The Lie We Live - Alan Watts on the Illusion of Time
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- The Lie We Live - Alan Watts on the Illusion of Time
A powerful and thought-provoking speech about the illusion of time.
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Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York.
I am now 65. At a guess I reckon I have not worn a watch...for about 40 years. It was a conscious decision. Ditched TV and the "news" about 20 years ago. I live literally second by second. My blood pressure? That of a 25 year old. Energy? In abundance. Health? No problems at all. But, I am grateful. Always. Even for the smallest things.
Same
@@Ellie-rp8bhWere you a trust fund baby or something?
Same here at age 69. Ditched all of the trappings preached the first 25 years of life and once I let it all go and stopped living in a time that was never promised me, I truly began to live. No one is promised tomorrow and tomorrow will bring its own problems. Don’t invite the future, don’t live in the past. Be here now.
@@mechanicaltypewriteroperat9885 no kidding! 😂
Good for you, Martin. Can I call you kid? I'm 70 going pretty good everything, works pretty normal. Hang in there son.
The best memories in my life came while I was living in the moment, and the worst came when I worried about my future/legacy.
LOL legacy.
@@verne51A shame many now being born will never have one? Or maybe it is a good thing in many cases.
Well, I hope you took a few minutes to plan for your retirement.
@@organichuman One creates a legacy. It does not just happen. Good grief. Alan Watts is poison.
So u did all this n then u accidently found a .mobile fone then you tube then allan..😅😅😅😅😅 yeah pull the other one..
When I was a kid, a day felt like a week. A week felt like a month. And a month felt like a year. When I graduated from high school, it reversed.
So true!
that's because time is relative not because it falls into line with something Alan said.
My explanation to this is because since we are closer to the day we were born we are experiencing life, we can feel every moment, and in those moments we feel like it will never end. We never think about about distractions, we think about a day and become anxious for that day to get here like Christmas or summer vacation from school.
As years pass we obviously get further away from the day we are born and we less and less feel in the moment. We are constantly distracted by getting things done on time and there’s never enough time. Things that never used to take up our time then, now becomes a life of constant maintenance. Something seems to always need fixing around whatever it may be and also we become ambitious.
I feel ambition is the most harmful thing to a human and it has turned many people I know soulless. It’s make a person that what once a great person turn into a complete POS. They are always trying to get over people including friends and become greedy and corrupt. They become insatiable for success and nothing ever satisfies them no matter how far ahead they get in life and become unaware of the person they become. All for a future that was in their head that when that future came and finally have time, realized too late they truly never did anything with their life.
ambition is the most harmful thing to a human being?!?! i'd put cancer above that but you do mindless you. @@saulescamilla3605
I felt the exact same way...😔
I'm 42 this year, and i consider myself lucky to realise this when i was 27 years old. Quit my job, pursued my hobby. I consider myself retired ever since. Doing what i love from home, spending every single day with my wife and kids. When i first heard these lines from Alan Watts from a Volvo commercial, i went into tears realising i was so lucky being able to live every moment, doing what i love, spending all my time with my kids and living every day giving every bit of love to my family, always reminding them to cherish every single day as i wouldn't know which is the last day we see one another. i now cherish every single day. sometimes when we feel like bringing the kids for holiday, we just skip school. teachers were amazed we couldn't care much about their school results. we learn new things together with our children all the time, we chat with one another all the time. i'm so so so lucky to be able to do all these while still earning an honest income from my hobby. i was once unsure if this is the right way, but having heard alan's philosophical speech, i knew i'm on the right path every morning. and every morning i count myself lucky and cherished it just for waking up and see my loved ones.
All very well but how do you make enough money to survive & feed your family? Is that method of income available to the masses? These philosophies may be all very well but when 99% of the world runs on the working man being abused because he has little other choice in which he may be able to feed himself and his family, then what of it?
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Drivel, I bet.
Although it would explain where you got the time to type in such a lengthy, boring comment.
