Alan Watts - Flow Of Life

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Жыл бұрын

This is a talk by Alan Watts discussing the Buddhist philosophies on the natural order of life and death, as well as how individuals situate one another in relation to others, the key concept behind re-birth:
0:00 Flowing change
01:32 These things matter
05:11 Let go
07:44 Re-birth
12:40 All Is are I
15:55 A constant rhythm
17:19 Ignor-ance
21:10 Intervals
24:03 Relationships between lives
Music Featured:
Fading Language - Yesterday; Always (Original Mix)
Fading Language - Macros (Original Mix)
Logic23 & Archer Official - Obsidian (Original Mix)
Autumn Glow - North Sea (Original Mix)
Kaisaku - Restless (Original Mix)
Logic23 & Fraser - Abandon (Ambient Version)
Ōri - Happier Days Pt. I (Original Mix)
Footage:
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Special thanks to Bellergy, Dimitar Tzankov & Rogier Hoekstra
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@GringoTovar 8 ай бұрын

He opened the door to philosophy for me. I will never be the same again

@watchdiscover 7 ай бұрын

I resonate with that too

@CrabbinFever 12 күн бұрын

When I first heard him, I thought he was alive because it all seemed so relatable and current.

@fire32468 11 ай бұрын

Its incredibly relieving and beautiful to listen to this man speak. He's genuinely changed my life.

@kolloduke3341 11 ай бұрын

Try Deepak CHOPRA and RABI Blue that's if you haven't already. I think we are here because of Alan , so I think these too might also speak to you.

@mekennawilson518 7 күн бұрын

This man changed my life ❤

@CMoore. 6 ай бұрын

The path to enlightenment is not a destination, but a lifelong commitment to self-improvement. -Manly P. hall

@idek3342 Ай бұрын

Dude I want to get his book so bad. The Secret Teachings of All Ages

@nickhornfeck Ай бұрын

How can you improve something that doesn't exist?

@rlittlejohn2772 6 ай бұрын

He so wonderfully and poeticaly abke to put things into words better than most for themselves .

@pickle9753 Жыл бұрын

I’m so glad my feed rolled over onto one of these videos. I’ve never heard of Alan watts before this past month or so. He is one of the very few I’ve ever listened too, that made any sense to me at all. Every thing he says just feels like truth. Thank you for sharing. These insights feel like he is speaking poems strait out of my heart, that were always there, but I was never able to find the words to express them.

@watchdiscover Жыл бұрын

I think even being at the beginning/starting is the most exciting when his wisdom is most impressionable. I know much of my thinking was influenced well into listening over the course of the years that occurred in the covid period. Thank you for tuning in , really promising to hear this 🙏

@pickle9753 Жыл бұрын

@@watchdiscover thank you for sharing. He has completely captivated me. 🥰 I’ve never felt like my heart has ever been completely understood before. The people where I come from are mostly labourers. I didn’t know that people who thought and felt like this even existed, and have lived my entire life thinking there was some thing wrong with me because no one else around me ever felt these things. I’ve always been so confuse, and annoyed at how no one else seemed to knows these things, that all seemed so basic and Simple enough …that every one should know. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤯🤪🤦‍♀️🤣🤣❤️☯️☮️🦋🖖

@confidencedimkpa8017 Жыл бұрын

He’s is an eye opener. Honestly I’m happy for you. I have been watching him for years now.

@mikeorclem Жыл бұрын

i know a few claussens...they have good taste...

@noelolita7561 Жыл бұрын

I notice myself being able to understand Alan's lessons. Simply friendly approached. I think peaceful bc he understood the life has each one Giants I could respect. The second thought in sizes and levels are really huge. Life itself represents a life time. I can successfully believe in believing happiness. The eye of the truths will not be forgotten. Expertise made a whole lot more sense. Thank God it what was for real and nothing or no one can say bc I see my purpose as he talks about everything super important. He gives me the answers like humans from far beings would able a force to dispose before. I see the importances with his care for selfishness he knew how I was never argumentive or stubborn bc he knew I will care like I care. My good senses got recovered and I honestly will never forgive myself if I couldn't say my last peaceful words. I say " Thank you very much and i see meaningful minds that exists and gone to the next life unliving in our years made a whole space of freedom I can live life more easy and simple. Lord I thank your words I asked you guide my light.

