality is solely a human domain is somewhat no valid any longer... It raises (ethical) questions about our use (consumption) of animals for food, entertainment, and (monkey, rat) research. It also invites us to reconsider our relationship with the natural world and our place within it....❤
I appreciate Alan Watts. Love his voice. Love his wisdom. I disagree with him that people are "absurd" for working for money. It is easy for someone of his caliber to say such a thing -- someone who rubbed elbows with affluent people all his life -- someone who was born with an extremely flexible intellect which allowed him to spend his life tickling the ears (hence loosening the purse strings) of upper class spiritual aspirants. Again, love Alan Watts. Really do. Just hate what he said there.
Yeah, must be nice to be able to follow your passion without becoming homeless and hungry. I like to think he meant the system that forces people to work for money to keep themselves and their families alive is absurd.
@@boembo6627 For sure, my friend. That would be nice. I've had to work my whole life. It's what I've known. Alan Watts means a great deal to me. He's helped so many people, even after and beyond his passing in the 1970s. Just hearing him speak has been a great comfort to me over the years. The comment he made in this lecture just rubbed me the wrong way. But... perhaps your interpretation is correct. Even if he did mean it the way I originally thought, he still was a good-hearted human with so much wisdom to share. I'm always grateful to him. Grateful to you, too, friend. Peace
I think maybe it is to follow a passion that you know may bring an added value in people’s life but at the same time give you that everyday purpose that you want to get better because you are just so much passionate about it. I have always been amazed by speakers like him, tony robbins , Jordan Peterson etc who have managed to turn those lectures or small talks into big industry. But despite the money they have made you can always sense behind their voice their passion, their search of knowledge and above all the added value they have brought in many people life
I don't think he meant it in a king of moralistic way. He wasn't trying to lay another guilt trip on you. I think everyone can see the absurd in working just for money. Yes, you need money to live but even if you don't follow your passion and can make a living out of it you can start to see work as play. So you don't wait all day for getting back home and never living in the present moment, the only moment.
1:05 Purpose of making money, you're absurd. 2:04 Feeling guilty. 2:53 Walt always admired animals, because they do not lie awake at night and weep for their sins. 5:20 Freedom means, the freedom to make mistakes and damn fool. But, simply don't do it again.
Sometimes you have to take work purely for the money to pay the bills and feed and cloth yourself, you don’t have to like what you do, just do it properly to earn your pay, not everyone is lucky enough to have a vocation
He said the only way you can learn is by making mistakes, yet I can learn plenty of things without making mistakes, as equally as I can learn from analysing my mistakes and figuring out how to do better. And he's missing a crucial element that leads him to imo incorrectly judge guilt as the problem. What he didn't address was one's response to feeling shame or guilt...for that's the issue. Guilt and shame are part of one's morality. It's the warning system that alerts you about behaviour that goes against your moral code of conduct. it's a natural response to when you stuff up, according to your own code. Being condemned or ridiculed by others that exasperates guilt and shame is another issue of itself (though related of course). If you're overwhelmed and immobilised by guilt and shame, that's due to how you responded to your own built-in warning system. Instead of accepting the appropriate sensations of guilt or shame for when you make a mistake or do something you judge as wrong, and rationally, without self-condemnation, figure out how you did wrong and work on changing your attitude-behavior towards self-improvement...you instead only dwell on those thoughts and feelings, thus engage in self-condemnation, which only intensifies these sensations and thoughts, while doing nothing about self-improvement. As for the thumbnail claim: "why you should never feel guilty" So I should never feel guilty when I steal, drink drive that results in killing others, tell lies that causes others to suffer, cheat in order to win a competition? Guilt and shame are not a problem to be removed from one's being, the problem is how one responds to them.
Animals don’t choose good or evil, but humans make a conscious decision to choose good or evil and that’s the difference. So, when a person chooses evil over good then the conscience is wounded, it suffers.
We are all trying to survive if you have guilt feel it deeply, it hurts so like jabing your finger with a pin it is not pleasant? The pain reminds you not to repeat the process.learn from your mistakes and then forgive yourself let it go.
A dangerous message really so even if we wrong someone no guilt? Irresponsible and no accountability. Sure we can learn and grow from it but also guilt towards a wrong we did is part of being a decent human being isnt it?
Many people don't feel guilty. Only because they are deficient of true compassion and only true compassion will know if your guilty. Ah, but when your dead, that is a different story. Suddenly all your guilt and Regret, will gang up on you. This is your true nature and can not be avoided, ever.
