Alan Watts - Get rid of all Religion

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  • Alan Watts in this lecture emphasizes that the ideal of Religion is to get rid of it eventually. While giving a lecture on the practise of Yoga to his audience, Alan Watts portends that Yoga just like every other religion should be dropped. All Religions are like a path leading to Self-Realization. They are like signposts, so to say. They are not the address.
    Speaker: Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
    A British philosopher, writer, and speaker - Alan Watts was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.
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    This is an edit of the Alan Watts speech Ways of Liberation. Thank you for watching Alan Watts | Get rid of Religion
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  • @aldozkyv3231
    @aldozkyv3231 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My right ear became enlightened.

  • @gardinselmer1005
    @gardinselmer1005 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    My Religion/Cult is called Critical thinking combined with comon sense. I have a strong set of morals and understand right from wrong. I don't need a Pastor, Iman, Father, Minister to tell me how to live a good life.

  • @Traeumer13
    @Traeumer13 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Alan Watts is great. He very often showes the point.

    • @scotnick59
      @scotnick59 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      sadly, he succumbed to being a heavy smoker/drinker

    • @Traeumer13
      @Traeumer13 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@scotnick59 It was his life.

    • @meself349
      @meself349 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@scotnick59The archetypal "wounded healer"

  • @mrheckles6076
    @mrheckles6076 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great, another video with audio for my right ear only, my preferred ear! How lucky am I?

  • @weaselscreamer
    @weaselscreamer ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you so much for the beautiful drive and the wisdom. I had a very strong feeling of "Heimweh" as I was looking at all the buildings, signs and nature. I miss Germany very much.

    • @Ms_Scharfenort
      @Ms_Scharfenort  ปีที่แล้ว

      Ich verstehe, Andrew. Kein Platz (Ort) ist wie Zuhause. Thanks for watching ✨

  • @kennethlauer4735
    @kennethlauer4735 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I eat when im hungry
    I drink when im dry
    If a tree dont fall on me
    Ill live till i die

    • @shanrobinson4329
      @shanrobinson4329 ปีที่แล้ว

      I perceive this context as arranged realy beautifully

    • @galahaaad
      @galahaaad ปีที่แล้ว

      And if a tree does fall on you, you will live till you die anyway 😉

    • @shanrobinson4329
      @shanrobinson4329 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wat if you are the tree that falls on itself ?

    • @isleofarran7234
      @isleofarran7234 ปีที่แล้ว

      But you are the tree, feed it.. with all the light you have been given.......

  • @nitishpandeyongoogle
    @nitishpandeyongoogle ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nirvikalpa samadhi ❤

  • @DaveTucker-ip3pg
    @DaveTucker-ip3pg ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Ah the title is wrong, the point of the speech was never to get rid of religion, but how to not be overly dependent on religion
    Hinduism is a pluralistic religion which believes that there are multiple ways to achieve enlightenment, while Abrahamic religions believe in only one way and if u don't you are a heretic . The existence of religion isn't really bad at all but forcing everyone to follow it and not allowing them to question is dangerous

    • @Ms_Scharfenort
      @Ms_Scharfenort  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello Dave. This is only an excerpt from his lecture on Ways of Liberation on Yoga. Alan was speaking generally on Yoga and Religion and the need to get rid of it all- as the end goal. Alan did not imply that Religion was somewhat bad either. Appreciate your thoughts and thanks for watching✨

  • @lepakshig5186
    @lepakshig5186 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That voice pierces everything

  • @totaldestruction930
    @totaldestruction930 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a Christian, we look forward to seeing the end of false religion, God has always defended his true worshippers through out the Bible.

    • @ishaanmurarka9082
      @ishaanmurarka9082 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As a "Christian" - This is the false. You are not a christian or anything. You just are.

    • @bskm5322
      @bskm5322 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😮😮😮

  • @ud1235
    @ud1235 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Jainism is very close to Buddhism. Being a jain - resonate it all.

  • @rustysmalls
    @rustysmalls ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The word worship comes from an older word, worthship. What is your highest worth? If not mainstream religion, then we will worship something else

  • @user-jv6oh5uy2g
    @user-jv6oh5uy2g ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maybe he's talking about the biggest religion which is Government.

    • @Ms_Scharfenort
      @Ms_Scharfenort  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe 🙂. The present (global) government and their policies feel indeed like some kind religion. Thanks for watching ✨

  • @roellopez3737
    @roellopez3737 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Humans are the only species that can be skinned by religion over and over again , doing away with learned behaviors is the path to spiritual freedom .

  • @josevasquez-ju8rb
    @josevasquez-ju8rb ปีที่แล้ว +1

    relegion became only a word . you agree.