@ThroughTheseGlasses Жыл бұрын

Alan Watts was amazing. Love listening to his thoughts. He has changed my life.

@supersportlover398 Жыл бұрын

Then you are amazing aswell for being able to see feel and understand. Because we all know 9/10 people cant...Be proud of your self my friend.

@troythomas3676 10 ай бұрын

🙏

@giovannagentile2319 9 ай бұрын

His voice is so relaxing. So glqd that my feed Rolled over onto one of thèse Video

@watchdiscover 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for tuning in

@j.o.n.a.s.u Жыл бұрын

Love the mood with this combination. ❤

@kevinmichael4829 Жыл бұрын

Who else steps back and views society like this?

@DeafEnder Жыл бұрын

Society is just a ponzi scheme

@adamroberts2541 8 ай бұрын

What a Legend " ...., Amazing listening and recollections of today ......, Thanks Heaps for the BLAST " !!!! .... got the grey matter pumping 👍👍✨✨🌎🌍

@michaelboyd6232 Жыл бұрын

Transcends time still so relevant and poignant even to this day

@MassAquaticx Жыл бұрын

Absolutely Everything is nothing, and Nothing is Everything ... when we understand we know nothing we know we know Everything ❤❤❤

@bobhope5114 Жыл бұрын

Which is to say we know nothing?

@SendThePainBelow86 Жыл бұрын

@@bobhope5114 we'll that's something... or was it.. weeeeeee

@jeffxanders3990 Жыл бұрын

You know, but you don't know, you know? Perfect irrationality (Robert Grant) - such is the dream of life.

@aWomanFreed Жыл бұрын

Huh? U been watching movies

@SendThePainBelow86 Жыл бұрын

@aWoman Freed life is a movie. Pretty decent one to. Three times better if your perspective is clean.

@nathankaiser2511 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir Alan Amen ❤🎉❤

@shannonseth-ward5008 Жыл бұрын

So relevant for what is going on right now!

@user-zr7rc8xg9k 9 ай бұрын

Good morning Faith community..let's have a blessed and productive Sunday..🙏💯🌅❤️

@draegongrime9010 11 ай бұрын

He might convince me to become a buddhist I just don’t have the time as of now to put slot of effort into it. Work and school take over my life but listing to his voice has helped me understand that life is a game and you really need to play it the right way. I have many goals and ever since I have listed to this man speak for the first time I’ve done nothing but push myself to complete them. Some have taken longer than others but the past few years of my life have been extremely rewarding due to all of my accomplishments. I can say I enjoy living unlike how I felt when I was younger and felt as if life was never going to work for me.

@GringoTovar 8 ай бұрын

You are whatever you want to be right here and now. If your Buddhist then your Buddhist. No rules against it. No rules for it. Just be my friend 😊 your happiness doesn’t require a manual.

@TerribleShmeltingAccident Жыл бұрын

Ty Mr watts🙏🏻

@nathananderson8720 9 ай бұрын

This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my KZfaq channel 6 months ago about self development. Now I have 501 subs and > 100 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.

