The Ego Illusion ~ Alan Watts
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The Ego Illusion ~ Alan Watts
"Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word "water" is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism." Alan Watts
He is so well spoken.
Indeed. Watts was an Anglican clergyman in the 1940s/50s back in the days when clergy spoke very well - I would love to have heard him preach.
This is an understatement
I love his laugh. And that good guy crack in his voice.
"That is true if YOU believe it, and if you don't IT isnt!" hahaha
"Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word "water" is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism." Alan Watts
Absolutely. This fundamental truth must become the basis of our whole education All other knowledge and understanding must proceed from this. If we're to survive as a species, if we're ever to overcome the tremendous problems that engulf us, we need to be completely grounded in and transformed by this realisation. Without it we'll just continue to destroy each other and our planet.
John Sharman hello, have you read " The book: on the taboo against knowing who you are" by Alan watts?
Aaron L is it a good book?
I think the comparison to the word water is a bad one. Everyone knows what water is and has felt it, seen it. No one ever recognizes their own ego because they believe that they are their ego. They recognize it in everyone else though. Your ego is the demiurge that keeps you in duality, which is all your opinions that could never be truth because truth is not opinion. It keeps you from ever knowing the truth of anything.
Words are only symbols of symbols...twice removed from reality
I've been reading Alan Watts books since I was a teenager.. Im an old hippie.. He's in my age group & very aware & awake his entire life.. Wonderful stuff he says
thats so cool . im a teenager now 18 y old and I love all of his books and seminars.
Im from brazil , peace (:
With all your accumulated knowledge, what is the meaning of existence and what do you think happens after death?
this man has a real warmth and ruthless compassion not tainted by giving in to sweetening things.
i cant believe i ever told myself that life was pointless
You're it! Life is your perception.
Hand of God : where does this thought of 'meaning' come from ? Is it a thought ? Well - then you're still in the ego trap ;-)
In order to be found, you must be lost. I spent three years in a stoned haze before I was ready to accept who I really was. Never looking back ❤️
Far Rider is it not so that the thought you shouldn’t have a thought is also a thought?
Mr Man : THAT's the way it IS !
Attaching a 'meaning' is thought process and therefore a hinderance in *experiencing* Reality.
Now, here a nice shorty :
*Master and disciple out on walk. Master asks - 'Do you smell the bush ?' Disciple - 'Yes.' Master - ' You see i'm holding nothing back ! I have nothing to teach .'* .•°
The word is never the thing. The word is a symbol of the thing. There can be a thousand words attempting to describe the thing. The Action. The Being or Doing. There are five hundred thousand words and counting in the English Language, there are thousands of languages. Zen to one means something different to those who know only the words, and to those who know how to experience it. Thanks for posting this. Added this clip to my Alan Watts Playlist.
If Alan Watts was born in 0 he would have been Jesus for sure. The charisma and word fluidity with this man is unparalleled.
There has been many "jesus´" and buddhas and will be. Every time has their own:)
Constantine Catheart we are Jesus?
"Anything can, from this child point of view, be completely fascinating. Not because it means anything, but just for what it is."
I could listen to his voice all day... :-)
Me too, but I like his laughter even more :-)
He has come to be our friend through time. Alan Watts is one for the things I am most grateful for from the internet, most of the rest is, ehh, Boing. hahah
Listen to Terence McKenna. I could listen to him for hours and hours.
Adam Headley seriously he is so awesome too!
I honestly feel like though, his talks about DMT got no where when describing the elves n stuff, but his simple statement that you need to take the final hit to break through was always intense and seriously fucking so heavy.
His talks on Novelty theory though are amazing, I love them, he practically opened my mind to seeing the world a whole other way. The perspective is amazing. The talks with all 3, rupert sheldrake, terence mckenna, and ralph abraham were seriously cosmic...
Why do so few people talk about this man and his views? I only found out about him through TH-cam! You can learn more from this guy than from some run of the mill TV evangelist
+CosmicUndeadElf Exactly, this is the funny thing, In Slovakia NOONE KNOW HIM, like if we take statistics, from 1000 people maximal 3 people know him very well, and 6 people watched video what do you mostly desire and forget totally about allan watts :D I would take it like all the time if there would be a program with phylosophical messages...
