MAYA - THE WORLD AS AN ILLUSION (Alan Watts)

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  • @francismausley7239
    @francismausley7239 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Always searching for the higher spiritual reality makes life more meaningful... "The world is but a show, vain and empty, a mere nothing, bearing the semblance of reality. Set not your affections upon it." ~ Baha'u'llah, Baha'i Faith

    • @davidbarnett5777
      @davidbarnett5777 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@francismausley7239 “Life is but a poor player who struts and frets his hour on the stage and then is heard no more. It’s a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Shakespeare

  • @MelvilleG
    @MelvilleG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A talk for 8+ minutes without any point at all. I believe it is the best representation of the illusive essence of our world. Thanks

  • @rahulgaikar2194
    @rahulgaikar2194 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Maya is an illusion created for our body, but the soul is there to be escape from it and find the eternal truth!

    • @sophiatealdo9680
      @sophiatealdo9680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes - Blessed it Be.

    • @sree18697
      @sree18697 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      not true.. atman is brahman.. soul is only jeevatma..

  • @simulacra007
    @simulacra007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    All is frequency and vibration. We are all one with the universe and I feel love for everything in this consensus/conscious reality ❤

    • @foreveryactionthereisacons1683
      @foreveryactionthereisacons1683 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I had a dream about these 4 celestial spheres telling me we're all connected. And got a couple more messages.. everything is an illusion and as above so below. I had never heard that saying. Now I'm obsessed 😀

    • @nasherbuenafe253
      @nasherbuenafe253 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes we are

    • @NoxDeadly
      @NoxDeadly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What is it that is vibrating?

    • @simulacra007
      @simulacra007 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NoxDeadly everything? 🤔

    • @sumittete2804
      @sumittete2804 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@NoxDeadly The question itself is wrong because Vibration means the is-ness or the being-ness. But vibration itself doesn't vibrate. Rather its due to vibration everything vibrates or comes into being-ness or is-ness. Vibration means Maya, and Maya is a non-dualistic concept that cannot be classified as something that is or something that is not. Therefore, Maya cannot be expressible or classified. The reason language fails to express the concept of Maya is because language can be used to express duality only. The limitation of language is it cannot express non-duality.

  • @ricflomusic
    @ricflomusic 9 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    glad you listen to Alan Watts. You need him in your life. (;

    • @vinn995
      @vinn995 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ric Flo Alan Watts can definitely enhance one’s perspective on life. Have you ever read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius? Its the only book in existence today that anyone can read that was actually written by a Roman Emperor. Good stuff.

    • @rahulgaikar2194
      @rahulgaikar2194 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vinn995 Search Maha-Vishnu And Study About it! And you'll know the truth🙇🏻

    • @ricflomusic
      @ricflomusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vinn995 thank you. I have just found the audiobook on TH-cam, I will listen to it this week

  • @mohansharma007
    @mohansharma007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Really ? Is this how the west thinks about India? These ideas were developed when India used to be most prosperous country, the very reason which allowed indians to contemplate on such beautiful concepts in the first place.

    • @daniluchison
      @daniluchison 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The west? This is only one guy thinking along such way!

    • @poesiforankor6349
      @poesiforankor6349 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, it's a confused notion held by some contemporaries of Watts. They made similar notions of the origin of Christianity as well. Reductionism at it's most confused state.

    • @ExitTheMatrixVR
      @ExitTheMatrixVR 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      People forgot how advanced and rich the old world was. Time has hidden and people have forgotten about how great India and the east once was.

  • @NakedSageAstrology
    @NakedSageAstrology 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    AyamThatayaM
    A good friend is a great mirror.
    OM

  • @oneill765
    @oneill765 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Who's playing fuckin snooker in the background

    • @itisrav
      @itisrav 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂

  • @nicoriggall
    @nicoriggall 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    absolutely phenomenal

  • @gireeshneroth7127
    @gireeshneroth7127 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Until truth finds itself the world is real.

  • @NoFear.Mr.T
    @NoFear.Mr.T 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Sri Adi Shankaracharya🙏

  • @positivetimeline
    @positivetimeline 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What's the place showed in this beautiful video?

  • @frankcallo6630
    @frankcallo6630 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Maya is THE ONLY thing that is REAL. When it vanishes completely, so does any idea of a self that could know the truth. Maya is our Mother, she brings us into the world, causes us to MATTER.

    • @frankcallo6630
      @frankcallo6630 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@xyster7 How would you say it?