I really don't know what to think about individuals who have never had to work hard for money to feed their family and themselves, and then make fun of those who do. Sometimes I think Allan Watts is just of one of those good and "sonorous" speakers who have read lots of books written by actually wise people. One thing is sure: I don't like his stiff sense of humour. "If you work for money, you salivate over bank notes, which makes you a Pavlov's dog salivating over the wrong bell hahaha!" I really thought this video was going to give me a hint about how not to feel guilty. It's quite the opposite.
Here's the issue, though. Money is nothing more than a tool, like a hammer you use. Really think about it for a minute....Humanity at large is controlled by this small piece of paper. This small piece of paper dictates who has "everything they want" and who doesn't. We are conditioned to constantly chase this piece of paper in hopes that it will bring us something better or so we can feel better about ourselves. You don't need to read any books in order to understand this simple game.
Alan Watts is basically saying that if you are happy with yourself and what you are doing, the money will come. Similar to how so many people find the person who they spend the rest of their lives with without putting in much effort.
I agree with comments here that Alan Watts is smug -- especially with his comment that if you work for money you are "absurd". Privileged Brit. BUT his comments here about guilt are helpful. It is a state of mind that keeps you stuck.
Guilt is a destructive emotion, and that’s all that it is. It doesn’t remind you of “what to do” and it doesn’t show you “what to do,” all it is able to do is degrade and degenerate. It is a blackhole and it’s unequivocally unnecessary and destructive.
No worries. No guilt here, not really. Eastern philosophies really made me more serene and accepting, of myself, others, situations and life in general. I'm not the same as i was 5-6 years ago. Alan Watts is partly responsible for that. Love him
Dogen-zenji said,' 'Shoshaku jushaku.'' Shaku generally means "mistake" or "wrong." Shoshaku jushaku means "to succeed wrong with wrong," or one continuous mistake. According to Dogen, one continuous mistake can also be Zen. A Zen master's life could be said to be so many years of shoshaku jushaku. This means so many years of one single-minded effort. We say, "A good father is not a good father." Do you understand? One who thinks he is a good father is not a good father; one who thinks he is a good husband is not a good husband. One who thinks he is one of the worst hus-bands may be a good one if he is always trying to be a good husband with a single-hearted effort
At about 1:20, I don't know a single normal, average person that works with the end goal of money. Maybe the extreme wealthy or others close to that do. But the average, normal person working a job may appear at a superficial level to have an end goal of money, but in reality the goal is actually much deeper. But it requires you to look deeper that the superficial level. Now there are greedy people out there, whose sole purpose maybe is to have lots of money, but I have rarely encountered such people, and rarely among the average man/woman. And those that profess their goal to be money, are often just inarticulate about what their real goals are.
Love the video but I have to work for money to pay the bills. I never had Alan's talent to have a vocation. P. S. I once had a girlfriend who loved rolling about naked on £10 notes. She was the best teacher I ever met for saving money. The days of being young on winter nights in front of the fire with hearthrug pie as a nightcap. 😊
@@felixmoyoedonmi English isn't my main language so I don't understand when you say in present tense that even Alan has to work because as I understand it, he's been dead for several decades assuming several means 3 or 4. Have you developed the technology to make the dead work in your country? How do you stop them rotting. I have so many questions to ask you. My real name is Borislav
@martynrawlins8050 please understand, mate, that there is no past or future. Everything is incorporated into an eternal now. Every action is a play of the mind. One's birth or death, success or failure, laughter or cry, pleasure or pain. All actions are a play of the mind in an everlasting NOW. It is EXISTENCE/CONSCIOUSNESS playing these beautiful games. It is all a play.
@@felixmoyoedonmi Yes, I fully understand that the deepest spiritual level is a oneness in timelessness or eternal now but we come to Earth plane existence to gain experience where time comes into being, necessitating a language of past present and future. These are the inescapable conditions of this material planet and many others like it. As a further consequence here we can not just communicate in the now. True enough now is the only reality. But to speak it constantly would probably result in a diagnosis of dementia which would inevitably result further in loss of freedom and under constant observation. This in turn would be detrimental to existence on this Earth plane of existence. I thank my friend for allowing me to use his phone to gain further knowledge of English.