@watchdiscover 8 ай бұрын

This is very inspiring to hear, the beginnings of the process with the channel are the hardest I think, but also is the perseverance, but that perseverance should be tempered by your enjoyment and personal reward . Otherwise the process becomes torturous. Such is the backward law Alan Watts once spoke of

@nathananderson8720 8 ай бұрын

@@watchdiscover I sincerely appreciate such kind words! When I was a kid, all I wanted was to have a career that pays well so I can buy whatever I want but now that I’m grown up and went through tons of setbacks from losing tons of people in my life, getting lost in the world with full of life traps, being ridiculed for pursuing my dreams, and so on, I can say that long-lasting happiness can’t be bought or earned because it comes from within us. Continue to grow as a person and I’m so glad that you’re part of this journey! I’m hoping to upload my next one this month, which is more than an hr long. I’ve been working hard for many months now to present it in the best way I can while keeping in mind that I can never make it perfect. I hope that you’ll enjoy it! Thanks so much for your support!

@Tritionoblivion 6 ай бұрын

You’ll get there brother

@nathananderson8720 6 ай бұрын

@@Tritionoblivion Whoever you are, I don't know you personally but I can say that you're one of the non-judgmental and open-minded people who is not fixated on tangible or external factors in order to learn from someone like me. Just because someone doesn't have a piece of paper as a credential, doesn't mean that person is not entitled to share personal experiences with the hope & intention to inspire others. Keep up with whatever it is that you're doing to improve mankind or improving your life even to a slight degree each day. This is just one part of a bigger puzzle for creating my KZfaq channel about holistic health. I literally could have died back when I was 14 years old due to major depression but here I am right now replying to you, a KZfaqr, who's full of fulfillment and dedication to help others to be a better version of themselves. I ain't better than anyone else but my old self. That's all that really makes this KZfaq thing more meaningful and enjoyable. Thanks so much for your support! I am hoping that you can join me with this endless personal development journey! :)

@oneill765 10 ай бұрын

I never heard this talk before, very good! Cheers.

@Sub_Zero_Leo Жыл бұрын

The artwork in this thumbnail badass

@watchdiscover Жыл бұрын

One of my favourites, definitely fitting for the video!

@EliteShot Жыл бұрын

I’m grateful for this. ❤️

@watchdiscover Жыл бұрын

I am grateful for your watching and supporting, thank you!

@adammuldowney2460 Жыл бұрын

wasnt expecting to see a cod youtuber here

@livondiramerian6999 Жыл бұрын

When you know your true self you could enjoy your life.

@aWomanFreed Жыл бұрын

To “know your true self” isn’t what most ppl think….

@livondiramerian6999 Жыл бұрын

What is it then?

@aWomanFreed Жыл бұрын

@@livondiramerian6999 it means to find out if u have parasites

@aWomanFreed 11 ай бұрын

@@zerocool4159 right, cuz everything in the Bible is so rational

@nephalim13 Жыл бұрын

Understanding your place in the pattern❤️

@watchdiscover Жыл бұрын

Exactly, we are nothing but wiggles and scribbles

@formisfunction1861 Жыл бұрын

Pure gold!

@franciscoferraz6788 9 ай бұрын

The way this video ends... 🤯

@vidascheibe7421 Жыл бұрын

Alan Watts is a treasure

@nanakennedy8141 Жыл бұрын

This is a great video. Keep these Joints coming. I appreciated this video.

@watchdiscover Жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly 🙏

@jeffxanders3990 Жыл бұрын

It's you, the mountain, the grain of sand ,the atom, the galaxy, the planet, the tree, the blade of grass, etc all at once, us. The Whole, poking Its head in to see Itself all at once - being in Itself, of Itself and through Itself - by Its own nature. Such is the dream of life, the nature of which is that of the Mind (electromagnetic) - vibrations upon the ether in the same place at the same time, from the perspective of the Whole... What else can the Whole of all being do but look inward? There's nothing outside Itself... but more of Itself. Such are you and I. I am you as you are she is we are all together - the Beatles circa 1960 From the bigger picture, there can be no right or wrong, but only contrast to the picture - dance - music... game, in which there are no winners or losers, but only the game, which is ever changing. To understand the nature of the game is to relax and enjoy. Make your own music. Play your own game. In the dream of life, there's only one and it's you. To be yourself and choose to be happy is to allow yourself to become as you will. Just realize that the electric (light) and magnetic (darkness) are two sides of the same coin (Mind). To destroy "the Devil" is to destroy "God". One cannot be without the other. You are the Source of your world - your universe - as you're creating it... the lead character in your own story, as you learn and grow and become according to your own unique experience, which is the whole point of the dream of life. We're at once, the Self contemplating Itself, and the Self propagating Itself, in, of and through Itself. All exists by its own nature.

