Alan Watts For When You Need To Stop Thinking

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An inspirational and profound speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts.
Original Audio sourced from: “Eastern Wisdom - Eastern and Western Zen"
Video Produced and Edited by T&H Inspiration
““For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.””
- Alan Watts
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T&H Inspiration is on a mission to share inspiring wisdom. The goal is to have you pause, think, and reflect. Many of our videos revolve around the extraordinary teachings of Alan Watts that we produce with permission from the Alan Watts Electronic University.
T&H also films and releases original interviews with iconic people who have experienced successes, while also persevering through life's highs and lows. We look forward to sharing more of these perspectives and insights.
Our hope with these videos is to push your thinking. As Alan Watts said “No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.” - Alan Watts.

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@joeomalley1252 14 күн бұрын

❤Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit!

@OutpostMJ 14 күн бұрын

You've captured -- distilled, perhaps the better word -- the essence of it

@chandankumarshaw2670 14 күн бұрын

👍🙌🙏

@ArthurM1863 12 күн бұрын

Zazen!

@Diana-we4fp 13 күн бұрын

There's something about Alan that is irreplaceable. His tone and way of speaking. His wisdom and eloquence. You never sense that he's preaching, but merely trying to open our very being, everything about us, so that we can see who we truly are, and live accordingly.❤ Brilliant scholar, and his words often bring tears. ❤ Thank you for creating this channel. It's what the world needs more of. ❤

@kwik8534 13 күн бұрын

There will never be another person anything like him. He will live on forever , quite amazing when you think of the irony on how he talks about the purpose of life . I believe his way of speaking is because he is in the flow state he wasn’t trying , he wasn’t working he was living .he has unparalleled confidence in speaking . i feel more people need to know of him. anytime I can’t sleep, feel depressed or lonely he has gotten me through it .

@richardgoodrich4783 11 күн бұрын

Absolutely. Sometimes while listening, it's almost as if he is speaking directly to me. It's like he and I are in the room together, just talking. These videos, his lectures and books seem to keep his spirit alive. In this way, his message transcends time and his voice echoes into eternity. ❤

@valeriecarruthers7084 5 күн бұрын

@@kwik8534Watts referred to himself as a “philosophical entertainer” for good reason. ❤

@consciouswellbeing 5 күн бұрын

I totally agree, AW is a gift that keeps on giving 🎇

@dmackenzie3528 14 күн бұрын

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” ― Alan Watts

@sebastianjimenez8739 14 күн бұрын

When you truly experience life without judgment, you become free

@denisemcdougal6445 13 күн бұрын

Agreed

@leekimyong3927 Күн бұрын

Thanks for d wonderful video.

@d.sfilms7677 14 күн бұрын

I always think I've heard all the best Alan Watts speeches but then another one always comes along and blows me away. This one is really special and makes for a uniquely profound video.

@zandrokos 14 күн бұрын

i love this one a lot.

@kyleadoup 12 күн бұрын

“One cannot act creatively, except on the basis of stillness.” What a beautiful truth.

@ShannaM1 14 күн бұрын

The synchronicity!!! I had a bad bout of depression the past 3 days and as I was trying to come out of the fog, I sat outside just staring at my garden plants. Didn't have a thought in my head for a couple mins & was actually surprised I didn't. I realized it is something I need to do more of...just being. Nothing more than just being. It felt amazing knowing I could actually do this! 🙏💖✨

@zandrokos 14 күн бұрын

i really need to get better at not thinking. there is so much peace when you are able to calm your mind

@secretsarelies9681 13 күн бұрын

I find that my excitement over what seems “good” is directly proportional to the level of crisis I go into when things go south. What I have found, is that over time, what seems “good” when it happens is often not when looking back on it years later, and vice versa. I think the truth is, right now is all we have ever had, and what happens is neither good nor bad. It is both.

@Darius89x 7 күн бұрын

OH MY UNIVERSE!!! Are you the future version of me? Because same. Im there right now 🫤😔

@evrenerikli2501 14 күн бұрын

Perfect visualization. I watched like I was dreaming.

@user-et1vx7qv1b 14 күн бұрын

The depth of these profound teachings can only be understood through the emotional experience...it takes time to train our minds to let go, to surrender to the Greater design, so we can be able to see the depth of true nature of reality...❤ ❤ ❤

@ReptileAssylum 14 күн бұрын

What a Devine incredible gentleman so wise and intelligent

@37Dionysos 10 күн бұрын

I'm 69 and cannot imagine one more thing I'd like to see, have, or do before I die. By Watts' lights I'm already in Nirvana (so are we all, right now).