    • @Ms_Scharfenort
      @Ms_Scharfenort  ปีที่แล้ว

      It depends on the context. For some people, religion is everything. Thanks for watching✨

  • @joansaleh7909
    @joansaleh7909 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am a muslim and me focusing on my creaters worship gives me power happiness, peace.
    Mentaly and physicaly

    • @shanrobinson4329
      @shanrobinson4329 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      These arnt given they are. if you want to hold something responsible for you then you will loose your mind

    • @zenon3021
      @zenon3021 ปีที่แล้ว

      the problem is that you are basing your life around a fantasy book and confusing fiction vs reality. Christianity & Islam are based on the Old Testament - a fantasy book with talking trees, talking animals, zombies, magic, 950 year old people, mythical global flooding, and a hundred+ scientifically & morally BACKWARDS passages. That's the birthplace of your religion.
      Religion makes people happy though because thinking about god gives people dopamine, very similar to cocaine.

    • @fishcrow2848
      @fishcrow2848 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am a Christian, and I feel the same as you. Peace be on you.

    • @shanrobinson4329
      @shanrobinson4329 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fishcrow2848 sorry 🐛

    • @zenon3021
      @zenon3021 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@fishcrow2848 As a Christian, how many of these Bible verses do you agree with (morally):
      Ephesians 6:5 “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ.”
      Leviticus 25: 44-46 “You may purchase male and female slaves from among the nations around you […] You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance.”
      Exodus 21:20 “If a man beats his male or female slave with a club and the slave dies as a result, the owner must be punished. If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken for he (the slave) is his property”
      Exodus 21:2 “If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years, but on the seventh shall go out as a free man without payment”
      Exodus 21:7 “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are”
      1 Peter 2:18 “Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.”
      Psalm 137:9 “Happy/Blessed is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.”
      1 Timothy 2:12 “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent”
      Deut. 25:11-12 “If two Israelite men get into a fight and the wife of one tries to rescue her husband by grabbing the testicles of the other man, you must cut off her hand. Show her no pity.”
      Deut. 22:28-29 “If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
      1 Cor 14:35 “It is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.
      Lev 21:9 “If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she also defiles her father’s holiness, and she must be burned to death.”
      Deut 21:10-11 “When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman you may take her as your wife.”
      Numbers 31:17-18 “So kill all the boys and all the women who have had intercourse with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.”

  • @j-rad2613
    @j-rad2613 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Some people need it. For some, like myself, being human is a miserable existence. Some of us long for something more. I think religion has been responsible for more good than bad, but it does make some people happy, so let them do what makes them happy.

    • @petyrkowalski9887
      @petyrkowalski9887 ปีที่แล้ว

      I disagree. Religion has demonstrably done far more harm than good. Even if some good people do some good in the name of religion doesnt make it true or justify all the evils brought down on mankind by religion.

    • @j-rad2613
      @j-rad2613 ปีที่แล้ว

      @petyrkowalski9887 nah, it doesn't need to be abolished it needs to be fixed. People need their churches, this is a hopeless world, and it gives some people hope for something more.
      I do agree it is mostly evil, but people need something.

    • @blue-ck9ns
      @blue-ck9ns ปีที่แล้ว

      Psychedelics

  • @razony
    @razony ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At least criminalize religion outside of the home and church and have them pay their taxes.

    • @Ms_Scharfenort
      @Ms_Scharfenort  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I get your point but to „criminalize“ may be a bit too harsh. Perhaps some kind of regulation could work? Not sure if there will ever be a perfect solution. But I think that this world was never designed to be perfect. Thanks for watching ✨

  • @piehound
    @piehound ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Just a moment there Mr. Watts. Doctrine is an integral part of most Western religions including Islam. And what you give us is nothing else but more doctrine. I happen to like your teaching. But doctrine is doctrine . . . no matter who does it and no matter what the subject is. So get rid of YOU TOO ????? How nice !!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @TheSimpleTruthOne
      @TheSimpleTruthOne ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All Judaic religions; Judaism, Christianity & Islam are just murderous crime syndicates operating under the guise of “priests of God”, and idiots (sheep) mindlessly follow their foolish “doctrines” of emptiness!
      “Faith” is to people, what blinders are to horses.
      ALL religions are LIES, therefore, ALL religious “doctrines” are also LIES!
      Wake up, all of you!
      Get rid of ALL RELIGIONS, and only then will we be FREE & like “God”.

    • @mathias4851
      @mathias4851 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You know the guy is dead right? Alan just wants you to live in the moment free from organised dogma

    • @shanrobinson4329
      @shanrobinson4329 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's not selling belief you retard think about what he's saying he's sharing his perception

    • @piehound
      @piehound 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Raziel699 and YOUR personal truth is better than my personal truth ???? A better and bigger lie.

  • @nealamesbury7953
    @nealamesbury7953 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We cannot get rid of religion. You can get rid if you religion- but the questions remain, the religion remains.- so try harder.- and yet....

  • @t.c.494
    @t.c.494 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No, self-assured arrogance - get rid of it.

  • @raulsimon2218
    @raulsimon2218 ปีที่แล้ว

    Couldn´t you have driven a little more slowly?

    • @Ms_Scharfenort
      @Ms_Scharfenort  ปีที่แล้ว

      I wasn’t the one driving, Raúl.

  • @youngjezy23
    @youngjezy23 ปีที่แล้ว

    We can’t even get rid of the word because it will always be with us

  • @TheUreka
    @TheUreka ปีที่แล้ว

    You are the Brahman

    • @bskm5322
      @bskm5322 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Means?