+CosmicUndeadElf The miracles and wonders of TH-cam. I agree. I have a playlist of 500+ Alan Watts videos on youtube and I keep finding more to add every day.
👍I learn so much from him one day I would love to have a conversation with him someplace in the afterlife
+CosmicUndeadElf He's really deep. Definitely intelligent man with interesting ideas but his philosophy is not the most easily accessible or understood to the novice.
SemperAugustusBubble but anyone can learn it he explains it so good man!!!
love the tune in the background to add a sent of warmth to his voice
I could listen to him for hours!
All those great words came from him before I was born, what a great mind!
Alan Watts' laugh could light up the entire universe
The bit he describes at the end really reminded me of my mushroom experience and the lesson there. It made the cultural pre-learned filters disappear, and gave the childlike view on the world and it made the biggest impression on nature. I remember watching a specific tree and literally falling in love with it, as it was the most beautiful organism I've ever seen in my life. And everything had that sort of magical feeling when you were still a kid. That everything is 'new' and an experience in the moment.
I'm so grateful for that insight, because it has changed me for the better and even after more than a decade I still learn from it.
exactly! this reminds of a quote from Terence McKenna where he was talking about a DMT trip, and he said that he was still learning from that trip 10 years from when he did it haha
I think he could read the dictionary and make it sound fascinating
John : in deed
Hahaha, and meaningful.🙂
And understandable , however that what the purpose of dictionary. But with him or without him you can understand it, its just him who may be helping us a bit. I am thank full.
love listening to this guy, would of loved to have met him.
Irishfox same here
Me too Irishfox. Alan Watts one of our leaders in logic. peace and love x
we are him baby
that's just my ego saying that your ego thinks u are it
@@joaopedrocarvalhodepaulade2516 what do you mean?
So supposedly everyone is God experiencing a different part of the universe all at the same time for God knows no limits of time and space.
FANCY SANDWICH BAR LOL THAT HAD ME ROLLING IN TEAR'S
Probably Subway
Nothing like sitting with a drink by the lake front listening to Alan Watts 🍺
Its so inspiring listening to Alan Watts!
Kind of weird he died long before I was born yet he feels so alive.
He speaks. And Im calm.
wonderful thanky you
If we could just listen to alan watss and be kind to each other help one onther the world would be a better place
Listen too him for eternity , amazing awareness :)
Thank you cosmiccontinuum
I do too. Be well!
Thank You
Muito Obrigada🙏💖🤗🤗🤗🍀🍒🇵🇹
Thank You for putting this play list together ;) Alan Watt`s is just Excellent So thank you Again for putting them all in one place Also loaded playlist to my channel Thank you ;)
'Ego' seems to be a misunderstanding of an energy that is actually the cycle of life evolutionary efficiency process that is within all beings and things. Kinda the contraction before expansion. Or the boundary between the past and the present and the future. Our greatest gift is our ability to see the past, the present a n d the future a l l at the same time. Our greatest burden is not accepting this.
Badoodieda badoodieda badoodieda.
Help??? what is that?
The universe!
Hahaha! :-D
Pa poot pa poot pa poot pa poot. Deet deet ring a ding ding. :-)
@@raeannt Skrrrrt
The master needs no musical accompaniment. We are so afraid of silence. Every second needs to be filled in with something as if beingness we're not enough, Spiritual videos now become a new form of entertainment 😄
A rather fancy sandwich bar haha I love this guy
If my brother could watch this an put his ego in his ass he would enjoy his life
It's so simple! Boing
Thanks. subscribed and shared on fb
I don't think anyone who is below 30 should listen this, to hear Alan watt.
My respect is no less for man , as a student listened him for over a year almost. I am 27 almost
Why shouldn't anyone below the age of thirty not listen to him, or anything else for that matter?