@@martynrawlins8050wow, you have such a humble ego! you must be the only one who truly gets what Alan is teaching! also very mature humor, I'm interested
We do not agree because guilt teaches us when we are wrong, it teaches us what is good and what is not, what is sin and what is virtue. To never feel guilty is to ignore the morality of life and the consequences born from one's own actions. To never feel guilty means to never question one's wrongdoings and prevents one to become a better person towards other living things. To never feel guilty leads to evermore sin and wrongdoings (with evermore negative consequences to others), to evermore corruption of the spirit in the mind and evermore suppression of the soul within the heart. This does not mean that one should let one's guilt dominate one's life because that ALSO leads to negative consequences to one's own self (and others), but guilt leads to repentance and subsequently to a change and betterment of one's wrongs and sins. It's not for nothing that ancient texts and beliefs have spoke of this for ten thousand years. If we lose our morals, we relinquish our soul and we damn our spirit throughout the remainder of our evolution. The fact we have the ability to feel guilty in the first place should NEVER be ignored but realized as a necessity of life, just like feeling virtue, joy and happiness. No dear ppl, one should practice BALANCE between guilt and overcoming it. Because guilt is there to have us "overcome" our own wrongs and sins. To turn our back to guilt is to turn our backs to God and what He gave us to struggle through the fields of life (AND death).
So, in other words. Do whatever you feel like regardless of whether it's good or bad or who you hurt in the process because guilt is just a destructive, egotistical emotion anyway...
People who act that way are usually the ones who already don’t feel any guilt. I think this message is for people with a good conscience who are more likely to be hung up on guilt
People who had a difficult childhood, especially those who never had their emotional needs met are prone to limerence. The reason is because we were always prone to imagining a parallel reality, a whole world of fantasies we could escape to. Fantasies have always been a safer world for us than the real one, so our mind is already used to this dynamic (it's basically like 'muscle memory'). When something triggers this dynamic, it's like opening a portal to our safe fantasy world, and as destructive as it is, we are used to actually loving it... That being said, my soul is brutally violently viciously maliciously raped and has been my whole life I am desperate to die REMINDER TO SELF: FEAR is a bully. If you try to avoid him, reason with him, appease him, beg him, he will kick the shit out of you and ruin your life day after day, until you don't have a life no more. But... If you start looking him in the eye and saying "FUCK YOU, do your worst, I can take it" and you mean it... He may beat you once or twice but after a while, he'll let you be. You might even become friends over time. ALSO, You must not be afraid of playing the wrong damn notes. Just forget it! just play the whole damn thing wrong, if you must! But for the love of God... PLAY!
In the right context, these words could have a positive meaning, but in general it is justifying nonchalant attitude towards self growth and imperviousness to accountability
The only counselling I would take from an alcoholic like Watts would be to give up drinking. He really was in no position to dispense advice on anything else.
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You should feel guilty.
You've been given paradise. And you've turned it into hell.
"You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!"
Just Keep Playing!
Wow. Thanks all.
Ive stopped playing and trying to find motivation to start again
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@@innernouterme too. It’s paralyzing
David Bowie said that if you hear a mistake once, it is a mistake....if you hear it three times, it is an arrangement. I love that.
David Bowie is not always right in his thinking just like every one else he made mistake
She never said David bowie was right about anything.. she simply stated something he said that she liked.. learn to read
I think Jimmy Page said something similar about his guitar soloing.
My mother used to say that the 11th commandment is, "Thow shalt not "should" thyself."
Feeling guilty about feeling guilty! I needed to hear this
I can relate!
@@AllThingsFilm1 same here
My brother always told me, “there are no mistakes to be made in music. You always keep going with it, no matter what you do, just keep going with it.” It’s completely true.
1:55
Guilt is destructive emotion.
People take symbolic methods of expiation instead of taking practical steps.
You lick your wounded ego.
5:31
Freedom is freedom to make mistakes, and be a fool!
Then don't do it again, or do it less often!
Thanks Alan. 25 September 2023.🦋🦋🦋🌻🌻🌻🌻🌹🌹🌹🌹
It is really important to make mistakes in Art. As an Art Teacher I was always rescuing screwed up art work and insisting it was kept. Later on when the student did work they were really proud of, I'd refer to their rejected work. If they hadn't made that 'mistake', they wouldn't have discovered this new work they were proud of. This was so obvious, kids stopped throwing work out. This is how we learn to have confidence in our own processes. Our work is individual to each, and that is where we must be brave.
I did the best I could at the moment. I acted the best I could based on my traumas and programming as I could at the time. No guilt as I acted as I did because I couldn't have acted any other way at that moment. Why? It's because it's how I acted. If you can pick up what I put down than guilt does not exist 🙏😇🤗🦋❤️❣️
So you admit you had no free will.
I think people usually do their best from the level of consciousness they’re at and under their unique challenging often severely so circumstances. So we all make mistakes and act terribly at times and God/The Divine Loves us Unconditionally and forgives us completely because they understand us completely and why we did what we did. We must learn to Love and forgive ourselves and others in the same way.