You are describing what amounts to work life balance. Not a big deal really. PS: try to give your kids some freedom. Do they have friends they can spend time with?
I will be 41 in a few months. Time passing by so fast. Stressed beyond belief. Not happy at work or at home. I want to make the change but too afraid to do it. What is it you do now for your hobby?
We have clocks,we don't have time-
RIP George Carlin
Exactly
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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ― Robert Brault
You do?
@ianstuart5660 Yes. Enjoy life,grandchildren and Family. I take nothing for granted.
@KajunMs39 Thanks, so glad to hear that!
@@ianstuart5660 what about yourself?
@KajunMs39 Very much enjoy the little things. No grandkids yet, but could happen at any time!
No watch for 30 years , no face book etc-only watch You tube.
Spend as much time as I can with my daughter( family) and enjoy simple pleasures like swimming and hiking.
I gave up all my possessions , only needs .
Feels so good.❤
i am nearly there now. never been happier. massive respect too you.
@@StrawPerson-xq9ko and to you❤️
As a 49 year old man, I couldn’t agree more. I was just trying to tell a friend that I’ve reached the point where “I am who I am, I’m at where I’m at”.
nice quote
And WE Can Go Far Beyond The BS Boundaries Of The Fake Ass Globe!
Dave r ux in California
Your not old a 49, life is just beginning!
Awesome quote! Couldn’t agree more or have said it any better! I am also at that point! I am who I am, and I am we’re I’m at… 👍
"You can't live at all, unless you can live fully Now"💯
I was recently able to understand this more than ever; it's huge when you do.
@@superhiker77 i agree 💯
Right now I’m taking a bowl of magnificent Mexican beans, just made tortillas and very spicy chiles: unbeatable way to enjoy the present.
What does that mean?
@@JuanThaSilva It means that time and space are a mental construct. A prison designed to keep you unaware of your true spirit which is always in the now. Who designed us? I don’t know.
"You are always living for somewhere you aren't" ..........this video is bang on, so true
Great, Very true
Right 🔥🔥🔥
I never forget this piece of Alan's. I'm 56 and now am reaching for retirement. "It's going to be great! I'm finally going to enjoy my life!" OMG, I've said that all my life. Time and time again. Right now is just time to muddle through to get to that great point. I still can't get it through my head that today is as good as my life will ever be. If I don't have peace now, don't have happiness, contentment now, I never will.
A year younger myself, and I’ve always said “ if you don’t have peace of mind,you have nothing.”
I can assure you that you are wrong. I retired 5 years ago and there is NO QUESTION that my life changed for the better. How can it not, when 3 hours of your day that you used to spend commuting to the office is now completely stress free? When 8 hours of the day, once spent engaged in mind-numbing bureaucratic gymnastics, is now yours to do with what you want? You will have OPTIONS when you retire, which you do not have at the moment.
I'm 49 and retired. Not like most think of retirement but I certainly don't have a job. Leaving the demanding conflict of 'societal time' has been the best thing I have ever experienced. We live feral. Doing what is needed but when it fits our lives. I encourage everyone to move towards this way. I believe it is our natural way of being. My wife and two children (home schooled) are engaged and thriving. I wish for you the happiness I enjoy not caring for markers of time. When I do find I need to know for societal interaction it's quite a laugh we share when we have to work out what day and month it is. My only regret is not realizing sooner.
Be free
Be well
Much love
@@petesfeeder You live "feral" yet you are posting comments on TH-cam. Even if you go to the public library and use the computer terminals there, you are using taxpayer funds to do so. That is not "living feral." That is living on welfare. Where do you get food for your family? At the local food donation bank or a religious charity? That's just pretending to "live feral." I also found amusing your notion of "doing what is needed but when it fits our lives" and advising the rest of us to do so. Sounds like either anarchy or nihilism to me. Alan Watts' insights are perfectly fine if one lives in a monastery where one's needs are taken care of from cradle to grave. But they don't apply in the real world, where interaction with other homo sapiens is mandatory. I hope your children are in good health and being cared for properly, assuming any part of your tale above is true.