@zephyrdreamer Жыл бұрын

Beautifully put, had to save this to my notes ❤

@watchdiscover Жыл бұрын

You have done poetic justice to these profound words of wisdom

@jeffxanders3990 Жыл бұрын

@@zephyrdreamer Thank you. My extreme pleasure.

@jeffxanders3990 Жыл бұрын

@@watchdiscover Thank you. My extreme pleasure.

@kmcdowell212 Жыл бұрын

This man is everybody’s saviour👌

@cevhawaii7840 Жыл бұрын

The lecture doesn’t need annoying background music/ noise.

@billybob4159 9 ай бұрын

It does

@lazuritedavos3476 2 ай бұрын

There's plenty on KZfaq that don't have it

@eliasadhana9158 Ай бұрын

The music is perfect but again we are all deferent you don’t like it but I do ,so all you have to do is find the same message on KZfaq or somewhere something that suits you ❤

@TheMark8765 9 ай бұрын

Sorrow hate sadness being angered. Let go.

@mahvash2811 Жыл бұрын

🙏🏻🙏🏻

@malihehhomayoum7624 10 ай бұрын

i love this man so much❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂

@kieranjubb3040 Жыл бұрын

💙💙💙

@needheartranken Жыл бұрын

Allan Watts, I get it, let go but the bills, but let go, but let go, haha. This game is fun, though. Full of heartbreaks and all of the highs! We are just really nothingness that got bored and want to play. :D

@MarkDemarest Жыл бұрын

*Alan 🤨

@needheartranken Жыл бұрын

@@MarkDemarest sorry, fellow human

@ashleighnoel9857 Жыл бұрын

@@MarkDemarest What is your issue?

@chasethetruth2030 Жыл бұрын

Imagine if we all didn't pay bills that would be funny. I wonder 😂

@needheartranken Жыл бұрын

@@chasethetruth2030 Bills and human system (work hard, play hard scheme) is collectively designed by us to give meaning to life. Some just really get depressed and go to the misery hole. It's meant for play, competition, and reward. Life is meaningless but human life meta gives us reason to do something. Imagine if you wake up the next morning. You have everything that you want. Money Fame Women/Men Power. It would be fun the first day - week until it depletes your hormones and then you will be back to the baseline that life is truly meaningless. There's a lot of successful/rich people out there that is problematic. Anyways, there's an upcoming disharmony within humans that threatens us as a specie. I hope that we overcome this as a civilization and continue to evolve.

@adrianramirez4997 Жыл бұрын

🙌

@MrBrave6000HQ 11 ай бұрын

Make more videos like this with different clips on trees nature and wind blowing 🎉❤

@clintstiemke3788 Жыл бұрын

Life is only a stop point

@user-hj3wt7uv8g 19 күн бұрын

In my mind

@devinthulier 9 ай бұрын

❤

@zoenabard4774 10 ай бұрын

Allen iwas amazing peron

@argon5806 Жыл бұрын

So the message is just give up on life and let go of it because we all just die in the end but life does matter while we are still alive So heaven and hell are right now and just try to enjoy enjoy the game.