His laugh was so wholesome. And heart-warming
I love how his mind is able to articulate basic human behavior and actions in a way that closes the gap of the past and condenses it into just listening to him
Absolutely beautiful
This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my TH-cam channel 8 months ago about self development. Now I have 778 subs and > 300 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.
I remember one of the last statements my ex wife threw at me was. I don't want to work all my life I want to relax and live. Indicating that I am not able to provide enough for her to do so. Money sadly is power and respect to most.
You dodged a bullet. Move on. There's some great women out there who don't mind working.
Some wrong notes make a beautiful sound. I wouldn’t change a single wrong note in my life, they all led to miracles
I do this excercise sometimes. I did a mistake. A huge one. That led me here wherever this is. *This* by no standard is good. Mainly because of past one huge mistake mentioned earlier. So I think and wonder sometimes - if i could go back and not do that one mistake would I be okay even though it means i wouldnt be"here" even though it's not perfect "here" . So far for almost two decades answer always been no. Funny and excruciatingly annoying.
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I have thought about “what ifs”, everyone does. This isn’t a bad thing to reflect. I fell into a trap with it tho. I let it consume me with regret. It destroyed me twice. All those lessons are the measure of my life now. I have examined my life down to the very second, that things would have been different, I know in my heart the way things were supposed to go and were planned for me. All conditions have to be perfect for an angel to kiss an elf but those conditions can never stand the test of time. It just means that the Elf and the angel will always have that memory of that time, when all conditions were perfect.
@@Livingthedream333 well put. And helpful.
"...or at least do it less often" - love that.
If you learn and grow beyond your mistakes, and help others to grow beyond theirs as a result, you have turned the mistake into something decisively better, or to good, or totally remedied a situation. So healthy growth finally occurred, instead of a wilted wasteland of mistakes.
Nicely said
Thank you Mr. Watts for this reminder! Very wise words that we All need to be reminded of, frequently, until it sticks!!! ⭐💖🙏
I hope you never stop uploading these videos :)
I'll try!
Eventually death comes for all of us
@@MangroveLord dumbest reply I've read all year
Ohhhhhhh! I sure wish that someone had told me that 69 years ago . Thank you Alan. 😊
Interestingly, this video popped up while I was pondering a "mistake" from many years ago, that I may have to face again soon. I need to ponder this, maybe learn.
My band director always told us "If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud." Meaning don't be so afraid of making a mistake that you're barely playing.
Smart band director. 🎸
freedom to make mistakes this is fucking amazing
Great, please keep uploading all the old videos.
Thank you, I will
My favourite advisor he is in his own!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have so much respect for Allen Watts and his philosophy. Thanks to him my insight is becoming deeper. Peace 🕉 and hope.8888
So much respect that you can't spell his name correctly 🤣🤣🤣
Well maybe he will correct that mistake, lol
But thinking philosophy is the answer is the real mistake. I learned that from Osho.
The only way to eternal life is through God's blameless son Jesus who died for our sins. Believe, repent turn away from sins and get baptised.
Be not deceived by any other incorrect teachings or beliefs. Please read bible book Luke for full salvation details
@turnfrmsinorhell_jesus lol, you just contradicted yourself so good.
For me the biggest challange in regards to finding a vocation has been that if I experience that I get too good too fast at something, I almost immediately lose interest in it. I can definitely see though how learning to play and make mistakes and accepting those would benefit me greatly...
Here are some easy ones to get good at fast: musician, athlete, stand-up comedian, software engineer, surgeon.
@@joefunk76 I AM A Surgeon dr JoeFunk!! 😝
What?
I love what Alan says about guilt. But more than that I love his laughter ❤
When you are conscious guilt is a detriment to your awakening and healing. When you are unconscious no guilt or remorse fuels the unconscious behaviour.
i need to start taking notes on these videos because i have so much i want to write about
Já se právě cítím strašně provinile! Nikdo mě nemá rád, mám malý péro a jsem tlustej :D
Všechno je to moje chyba :D
Půjdu se zabít .. musím vopatrně, už nás je jenom deset :D
THANK YOU TEACHER ❤😊
Thank you!!! 🙏♥️😊
Cheers to freedom 🥂
To learning from our mistakes.
Life’s a play just play your part as best you can god is your only judge it’s between you and him and that’s it!
When you act according to society. You will be controlled and manipulated by others. When you finally have enough. You stop caring and beginning to see how they do things. Because society has corrupted the mind to think that their way is the only way and therefore it is easier to control the masses. Never feel guilty and let others reveal what they are to because they do not see what you see. I feel sorry for those people still believing blindly. I can see the truth.