@@petesfeeder Thank you. Hands down retiring beats working at a job. The point really is that we are wise when we make a joyful time out of every stage in our lives. Not trudging through the weekdays trying to get them over with. There is where most of us make the mistake. I look back on my old jobs that I brought so much negativity and drama into and realize I could've just rolled with it, finding it almost amusing! What's ahead might be great, but the present is where we need to find greatness.
I've listened to countless hours of Alan Watts and I can honestly say that this is the best 10 mins I have ever heard him deliver.
I agree.
Yes, his strength was in making observations about people and life rather than trying to answer, unanswerable, questions about God and eternity.
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This is profound and so true.
I'll take that as an amazing endorsement Michael. Thank you for sprinkling the 5 stars so generously so we can partake of your experience
Take care of your body, it's the only place you have to live; meditate daily, it will give you inner peace.
AMEN TO THAT 🙂
When I watched my father die a slow horrible death. I realised these words about living in the now, and what I want to do now. This was quite profound
You created that environment.
God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa
Most of these clips were compiled fairly early on in Watt’s life. It’s amazing because he lived quite a long time and never stopped learning and lecturing.
I spent years going through crippling addiction and the period after with “I want my old life back” as my mantra. I yearned and yearned for things to go back exactly as they were. It was only when I surrendered to the reality that it would never happen that I ended up with a life 10 times better than it ever was. If you spend all your time craving what you think your life should be, you’ll never get to experience the beauty in what it’s SUPPOSED to be. And always remember, in the immortal words of Bill Hicks, “it’s just a ride”.
I can totally relate, once I finally beat that H addiction after 2 years of feeling sorry for myself and thinking every day I should just pull the trigger I got a job. Once I lifted myself up my life took off in an upward trajectory and I bounced back higher and better than I ever thought even before I went down the addiction road.
Same i have almost 4 years now. But at the start when I was still in the rehab phases I listened to a lot of alan wats . he really made me take a look at myself. My favorite is the joker
That was awesome that makes total sense
Hits home. I'm battling methamphetamine addiction after 10+ years of sobriety. In and out of jail. Getting divorced. Possibly going to prison. Trying to convince myself every day why I'm worth more than a bullet to the head. Sometimes I worry I'm going to run out of reasons and end up eating that bullet.
100% 👍
Forget your age. Forget days weeks years etc.
Yesterday is gone and tomorrow never comes. Dont waste the "time" you do have. Live for today. Be grateful for what you do have and not what you might or might not have.
We are so distracted. Controlled...
it's called dementia
@@chasefunk Can you will yourself into dementia?
You aren't as clever as you think you are. Its called arrogance.
Great reply With a bit of Dio...
There are few men in this world, which I can listen to and learn from immediately. Alan Watts is one of those men, even after he's long gone, I'm still learning from his speeches.
Ignore Alan Watts and prepare for your old age. There, you can add me to the list of men you learn from immediately.
Yall love men 💀 bunch of bottoms
you cant learn shit from a speech you just take in words that you understand on some level . you have to follow and find consciousnessto find better levels of understanding
@@aarongottfried5595 Thanks for that, on whatever level you wanna take it.
Truth lingers😻🥳
I heard someone say, "I wish fall would hurry up and get here." And it hit me. She's wishing away 2 months of her life. Im 55 and i know my time is on the down hill slope. Its just a matter of how and when. I have began to realize how wasteful i have been. But also, when and where I've been blessed or spared. And time is still ticking by...
My mother would always say to us, “Don’t wish your life away”. No truer words.
I have bad news for you. God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa
One of the first things my AA sponsor told me was “all we truly have is today, we cannot alter yesterday, nor predict tomorrow.” I’ll have 11 years of sobriety in a week and I live by those words.
Congrats! That is HUGE!!!!