@watchdiscover Жыл бұрын

That which matters continues ‘matter-ing’ irrespective of our conscious acknowledgment of it, but we leave ripples in this even after we are gone, from bringing life into being to creating a groundbreaking theory that influences the world. but the art is in not trying to clutch to that, or as he says it , you cannot clutch to water , the harder you try the quicker the water escapes from your grasp. Death is mattering to, it’s just the flip side of the coin of life and death , whichever side you choose to focus on more strictly . That’s at least my interpretation

@depraved420 11 ай бұрын

You don't necessarily have to give up on life. You have to realize that your it, once you realize, there's no more problems, because there's nobody to have a problem(separate ego). As far as life and death they are two sides of the same coin, you can't have one without the other, one implies the other. It doesn't matter if you(your ego) lives or dies because it goes on if you live or die, you just go on as something else. ❤️

@amrmostafa2637 Ай бұрын

wowwwoowowwwwww

@Onkarr Жыл бұрын

4:44 🧠🤯

@angelicaharris4682 Жыл бұрын

6:18. The hang up.

@needheartranken Жыл бұрын

My take on the reason of life is it nothingness got bored of the eternal silence, devised existence as out of that boredom, and devised this perfect creation where logic is not flawed (infinite) you and I are guest in this eternal realm where matter evolved to biological machine to penetrate the wholeness and its challenges. Entropy is the greatest villain that we need to conquer and defeat. We need our specie to survive. We need to conquer ourselves. Just as how space expands to nothingness, as long as specie multiply then it will call infinite souls to fill up that matter body as guests. Where does space expands to? Nothing. We does your soul come from? Nothing. So take pride on your matter life as a guest and fulfill your purpose in a good way. There's no good or bad, but the will to survive is in our blueprint. Otherwise this massive ocean of resources and great intelligence of existence will be wasted away. Let's give God a good life and battle! Entertain the Universe and the cosmic dance! Good luck, humans!

@Imawiggle Жыл бұрын

Yup …boredom simplest answer is usually the right one..I think cats know but dogs dont😂🫶🏻♾️

@needheartranken Жыл бұрын

@@Imawiggle Cats definitely know! I love how cats don't give a fuck and clearly you can see that cats just pass the time in their existence. And they casually be affectionate when they feel the urge. XD

@Imawiggle Жыл бұрын

@@needheartranken exactly they don’t give a Fuc!., Lol We work for cats ! Dogs work for us!..simple😆

@needheartranken Жыл бұрын

@@Imawiggle But man, speaking from the bottom of my heart - I just want to graduate from this existential questioning and resume to become the best human that I am. I conclude I'm a deist, and man, whoever created this whole Universe or the source is totally a very powerful and beyond words! It is perpetually created and well maintained. The laws of physics never fail in our everyday lives. It permits all to resume lives, save memory, and pursue and everlasting motion. For me, God's greatest invention is the illusion of self and free-will. The illusion is so believable but I know we are His fragments down to the quarks and elementary particles. Also, Free-Will is something I still doubt cause even though thoughts stream in our head and we chose what we observe, we don't really have much choice 'cause we are governed by invisible forces of society. I can't just choose the be the president of the United States or become the next Ed Sheeran, haha. Anyways. This creation is magnificent! Though it is hypocritical to say it is balanced 'cause there are souls out there that experiences hunger, being bombed, killed - etc. We're just luck to be in that middle ground. Either way. I hope humanity - or at least consciousness survives and defeat the ever staring Entropy!

@Imawiggle Жыл бұрын

@@needheartranken ha I can’t even come close to articulating my words as good as you It’s beautiful!..we are of same mind. We are pure energy ..one eternal being Lots of people suffering tho I AM very very grateful 🙏🏼

@Nikfar21 25 күн бұрын

29:39❤️‍🔥Wow

@TheDREADlight 10 ай бұрын

Did he say "Cobalt bomb explosion" around 15:10?

@justanotherhorrorpodcast6424 10 ай бұрын

I dunno why I gave myself bills. Musta had some sweet and super simple lives before this one. 🤣

@MrCalvincdj 10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@barrymantelli8011 10 ай бұрын

I wish the original images were present...

