Same

@@Ellie-rp8bhWere you a trust fund baby or something?

Same here at age 69. Ditched all of the trappings preached the first 25 years of life and once I let it all go and stopped living in a time that was never promised me, I truly began to live. No one is promised tomorrow and tomorrow will bring its own problems. Don’t invite the future, don’t live in the past. Be here now.

​@@mechanicaltypewriteroperat9885 no kidding! 😂

Good for you, Martin. Can I call you kid? I'm 70 going pretty good everything, works pretty normal. Hang in there son.

LOL legacy.

​@@verne51A shame many now being born will never have one? Or maybe it is a good thing in many cases.

Well, I hope you took a few minutes to plan for your retirement.

@@organichuman One creates a legacy. It does not just happen. Good grief. Alan Watts is poison.

So u did all this n then u accidently found a .mobile fone then you tube then allan..😅😅😅😅😅 yeah pull the other one..

So true!

that's because time is relative not because it falls into line with something Alan said.

My explanation to this is because since we are closer to the day we were born we are experiencing life, we can feel every moment, and in those moments we feel like it will never end. We never think about about distractions, we think about a day and become anxious for that day to get here like Christmas or summer vacation from school. As years pass we obviously get further away from the day we are born and we less and less feel in the moment. We are constantly distracted by getting things done on time and there’s never enough time. Things that never used to take up our time then, now becomes a life of constant maintenance. Something seems to always need fixing around whatever it may be and also we become ambitious. I feel ambition is the most harmful thing to a human and it has turned many people I know soulless. It’s make a person that what once a great person turn into a complete POS. They are always trying to get over people including friends and become greedy and corrupt. They become insatiable for success and nothing ever satisfies them no matter how far ahead they get in life and become unaware of the person they become. All for a future that was in their head that when that future came and finally have time, realized too late they truly never did anything with their life.

ambition is the most harmful thing to a human being?!?! i'd put cancer above that but you do mindless you. @@saulescamilla3605

I felt the exact same way...😔

i am nearly there now. never been happier. massive respect too you.

@@StrawPerson-xq9ko and to you❤️

Exactly

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I was recently able to understand this more than ever; it's huge when you do.

@@superhiker77 i agree 💯

Right now I’m taking a bowl of magnificent Mexican beans, just made tortillas and very spicy chiles: unbeatable way to enjoy the present.

What does that mean?

@@JuanThaSilva It means that time and space are a mental construct. A prison designed to keep you unaware of your true spirit which is always in the now. Who designed us? I don’t know.

All very well but how do you make enough money to survive & feed your family? Is that method of income available to the masses? These philosophies may be all very well but when 99% of the world runs on the working man being abused because he has little other choice in which he may be able to feed himself and his family, then what of it?

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Drivel, I bet. Although it would explain where you got the time to type in such a lengthy, boring comment.

You are describing what amounts to work life balance. Not a big deal really. PS: try to give your kids some freedom. Do they have friends they can spend time with?

I will be 41 in a few months. Time passing by so fast. Stressed beyond belief. Not happy at work or at home. I want to make the change but too afraid to do it. What is it you do now for your hobby?

nice quote

And WE Can Go Far Beyond The BS Boundaries Of The Fake Ass Globe!

Dave r ux in California

Your not old a 49, life is just beginning!

Awesome quote! Couldn’t agree more or have said it any better! I am also at that point! I am who I am, and I am we’re I’m at… 👍

You do?

​@ianstuart5660 Yes. Enjoy life,grandchildren and Family. I take nothing for granted.

@KajunMs39 Thanks, so glad to hear that!

@@ianstuart5660 what about yourself?

@KajunMs39 Very much enjoy the little things. No grandkids yet, but could happen at any time!

I agree.

Yes, his strength was in making observations about people and life rather than trying to answer, unanswerable, questions about God and eternity.

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This is profound and so true.