Animals don't commit sins. That's why many people love them.
That single statement has too many lessons in it. I am willing to know more about it. I need the mindset/thought that gave birth to that statement.
@@serpenteve Animals are pure beings. There is no evil in them. Don't over think it.
@@bellavia5 We and animals alike, share the same barbaric instinct of survival deep within, but (some) humans have learned or better say grown towards a common (consciousness) understanding that it is important to be somewhat civilised... unfortunately, its like a delicate balance between our primal instincts and the societal structures, like a house of cards, one build upon layers and layers of common understanding and education to sustain its stability. Without shared values it (the card house) will collaps into dictatorship of the strongest without any common sense or reason. I know this sounds dark, also I understand what you meant with what you brought up, still, it is both wrong and right, just ask your loving sweet cat which is sitting on your lap what she did last night when she was outside all night,... People should know better, but we all turn a blind eye when its not happening in front of our doorstep. While we may have developed complex social structures and moral codes, we are not immune to the impulses of survival and self-preservation. In a rather naive way, we often turn a blind eye to suffering and injustice when it doesn't directly affect us. It's a human failing that we must constantly strive to overcome, but don't. The darker side of human nature that can emerge in the absence of social constraints, racism, homophobia and a lack towards respecting animals and elderly people are highlighting signals of a crumbling card house. Our collective responsibility lies in the well-being and safety of others whilst keeping in mind the complexities of societal dynamics, like a reminder that civilisation is an ongoing project, requiring constant vigilance and effort to uphold the values we cherish. We may strive for civility, yet often turn a blind eye to injustices happening elsewhere, hence, we are still fallible beings.
It's a complex and multifaceted issue, with no easy answers. But perhaps by acknowledging these darker aspects of our nature, we can better understand the challenges we face and work towards a more just and equitable society and world. Civilisation is not a static state, but an ongoing process requiring constant vigilance and effort. We must continuously challenge ourselves to confront our own biases and prejudices, and to actively work towards a more just and equitable world. Therefore we should have people, not politicians, but actual humans beings that think work develop and reason beyond the greed reach of corporations and those well known hate fabrics which push their bestseller books and indoctrination's down our throats and minds like malware right after we had our first grasp of air at birth. We need minds rather than political leaders who are willing to listen, learn, and evolve, rather than clinging to outdated ideologies or serving the interests of the few. The future of our or any civilisation for that matter rests and depends on our willingness to confront the darker aspects of ourselves and strive for a better future ALL together. To weed or carefully filter out those who inflict trauma is the only thing which should be focused upon, other than that, same trauma will reach our own doorstep eventually, just so to become animals alike once again.... Do over think it, lol, this isn't personally addressed to you Bellavia, ❤
@@serpenteve Animals, lack the capacity for moral reasoning, therefore are not seen as capable of sinning.... but in reality, this view is wrong and not justified as such, its based upon an old concept. Just like people (programmed) in clinging to a deteriorating Bible concept of Jesus, whilst they are them, themselves already what the wish, seek, fear, submit and follow into eternity, just like an obedient blind soldier on the battlefield, lost in confusion of what is. Anyways, most mammals and primates have proven this to be wrong already... The traditional view that morality is solely a human domain is somewhat no valid any longer... It raises (ethical) questions about our use (consumption) of animals for food, entertainment, and (monkey, rat) research. It also invites us to reconsider our relationship with the natural world and our place within it....❤
@@bellavia5 Lol....
Love hearing him laugh.
Thanks for Passing The Energy
Nothing has ever helped me more in this experience
Just pancaked a family of 6 with my Ford F150! Needed this, thanks.
Lol
I love you Colleen.
thank you so much for reuploading this!!!!!!!!!
I appreciate Alan Watts. Love his voice. Love his wisdom. I disagree with him that people are "absurd" for working for money. It is easy for someone of his caliber to say such a thing -- someone who rubbed elbows with affluent people all his life -- someone who was born with an extremely flexible intellect which allowed him to spend his life tickling the ears (hence loosening the purse strings) of upper class spiritual aspirants. Again, love Alan Watts. Really do. Just hate what he said there.
Yeah, must be nice to be able to follow your passion without becoming homeless and hungry. I like to think he meant the system that forces people to work for money to keep themselves and their families alive is absurd.