@ItsShowtime23764 14 күн бұрын

Wow this just popped up when I just told myself I need to get fully in the present and get all that thinking chatter out of my damn head…thank u so much for posting! This is such Divine Timing… best video on this topic ever created…

@MorgMorg-uf6ps 12 күн бұрын

The last bit of the video is...why incredible. If we are possible, anything is possible🙏

@claudiaweier1153 14 күн бұрын

Deliciously eloquent.

@ChildofGod98765 14 күн бұрын

Amen. Needed this. Please pray for me and my children. As a single mother things are overwhelming on me. I’m constantly struggling to support my children. The devil has sent people to attack me. I get harassed and called names for simply asking for prayers, but prayers are all I need. God gives me strength to keep going while I struggle to buy groceries and while I struggle to pay rent. Thank you Lord Jesus.💕❤️❤️💕

@HappyJoyJoy777 14 күн бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@sagebutterfly2 14 күн бұрын

blessings to you

@user-br6px6ok9x 14 күн бұрын

Prayers won't pay the bills....you do that

@OutpostMJ 14 күн бұрын

@ChildofGod98765 -- First, I am sorry things are so tough for you right now. From your comment I believe you are a Christian, yes? Fyi: Alan Watts (the philosopher speaking in this video) I believe was an atheist....and a sharp critic of Christianity (all religion maybe?). That does not mean you cannot still find his words helpful (sounds like you did). Of course, Jesus of Nazareth himself, in the Sermon on the Mount, teaches that we should not worry (overthink). And Paul speaks of a similar, although Christ-centered, "stop overthinking" meditation.: "And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." -- Philippians 4:7

@brianreid4169 14 күн бұрын

Matthew 6:25-34. Be careful with Christianity and other people’s interpretations of it. Christians have a tendency to dwell too much on the past and place too much hope in the future. Life happens now. Focus more on the blessings that you currently have and less on the things you do not have. Do what is best for you and your kids today. No amount of worry, stress, or anxiety has ever really changed the outcome of any situation. When we live in the past, we suffer from depression. When we live for the future, we suffer from anxiety. When we live here and now, we are at peace. We can’t really live unless we live fully in the here and now.

@whatcouldgowrong7914 11 күн бұрын

The most pivotal talk Alan Watts has given, to experience Nirvana / Satori even for a day… Will change your life forever, to finally arrive where you are right now but in a state of pure presence and astonishment that your here with the gift of witnessing anything. What a privilege it is…

@Ureyeuh 12 күн бұрын

This video is an experience.

@singhsachinofficial 12 күн бұрын

अपने सपनों की ओर बढ़ो, और जब तक वे हकीकत नहीं बन जाते, तब तक रुको मत।

@SimoneMancini1 14 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for this wonderful and inspiring video❤❤❤

@deborahonenow 14 күн бұрын

Again, so much wisdom from this man. Seeing, hearing, sensing, feeling, and Just Being-ness. The profound Simplicity that just Is. Plus, such gorgeous video! Thank you. Namaste

@LeJimster 6 күн бұрын

I only recently came to know about Alan Watts recently through the band Nothing More. His talks are soothing to my soul. I feel like things are starting to align in my life and I'm on the edge of a huge change.

@robertapettigrew2497 14 күн бұрын

Thank you.

@el.sol.y.el.rio.0159 5 күн бұрын

I love falling asleep to Alan watts, and now I will be falling asleep to your videos thank you brother thank🎉❤

@ShAlove22 7 күн бұрын

WOW, Just AMAZING

@FreshDeath1385 14 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@Aurelius-VDB 5 күн бұрын

Thankuu for adding this matching video and music to his voice T&H ❤ u are one of few channels who creat videos out of Watt’s talks without distorting the message or adding distracting musics..

@frank1423 14 күн бұрын

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 my prayers goes out to whoever needs it. AMEN . 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 Stay strong , stay in the moment as much as u can and from there do everything else . my silence sings and my emptiness is full ... BLESSINGS TO ALL .