I'll take that as an amazing endorsement Michael. Thank you for sprinkling the 5 stars so generously so we can partake of your experience

Great, Very true

Right 🔥🔥🔥

A year younger myself, and I’ve always said “ if you don’t have peace of mind,you have nothing.”

I can assure you that you are wrong. I retired 5 years ago and there is NO QUESTION that my life changed for the better. How can it not, when 3 hours of your day that you used to spend commuting to the office is now completely stress free? When 8 hours of the day, once spent engaged in mind-numbing bureaucratic gymnastics, is now yours to do with what you want? You will have OPTIONS when you retire, which you do not have at the moment.

I'm 49 and retired. Not like most think of retirement but I certainly don't have a job. Leaving the demanding conflict of 'societal time' has been the best thing I have ever experienced. We live feral. Doing what is needed but when it fits our lives. I encourage everyone to move towards this way. I believe it is our natural way of being. My wife and two children (home schooled) are engaged and thriving. I wish for you the happiness I enjoy not caring for markers of time. When I do find I need to know for societal interaction it's quite a laugh we share when we have to work out what day and month it is. My only regret is not realizing sooner. Be free Be well Much love

@@petesfeeder You live "feral" yet you are posting comments on KZfaq. Even if you go to the public library and use the computer terminals there, you are using taxpayer funds to do so. That is not "living feral." That is living on welfare. Where do you get food for your family? At the local food donation bank or a religious charity? That's just pretending to "live feral." I also found amusing your notion of "doing what is needed but when it fits our lives" and advising the rest of us to do so. Sounds like either anarchy or nihilism to me. Alan Watts' insights are perfectly fine if one lives in a monastery where one's needs are taken care of from cradle to grave. But they don't apply in the real world, where interaction with other homo sapiens is mandatory. I hope your children are in good health and being cared for properly, assuming any part of your tale above is true.

@@petesfeeder Thank you. Hands down retiring beats working at a job. The point really is that we are wise when we make a joyful time out of every stage in our lives. Not trudging through the weekdays trying to get them over with. There is where most of us make the mistake. I look back on my old jobs that I brought so much negativity and drama into and realize I could've just rolled with it, finding it almost amusing! What's ahead might be great, but the present is where we need to find greatness.

it's called dementia

@@chasefunk Can you will yourself into dementia? You aren't as clever as you think you are. Its called arrogance.

Great reply With a bit of Dio...

Ignore Alan Watts and prepare for your old age. There, you can add me to the list of men you learn from immediately.

Yall love men 💀 bunch of bottoms

you cant learn shit from a speech you just take in words that you understand on some level . you have to follow and find consciousnessto find better levels of understanding

@@aarongottfried5595 Thanks for that, on whatever level you wanna take it.

Truth lingers😻🥳

I can totally relate, once I finally beat that H addiction after 2 years of feeling sorry for myself and thinking every day I should just pull the trigger I got a job. Once I lifted myself up my life took off in an upward trajectory and I bounced back higher and better than I ever thought even before I went down the addiction road.

Same i have almost 4 years now. But at the start when I was still in the rehab phases I listened to a lot of alan wats . he really made me take a look at myself. My favorite is the joker

That was awesome that makes total sense

Hits home. I'm battling methamphetamine addiction after 10+ years of sobriety. In and out of jail. Getting divorced. Possibly going to prison. Trying to convince myself every day why I'm worth more than a bullet to the head. Sometimes I worry I'm going to run out of reasons and end up eating that bullet.

100% 👍

you can decide to be a bum for example

@@chasefunk How sagacious.... ???

You created that environment.

God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

AMEN TO THAT 🙂

I God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

But we grow up and are no longer children. If you want that sort of life where you never grow up, check into a monastery.

I know what you mean.

Jesus said.... The Kingdom of Heaven is within you..... and....Verily I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven... Children are content until they grow and fall. Buy them an expensive gift and don't be surprised to see them play more with and enjoy more the cardboard box which it came in than the gift itself for example. Adults complain that the weather is bad when heavy raining.... those same adults as children wanted to run out in that rain and would have a great time jumping in puddles and being soaked etc

this is true because most of us where happy when we where kids?! newsflash: only kids and animals live in the present if you would like to be one of them, by all means live in the moment.