@@boembo6627 For sure, my friend. That would be nice. I've had to work my whole life. It's what I've known. Alan Watts means a great deal to me. He's helped so many people, even after and beyond his passing in the 1970s. Just hearing him speak has been a great comfort to me over the years. The comment he made in this lecture just rubbed me the wrong way. But... perhaps your interpretation is correct. Even if he did mean it the way I originally thought, he still was a good-hearted human with so much wisdom to share. I'm always grateful to him. Grateful to you, too, friend. Peace
I think maybe it is to follow a passion that you know may bring an added value in people’s life but at the same time give you that everyday purpose that you want to get better because you are just so much passionate about it. I have always been amazed by speakers like him, tony robbins , Jordan Peterson etc who have managed to turn those lectures or small talks into big industry. But despite the money they have made you can always sense behind their voice their passion, their search of knowledge and above all the added value they have brought in many people life
I don't think he meant it in a king of moralistic way. He wasn't trying to lay another guilt trip on you. I think everyone can see the absurd in working just for money. Yes, you need money to live but even if you don't follow your passion and can make a living out of it you can start to see work as play. So you don't wait all day for getting back home and never living in the present moment, the only moment.
@@StopTheWarOnDrugsyeah it sucks. I basically live so I can earn enough money to live so I can go to work. It’s a terrible trap.
1:05 Purpose of making money, you're absurd.
2:04 Feeling guilty.
2:53 Walt always admired animals, because they do not lie awake at night and weep for their sins.
5:20 Freedom means, the freedom to make mistakes and damn fool. But, simply don't do it again.
Absolutely beautiful ✨👏✨
Sometimes you have to take work purely for the money to pay the bills and feed and cloth yourself, you don’t have to like what you do, just do it properly to earn your pay, not everyone is lucky enough to have a vocation
Thank you Alan
Really needed to hear this today cheers Al 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Grazie Mr. Watts. Ne avevo bisogno, proprio adesso..
Thank you.
Welcome!
He said the only way you can learn is by making mistakes, yet I can learn plenty of things without making mistakes, as equally as I can learn from analysing my mistakes and figuring out how to do better.
And he's missing a crucial element that leads him to imo incorrectly judge guilt as the problem.
What he didn't address was one's response to feeling shame or guilt...for that's the issue.
Guilt and shame are part of one's morality. It's the warning system that alerts you about behaviour that goes against your moral code of conduct. it's a natural response to when you stuff up, according to your own code. Being condemned or ridiculed by others that exasperates guilt and shame is another issue of itself (though related of course).
If you're overwhelmed and immobilised by guilt and shame, that's due to how you responded to your own built-in warning system. Instead of accepting the appropriate sensations of guilt or shame for when you make a mistake or do something you judge as wrong, and rationally, without self-condemnation, figure out how you did wrong and work on changing your attitude-behavior towards self-improvement...you instead only dwell on those thoughts and feelings, thus engage in self-condemnation, which only intensifies these sensations and thoughts, while doing nothing about self-improvement.
As for the thumbnail claim: "why you should never feel guilty"
So I should never feel guilty when I steal, drink drive that results in killing others, tell lies that causes others to suffer, cheat in order to win a competition?
Guilt and shame are not a problem to be removed from one's being, the problem is how one responds to them.
Animals don’t choose good or evil, but humans make a conscious decision to choose good or evil and that’s the difference. So, when a person chooses evil over good then the conscience is wounded, it suffers.
Music in the background is beautiful ❤ Excellent choice!
I don't care about the speaker I'd rather read people comment and listen to the speaker all your comment or great and encouraging
We are all trying to survive if you have guilt feel it deeply, it hurts so like jabing your finger with a pin it is not pleasant? The pain reminds you not to repeat the process.learn from your mistakes and then forgive yourself let it go.
Non man not facing mistakes
"Just don't do it again, or at least do it less often"
Not easy with depression 😢
A dangerous message really so even if we wrong someone no guilt? Irresponsible and no accountability.
Sure we can learn and grow from it but also guilt towards a wrong we did is part of being a decent human being isnt it?
Many people don't feel guilty. Only because they are deficient of true compassion and only true compassion will know if your guilty. Ah, but when your dead, that is a different story. Suddenly all your guilt and Regret, will gang up on you. This is your true nature and can not be avoided, ever.
I really don't know what to think about individuals who have never had to work hard for money to feed their family and themselves, and then make fun of those who do. Sometimes I think Allan Watts is just of one of those good and "sonorous" speakers who have read lots of books written by actually wise people. One thing is sure: I don't like his stiff sense of humour. "If you work for money, you salivate over bank notes, which makes you a Pavlov's dog salivating over the wrong bell hahaha!" I really thought this video was going to give me a hint about how not to feel guilty. It's quite the opposite.
Your not working for money your working to feed your family that I believe is a big difference.