    • @TheUreka
      @TheUreka 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bskm5322 you are it.

  • @user-yr3ty6je7g
    @user-yr3ty6je7g ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes let's get rid of religion and also government., laws, taxes, individual rights, cars,trucks,airplanes, clothing,stores,houses,roads,buildings common sense and just live anyway we want. Does that make sense too. You wish against the God who created all things and for you not to recognize that is for you to be just plain ignorant thinking. You were made in the image of God with the ability to think and love and hate and to choose how you need to live on this earth. God granted you life so that you could worship and love God and accept his provision of salvation from your sins. You are responsible for your actions and thoughts. We din against the God who made us and He died so that you wouldn't have to but make no mistake, you can wishful think about things and reject Jesus and his message but you will not change what God has written in his word concerning you and the future that will come to pass. You need to repent which means you need to change your mind about sin, about God, about his word and about this present world. You only get one chance in life to make things right.

  • @user-xn4wq4sv3r
    @user-xn4wq4sv3r ปีที่แล้ว +1

    (1) If we get rid of all religions, we will get a new religion that will worship some idol. So, the goal should be to improve the religious life of society, not to get rid of religion. (2) The ideal of yoga is to assist religion and healthcare. (3) When we are talking about yoga, we should take into account not only Hindu yoga but also Chinese yoga, especially Taoist Esoteric Yoga - the mother of Chinese medicine.

    • @Ms_Scharfenort
      @Ms_Scharfenort  ปีที่แล้ว

      Your points are enlightening, Giorgi. Thanks for sharing them!✨

  • @jeromedavid7944
    @jeromedavid7944 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always thought Limeys drive on the left not the right.

    • @jackmabel6067
      @jackmabel6067 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Looks to be the Netherlands or northern Germany, not the UK.

  • @renesoucy3444
    @renesoucy3444 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The problem is that capitalism is also a religion and that one is celebrated by all with absolutely no second thoughts… making Trump a saint… talk about lucidity and vision.

  • @vilmaseusankar2401
    @vilmaseusankar2401 ปีที่แล้ว

    We are just like dry leaves being blown hither and thither by the "great creator", who created all this universal "jhanjhat" and who is "in charge" to keep us going from bad to worst, so that the "four ages" jazz can materialise. Anybody who tries to live a saintly life, will be tempted to make mistakes that will carry him/her back to sin.

  • @UpfulWarrior
    @UpfulWarrior ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm an Orthodox Christian and I'll will always be one. This is probably the only thing I disagree on with Alan.

  • @corylyons1107
    @corylyons1107 ปีที่แล้ว

    The only religion I didnt forget was Amish, so I couldn't bear the thought of this car ride, so I left.

  • @gracehillcolorado2668
    @gracehillcolorado2668 ปีที่แล้ว

    Getting rid of ALL religion?
    Is a religion.

  • @fishcrow2848
    @fishcrow2848 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm sure this fool thinks he is all-knowing, but he just totally doesn't get it.

    • @kalords5967
      @kalords5967 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You are a greater fool by saying that he's a fool.

    • @shanrobinson4329
      @shanrobinson4329 ปีที่แล้ว

      No one gets it that's the point you retard he's sharing his perception not saying its all fact .. if you are searching for answers the way to get them is think of the question then bang your head against a wall ..

  • @MrTetsukobu
    @MrTetsukobu ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very enjoyable nonsense.

  • @giovannilevoci941
    @giovannilevoci941 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I agree all religions need to be done away with, for after all Jesus is not a religion but a reality...

    • @kalords5967
      @kalords5967 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jesus never existed. He was created by religious people

    • @shanrobinson4329
      @shanrobinson4329 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol do you see all the Jesus's on tele also XD

    • @razony
      @razony ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I bet the church you go too is identified as a religion? Christianity was made into a religion. To say you don't believe in religion, is also saying you don't believe in Jesus. Word games are just that, a game people play.

    • @giovannilevoci941
      @giovannilevoci941 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@razony I am a born again christian and an ordained minister and believe in the redeming blood of Christ and I don't attend any churches as they are all into religion of some demonic type...

    • @shanrobinson4329
      @shanrobinson4329 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@razony religion is wat you rely on one god is impossible when instinct is real ffs think about wat your saying the church is a building existance wasn't chosen for you we are freak mutations along a line of instinct

  • @blueeyebandit
    @blueeyebandit ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wish I could have paused the nonsense driving video and listen . Instead I closed my eyes to focus on the speech . I suggest editing a woman's volleyball tournament for the next video ...

  • @js8270
    @js8270 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gods are a unsubstantiated premise presented solely by bald assertion. The arguments for this belief are circular in nature presented by apologists arguing from ignorance. For the most part the belief is contingent on geographical location and cultural leanings of the people that raised them, the gods of latitude and longitude.

  • @hunterfishman7119
    @hunterfishman7119 ปีที่แล้ว

    Only 118 likes huh?
    However you see it, as long as you see it.
    We all work in unison.
    Weather we see it or not, Thats just how it is & when you realize it, you will see the reasoning for it.