The steel sword turns into a golden sword by the touch of the Philosopher's stone, and though it retains its former form it becomes incapable of injuring any one. Similarly, the outward form of a man who has touched the feet of the Almighty is not changed, but he no longer doeth any evil.― Ramakrishna
AUSPICIOUS KONDOR : AUM 4 RamaKrishna
The Ego is a human condition, based on the presence of "DOUBLE LOGIC" in the structure of the human Genome.
Alan Watts is one of my masters...
no ego its wonderful to be free to just be.
How can you get rid of something that doesn't exist?
true
A person would have had to live my life to understand my own mind as I do x
I came here because I'm saddened to realise that there's no afterlife and if my memories be fully deleted the person that lives in this body in which my 'self' dwelth will not me be any longer.
watts was my 1st ORGASIM MANO OPED BLEW MY MIND STILL DAMMM LOVE HIM WITH THE MUSIC NICE VID I SLEEP 2 HIM EVERY NITE IAM MUSIC TO THE SPACE INT AIR
Values aren't arbitrary.. they are a the result of our drive for survival. Values are relative to needs (relative, but not arbitrary)
Look he's on point his way was different to point at another saying his or her way is wrong that makes u wrong
loved the talk, just wish these kinds of videos didnt play the music in the background. I find it quite distracting
I make my turning everything to one's own advantage, remember my wonderful life, recall one's splendid superior superb self of my past, recollect my historical total own all selves. Be reminded of my historical life, one's life history. Be the most grave graven serious solemn self.
我田引水す、素晴らしい人生を覚え過去のその人の見事で華麗な優れた優秀なる自身を思い出す、歴史総自己全自身思い起こす。歴史人生生活史回想す。最も真剣銘記篆刻重大深刻厳粛自身であれ。
That was a beautiful video; great animation and music. Does the music have a title?
Most probably.
Which talk is this from? I'd love to hear the whole thing!
Anyone know name of music played in the background?
Alan watts sounds like the younger brother of Lester Levenson
Final Fantasy 7 music?
What is the background music called ?
Very wise as usual ...better without the background music though
time doesn't really mean anything
You are Alan Watts because your ego tells you so. If the ego is fictitious, then so must you be.
Ego is what generates what the majority know as life. It is anything but fictitious to most of mankind. You may underststand why it exists, but again, it's the only reality most will ever know.
Nothing ordinary will change that unless the person listening is already aware that all is not as it seems.
The only thing that i have trouble with is that there is supposidly a body-counciousness and it feels like it is under a certain control.
Since everything else that is perceived by the 5 senses seems to act on its own, the conclusion that there is power over the estimated subject, meaning ego-I, creates this sense of an isolated entity.
But it is strange at times, because once thoughts do not appear, it is a feeling that even the body and all actions comming from it, go on automatically. Nevertheless, you are unable to leave the body as long as it functions, which is also a very strange thing.
Why does counciousness limit itself to a "little me" is just beyond me. Since i am not doing it and it does it itself, why the hassle?
u can
its zen............... don`t explain
alan watts awakens the beast within me
ig: jmanthemastermind
Please dude, this is the wrong comment section to ego trip
the ego is the human personality not the REAL self
"What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain". - Morpheus
xoxo
Self excitement is bff and lust Romance feeling. See this for self in daydream. @consciouspi
How are you? It's really attracxive. waste young What's your opinion about it, guyt 11
4:32
it's funny that people come on here to learn the ego and judge his ego for the video lol. listen to the words. just listen and learn.
Because he IS his ego, yet he tries to dismiss it as a falsity.
*****
Illusion, yes. Game, no.
You mean 'in the now'. I don't go for that. I find it meaningless.
Course it matters, or why are you telling me?
I was born in the past. I still exist. Therefore the past also is a place where there is life. Otherwise, I would be dead already.
If there's no past, why did you have to wait for my reply? What you say has no basis. Not logical, nor even valid. For what you say to be true, time has no meaning. This thread alone proves otherwise.
Life is not a game. Maybe it was for you, but that isn't what everybody else will find. Suffering, or happiness, is not to be toyed with. Oh, if you subscribe to 'the now', where nothing matters (except it does), then that's OK isn't it?