Here's the issue, though. Money is nothing more than a tool, like a hammer you use. Really think about it for a minute....Humanity at large is controlled by this small piece of paper. This small piece of paper dictates who has "everything they want" and who doesn't. We are conditioned to constantly chase this piece of paper in hopes that it will bring us something better or so we can feel better about ourselves. You don't need to read any books in order to understand this simple game.
Alan Watts is basically saying that if you are happy with yourself and what you are doing, the money will come. Similar to how so many people find the person who they spend the rest of their lives with without putting in much effort.
I agree. Watts is so effing snug! I can get spiritual advice from people who have more humility than him.
I agree with comments here that Alan Watts is smug -- especially with his comment that if you work for money you are "absurd". Privileged Brit. BUT his comments here about guilt are helpful. It is a state of mind that keeps you stuck.
Guilt is ingrained in us through religion. Well, Catholic guilt at least!
Mine is just basic run of the mill Christianity, but yeah guilt is deeply engrained in me. It’s an involuntary reaction.
Jewish guilt too
Guilt is a destructive emotion, and that’s all that it is.
It doesn’t remind you of “what to do” and it doesn’t show you “what to do,” all it is able to do is degrade and
degenerate. It is a blackhole and it’s unequivocally unnecessary and destructive.
Yes. Thanks
I'm here to expiate my guilt by listening to Alan instead of doing something about it :)
You and me both
You are the universe having a you experience
Put what he’s said to practicality, there’s your solution.
No worries. No guilt here, not really. Eastern philosophies really made me more serene and accepting, of myself, others, situations and life in general. I'm not the same as i was 5-6 years ago. Alan Watts is partly responsible for that. Love him
I don’t feel guilty about anything and I don’t connect to guilty feeling empathetically
Didn't get that last part.
Dogen-zenji said,' 'Shoshaku jushaku.'' Shaku generally means "mistake" or "wrong." Shoshaku jushaku means "to succeed wrong with wrong," or one continuous mistake.
According to Dogen, one continuous mistake can also be Zen. A Zen master's life could be said to be so many years of shoshaku jushaku. This means so many years of one single-minded effort.
We say, "A good father is not a good father." Do you understand? One who thinks he is a good father is not a good father; one who thinks he is a good husband is not a good husband. One who thinks he is one of the worst hus-bands may be a good one if he is always trying to be a good husband with a single-hearted effort
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Is using words like "should" in itself subscribing to the guilt as well?
In what way?
Not necessarily.
Yes. Most of the time should is an expression of judgment and guilt.
Yes I think so
Same with learning how to speak a new language. We are afraid of being laughed at. Oh well!! Just keep on making a fool of yourself lol😅😅😅
At about 1:20, I don't know a single normal, average person that works with the end goal of money. Maybe the extreme wealthy or others close to that do. But the average, normal person working a job may appear at a superficial level to have an end goal of money, but in reality the goal is actually much deeper. But it requires you to look deeper that the superficial level. Now there are greedy people out there, whose sole purpose maybe is to have lots of money, but I have rarely encountered such people, and rarely among the average man/woman. And those that profess their goal to be money, are often just inarticulate about what their real goals are.
Love the video but I have to work for money to pay the bills. I never had Alan's talent to have a vocation. P. S. I once had a girlfriend who loved rolling about naked on £10 notes. She was the best teacher I ever met for saving money. The days of being young on winter nights in front of the fire with hearthrug pie as a nightcap. 😊
We all have to work for money. Alan Watts inclusive. The secret is to realize that everything one does is a play.
@@felixmoyoedonmi English isn't my main language so I don't understand when you say in present tense that even Alan has to work because as I understand it, he's been dead for several decades assuming several means 3 or 4. Have you developed the technology to make the dead work in your country? How do you stop them rotting. I have so many questions to ask you. My real name is Borislav
@martynrawlins8050 please understand, mate, that there is no past or future. Everything is incorporated into an eternal now. Every action is a play of the mind. One's birth or death, success or failure, laughter or cry, pleasure or pain. All actions are a play of the mind in an everlasting NOW. It is EXISTENCE/CONSCIOUSNESS playing these beautiful games. It is all a play.
@@felixmoyoedonmi Yes, I fully understand that the deepest spiritual level is a oneness in timelessness or eternal now but we come to Earth plane existence to gain experience where time comes into being, necessitating a language of past present and future. These are the inescapable conditions of this material planet and many others like it. As a further consequence here we can not just communicate in the now. True enough now is the only reality. But to speak it constantly would probably result in a diagnosis of dementia which would inevitably result further in loss of freedom and under constant observation. This in turn would be detrimental to existence on this Earth plane of existence. I thank my friend for allowing me to use his phone to gain further knowledge of English.