@bradcarroll-n8x 14 күн бұрын

What kind of prayers??? How can you hand out prayers of randomness? I’m interested. Do you think you are so powerful that you can pray something for a stranger and if it happens to them it is because you prayed?

@Peacefully_Relaxed 5 күн бұрын

I have seen that light described at 8:16. I feel that I saw myself in soul form.

@KeenyNewton 14 күн бұрын

Amazing!!!

@user-tf1ey3ux6f 14 күн бұрын

Tremendous work by your whole team, really thankful for your help.

@toekneetogo 13 күн бұрын

Great presentation👍 What a boost to lighten & focus on the moment of everything.. ❤

@otorishingen8600 8 күн бұрын

What an amazing teacher 🙇‍♂️

@joeomalley1252 14 күн бұрын

Love is the only thing that conquers fear, their weapons of choice in the paper tiger evilconomy. Every empire is eaten from within, and will be devoured under this system. ✌️❤️

@gecomert 13 күн бұрын

Good joob for the video man, it matches perfectly

@psychiccouple1728 4 күн бұрын

Thank you

@LawnBros25 13 күн бұрын

Beautiful….

@AndrewRobinson-ee7um 9 күн бұрын

That was great. Can’t believe I haven’t heard it before. Thank you !

@JmeinKC 8 күн бұрын

Beautiful ❤✨

@itsallgood8428 13 күн бұрын

I absolutely loved this and the visuals. Thats the life i want ♥️

@alfreddifeo9642 6 күн бұрын

🎯🙏 Thank for this that is being pointing out to discover. Wishing love, grace, courage and understanding for all.🎯♥😶 🙏☮

@zerozenjacques5170 13 күн бұрын

Wow this was amazing!! 😊😮❤

@Judith11.11 14 күн бұрын

Hi OG's! ♾️☯️

@chandankumarshaw2670 14 күн бұрын

So beautiful ❤️ no difference between osho and watts ❤

@nunabizness 11 күн бұрын

that was amazing

@MsJa333333 11 күн бұрын

AMAZING the curator of these videos is excellent . The coordination of the videos with voice and story is fabulous makes it so real;more importantly is the thought behind the narration invoke by Alex is wonderful.

@rogerlin9602 14 күн бұрын

7:03 There’s no difference between transcendental world and ordinary world. All beings are Buddha. 💖💐💗🍄🌈🤲🍄🤣🪷🍒🦒🍑🐣🍇 Ordinary world is supreme ecstasy. Thanks Alan. 9 July 2024. 🐣🦒🐠💥🌈🤣🍄🪷🌈💝💝🤲🐿🤡🐿💖💐

@rogerlin9602 14 күн бұрын

3:09 One cannot act creatively except on the basis of stillness. If you stop thinking, you won’t notice the passage of time. 🤡🐠💥👍🏻💥🦒🪷🦒💝🍇🤣💖☘️🌹😇😇 The world of colours and sounds is infinite if you don’t impose conceptions on it. 🍑🤡🍒🐣☘️🐠☘️🐠🤣💐💖🦒🌏😎🐿 6:12 Stop thinking by looking or listening without meaning. Thanks Alan. 9 July 2024. 🐿🍑😎🍁💗🐿🤡🤡💐🤲👍🏻👍🏻🍒

@TyTy-oy7fi 11 күн бұрын

An important video for human kind

@doramarcelino768 11 күн бұрын

Um Ser Humano extraordinário… Brilhante!

@shivanshkatiyar 14 күн бұрын

❤❤❤

@KillTeamHungary 14 күн бұрын

HO-LY-MO-LY. That was something :)

@William_0e 14 күн бұрын

The Gargoyles roughly pushed them into the opening, where there was a platform, and then flew away and left them.

@cameliaturda6472 14 күн бұрын

💜

@gaz4145 2 күн бұрын

Not really on the basis of not thinking, I found the video was more about on our existence

@chunchiu2977 8 күн бұрын

Stop thinking, but instead, feeling first in the purest manner possible before thinking of anything. By allowing the sensation goes deep enough, the consciousness would genuinely arrive somewhere all in one forever. Just like the fractal pattern of million things, be it the growing summer cloud or the expanding tree trunks, our nerve system or the river branching towards headwaters. They are all forms of one mandala.