    • @frankcallo6630
      @frankcallo6630 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @xyster7 so, why talk about it at all. I'm not trying to be difficult or dense here, but it seems to me that if there is nothing we can categorically say about it, then it must be approached, if at all, through poetry. Then all we can say is we like, or do not like, the style of the poetry. So instead of trying to school people on the "correct metaphor", when there IS no such metaphor, why not share your own metaphor. Again, how would YOU say it?

    • @frankcallo6630
      @frankcallo6630 ปีที่แล้ว

      Although I might have avoided waxing poetic/romantic for the sake of making the intended point, namely, that Maya, however conceived, is more real than that which allegedly obscures.

    • @printerykeith
      @printerykeith ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for saying this Frank. I generally like A.W., but this video misses for me. I have no better understanding after watching than I did before. I’m seriously trying to understand this aspect of creation. Your comment rings true for me. It corresponds well with my intuitive understanding, gained through decades of meditation and introspection. I particularly like your “matter” pun!

    • @frankcallo6630
      @frankcallo6630 ปีที่แล้ว

      @printerykeith Thank you. It is difficult to speak of because talking about it just makes more of it.

  • @Raimonds-x1j
    @Raimonds-x1j ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They all been hypnotised junkies won’t admit it unless they think about it

  • @tna420wrestling
    @tna420wrestling 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    if this is true, how come we all live in the same world... or maybe this is just my world. and no1 else exists

    • @donpicon1040
      @donpicon1040 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's a ilusion the way of you think about those things, the value of you put on, keep you attached and in attachment are suffering. Sorry for my English I'm Brazilian 😉

    • @dysplasiaanaplasia4128
      @dysplasiaanaplasia4128 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everything is illusion. The way humans perceive time itself is false nd one example of Maya. Time changes , warps in space nd affected by gravity. It is not universal. Again everything that we have named is maya as we have named them to identify actually none of the names are true. A tree is tree cz we decided to call it a tree. Only thing that is common in all physical world is Atman(soul) that is unchangeable. We can think of atman as Atom. Every physical being has Carbon atoms it's common for everyrhing in that way we are all same.

    • @davidforshaw4810
      @davidforshaw4810 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's called : Hard Solipsism! 🍄🔑🧩

    • @brandocommando7079
      @brandocommando7079 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake. When you realize the truth of the rope, the snake disappears. But the rope was always there. In the same way there is a true reality but we are all misperceiving that reality. We don’t see what it really is and so we are in maya.

  • @anikettripathi7991
    @anikettripathi7991 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Idea of Maya or illusion was for those who is aspireing for realizing infinite or God or bhagwan, so that they can focus properly without distractions of world. For all others world is reality.

    • @DattaMusics
      @DattaMusics 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ... Maya was not for against anybody Maya is a contextual ground of looking at the world as a program of understanding that our individual identities are not identities at all for so the context of someone having a requirement for my so as to realise Brahman by rejecting it is absolutely stupid!!... Maya simply means the world is a program of interconnected construction of energy that is why mahamaya and adishakti almost became synonymous tho they are not,maiya simply means that everything around us is a construct our ideas of ego does not take into account our biological actions does not take into account that there may be food getting digested in our bellies it is always an idea about a self or an idea about ourselves that others have which constitutes who I am in the normal discussions but Maya came into being for the dishes only because that maiya is something that is I am is capable fire is as much energy as water otherwise firewood and burn and there wouldn't be an idea of making Hydro power plants.... The human his physical body causal body the organisms and inanimate objects everything is a construct of energy everything is a constructor program and what we know as existence is just an interconnected play of programs from there the direct that the five basic programs at the panchamahabhutas to the stools are the five basic constructs of energy based on which every other energy construct lies uponso that which is transient that which is ever changing that which is the ever running the non stopping and that which is the interconnected play became a point of contemplation for rishis then they called it Maya, now from the context of advaita vedanta the idea of realising bhagwan does not arise because we make a clear distinction between the saguna Brahman and the nirguna Brahman the saguna Brahman is is the highest Shakti and the intended consciousness punctual embodiment, nirguna Brahman on the other hand is the background of everything that happens the water behind the ocean the particles behind the desert all the cells of wood behind the trees this is the closest analogy we can give to the context of advaita vedanta.....as Sri Ramakrishna said that enlightenment is nothing but a jug of water destroying its jug so that there is no water no Jack just the ocean if there is a jug of water floating on the ocean and the Jug got destroyed then there is no context of a jug, jug full of water because that construct is killed in the first place only thing that remains is the ocean that is what Sri Ramakrishna called enlightenment!!!!!!...... So this context is a very meticulous detail and the sublime one which cannot be realised by a sweeping statement so I would suggest to you read the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna to begin with then look out for maharishi Abhinav Gupta or Adi shankaracharya!!!.....that which is truth is not different for you me or the ratio it is for everyone and even king like janak Maharaj was an enlightened being ucking like allama mahaprabhu was one of the greatest yogis..... So advaita vedanta being only for the ones who want to realise 10 not for the ones who do not want to realise does not make any sense because we all have our karma rooted it will go on the weight is we will go on repeating the same nonsense over and over again and take the elusive clash of individual life so it is for everybody everybody this game does not end until we end it so there are ways in Indian mysticism by which you can stay in the family in the situations of your daily life and still progress spiritually there are three methods of Kashmir division one is shambhav upay for the Yogis,the Shakti upay for the ones were equally at home with intelligence art craft and so forth as well as spiritual development and there is anava upay ...... Which is for the people who are not so much into spirituality but usually engrossed in the world but still want to make spiritual progress there is also certain forms of tantra which you can practice at home without any help from the outside which is absolutely internal based show the context of Indian mysticism is huge even someone like guru padmasambhava of Buddhism has ways for the people who are householders so these things in Indian mysticism has been explored wide and huge and that does not require the kind of frivolous 20 comment that you have suggested so please don't trivialise things increase your vocabulary about mystical knowledge and also about the various multitude of forms that exist meaning Indian mysticism before making statements......

