The past is a distorted memory, the future is a concept. This moment is all there is, ever has been, ever will be. I wear a watch, it broke years ago, but I still wear it because it reminds me that it is always now 🙏

Now more than fifty years after his death , Alan Watts is still one of the best teachers of the nature of reality.

Alan Watts Was spot-on, on everything

Immediately reminds me of people shooting videos at rock concerts and experiencing the show through their screen instead of watching the stage

Forget about the past Forget about the future, there is only now . Made me feel when i was young

"All places are the same place, and the only time you ever notice any difference is in the moment you transition" - Alan Watts

Allan Watts is always someone you want to listen to. Everything he says is not one word wasted.

I do not wish to be patronising to anyone reading this or stating the obvious at the same time to other readers, but I truly believe that to really understand and hear what AW is saying, takes many listens, many experiences and an open mind. It had taken me so long to really feel what he is saying.

I have felt this so many times but haven't heard it explained so eloquently.

I love my algorithm right now because it feeds me Alan Watts videos and i consume them like candy

A photo can often water down a memory, especially these days with the access. We often look at the memories so much the nostalgia is removed.

I am afraid of flying and when I do it, I listen to Alan Watts videos. It helps me so much to calm down during the flight… his voice has this calmness….

Rest in peace grandpa. I will never forget. Thanks Allan Watts.

I find great comfort and wonder in Alan Watts’s lectures, what a master craftsman in articulating profound truths. Thank you T&H for posting this.

Excellent 🖤

Absolutely beautiful 🙏🏻 loved the addition of the music 🎵 thank you for sharing this timeless wisdom of AW!

Alan Watts, a sage like no other.

The music was perfect this time. Wherever Alan Watts is, God bless him for solving one of my life's biggest sorrows, holding on to losing my mom and every pain that came with it I have carried it with me 15years now. Let it all go, you can do it I promise. Thank you T & H❤

4:20 There is nothing but eternal now. Memory is in eternal now. Keep the balance like riding a bicycle. 9:47 The nature of being is constantly renewing itself, Therefore it is worth going on by eternally forgetting and getting rid of itself. Thanks Alan. 16 April 2024. 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

I love Alan and what he shared with us. I didn't have the patients to watch and listen to him until my life became so chaotic that I was driven to hear him out of necessity, and I am grateful, even if it hurt. It is like we have to be whipped into submission by our own desire to find out that we are really creating every single situation that comes to us. here now is my point of really living. Whoever is putting Alan Watts and other teachers on you tube. You are saving angles. Namaste'

The Creator Is Within

The past: thoughts and words. The future: thoughts and words. All of which occurs in the present.

I never want to come back ever again

😭 perfect timing. Thank you 🙏

Nothing wrong with taking a few photos. You are not missing out on anything. Great to have those memories. Live your life and do what makes you happy, not what others believe what will make you happy. Tomorrow is not promise. Tomorrow does not exist. Now is all we have. In the end nothing matters. We are all winging it and we are all on the same sinking boat that inevitably ends in tragedy. When the brain dies consciousness dies and we will cease to exist and eventually be forgotten. Drop the ego and character that you are playing and live. You only got one shot at. Don’t waste it. Smile, your alive

I love the great memories of my childhood with my family. It makes me very happy.😊

i remember after my daughter died, (when i was in process of getting a degree in digital media arts) i took my camera equipment to hawaii for an education break, and was sitting on this beach and saw this TRIPLE YES TRIPLE rainbow coming my way across the ocean, i felt i couldnt experience the beauty and joy of the moment just taking pictures, so i took 1 snapshot if this incoming rainbow phenomenon and laid my camera down on the sand, i stood up and walked towards the incoming rainbow and suddenly a tall blond man on my left and a tall blonde man on my right grasped my hands and lifted me up in the rainbow as it misted upon us all, right after that i quit my education real eyesing that i just wanted to experience life within the magical moments instead of trying to document the moments from outside of the actual moments experience, later as i looked at the images i had been taking, i saw my daughters face in the clouds of this magical rainbow, i proceeded to paint that image on a canvas knowing i got to EXPERIENCE the beauty of her essence within the moment itself, i will never forget that

The Gift Of The Present

You can really do both, enjoy the moment and also take a few pictures. 20, 30 years down the road, the feeling, the memory will be diminished but digging up the old photos and looking at the people with you, that may be gone now, at the place you once enjoyed will bring a jolt to the good memories you had before, priceless.