@KrystelSpicerMindArkLateralThi Жыл бұрын

You know how you're always going back to checkpoints? This whole life is a checkpoint. I wondered a couple of nights ago that there was no such thing as wise, as in the eternal wize.. If there was, then we would not feel beauty, truth & love anymore. These things will hurt us all your life, for what to hurt us. ..If you are wise, Why would you be at a checkpoint? You couldn't be able to be at a checkpoint if truth, beauty & love you could not feel anymore. When you're too wise, you can't detect checkpoints. 📖✍️We Did it!!! Come see!! *Drops to knees & cries*. Here we went back to the source of life, but we went further back, to The Source Of Variations Of Source Of Life. & he said "You're not wise. I am wize." & he lifted me up in his hand & blew me back to the source of life. & we were the source of life at the source of life. I opened my eyes, & I was back, sitting at my table, comparisons as much as the comparisons I draw, a tool, like my pen. God is the word. .. ..on faceeee. On the ark. I host an abiogenesis experience. Then I find out my mother's blacked out. She's ok. ..Wow. I've been writing about length of life i richness of life. Does that help? All I write is free. Faceee. On the ark. I host an abiogenesis experience. ..Come along✍️

@brandonkramer6579 Жыл бұрын

Great video, trap drums were a little distracting however

@user-xs3to1pb9n 11 ай бұрын

hang up desligar 20:20 20:21

@arhistokes9227 11 ай бұрын

i loved this except for the music in the back was a little distracting

@Zinwaq 10 ай бұрын

I loved the thumbnail art but it's not in this video AT ALL. I fast forwarded this looking for it. Sigh.

@AlephMemTav 9 ай бұрын

Any likeminded friends in the Ozarks?

@r3djar 9 ай бұрын

Northern or southern Ozarks?

@AlephMemTav 9 ай бұрын

@@r3djar northern central Arkansas

@r3djar 9 ай бұрын

@@AlephMemTav northwest Arkansas

@AlephMemTav 9 ай бұрын

@@r3djar what area? I have friends in berryville and eureka springs

@r3djar 9 ай бұрын

@@AlephMemTav I'm 20 minute drive south of eureka springs

@tripytaka9462 9 ай бұрын

What would Watts say if AI was trained to speak as him?

@JamesSlider-uo3gp 22 күн бұрын

how do u kno dat ant dis

@schutMore Жыл бұрын

my unborn mother has been struck by the truck, this does not help one bit

@schutMore Жыл бұрын

this the most truck of all time!

@phantomkamaroux Ай бұрын

Why put music? Why

@KoChi-og9zg 28 күн бұрын

I know right? It's almost like music is popularly enjoyed by human beings or something? 😮

@phantomkamaroux 28 күн бұрын

@@KoChi-og9zg not while someone is speaking bud

@jeeeze Жыл бұрын

How is no one talking about he’d be 21 if he was born in 2002 did you all fail first grade math??

@recklessethan Жыл бұрын

Last time I checked there were only X and Y chromosomes (male and female)

@mirrorcat2784 11 ай бұрын

True. And yet billions of human’s with not a single woman or men that were ever identical. Seeing only black and white, you miss out the spectrum of things. That is a fixed point of view - a hang up.

@willoschroerpaais 2 ай бұрын

AI?

@watchdiscover 2 ай бұрын

Nope

@dusting6450 10 ай бұрын

Fyi i dont think there only 1 way is no hang up. Lol

@jayh3969 8 ай бұрын

Music underlying Alan speaking is a gross distraction, and if he intended music to be there he would have put it in there himself. It’s so frustrating when people think they’re adding to his words by placating most peoples inability to pay attention, and just listen to the message… Take the music away for crying out loud, it does nothing to reinforce the words.

@JamesMulvale 2 ай бұрын

Don't let your ego get in the way of how Alan's words are spread. All is available if you follow the right current.