It matters alright, but it's easy to dismiss everything if you remove what is essential to existence. Too many believe they are far more than they are. That's why they are still here though, isn't it? They are bound.
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Of course you had to wait. By your evaluation you already know, and have entered the information I am to read in the future. Simultaneously, you know all I am going to write to you. Except you don't of course. You can't reply until I have. You are bound by time.
'Lol'.... Really?
Suffering is not a choice. It's a fact. Your personal 'dream', does not affect anybody else I can assure you.
No mind = no suffering... Not more consciousness nonsense is it? OK, well I did say personal dream. Reality is totally different I'm afraid.
I'm replying to your comment, and my mind is nowhere else at that time.
So what's so special about not being distracted as you do a menial task? Even for somebody who lives in the past and future, I can easily accomplish that, and more. In fact, I can do several things at once. So can toddlers.
Why are you talking as if basic functions are something special?
You'll have to do better than that...
Why put in the music i cant hear him properly
is this a Disney soundtrack
Where do I find the music
Audioblocks.com. You have to be a member to access the music,
Music always "means something," Alan Watts. Some music may derive from emotions, but emotions derive from occurrences and interpretations. He has said this before and it's nonsense. The only way music could not mean anything is if a chance occurrence happened, like a brick falling upon a piano, which wouldn't even be music. Music, by its very nature, is ordered around a system of thought. Alan is a great thinker, but many times I listen to him and he says something completely off the wall like "it's better to tell a child if you hate him, that way he knows where you stand." Then I just question every bit of his logic after that.
Listen to his talks as if it were music. Then you will understand what he is saying.
... ok
music is non sense, marvelous non sense :)
I think he means that music, in and of itself, doesn't mean anything. We project the meaning on to it.
Yeah, but that's not true.
Why is the music so loud :-(
7:27😂
I find it strange that I cannot keep my attention to what he is saying. Actually, I never have a problem with that, I can follow almost everything. Weird right? Haha
Can somebody tell me, what is the background music?
→ Poet's Heart
cosmiccontinuum by which band? If I search Poets , it comes up with 10 different bands
I found Poet's Heart on a audio membership site that I subscribed to. I'm no longer a member and don't have access to the bands name.
Seems to be one of the great mysteries of the universe
Hi everyone! I have a question. As I understand the purpose of Zen teaching is to help to realize that there is no such thing as separate "I" and the realization of it is what enlightenment is about (seeing the truth). Of cause we should make the difference between understanding and realization. I understand the concept but I do not realize it (don't see the truth) and that is why I can't say that I'm enlightened. This is how I see it. My question is does Christianity offer any way to achieve enlightenment(to see the truth)? It's obviously that the truth is one. So if there is such a way in Christianity it should bring to the same truth as what Zen teaching points to.
enlightment happens now not yesterday or tommorow .
Dmitri2000
There is only one truth, and this existence is not it. That's my belief. Does saying that mean i'm enlightened? Course not, but many think they are. What is this thing you don't see? Please explain. Why do you call it enlightenment?
True enlightenment in Christianity calls it the second birth. Or born again. This isn't self proclaimed 'born again Christians', but something far more special.
Dmitri Gluskov : well may be look at it from this point - Could it be that your thinking about 'achieving enlightenment' is exactly the one and last thing getting in your way to be it ? (Christian - , Buddhist - , Hindu - , Muslim path ) Thinking is conceptualisation is communication along nonexistent symbolisms . How do we come to the opinion that by using nonexistent means , anyone can realize that nonexisting faculty of 'enlightenment' ? It just can't be *done* ! Is it just a refined way of the ego to pretend that thoughts are helpful in any case? Relinquishing strife - @nd you are there. Fully realized and next moment it all will disappear again. BUT if it has happened once it can happen again and again again !maybe ;-) *omPEACEom*
@@farrider3339 what will happen when we die?
@@virgilhilts2552 : nothing the way it is figured out by any brain.
And nothing beyond the figment .
Are you ready to accept ? .•°
really don't like that music in the background.
