I love his quote "You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago."

"Hallowed be thy gains."

"A man who does nothing but think has nothing to think about except thoughts" -Alan Watts

Watts saved my life. Say what you want, but his ideas helped me find reasons to live.

I really like the inclusion of internet culture and animation to present philosophy in an entertaining manner. Keep up the good work, you have earned my subscription.

Wait wait wait. Did you just say Muscular Christianity? Reps for Jesus?

That "maybe" Thing is so real. My GF broke up whit me at the start of the year. We were planning going on vacation but since we broke up the vacation was canceled. I used that time to look for a better job. I landed a great job that i wouldn´t have gotten if i sat down coftable organising vacation and going to the beach. Now my country is in hardlockdown and its really hard to find job. if she didn´t broke up whit me in that moment she would´ve broke up eventually but thanks god it was at the exact momento i heard about that new job oportinity. i was extremly motivated to get that job and i did everything right. In the moment i was sad for the break up. But now in retrospective i think it was a good thing

Muscular Christianity sounds like a religion for Über-Chads

"Boioioioioioioinnggg" -Alan Watts, every time I turn the volume up.

You are the universe experiencing itself. Thank you mr. watts

I've always taken more of an interest in Watts over other philosophers. Some people might think he talks about nothing, but he's the only one who really makes sense to me. It kinda feels like everyone is just grasping at increasingly complex ways of justifying our reality, but Watts cuts straight through that and shows how vast and meaningless the universe is. It's kinda comforting to me to know that the matter making me up started out floating through space in a very sparse cloud, became "me", and in several billion years it'll just be floating through space again. Quantum mechanics suggests that determinism isn't possible. There's no way to know what happens next, except to experience the reality right now. It's all that matters. But I don't do a very good job of living in the moment soooo

I had no idea that Alan Watts knew Carl Jung personally?? Amazing. Now I know that all his references to Carl in his latter work were from first hand experiences with Jung. 😄

I disliked Watts ever since I found him, but I think you did a great job showing what he was all about. Didn't label his ideas as universal truths, didn't completely disregard his ideas as nihilistic and dumb. Really unbiased and truthful.

It's just a gooey prickly universe

You blew my fucking mind with that Allen watts quote “ there is no past , just the present memory of the past “

Alan Watts reminds me of a wise old turtle who once said: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”

He might have been an alcoholic, a bad husband, and a bad father. But you could consider how much worse of a human he could have been without his beliefs. Or that in order to enlighten others you might need to do sacrifices yourself. I see a broken man trying to figure life out and fighting his demons in a battle of the mind. Nobody is perfect, some worse than others, but to me it’s the effort that counts. In his suffering he fought to find meaning and purpose to leave a legacy behind that others could use to grow past his mistakes. For that we should be thankful.

The Chinese farmer story. If you know what I mean :)

The 90s called. They said they want their aspect ratio back.

Fantastic. Even though I've watched several of his lectures I still learned a great deal from this video. Great sense of pacing, doesn't dwell on one aspect too long or lose its rhythm, really, well-done.

I wrote down "you are the universe experiencing itself" in my diary 3 years ago during self reflection only to have the truth of all ideas being unoriginal thrown in my face within a minute of this video as a man 90 years ago came up with the same exact quote.

Thanks for making this. Watts was one of my favorite. When I am feeling down, I find his lectures and listen. I also discovered that WattsWave is a genre of music.

This man helped me get out of depression and I could not be more grateful!

Maybe

"Man suffers because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun!" ~ Alan Watts

I totally love Alan. I feel like he would say, what is there to love me, then he would laugh the way he does and begin to explain to what he meant.

Nobody likes to be very present with all those memories of past abuse and all those fears for the future and judgement of yourself.. Gives you the shakes.. The now offers constant grief to us, poor victims of fate. Don´t go to the now, intoxicate yourself and dance nonsensically, live in the there and never.. Or you can face every fear you ever had break through the shakes. Leaving fear behind.. It´s calm, serene and boring, no laughs, many calm smiles. Nice place to visit, but you don´t want to go live there. It´s like visiting home sometimes.. It can feel safe, but nothing ever happens. So you choose to go back out there and find something you want to be safe from again.

love your content! big fan. keep doing great man

you've turned me into an alcoholic

why did young watts look like agent smith of The Matrix?

All of your videos are genuinely amazing wow

I really feel that idea of living in the moment. It is when I give up on the rigidity of planning ahead and just see where life takes me that I am at my happiest. I also like that approach to a goal, instead of working to an end goal I will start working to do my very best in the moment and thus will inevitably reach that goal at some point. No need for time constraints or the toxicity of beating myself up for wasting time.

New to your channel, but long time Watts fan. Good work and great summary!

Sick vid dude. Been listening to Watts a bunch last few months I enjoyed your synopsis

I love love love Alan watts and I think you’ve done a fabulous job in providing a little micro bio here. Thank you sir

Enjoyed your presentation on Alan Watts. I remember his talking about the, "Natural Accident." He was a great source of Eastern Philosophy.

Very, very good video! Precise and clear. Well, done!

You deserve way more subscribers.

what a fortuitous find, that i went to search for the biography of alan watts and one of my other favorite youtubers made a video about him.

Thank you, Alan, for everything.

Animating my body. It really does always feel like that. Im glad this wasn’t some indescribable feeling. This honestly did help me understand my relation to everything else around me.

