Kind of like King Solomon, after chasing after everything he comes to the conclusion that most of what we race around for is vanity, a striving after the wind and that happiness and contentment can be found in simplicity.

KZfaq unsubbed me from the channel .... im back 😃

Success for Alan is his legacy of recordings. His failure is his limited years on the planet. Our endownment: his love.

Keep up the great work

is patreon the only way we can support? thank you for all of your hard work

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Same video spoke to me as well, cool to see I’m not the only one

@@ColemanGlascock I show that video to anyone who will listen. How cool we share a similar connection to that video and speech!

Next in line for listening would be Terence McKenna. simply put, it takes Watts’ words to a whole new level

Alan Watts changed my life too! 🧘🏻😇

There's nothing simple about a lady.

@@dontcomment6012 HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

Flow state is nice and purposeful, but one has to exist in the grinding times as well. There has to be balance, otherwise your expression will have no meaning.

@Dont Comment bruh your username doesn't check out. But a simple woman made you comment. Understandable.💀😜

@@mst5g826 I agree, balance is always optimal. Whatever that may look like for you

Perfectly said my friend

You've just described nihilism. Not good at all.

@@Beastmaster1221 Cum to Sweden and smoke DMT

@@Beastmaster1221 Who are you to label OP's experience as "not good"? He literally said it's awesome and amazing. And here you go categorizing and assigning things as bad.

Probably not sober.

@@pappajnm Far from sober.

He’s the drunken master

Hahahahaha Alan Watts IS that high friend. He's open about the fact he trips. Psychedelics

And just like that really high friend, they're talking out of their ass and didn't figure out the key to the universe.

Covaids- haven’t we been here before?

🧡God bless you💜

Ditto ❤ found Alan watts during depression and now have forever changed. I seek his guidance and insight to remind myself how to pull through hard times when I feel like I don't have the strength to do it on my own. Love you too stranger, Lev.

Well done Lev. Hats off 👏 ✌

hey same to u, my coffee is great

We💙you too.

Thank you. Very inspirational. Cheers.

Thank you sir! Great advice.

Thank you!

Thank you and same to you 🙏🏻❤️💫

Namaste to you my fellow human being. May you live long and prosper.

The same thing when I'm on the toilet and notice the little flower prints on the toilet paper

"I farted" - Confucius

Beautifully said.

That’s way too complicated

We think with symbols, then we put words to the symbols. Metaphors and analogies (Symbols explained with words) also play a huge part in our understanding and this is deeply intertwined with our thought process

The seer and the things seen

The secret that can’t be told :)

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@@ikaros4203 dont fucking talk about fight club bruh

so now description is a mental barrier rather than complementing experience?

same here

Psychedelics are an incredible tool for empathy and understanding, of the world and for ourselves

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If you're into games, get a game called "Everything". That is what got me into Alan Watts. Check it out..

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Me too. Thank you!

Absolutely. The more effort and resources we spend trying to "explore" the universe, the more disconnected we become from ourselves. We need to explore and master the "inside" before we explore beyond the Earth.

I am recently into this concept that we r one. Many masters seem to agree on this, but how can I experience this? Just meditation???

@@wendyyy5573 You start by shedding yourself of all pettiness and immaturity. No more beef (with anyone). No more triggers. No more harboring resentment. Letting go is much easier than holding on. And remember, this is not for others to behold. It’s for you and your inner peace. Meditation will bring it all together. The universe will reveal great spiritual truths once it sees you are ready to understand. Godspeed

@@AustinKoleCarlisle what about exploring things like research into how to manage illnesses and disabilities to give those with who have them a far better quality of life? Surely exploration of things like that is good to do?

@@jessanderson4419 there is no point in extending life if we remain unaware of it's purpose, and the purpose is within us, not simply living a long life because we're human and humans deserve to live long because we figured out how to use tools and animals didn't.

Yes, he was a prophet .. in his own way.

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Dumbest speech I’ve ever heard. “Life isn’t complicated, it’s just hard to put it into words” Tell that to a doctor and he’ll laugh in your face. Life is complex because God is smart and we are dumb, simple concept.

@@buddy_132 I think you’re missing the point. He’s saying there’s no reason in wasting energy trying to fight life or think you’re going to understand it based solely on the human experience. It just is what it is and you will never be able to grab ahold of it.

confucious, lao tzu, etc...

🤣🤣me too

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Its that 480p audio

Same! His voice is so relaxing

Although wonderfully calming and mellifluous, I’d wager it’s not his voice you love so much, rather the words he is saying. People are drawn to the things he is talking about because these things have a tendency to resonate with us all. And the reason they resonate with us all is because they’re speaking to an ultimate truth that we all know. Deep, deep down, far, far in our very selves. The ultimate and undeniable truth. The thing WE ALL long for and seek, via different means. Love, joy and peace. An end to any and all suffering.