It sounds like a wake.
Matthew Chalfant lmao same
I like it.
song ?
+Jedi Maneuvers "Poet's Heart"
+cosmiccontinuum by who if you don't mind?, kinda got lost looking for it.
+Jedi Maneuvers I got the song through an audio membership site that I subscribed to in the past called AudioBlocks.com. I don't believe an author was listed with the song.
What is this piece of music??
Poet's Heart
You little treasure! What a diamond art thou!
Many thanks ☺️☺️☺️🙏
I am not sure what are you on about, have a good day
Music is too loud
what the hell is this guy talking about? can someone explain how knowing this brings any use to our lives?
Go watch TMZ this is not for you fuck face
It can get easier to letting go and relaxing. Paradoxically when doing just that, relaxing and letting go, it all feels good.
can someone please advise me on how I can achieve ego death/enlightenment without psychedelics coz I'm frightened of tripping....wish I wasn't!
I just try to keep an inventory of how i feel in everyday situations then i have to look at how i feel and decide if that feeling is because of a belief i have or had then make an effort to laugh and let it go. It is a daily thing but after a while it becomes a part of you and you dont need drugs to do it.
You can't achieve ego death/enlightenment because it isn't your choice. Nor with with psychedelics because they only offer illusion within illusion.
+ChaoticaExtreme Nahhh dude, psychs will literally shut off the area in your brain that deals with ego. If you want to experience ego death, you temporaliy restrict acsess to it. You can do this with really strong meditation and control over your brain, or just take a couple grams of shrooms or something
Kaphooey Boyo
How do you know you have 'shut it off''?
One's ego is master. Integral to ones being. It is not a brain 'part'. It can't be tricked, and you are doing what the ego wants by taking these 'shrooms'.
The ego is ever present.A human cannot function without it as it is who, and what you are.
well your perception of your ego can be blocked lol. and yeah, you know you've reached ego death when you aren't a human anymore and you cant even tell what you are. You literally can NOT understand what you are or who you are or how you are thinking or what thinking even is. its crazy. unhealthy maybe? i do not know the answer to that, but i know it is unreal
Fucking british accent! im yust interested in music boing boing hahahaha:)
i just fail to see the relevance. did you not know there were intelligent people around before the 90s?
Gotta love all the wannabe gurus in the comment sections of these videos
tinch
I'm very greatful for the posting of Alan Watts videos, but the music is annoyingly distracting. It's not necessary, please stop putting mystical music under his voice..
I like when he talked about contemplation. When I am r e t u r n i n g from one of the many journeys, I refer to the experience, in part, as contemplative stillness. This is when my mind begins to be active and responsive to o u r experience and wants to know what we went through! What appears to be s t u c k in my head, is, really,, heartminded instead! So!, I share with my mind! It really wants to know! Via around and within the s o c a l l e d ego!
i just don't see the relevance between his words and your birth. are you amazed people said smart things before you were born?
Yeah, why shouldn't we? It can feel comforting knowing others thought in the same patterns as one self.
No music is needed....
Please remove the music! It's too distracting and completely unnecessary!
Get rid of the music; it doesn't contribute ANYTHING, in fact, it detracts from the wisdom on Alan Watts, which is the reason anybody watching this video is watching it.
+rcb0683 I think people have vastly different opinions when it comes to the musical overlay with his lectures.
Personally, his "Nature of Consciousness" lecture with the music is one of my favorites.
However, the comments reflect people don'y enjoy it as much.
Perhaps we compliment each others differences when it comes to music vs pure language.
+Kellen Freeman Some people do not have the ability to block out sounds on one wavelength while listening in on another.
You don't seem to like me. Any chance you'll leave?
rcb0683
all that you have written, is your opinion.
This dude has probably done too much drugs.
Apparently people close to him had been worried for his high amount of alcohol consumption
Perhaps you have not done ‘enough’ drugs. ☺️
Annoying music.
The mind, it can separate that... The music was just fine..
I don't buy what he is selling.
I don't think he's selling anything.
Freakin' annoying music.