❤❤❤ !!!
well done
they call yesterday the past because it’s gone tomorrow the future and unknown but now it’s today is the present because it truly is a gift
Proud of you!❤
@@JasmineR1993 thank you
@@hexxan007 thanks
I've always remembered a quote by the Old-Hollywood actor W.C. Fields, "Success is looking at the direction everyone is running towards ― Turn and walk in the opposite direction".
Take the necessary time to become who you were always meant to be; otherwise, life and society will define who you are for you. Wouldn't that be the definition of a waste of an entire lifetime ― Isn't it?
you can decide to be a bum for example
@@chasefunk How sagacious.... ???
It's almost like how the line goes in the movie Ferris Beuller's Day Off:
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around every once in a while, you can miss it."
I God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa
I would like to thank Mark Watts for preserving and promoting his fathers work. Well done!
The universe woke me up on Saturday from the illusion of time. I am completely set free😊😊😊😊😊
This is true ! Most of us was happy when they was kids ,we know what was time but we didnt care for it and we stayed in the present !
But we grow up and are no longer children. If you want that sort of life where you never grow up, check into a monastery.
I know what you mean.
Jesus said.... The Kingdom of Heaven is within you..... and....Verily I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven... Children are content until they grow and fall. Buy them an expensive gift and don't be surprised to see them play more with and enjoy more the cardboard box which it came in than the gift itself for example. Adults complain that the weather is bad when heavy raining.... those same adults as children wanted to run out in that rain and would have a great time jumping in puddles and being soaked etc
this is true because most of us where happy when we where kids?! newsflash: only kids and animals live in the present if you would like to be one of them, by all means live in the moment.
@@tchkvskywow. That went over your head
His voice is even more therapeutic than his words..
Alan freaking Watts
My story is long but ill just say this I had surgery almost died and my long distance girlfriend died when I was recovering from surgery I lost everything including myself but I discovered something very important When you love someone and that person makes you happy don't wait fight for what you love dont be afraid so you don't have to live in depression, regret Enjoy every second of your good times and learn from the bad times
It's not often I can listen to Alan Watts without a tear rolling down my face. God damn, he is brilliant. Hits so hard.
“Always wanting the future”. I love that because ( for me) it was so true.
@Wolf Mage Thank you!🙏🏽
Love your name. Great movie.
Other people’s future or yours?
Government is about tomorrow, same with weather reporting. Today is a statistical fact, logged & forgotten.
How do you stop thinking like this though?
Wishing I heard this 40 years ago. Thanks
This video reminds me of the saying "Take the time to smell the roses".
Just yesterday I was 18 years old graduating from high school, I turn 59 in a couple months......life has become just a blurr in time.
I’m 50 , never had a job , been around the world many times , I think I see through the bs of school and work
How do u travel around the world without a job / money ?
My only quibble, a very slight one, is that when I was very young in grade school, I lived very much moment by moment. I now look back with envy, compare to how I treated time illusion as discussed here. I'm now 67 and recently endured a small stroke, which was major enough. I need to concentrate on each day and not dread the future as I get older. 🤔
I have bad news for you. God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa
I don't know how I found this channel but everything is true about this I'm 41 and this shit getting real
hi! and right from the start who/what do You think God/god would need to experience pleasure of any kind? a body???!!!
I'm 44, and Allan watts words get real , fast, this left me slapped
We have to become aware. I'm younger than 40 and I've achieved it. Find your own way. Live the present in full awareness🖤
lol you have achieved becoming aware at younger than 40? congrats dude!!!
Did you notice that in such a complicated and articulate train of thought, at 7:47 is the first and only time he uses a vocal thought pause "uhm" (or "ähm") - which today, we use so much because we don't have that full control over what we want to say? Incredible
So many words were manipulated to achieve this drugs/medicine is a prime example they should be defined identically but instead are used to lead people into lies and tie their subconscious in circles so that their overall logical computational ability becomes permanently limited believe me i was lucky to escape this and i wish everyone was as free as me
Human.
Good point. But, if I shouted at the screen "carrot!!!" does that mean I'm living in the moment??