    • @johndsouza1839
      @johndsouza1839 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Idea of maya or illusion was for those who is aspiring for realizing INFINITE or god, so that they can focus properly without distractions of world. For all others world is reality.....

    • @DattaMusics
      @DattaMusics 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johndsouza1839 if you had the pleasure of concluding that in those very sentences then vi root systems 108 upanishads Brahma sutras other sutras vedangas bhasi as would not have been necessary maiya is much more than that even that which you call reality is my it is transient Maya means a play , Maya means different kinds of constructs that energy takes in space and time like you put in animation , animated reality is what Maya means it does not mean an illusion , and the very nature of cause effect transience interplay of elements all of that is animated in nature and by definition Maya there is no such thing as mice for the ones worth suffering for jnana and a reality for others, for both it is Maya one just sees the underpinning reality behind it an animated transient play a which is process through the five senses is my industry that has its rules laws cause effect everything there is not denial, the philosophy of Maya does not teacher denial I would suggest you see a sparsh yoga by swami sarvapriyananda to get a better grasp also Alan Watts has a very elaborate lecture on maya !!...

  • @maplenook
    @maplenook 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Billiards??!

  • @Dripping-hh
    @Dripping-hh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Maya that's my wife's name!

    • @Dharmicaction
      @Dharmicaction 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Assman Butt Maya is the cause of illusion (which is nothing but immanent Shiva's confusion with thoughts and body and the subject/object split) but it does NOT mean Maya = Illusion. Ma means to create or produce in Sanskirt. Maya is the creative Shakthi of Shiva. So, Maya is absolutely real. Without Maya or Shakthi, shiva is shava (corpse). In other words, Shiva and Maya always exist together for the perpetual duality cycles to happen

  • @dpuhe3253
    @dpuhe3253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi, does anyone know from which lecture this is by any chance?

  • @davidbarnett5777
    @davidbarnett5777 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Good thesis …but so damned distracted by the slapping noise. I had to bow out.

  • @frankwyman9138
    @frankwyman9138 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yes wiggliness is a major problem in the world.

  • @othernewsid2
    @othernewsid2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    up to 2:10 .
    lol!!! what a theory. 😁

    • @cardrift4515
      @cardrift4515 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      zeus peter=devas pitr everything came from sanskrit

  • @ricardoomarbarrios7405
    @ricardoomarbarrios7405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Estaba partiendo nueces

  • @common_sense_supreme
    @common_sense_supreme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Matrix

  • @pracchijaiswal7283
    @pracchijaiswal7283 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    😂

  • @pracchijaiswal7283
    @pracchijaiswal7283 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maya jal

  • @ShankarRaokalla
    @ShankarRaokalla 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Total rubbish.

    • @KobeBean33000
      @KobeBean33000 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes. I agree. This material world is total rubbish