Beautiful, as always

Yeah , life is a kaleidoscope all the colours intertwine. The experience is the experience.

What a spectacular recording!! What a phenomenal moment i just had !!! What a spectacular way all this just "works"!!!🥰🥰🥰

Pain and suffering in this world outweighs peace and feeling good, in my experience. Is this really a beautiful arrangement, especially with the memory wipe in between lives? To do this over and over again, pain and suffering with tiny specks of joy here or there, no thanks, I'll pass.

"Memory is an illusion; it's all gone, so everything you know about that makes an impression on you is no longer there."

I really feel sommetimes for applaus for whome who have made this arrangement of systole and diastole. They are genius. Thank you for sharing, he always make me smile at myself and at life 😊.

Thnak u🙏🙏 T&H

Eternal now❤

I am constantly torn between the two schools of thought he describes, the answer must lay somewhere in between. Remember your life, but don't let past experiences limit those yet to come. Remember you're alive, take with it the good and bad, it's through polarity that we can truly understand and appreciate the most beautiful experiences life has to offer.

One of those rare occasions where the music and video worked very well with Alan Watts.

Ive met so many "famous people" in my work at an airport and not once have i ever asked for a photograph or an autograph. I simply cherish the actual moment and dont need any record of it at all. The funniest was meeting Charles Barkley and putting him in a cab as his limo driver stood him up. He expected to be asked and as he sat in the cab, i fist bumped him and said have a good ride lol

My thinking is annoying me so much right now lol. Alan's beautiful voice brings me to the present a little ❤️👍✌️🇳🇿

Epic

Thank you for not using an AI image likeness of AW like many other channels. 🙏🏻

Truth

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"The eternal now" how profound

I am, therefore, I think 😁

Live in the moment, have those times when you recall the moment and fcuk your mobile phones, laptops and the t.v off as much as possible.

If you accept the Vedanta Metaphysics, he articulates reality beautifully.

Death will be the final, eternal peace, the one and only frontier.

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This says much on biblical prophecy or predictions in general. Whether ego generated or misdirected intentions. Humanity shouldn't be warned of future events that haven't occurred. Otherwise, one will build bunkers, storing food and items of an event that may never occur. Spending so much time in the future, preparing for something that most likely will never happen, takes away from the moment one is actually living. ' But Ma, just let me finish listening to this song.' -'One of these nights,' by the Eagles.

Spot on. / P.s. Like - we do not exist vithout photos + videos + pictures ...

It's sorta funny, that this plays over a montage of photos and videos.

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If you live in the past you Rob your future😊

I love Alan. But there is a trickster amongst us. Look at the comments... there is a time stamp! This comment is the past as well. Where we all can learn from.....The past that is. I actually screen shot this comment as it showed 0 sec. It will forever be present.

Your life is a chalk board full of this, that and the other. But, what difference will it make in 99 years from now.