@RayASMR232 14 күн бұрын

❤🙏💜

@rudhirrajkumar 7 күн бұрын

❤

@soleraverde 14 күн бұрын

👏

@piagalimberti6511 10 күн бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@SecretsOfASage 14 күн бұрын

♥️🪷🙏

@cosmicalsounds 5 күн бұрын

Can someone explain the last parts when he talks aobut sound and why us sitting here?

@someteacher1502 5 күн бұрын

Not sure i have understood the video. But entertaining none the less

@CozyBear. 14 күн бұрын

One hell of a shroom trip or dmt

@zandrokos 14 күн бұрын

really want to try this sometime

@husnainanwaar1992 14 күн бұрын

how to make a cover for the tabele not to hurt me

@Everything-ness 8 күн бұрын

J krishnamurti would very easily say that discipline and or sitting forcibly is conflict... Where there is conflict spirituality and togetherness doesn't exist.... My favorite thing about Buddhism is you can pick it apart also as long as they talk about it😅

@user-wm2vq1pk1x 13 күн бұрын

It's funny I have always thought like this man and I am beyond amazed how many people don't think this way I've always known we're all living for the wrong reasons humans as a race have so much more potential and spiritual awakening needs to happen and once you realize that God is really just inspiration and imagination then you can literally manifest anything you want and that's how the ancients did it because they knew all religion is is a form of control and to keep our brains dumbed down and until we let go of that we're never going anywhere but down think of how many people have wasted their lives for something like property four objects when you learn that we all have the same capabilities as God perfect example Mass healing imagine if every single human on this planet put their thoughts to 1 intentions one thought what do you think would happen whatever it is we all would think would happen it would happen we have the power within ourselves when you lay your head down at the end of the day it's just you and your head and we all are capable to manifest our own realities I was born knowing this and I'm obviously an old soul but to this day it amazes me how dumb people really are

@Phage- 14 күн бұрын

How do I stop myself from thinking. I can’t stop ot, ot torments me. I feel pain and might every time I think. I mostly try to distract myself taking advantage of my internal reward system. By playing games, watching shows or movies. Or Intirn to alcohol which O combine with the others. Usually I combine them to enhance the effect. But for dome reason I keeo thinkinh even now my alchohol tolerance has grown too great. I usually use nicotine in combination, because ot enhances my he is gfect, bit my tolerance gor it has grown too great as well. Now I also just left eith suffering

@carpenterfamily6198 13 күн бұрын

Prefer older AW videos without only his voice, no sound effects

@myggggeneration 13 күн бұрын

Agree. I find the visuals a distraction. (didn't watch them.)

@TonyWitdaVibez 6 күн бұрын

Ok but how am I supposed to stop thinking ??😂

@user-wm2vq1pk1x 13 күн бұрын

What a quote the million masks of God there you go that's basically what I've been saying we are God there is no God it's within you it's within your imagination inspiration it's within your powerBut try telling that to most people especially who have church ingrained in them

@jeffcorp972 14 күн бұрын

Offer something more. We all n33d it.

@user-wm2vq1pk1x 13 күн бұрын

It really does amaze me that people need to be told this stuff but then again everybody always tells me I'm an alien I'm not an alien I'm just not not buying the b*******especially knowing what this man knows lol

@A.G.Birajdar 11 күн бұрын

Alan is dopamine

@meienberg1 13 күн бұрын

Hmmmm. Hmmmmm. Hmmmmmm. Need time to process and to digest.

@AnziDonald 7 күн бұрын

Hallelujah!!! I’m favored and blessed with $60,000 every week! Now I can afford anything and also support the work of God and the church.

@IberiaGoodemote 7 күн бұрын

Oh really? Tell me more!

@AnziDonald 7 күн бұрын

This is what Ana Graciela Blackwelder does, she has changed my life.

@AnziDonald 7 күн бұрын

After raising up to 60k trading with her, I bought a new house and car here in the US and also paid for my son’s (Oscar) surgery. Glory to God.shalom.

@KilborneYenz 7 күн бұрын

I know Ana Graciela Blackwelder, and I have also had success...

@KilborneYenz 7 күн бұрын

Absolutely! I have heard stories of people who started with little or no knowledge but managed to emerge victorious thanks to Ana Graciela Blackwelder.

@johanhulle 14 күн бұрын

"When you stop thinking the world become interesting" How can something be interesting without thought? I want to understand but I dont.

@zandrokos 14 күн бұрын

biases and preconceived notions come to mind. and this is a lazy answer because there is more to it but we tend to overthink everything now.