@@martynrawlins8050wow, you have such a humble ego! you must be the only one who truly gets what Alan is teaching! also very mature humor, I'm interested
I play all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order.
Everybody is working for the weekend.
We do not agree because guilt teaches us when we are wrong, it teaches us what is good and what is not, what is sin and what is virtue. To never feel guilty is to ignore the morality of life and the consequences born from one's own actions. To never feel guilty means to never question one's wrongdoings and prevents one to become a better person towards other living things. To never feel guilty leads to evermore sin and wrongdoings (with evermore negative consequences to others), to evermore corruption of the spirit in the mind and evermore suppression of the soul within the heart. This does not mean that one should let one's guilt dominate one's life because that ALSO leads to negative consequences to one's own self (and others), but guilt leads to repentance and subsequently to a change and betterment of one's wrongs and sins. It's not for nothing that ancient texts and beliefs have spoke of this for ten thousand years. If we lose our morals, we relinquish our soul and we damn our spirit throughout the remainder of our evolution. The fact we have the ability to feel guilty in the first place should NEVER be ignored but realized as a necessity of life, just like feeling virtue, joy and happiness. No dear ppl, one should practice BALANCE between guilt and overcoming it. Because guilt is there to have us "overcome" our own wrongs and sins. To turn our back to guilt is to turn our backs to God and what He gave us to struggle through the fields of life (AND death).
That was wonderfully well said. Thank you 🙏 ❤
Is there a channel that doesnt have unnecessary backround music?
go to alanwatts.org . All Watts lectures are there. No music
Thank you!
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So, in other words. Do whatever you feel like regardless of whether it's good or bad or who you hurt in the process because guilt is just a destructive, egotistical emotion anyway...
People who act that way are usually the ones who already don’t feel any guilt. I think this message is for people with a good conscience who are more likely to be hung up on guilt
Om
People who had a difficult childhood,
especially those who never had their emotional needs met
are prone to limerence.
The reason is because we were always prone to imagining a parallel reality,
a whole world of fantasies we could escape to.
Fantasies have always been a safer world for us than the real one,
so our mind is already used to this dynamic (it's basically like 'muscle memory').
When something triggers this dynamic, it's like opening a portal to our safe fantasy world,
and as destructive as it is, we are used to actually loving it...
That being said,
my soul is brutally violently viciously maliciously raped
and has been my whole life
I am desperate to die
REMINDER TO SELF:
FEAR is a bully. If you try to avoid him, reason with him, appease him, beg him,
he will kick the shit out of you and ruin your life day after day, until you don't have a life no more. But... If you start looking him in the eye and saying "FUCK YOU, do your worst, I can take it"
and you mean it...
He may beat you once or twice
but after a while, he'll let you be.
You might even become friends over time.
ALSO,
You must not be afraid of playing the wrong damn notes.
Just forget it!
just play the whole damn thing wrong, if you must!
But for the love of God...
PLAY!
I never worked for the money I want to work. And then I got paid it was already the enjoyment of the job first
❤
ओके.... लेट्स डू इट then..
उद्या सकाळी... पहिला चक्कर... पोलिस ठाण्या वर 🙏
Honor your mistake as a hidden intention
Brian Eno
Was literally eating Lucky Charms with milk watching this happen. Oddest thing ever… 🔥
....well...apparently~ #45 has mastered this idea ....
All politicians are sociopaths. Stop buying into the 2 party theater.
Til i'm absurd
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In the right context, these words could have a positive meaning, but in general it is justifying nonchalant attitude towards self growth and imperviousness to accountability
The only counselling I would take from an alcoholic like Watts would be to give up drinking. He really was in no position to dispense advice on anything else.
I’m sure that you are perfect, Herbert.
Sickening the things ppl come up with to let themselves off the hook for being unGodly.
Adverts on TH-cam are out of hand!
Can't even block on phone anymore!
This platform is near extinction
😂 Wow you all like Alan Watts good luck 😂❤️✌️
If you have no guilt or shame you’ll just end up losing the same game.
Depends on what you've done, surely?
The more bum notes you make now the less bum notes you make later.
Evil is the root of all evil.
Money is just a bartering tool.
Money can buy happiness and it can also be amazing.
fact....
"I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love" ☮♥
It's for people who have gone beyond money. After having too much money they realised it can't buy you happiness 😊
You have to pay the bills. That's why most of the time people work an unpleasant job.
You should probably feel guilty in certain circumstances, like if you cause someone harm, or do something you know is wrong.
I have only recently heard of Alan Watts and starting listening to what he has to say. I have come to the conclusion that I am not interested.