What do we do

From experience, stay away. For anyone open minded, hear me out: I do not say this because of opinion, but rather experience. The words of Allan Watts should be understood logically before anything else. And the mechanism he explains should be applied to the thing he's teaching you to think about. What happens when one followings a sound? It becomes a word. And a word? It becomes a sentence. Meaning accumulates and builds new meaning. Once you understand a language, it becomes inescapable. You are the meaning experiencing itself. You are the word, you are then the language, etc. This mechanism of consciousness applies to all. Now what happens when you seek to recognise yourself? You recognise yourself even better. And then? You recognise yourself recognising yourself. As he's put it before, there's a paradox. You are trying to catch your own tail, but your tail is trying to catch itself. If a sound can become a language and it's inescapable, then what becomes of you trying to catch tail while recognising you are the tail? It becomes a deeper understanding of catching your own tail, and there is a point of no return where the accumulated meaning is inescapable. You'll live every second in a painful paradox. And wherever you look, you can only see more of it. It'll accumulate further and further. Or as we know about Shiva and the third eye: he ended up burning himself with himself. Take this literally, because the subjective experience leads there, it's not a description of enlightenment. As Allan himself put it before he died: the meaning of life is to know when to stop. But you cannot stop. I do not wonder anymore why he turned to alcoholism, he tried to escape the inescapable. My advice? Seek God, and think hard and well about what I said. If you won't take me seriously, then take Allan Watts seriously and do what he says correctly. Then when you find yourself drowning in the waves of your consciousness pulling harsh jokes on you, don't forget to reach out to God. You'll finally understand why he is One.

I try to understand him but it’s like Tolle. Just seems like circular winding rambling. 🤷‍♂️ Can someone summarize?

You, making this video Let it Go Stop

Isn't it stupid? Making pictures and you are recording everything with you're video with you're eyes into you're Soul forever Funny how humans think They forget to feel and everything is already in OUR ❤ BE AWARE GOD BLESS ⚡🤎AE1🙏

no one really remembers how it really happen just what we think and as time goes on memory loss is filled in with made up stuff. either way I prefer a combination of some sentimental hold ing on to memory regardless what it is and an equal amount of time put the camera away and enjoy it with no digital interference. I do this with most anything. Some time for preserving some memories and an equal time of silence or just take it all in with no digital interfernce. I take it further with cleaning out your closets and storage areas and spring cleaning its hard but once started you can clean out useless trash you are hoarding that you neverr looked at in years and its poinntless to keep lugging around. But I repeat some things can be treasured no need to be completly detached is the only thing I will highlight here. Was not sure if Alan Watts agrees with that dont get me wrong sentimental is equally okay as well becuase its emotional attachment from your heart or mind and that too has equal value to me. You are still of human sentiment and not completly ai teched robtically charged which in some ways could very well be the next stage in the future setting where this gneetic trait no longer genetically viable in the new generation of digital world and maybe we will see less of it. But at the same time humans are fighting back. Like the abortion thing and fighting dictators shows humans still care for human life and want to protect it from death. And to me that is also a blessing to hear humans still fighting for humans to live even if means to die for it oxymoron there somehow. But Alan Watts is very inspiring and cognitivly stimulating. A very nice tranquil well verbally illustrated envisionment in logical reasoning of subjective nature well spoken out. I think any topic chosen of Alan Watts would be the most interesting no matter how many times I listen to it still magical and relevent to me in life years later. I actually save this in the past to watch again in the future but never had time and it accumalted and as I decided to start cleaning as I posted I stumbled on this one so its actually new but old but i held on which you shouldnt but if I didnt we wouldnt be here and I would not have learned its not good to hold on. But here I go again hit "SAVE"😛

People become demons or sons of God. Eternal existence is revealed through Jesus. I known him personally

The music is so loud and distracting . Is there a copy of this with out loud music .

Past is always with us.past is creating our present and our future think about that you are made of the past and it will make your future.alan watts was wrong

This inspirational music is distracting from the actual message. How ironic.

🤡 Lots of opinions from an unenlightened man who never saw the love in anything.... He never understood or explained the difference between the external here and now of the physical world ( called Maya) and the internal Here and Now of Eternal prior Consciousness. At least he made a living spilling he opinions out and didn't have to work....

Why would you need these distracting movie and music? What for?

To the producers of the video: if the music is louder than the content that matters, your amateurism is could not be any more evident.

This dude was actually just a drunk.

What's with the annoying sound effects?! If you are promoting philosophical ideas, especially Alan Watts, keep it simple. This is not Hollywood.

He is lier

Ironic, because someone recorded what he said but it’s a wonderful thing that they did so. Sensational.

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