God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa
You can't live at all, unless you live fully now.
Thanks Alan. 9 June 2023.🎯🔦🐧⛩🔬🦅🔍
Very wise! Summarizing, I'd say that we spend all our lifetime and energy trying to build our future, instead of building our present!
I just turned 46. I don't know why, this year, but I cannot believe in a blink I am here, and at a stand still with life. I needed to hear this. I am so grateful I started listening
God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa
I'm a combat Veteran. I guess that changed me to live in the present. I can now think in ways I never could have thought before.
Thank you got your service. 🫡
living in the present still means u plan for the future tho right
Thank you for your Service
This man understood the universe by doing no more than understanding himself,something that is not easy to do.
He only mentioned time, that analogy can be applied to any topic that furnishes a "legal history" or fear/promises of the future, it ruins the in-between.
Love this man ✌️
alan understood the universe? slow down there Thomas, it's healthy to fear or think of the future, just ask any bum on the street and they will tell you.
It's no exaggeration to say that this man changed my life.
Recently lost my wife. She was 35. Planned our future together. Seems as if so much planning and not as much 'in the moment' times. I miss her
I never listened to fk all I left school because it offered me nothing ever I told them all to piss off .but let me tell you one thing I learned I didn’t need anyone only me! And in life I got everything I ever wanted ❤ I’m the luckiest man on this earth, best family best of it all , no regrets, xxx
This needs a million views. Not even halfway through.
A man's voice is only as good as his words.
I’m 43. I’ve always said I wouldn’t need a docs help.
Next week I get put on meds or sectioned.
I’m at the end of this chapter.
Thankyou for this.
I’m hanging on.
I'm 16 now and people who are old are sharing there experience of life and there is so much to learn from each comment , thank you for this eye-opening video.
I'll give you my learning as my son is also 16. My advice is more of an observation of what I see, mostly from younger generations. If you seek achievement (yes, the opposite of Watts) there seems to be no time in history in which you can achieve more with as much ease as now. No, I'm not saying it's easy, and it never was. But the sheer number of people that have given up and shooting low is frankly incredible.
My son is an ice hockey player. He rose to the top of the country on putting in a solid hour of effort per day. Tops. He is not a 'natural', he just put ins some effort on a consistent basis and absolutely blew away everyone around him, moved up, blew them away. In a few months he will be in Spain at the world championships every weekend he competes in some tournament flying around the US... and he was not even born there.
For me, I just enjoyed computers when I was a kid. I taught myself to program 3-4 languages before I ever attended a class, and I ended up helping the teacher. I ended up in IT, and now pull in very solid cash as a consultant, I don't need money for happiness though, if my wealth doubled my life would not be any better. I don't even try to 'make' money. I take tests and certifications and don't even study. I can do this because I just enjoy the subject enough to learn it all naturally. I hit the gym each day and choose to live my life with discipline. Each evening I make computer games. Just like I did when I was 10.
My 'advice' is not to do something because it'll make you money except to make sure that whatever you pick might actually do that(basically don't do something that'll give you student debt and never pay it off. Consider uni\college to be like a business investment. ). Whatever you do, enjoy it for what it is. Learn it backward for the sheer joy of it and hardly anyone will be able to follow you because you 'work too hard'. Remember the old saying, the journey, not the destination.
I love the comments ❤
This man was a prophet on some human level..💯
We are all the prophet
@@iamthefiremanjj yes
Prophets are _usually_ human, of course. They also tend to be obsessed with future events, which is quite contrary to the sentiment expressed here.
What a wise man. Live for now. That is the future. Thank you .❤
Prophets are also Godly men.
One of my greatest fantasies in life is when I finally am able to never need to look at a clock and keep track of time again. A point in my life when time mean nothing and is irrelevant.
2 minutes in and that was the best words of wisdom I ever heard in my life.
you sound like you don't read
@@chasefunkwhat’s the point of insulting Jen?