@@tchkvskywow. That went over your head

Congrats! That is HUGE!!!! ❤❤❤ !!!

well done they call yesterday the past because it’s gone tomorrow the future and unknown but now it’s today is the present because it truly is a gift

Proud of you!❤

@@JasmineR1993 thank you

@@hexxan007 thanks

My mother would always say to us, “Don’t wish your life away”. No truer words.

I have bad news for you. God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

@Wolf Mage Thank you!🙏🏽

Love your name. Great movie.

Other people’s future or yours?

Government is about tomorrow, same with weather reporting. Today is a statistical fact, logged & forgotten.

How do you stop thinking like this though?

hi! and right from the start who/what do You think God/god would need to experience pleasure of any kind? a body???!!!

I'm 44, and Allan watts words get real , fast, this left me slapped

So many words were manipulated to achieve this drugs/medicine is a prime example they should be defined identically but instead are used to lead people into lies and tie their subconscious in circles so that their overall logical computational ability becomes permanently limited believe me i was lucky to escape this and i wish everyone was as free as me

Human.

Good point. But, if I shouted at the screen "carrot!!!" does that mean I'm living in the moment??

God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

lol you have achieved becoming aware at younger than 40? congrats dude!!!

God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

We are all the prophet

@@iamthefiremanjj yes

Prophets are _usually_ human, of course. They also tend to be obsessed with future events, which is quite contrary to the sentiment expressed here.

What a wise man. Live for now. That is the future. Thank you .❤

Prophets are also Godly men.

I have bad news for you. God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

How do u travel around the world without a job / money ?

Thank you got your service. 🫡

living in the present still means u plan for the future tho right

Thank you for your Service

alan understood the universe? slow down there Thomas, it's healthy to fear or think of the future, just ask any bum on the street and they will tell you.

I'll give you my learning as my son is also 16. My advice is more of an observation of what I see, mostly from younger generations. If you seek achievement (yes, the opposite of Watts) there seems to be no time in history in which you can achieve more with as much ease as now. No, I'm not saying it's easy, and it never was. But the sheer number of people that have given up and shooting low is frankly incredible. My son is an ice hockey player. He rose to the top of the country on putting in a solid hour of effort per day. Tops. He is not a 'natural', he just put ins some effort on a consistent basis and absolutely blew away everyone around him, moved up, blew them away. In a few months he will be in Spain at the world championships every weekend he competes in some tournament flying around the US... and he was not even born there. For me, I just enjoyed computers when I was a kid. I taught myself to program 3-4 languages before I ever attended a class, and I ended up helping the teacher. I ended up in IT, and now pull in very solid cash as a consultant, I don't need money for happiness though, if my wealth doubled my life would not be any better. I don't even try to 'make' money. I take tests and certifications and don't even study. I can do this because I just enjoy the subject enough to learn it all naturally. I hit the gym each day and choose to live my life with discipline. Each evening I make computer games. Just like I did when I was 10. My 'advice' is not to do something because it'll make you money except to make sure that whatever you pick might actually do that(basically don't do something that'll give you student debt and never pay it off. Consider uni\college to be like a business investment. ). Whatever you do, enjoy it for what it is. Learn it backward for the sheer joy of it and hardly anyone will be able to follow you because you 'work too hard'. Remember the old saying, the journey, not the destination.

I love the comments ❤

Great Comment, Thank You^^

My Mother always phrased it this way, "Do you know how to make God laugh? ― Tell him your plans." It's the same meaning, but if we decide to, 'not force anything in life' and then patentiants plays a huge role.

ya, you hear that kids?!?! don't plan for your future and you'll make God laugh. Probably because you'll be squeegeeing somebody's windshield for quarters on some God forsaken intersection while God says under His breath, Listen to what Alan watts said on life advice eh , heh heh heh. look at you now, living in the moment!

you sound like you don't read

@@chasefunkwhat’s the point of insulting Jen?