@majestic8326 14 күн бұрын

You fully emerse yourself in the experience, you dont question it in any kind of form, you let run through you like electricity

@carlgemlich1657 14 күн бұрын

Alan said in another lecture to experience the wonder and beauty of the flowers without having to name them or think about their origin. Become interested in the differences in their color and shape. I also look at birds in the same way. We're all part of the same energy field, just different forms.

@johanhulle 14 күн бұрын

@@majestic8326 I get that part. I just dont get how anything can be INTERESTING without thought when thoughts are the essence of interest

@majestic8326 14 күн бұрын

@@johanhullewell interest is much more primal. If you see an attractive girl u dont think about finding her interesting. She is either interesting or not. It happens unconsciously

@jeffcorp972 14 күн бұрын

Not 'tall

@ChannelWackadoo 14 күн бұрын

PLUR

@zandrokos 14 күн бұрын

So wish the concept of PLUR hadnt disappeared so fast. It is still around but there was something really special about rave culture.

@friendsofthepygmies3932 14 күн бұрын

No thoughts doesn't stop suffering. You just have no idea anymore about why you suffer or how to get better

@TheExistenceClass0 9 күн бұрын

Thats Like Saying Stop Breathing! How Could You? Thinking is natural Phenomena Of the Mind ! I would Rather Say Don't Listen to , Not Me , But Him!

@dts7824 9 күн бұрын

Try mediating for a while and you still see what he means. You start to notice your random internal monologue and stories you tell yourself that make up your perception of the world. First you realise how overwhelming they are to notice, then you realise they are not you and your mind can quieten down.

@TheExistenceClass0 9 күн бұрын

@@dts7824 @dts7824 hh Hearing this I Assume You Have Tried It ! Now My Question Is were You Not Thinking at that time ? I don't Think So. It Is Un-Natural To Not Think ! How can anything Un-Natural can be a Healthy thing ? Like Tongue Is For Talking Brain Is For Thinking There is No Such thing as Over thinking

@dts7824 9 күн бұрын

@@TheExistenceClass0 not sure I understand what you are trying to say here

@TheExistenceClass0 8 күн бұрын

@@dts7824 as Far as Meditation Is Concerned there Is No Better Meditation in my Eyes Than to Dance Like Crazy And Joyously at Least Once everyday !

@TheExistenceClass0 8 күн бұрын

@@dts7824 DANCE JOYOUSLY everyday To Not Think ! It's Called The Dynamic Meditation

@bryannicholas2130 13 күн бұрын

11:38 of talking and he said absolutely nothing

@dts7824 9 күн бұрын

Nothing that you understand you mean?

@NOCNAAWARIAStudio 14 күн бұрын

Just stop drinking

@philipjohnson3298 10 күн бұрын

Here we go again. . . Look If ur starving in Gazza or The Yemen no amount of non thinking will alleviate your hunger or thirst.

@TallisKeeton 14 күн бұрын

uh, dude, just stop make people stupid by teaching them to stop thinking. all the powers of politics want us to do just that - stop thinking be happy :D consume products :D be lazy :D be unhealthy :D be unproductive :D

@whysosrs5534 14 күн бұрын

You dont get it. And that’s okay lol

@marconeyu 14 күн бұрын

You are a prime candidate for what Alan is talking about! You, my friend, need to stop thinking altogether right now😂

@OutpostMJ 14 күн бұрын

@TallisKeeton Yo have a point -- and the comments counter-weighting your comment have a point. Ironically the people that "run with" the "stop thinking" advice are often themselves stuck in a rut...perhaps fearful of thinking because they loose control of it like a runaway train. Yes, think wisely (based on principles, intuition, and facts as best you can discern them) -- but, try to ease up and not overthink or get stuck in loops or excessive worry (some worry is inevitable and maybe necessary). In terms of facing the political dangers and the onslaught of commercial warfare (advertisement, scams, etc.) on the mind you should think clearly and smartly. Idk -- as brief as I can address your concern and the criticism of you comment by others. Okie.

@zandrokos 14 күн бұрын

He is saying to not engage in unproductive thinking. Like worrying about dollars.

@zandrokos 14 күн бұрын

I mean you literally dont understand anything about what this man was about or what he tried to impart on others.

@A.G.Birajdar 11 күн бұрын

❤