@@chasefunkwhat’s the point of insulting Jen?
what's the point of defending her?@@ryanvandy1615
Alan Watts pure genius 🙌👌
What a speech, again.
Makes me think to "Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present." -Alan Watts
My Life Feels like a Stand Still. Days feel like hours, Months Are like Seasons and Years are flying by and yet I am not aging. I'm almost 50 now and People still say I look 30. Sometimes 25 if I die my hair. But If I close my eyes. I can transmit myself to a Day in school in School perhaps. Remembering that day as though I was just there. All the time and all the motions. All the People. Me Playing with my transformers toys. What is time? If We can not travel it with our energy. Linear time is something that kepts us limited. If you do not limit yourself. You can Move through time.
God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa
Its taken me years to learn the pleasure of living in the now, now is the only reality, now you can do anything, immediately, there is no need to wait or to ponder, these things create depressions and anxieties, yesterday has gone, tomorrow may never come but the now is tangible, it exists, now!!!
Facing death through cancer made me have to ignore tmrw by being too occupied today, it was the only and best way to remain calm, i survived and i've been left with this mindset, when i was better i could not undo these changes, they were a permanent new mindset, when trying to get back to my old self it upset me that i couldnt look at life the same way as before but now @ 30 yrs on its become the greatest gift i've ever recieved, i think of others first but do not ignore my own needs either, i've truly gained the motivation to enjoy every second of this existence, a happy accident i guess, from such a traumatic time came my salvation, a true love of life!!!
Everyone's awakening process is different. Mine came much late in life.
@@elonever.2.071 obviously
"You can't live it full unless you live fully now"
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I've heard countless audio and visuals Alan Watts speeches and lectures but this one... So, I hear Alan Watts, and it's his voice it's like a father figure trying to give you some good advice on "Life"... I really heard this one. 🎉Well put together🌄
😻😻🥳😊😉
I’m not bound by time I’m endless I’m eternal.
LMAO, just wait till you get to be my age and wake up in the morning with aches and pains.
@@tchkvskywooosh
@@tchkvsky But you woke up each morning so far, right?
Ok Thanos....
and maybe, juuuuust maybe a lil dillusional.
Never in my life have I watched a video back to back. This is profound. It hit me so hard. As a people we walk heads pointed straight forward, we need to look to the left and right of us to enjoy the now.
Alan Watts should be taught in all our lives, his philosophy is so profound and we all need it to enjoy life and fight against the toxic influences and obsession over comparison to others. I have used his teachings to try and recognize when I am wanting something because of jealousy or if it will actually add value to my life. I find the only things worth my time and money are things that bring smiles and joy to my kids lives anything that brings us into the world in a playful nature. Clothes, shoes, jewelry, technology, etc are all things that remove us from nature. I would rather spend an hour on a beautiful hike than sitting in front of the tv or my phone. Remove the technology and do things outside and you will be happier.
This moment...goes on forever...
There have been times, in my youth, that I was living in the moment, fleeting moments
Living the present, and not worrying about the future truly fills you with energy. Especially 80 year olds still working at a supermarket! Wow! obviously they lived a great life in their twenties 😅
I live my spirit not by the flesh 💫🙌🙏💞
You can live in the present and prepare for the future. You just shouldn't obsess over the past or future because all we really have is the NOW
Live in the moment, live for the moment, ALWAYS
Someone once told me, " if you want to make GOD laugh, make a plan ".
Great video! Thank You 😊🙏 ☯️
Great Comment, Thank You^^
My Mother always phrased it this way, "Do you know how to make God laugh? ― Tell him your plans." It's the same meaning, but if we decide to, 'not force anything in life' and then patentiants plays a huge role.
ya, you hear that kids?!?! don't plan for your future and you'll make God laugh. Probably because you'll be squeegeeing somebody's windshield for quarters on some God forsaken intersection while God says under His breath, Listen to what Alan watts said on life advice eh , heh heh heh. look at you now, living in the moment!