@@chasefunkwhat’s the point of insulting Jen?

what's the point of defending her?@@ryanvandy1615

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Yes, it is if you believe that, I think you need to watch more Alan Watts videos you seem to miss the point. You have the choice to think the way you want to think and create the life you want how you think about things will dictate your reality. America is the greatest country in the world, and I’m gonna use it as my vehicle to create health, wealth and prosperity and give back to others as much as I can. Do you see the difference in what you say and what I say research nihilism. It’s a trap. Don’t be fooled

All nations are commerce lead. It builds nations.

And will continue to be so until we have had enough.

LMAO, just wait till you get to be my age and wake up in the morning with aches and pains.

​@@tchkvskywooosh

@@tchkvsky But you woke up each morning so far, right?

Ok Thanos....

and maybe, juuuuust maybe a lil dillusional.

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Their is no Now only the past and immediate future, you read this in the past.

@hardlines2635 yeah...but you wrote it in the here and now...

You better read between the lines, pal.

which means what?@@yankee2666

not by a longshot

Go with the flow.😊

I live my spirit not by the flesh 💫🙌🙏💞

You can live in the present and prepare for the future. You just shouldn't obsess over the past or future because all we really have is the NOW

Where can I find this book?

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Yes , past is memory , history is memory , future is illusion , and only current present that shape those future , with action not with words and dream , by action to make the future reality , palling and doing it , not just planning and planning without any actual action , a physical action 👍🏻

And this is why we call him a mystic.❤

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you know he died in '73 right??!?!

God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

Everyone's awakening process is different. Mine came much late in life.

@@elonever.2.071 obviously

Well said!

I have always felt when younger time was slower, hours longer, a Saturday when around 9 to 12 years old or a Sunday day out with mates when around 18 to 22 seemed a lot longer days 😮

@@apdcarrchildren do experience time slightly differently due to being physically smaller but it also has to do with how much time they have experienced. Vsauce has a great video explaining this. But the general idea is that as a child you’ve only been alive a very short time so small chunks of time feel longer. For a 1year old 1 month of time is a 12 of their life. Or for a 5yr old 1 year is a 5th if their entire life. Versus adults who as they get older & older small chunks of time make up less & less of their total life span. Once that 5year old doubles their age to 10years old that same 1 year period is now only a tenth of their life instead of a fifth. And as you start to stretch that out to meet a 20year old, 50 year old, etc. that 1 year period becomes a much smaller piece of their lifetime. So yes as we age time will feel as though it continues to speed up. We also tend to feel like certain parts of our lives went by very quickly when they are more exciting. The periods in life where the big events are happening. We have rapid development in our childhood & are always experiencing what feels like big moments. Then as late teens & young adults we have a lot of big experiences as well. Graduation, moving out on our own, meeting our partners, college/careers, children being born, etc. Versus other decades that we don’t have near as many big changes going on. Of course the timeline will vary a bit due to our different life experiences but it holds true as a generality.

Planets dont exist pal. .

@@ricktherok6716 Then what are you standing on? :p

You should check out his other speeches then. I highly recommend!

it seems profound but when looked at closer planning for the future, education, hard work is simply how you build a better tommorow, you can bargain with your future and it works. Alan fails to credit how hard work and planning can improve your future and further more (and this is just as important) how the lack of education or hardwork and planning can lead to a lack luster future. I think it's easy to be critical of society when all you do is study eastern philosophy at berkley and get high with your hippie buddies.

It’s hard to wake people up . They are mainly brainwashed

Wow! I really resonated with that William….just walked away

I’m sorry, I didn’t realise I’d called you William, that may not be your name…apologies

He had quite a couple of unshakeable addictions in his own life though and addictions are usually a reaction to stress. So he certainly had some stressors himself. Had an open marriage and then went through a divorce. Etc. Maybe what you would call a "wounded healer".