That was an amazing summary, thank you.

i genuinely was feeling awful and anxious and i gotta say i feel much better after watching this video

Absolutely brilliant summary!

one of your best videos well done

Wow!! Well done thank you. I’ve been listening to him for a few years now even read spiritual east and west. This is a great video. I found it very helpful, or should I say enjoyable! Haha

love your channel man

Amazing video and a very actual topic

This video is it. great job

really nice summary man!!

Damn, I'm crying. Thank you so much

Excellent as usual.

Watts and Jung are the 2 names I know who I would say truly understood life and lived it sincerely

This is how you use your privileges and family's wealth. You explore the world with an open mind, and craft something extraordinary with that new unique understanding and perspective humanity can use.

This is GOLD. Beyond gold.. this is the formula to a "good" life

Instant like for my fav philosopher thanks Sisyphus dude

Thanks for that cool synopsis, Brother

I had a spark of selfconcious dread earlier this day. I always found Alan had a calming effect on me. Thanks for the reminder!

Excellent work

Very concise summarization!

man every time i’m comin down of acid i always come to you, honestly just after a trip is the best for reflection because atleast for me i’m more honest with myself

Watts needs to be integrated as mandatory learning alongside math and science. Fantastic summary of his general philosophy!

Thanks. My right ear enjoyed the whole video

was pissed when i realized this wasn't about Alan Watts the professional climber who bolted most of smith rock in Oregon, but still a great video :) love your channel

I love you, Sisyphus

Your channel is Ace man, subbed!

Love Alan Watts, he is the voice of my evenings

I really needed this

Wow, this vid is great! Keep it up.

Bravo this was well done

You make nice videos, thanks! keep it up

Nice work!

Just found your channel. Thanks for the content yo.

wow, well done my friend

This video made me think a lot about self improvement. I've stressed a lot in the past to try and improve myself through various means and it's exactly as you say, I was living for the future. I did a lot of cool things, but for what? Maybe there's a middle ground where I can strive to be better while enjoying where I am

I wish your mic input was higher. I had the volume all the way up on my headphones and still couldn’t hear well. Other than that, you clearly worked hard for this video. Great job 👍 I’m a big Alan Watts fan

Very well done 👏🏿

The hardest thing to accept is that everything that happens to you is in your favour, the greatest meaning is that there isnt any and the highest power isn’t a greater being, but instead a greater being of one’s self, its all in your head, no one has any idea what there doing, we all just have temporary goals to reach which then makes us evolve and change, ergo new life is born just in a metaphysical manner. The meaning of death is to die, therefore the meaning of life is to live, suffering makes the little moments seem bigger, you just meed to suffer first, you cant have warmth without a little fire, you cant have cotton wothout shedding sheep, you cant have food without picking the fruits of lifes labour of a tree, Finding meaning is allot like speaking for the first time, you have no idea what youre talking about, you know what your mother is but not who, you know your father but you cant name it, then one day, after trying, blubbering and muttering you blurt out the word “mum” everyone gets excited and celebrates and you cant stop saying mum, the celebrations grow quiet as you learn more words, a plethora of knowledge yet all this celebration in the moment of finding knowledge of self as well as others. Youve gotta hate yourself in order to start loving yourself, we all have demons that need tending too just dont be contracted by them. Love everything as if it were you, as we are apart of everything. Most importantly love yourself as youre the only person youll ever truly know.

Well done. I subscribed. The problem is thinking. For all of us.

I really felt a connection with the 'good' and 'bad' me part. Maybe I'll try living for the present moment and see what happens...

I had no idea I needed this video

LOL, he WAS hypnotically charming. I'm head over heels in love with his brain (just his brain, though he was a bit of a looker in his day, too), and he was dead before I was even born.

A very interesting contemporary and "parallel character" of Alan Watts is Fr. Seraphim Rose. I would be very interested to see a video on his philosophy too, especially since he studied under Watts for a time

Great video

Well, that was great. Thanks!

I love this man as I love myself

"You are under no obligation to be the same person 5 minutes past." Appreciate you ✊

thank you

It’s still so overwhelming and confusing but I think I need the ideas to help me be happy

Now I want to play Everything again

I wanted to say that I was having a very upsetting day mentally & the story of an indifferent response to what reality throws at me is a very happy thought

I've achieved that essential realization of what experience is, how it is independent of the memories and yet memories inform it. It's perfectly logical, just takes some rational thought over a while to understand it. Maybe some people have a better analytical intuition than others and so get there sooner.

Alan Watts is my hero.

Bro u deserve a mill subs

well put

His philosophy bares uncanny resemblance to my own beliefs. Whenever I heard about him before I thought he was one of those spiritual but not religious types that imply some greater wisdom without ever getting to the point but it sounds like he was a pretty cool dude who I should start reading. I'm definitely going to use the story about the farmer in the future.

Great video as usual but the audio is pretty low.

This video explains really well the core concepts of Watts' philosophy, however I would like to add another of his ideas, that is the interdependence of opposites. He argued that black and white, hot and cold, good and bad, etc are not excluding opposites, but rather interdependent ends of one spectrum. This way cold needs hot to exist, because you only know one of them in contrast with the other. You wouldn't know what good is unless you could compare with something that is bad. This also applies to existence and non existence, that means you wouldn't know that you're alive if there wasn't such a thing as death. Being and non being are not opposites but part of the same spectrum, you need one to have the other and thus you could say they are one.

I really like the video and so I have a question. What'd happened to text of a crow and a baby arount 5th minute mark?

Should've let that ending play out a little longer, great vids