He was a brilliant man for his time. Things are always moving tho. Creating is fun. Changes and moving through precipices is good. There's always a spectrum of a flow. I try to incorporate my child self into the flow
Alan is a beautiful teacher
I was lucky enough to meet and hear Alan Watts. He had an glow about him. What a mind.
"in the middle of life" That great moment at the beginning of Dante's Inferno. Its a momentous occasion of clarity and understanding.
You can't live at all unless you live fully now!!!
Years ago I had a job that was physically draining. I told an older co worker that I'll be glad when the weekend gets her. He said stop wishing your life away.
I read Tolle's " The Power of Now." It changed my life, I am more free and no longer bored of the moments waiting for a future they may or may not be.
All we have is right now...and it's always right now.
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Their is no Now only the past and immediate future, you read this in the past.
@hardlines2635 yeah...but you wrote it in the here and now...
I have never seen this man before but to me that just came across as intensely profound!
You should check out his other speeches then. I highly recommend!
it seems profound but when looked at closer planning for the future, education, hard work is simply how you build a better tommorow, you can bargain with your future and it works. Alan fails to credit how hard work and planning can improve your future and further more (and this is just as important) how the lack of education or hardwork and planning can lead to a lack luster future. I think it's easy to be critical of society when all you do is study eastern philosophy at berkley and get high with your hippie buddies.
I wrote We Are Gods to share with people my belief that we are in control of what happens to us when we are present in the moment and we don't allow society and circumstances to distract us with false illusions ❤
Where can I find this book?
I learned lucid dreams in my early/mid teens, and what I dreamt most was of flying, or sex. I got proficient enough at lucid dreaming that whenever I had nightmares I was aware of it being a nightmare and could just stop it being a nightmare. What happened as time wore on is that I stopped remembering dreams, I just flat out pass out the moment my head touches my pillow, and wake up 7-8 hours later without memories of dreams. I never started wistfully wishing for less control of dreams.
But yeah, live in the now, but work for tomorrow.
Most people get older when they age. Alan Watts got younger when he got wiser. May you rest in peace, soulful jester
No one could've said it better. The truth can't be uttered any truer.
One of the most intelligent thinkers of our time.
You better read between the lines, pal.
which means what?@@yankee2666
not by a longshot
Only minutes in and my heart is warmed by the poetic way "what I know and live" is expressed in this video. What a blessing to live heaven on earth, simply by deciding to be uncontrolled and unbothered! Light, love, and truth to all!
Thank you for this video. I needed this. Those who are naturally awakening, need this. Thank you.
This was awesome. Even more of a brainscrew when you realize that time itself isn't a static thing. You can bend it, and even two people born at the same moment can experience time differently. Children experience time slower (Seriously). Smaller things still experience time even slower, such as flies, which is why it's so hard to catch the bastards. They see in slowmo. If you leave the Earth you will age slower, and if you were on a more dense planet, time would feel regular to you but move very fast outside of the planet in comparison to you. Time, itself, is the illusion.
Well said!
I have always felt when younger time was slower, hours longer, a Saturday when around 9 to 12 years old or a Sunday day out with mates when around 18 to 22 seemed a lot longer days 😮
@@apdcarrchildren do experience time slightly differently due to being physically smaller but it also has to do with how much time they have experienced. Vsauce has a great video explaining this. But the general idea is that as a child you’ve only been alive a very short time so small chunks of time feel longer. For a 1year old 1 month of time is a 12 of their life. Or for a 5yr old 1 year is a 5th if their entire life. Versus adults who as they get older & older small chunks of time make up less & less of their total life span. Once that 5year old doubles their age to 10years old that same 1 year period is now only a tenth of their life instead of a fifth. And as you start to stretch that out to meet a 20year old, 50 year old, etc. that 1 year period becomes a much smaller piece of their lifetime. So yes as we age time will feel as though it continues to speed up. We also tend to feel like certain parts of our lives went by very quickly when they are more exciting. The periods in life where the big events are happening. We have rapid development in our childhood & are always experiencing what feels like big moments. Then as late teens & young adults we have a lot of big experiences as well. Graduation, moving out on our own, meeting our partners, college/careers, children being born, etc. Versus other decades that we don’t have near as many big changes going on. Of course the timeline will vary a bit due to our different life experiences but it holds true as a generality.