“And when you try to talk about the processes of nature, it’s not the processes of nature that are complicated. what’s complicated is trying to put them into words, why thats as complicated as trying to drink up the ocean with a fork”

Read autobiography of a yogi by paramhansa yogananda

I find now I can look up Watts at any time and it can be any video, the first that comes up, and it seems to be exactly what I needed to hear

Seraphim Rose The Soul After Death

everything has a duality, also depends on lifestyle i guess, youre right about finding a happy medium; everything should be balanced. but for example when youre walking through nature, i find it so much more calming and real to just let things be, not naming everything. puting labels and judgements on anything ties a string to the thing, and then youre left with an association that your mind made, and i found out that i cant trust my mind, because its basically just made up of things that i experienced in this life, so by not puting any labels or judgements on anything youre able to experience actual truth! but ofcourse this doesnt apply in every situation, i just try to do it as much as possible. but these are also just words haha! peace and love from me to who ever is reading this

Study Rudolph Steiner You would love his teachings. Dissects everything into spirituality. Steiner and Alan are great teachers but are almost like polar opposite but once you combined their knowledge it will open a whole new world. Also Yogananda is one of the greatest gurus of our time give him a search as well. Truth is wisdom and wisdom is God

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I somewhat agree, with a caveat. We should not throw away our scalpels and just live an unreflective or unquestioning life. We should, however, be mindful of getting ourselves into the trap of allowing our analytical nature to create unsolvable problems, and then (most importantly) turning on the pressure to demand that we MUST solve them. As a student of philosophy, I know full well that I will never reach the day when I put down my books, throw my hands in the air and say "Aha! I now understand all of this perfectly and can put all that I know into words that other people will understand!" Instead of focusing on reaching that impossible destination, I instead choose to continue learning out of the love of wisdom and a desire to understand things as best as I am able.

I think it is kinda lacking of some kind of reflection that a person explains that explanations are control and we shouldn't do that. I guess that kind of person doesn't enjoy explanations about things, but enjoys explanations about humans. That's fine, everyone is different, but to state that explanations and analysations about things are control or necessarily a bad thing is not really fine for me. Myself, I greatly enjoy thinking about why the sunset is red, and how the colors come to be. I understand how that works, and I enjoy thinking about it. Doing that doesn't take away from the beauty of the sunset. In fact, it makes it even more magic for me. Not less. It's not a problem at all, as it doesn't impair my enjoyment of being in the moment. Thinking about these things IS being in the moment. It's a natural part of it for me. Not something that is "foreign" to it. Everyone is different. Some people enjoy thinking about physics. Some do not. That's fine. Nobody needs to do anything. But to think that doing what you personally don't enjoy is somehow problematic or wrong is in a way some sort of "othering", and I guess I didn't expect such a thing from Alan Watts. Maybe he didn't meant it that way and the visuals of this video are expressing something that he didn't intend to say. I don't know.

I listen to him at night... he helps me to sleep.. He was so 'Human' .. not always PC.. but 50 years ago, the world was a different place. He died when I was 17 years old, and wasn't in my life then. But now.. now is the right time to be in my life,.. I'm so grateful for his presence now...and to all the people that have recorded an released his lectures. Blessings to Everyone.

@@laurakeyse9944 were you related to Alan watts?

@@evyvon69 I wish.. but maybe in spirit.. I have a few favorite philosophers.. I call them my 'Boyfriends '.. they have all left this world.. but their stories resonate with me...

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@@laurakeyse9944 my girlfriend calls me Alan Watts sometimes, I am like him, I think like him

But if u don't like the feeling of beeing alive? I never asked to be here.

@@mitch5222 same. ..Too much agony and chaos

@@WonderlustThing stop focusing on it, you were unaware of it as a child and you were weightless mentally and experientially, the phones have opened us up to the possibility of thinking we, by observing far away suffering can somehow solve it by internalizing it, you can't. start with you and work out from there. The people who broadcast the pains and sufferings in the world siphon off your energy by your engagement alone. I've fallen for it too but stop engaging and reclaim your portion of energy.

I fully disagree with the city Statement I feel way more alive visiting a huge vibrating city. All the people inside, their emotions, the possibilitys to eat, drink, Listen and watch increadible stuff is way beyond other places. The real answer simply is, cities are damn expensive so most people with a normal job tend to get stuck in suffering - hardly even going out and live. They suffer because they eager the life of the rich, not willing to accept they are to poor to live confienient in such an expensive city So my Advise would be: live as near a big City as you can afford to, without dramatically shorten your financial abilities to spend your free time

@@mitch5222 you think you know the answer

Yes,... and if you break a human down to their parts ( like doctors do) you no longer have the 'Human.'

I’ve been where you are and I promise you that if you continue to try and improve your situation, it will 100% get better. I was insanely depressed and felt like it would never go away. Got to the point where I was wanting to end it all. Never did tho, and now I’m happier than I’ve ever been. Just keep pushing! I don’t know you but the fact you’re watching this channel gives me a lot of faith that you’ll overcome this mental fog.

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He gets enough in the way that credit is the last thing he ever desired. “The great Tao flows everywhere, to the right and to the left. The ten thousand things depend on it, it holds nothing back. It fulfills its purpose silently and makes no claim. It nourishes the ten thousands things yet is not their lord It is very great It does not show greatness, therefor is really great” It is very great

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