Planets dont exist pal. .
@@ricktherok6716 Then what are you standing on? :p
This video is so helpful. I have Autism and ADHD. I struggle with time even if I don't want too. And I feel like I could watch this every day and it would help every day. Thank you ❤ anyone else that's autistic and agrees? I'd appreciate any positivity in my life right now. No rush right?
Go with the flow.😊
God tells us not to worry about tomorrow or dwell on our past. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed and the past cannot be changed that's why today is a present to live and make the best it can be.
this made sense to me,im 59 years old,ive spent most my life planning goals,and a future that has never worked out like i planned it,the days behind me more then the days ahead of me,i havent ever lived in the moment,so ive never really lived at all,just existed to plan a future i have never reached
"The time in-between is just a dream" -Me
What a wise man. Live in the now. That is the future. Thank you.❤
iam 38 and one lesson that i learned in life: you get used to everything and it becomes normal. thats why its important to gradually improve. because if you get everything right from the beginning, its near impossible to improve the situation and no matter how much you have, after a while, it will become normal and you want more.
Alan Watts will have you breezing thru with 0 stress...Love this guy!!!
He had quite a couple of unshakeable addictions in his own life though and addictions are usually a reaction to stress. So he certainly had some stressors himself. Had an open marriage and then went through a divorce. Etc. Maybe what you would call a "wounded healer".
Death implies life, and life implies death. The degree to which you are willing to die is the same degree to which you are willing to live.
The man who understands the Tao in the morning can die contently in the evening.
I've gained more awareness and realizations from this one video than the hundreds of videos on "the now" and "the future" combined. This is the best explanation of why "now" is more important than any other reference to time. Thanks, True Meaning. And thanks, Alan Watts.
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Yes , past is memory , history is memory , future is illusion , and only current present that shape those future , with action not with words and dream , by action to make the future reality , palling and doing it , not just planning and planning without any actual action , a physical action 👍🏻
And this is why we call him a mystic.❤
America is not a country. It’s a business
Yes, it is if you believe that, I think you need to watch more Alan Watts videos you seem to miss the point. You have the choice to think the way you want to think and create the life you want how you think about things will dictate your reality. America is the greatest country in the world, and I’m gonna use it as my vehicle to create health, wealth and prosperity and give back to others as much as I can. Do you see the difference in what you say and what I say research nihilism. It’s a trap. Don’t be fooled
All nations are commerce lead. It builds nations.
And will continue to be so until we have had enough.
One of the best Alan Watts videos I've seen. Wow.
My enlightenment happened in the middle of the 11th grade.
I actually woke up and left in the middle of the day.
Nobody came looking for me ...
Wow! I really resonated with that William….just walked away
I’m sorry, I didn’t realise I’d called you William, that may not be your name…apologies
they call yesterday the past because it’s gone tomorrow the future and unknown but now it’s today is the present because it truly is a gift
if Alan Watts would see our lives now in 2024 he would cry.
Music doesn’t worry about making what it doesn’t have, it just makes whatever with whatever is at its disposal.
For more than 35 years for me now, I have been enriched in my thought by the teachings of Alan Watts, and like some, when I read his words in text, I hear them spoken in his inimitable voice. Inimitable? Why then does it reproduce so perfectly, with such accuracy ? The answer is in the human mind.
He made a comparison to living for the now as to listening to music: "...one can settle into full participation with the momentary reality of life as it goes along, just like music". Priceless! 👍🏻
Love you Alan Watts where ever you are❤
This was fantastic. Thank you for creating this for the world. ❤
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you know he died in '73 right??!?!
Really excellent video. We need to get this out there to help people wake up.
It’s hard to wake people up . They are mainly brainwashed