You Are Playing A Game - Alan Watts On Reality

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You Are Playing A Game - Alan Watts On Reality
A powerful and thought-provoking speech about the game we play.
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Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience.

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@TrueMeaning 3 ай бұрын

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@_the.awakening_ 6 ай бұрын

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Søren Kierkegaard

@NickNack229 6 ай бұрын

"I'm a human being, not a human doing." - Mooji

@zandrokos 6 ай бұрын

my experience largely sucks i want a refund :)

@_the.awakening_ 6 ай бұрын

@@zandrokos can't say you're wrong here...

@zandrokos 6 ай бұрын

@@_the.awakening_ i will still keep trying to get what i can out of my life experience though

@_the.awakening_ 6 ай бұрын

@@zandrokos just don't give up, things will get better if you do something about it

@yankeerebel5577 6 ай бұрын

"The future is uncertain and the end is always near".-Jim Morrison

@JonasAnandaKristiansson 5 ай бұрын

There is no future, and there is no beginning nor end.

@superflyguy526 5 ай бұрын

Very profound!@@JonasAnandaKristiansson

@karoakestream 6 ай бұрын

I'm a Father of a 12 year old. I'm 69 years old. I can't tell you the emotion as I have to watch thinking. That he may even in a very short time will face this fine World he lives in today. I sometimes go on to communicate this to my only son. He surprises me by telling me you havento be happy now and I shouldn't worry. I hope he learns the right way. What i try to pass on sounds like what Alan says.

@zandrokos 6 ай бұрын

things like this make me regret not having kids. sort of.

@BlackMagic1222 6 ай бұрын

@@zandrokosdon’t ever regret not having kids. This world is going to hell in a hand basket, you don’t want to watch your children suffer all their life.

@tothemoon8465 6 ай бұрын

@@BlackMagic1222 be aware of the unconsious anti human narrative playing out in your energy space, cause it's litterally demonic to put it nicely. Light pierces darkness and the world is waking up. Find yours

@everythingisvibration 6 ай бұрын

Im still jealous of you...

@ohsap123 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing!

@00ruva00 3 ай бұрын

"Making plans in the future is of use only to people who are capable of living completely in the present."

@00ruva00 3 ай бұрын

Because when you make plans for the future & they MATURE, you are, if you can't live in the present, you are not able to enjoy the future for which you have planned. 💯

@edgerunners828 6 ай бұрын

We are all still children inside our hearts. It's not too late to learn this valuable lesson for yourself and for the human beings of our Future 🙏

@NickNack229 6 ай бұрын

I've been listening to Alan Watts for close to a decade and this is one of his most powerful speeches!

@nschutten 6 ай бұрын

I didn't even know him until know. Wow. That last section invoked so much inside me: Death is always a guy who comes into a bar at 2 o'çlock in the morning and says "Time, gentlemen, please". And you say "Oh please, one more drink, not yet". Because you haven't really had the feeling that you ever had it, that you ever got there.

@Breca 6 ай бұрын

And after 10 years what have you learned, The man speaks in riddles. The only piece of advice I remember is "Don't chase the money" being single all my life I have worked the minimum and spent my life with family and seeking what interests me.

@zandrokos 6 ай бұрын

it is one of my favorites as well and try to listen to it every so often so i dont get distracted by bullshit. also i am currently living with one of my brothers who had a kid late in life who is now 9 years old. his mother is a fuckng bitch to hiim and loses her shit whenever their son doesnt get perfect grades or doesnt want to do the things she expects him to do. i hear her scream "shut the fuck up" at him numerous times a day because like her he likes people to know where he stands and she is blind to that.

@AnomalyBelleza 6 ай бұрын

@@Breca Love it. Would you say that you probably live the least stressful life among the people you know?

@Breca 6 ай бұрын

@@AnomalyBelleza Yes I have told people many times I have "Lived the life of Riley"

@frontsidegrinder6858 6 ай бұрын

All we have is here & now.

@jasonhendrix8527 6 ай бұрын

Love this. I am trying to be happy in the moment. I am a new father of two little ones and this is such a great lesson.

@kuro758 6 ай бұрын

good luck to you♥

@topbasic 6 ай бұрын

congrats 🎉 you’re lucky when you got 2 little ones

@5thdimension625 6 ай бұрын

Congratulations. The best gift you can give them is your full presence.

@Falas5898 6 ай бұрын

If you try to be happy, this means that you presume you are not happy now but you will be happy by trying, by putting faith in future. This point of view is doomed to fail. One can not try to be happy, just as one cannot try to be sad or angry. In order for someone to be happy, one, first of all, should not try to be happy. Then happiness may come. For me, happiness is absence of suffering. Suffering is the result of desiring. If one stops desiring, may happiness come.

@5thdimension625 6 ай бұрын

@@Falas5898 it can only be felt in the moment. People are in trance and expect the future to bring them happiness. Happiness has to happen in the present moment. It’s the only time we feel anything. What we do matters, being conscious of ourself through mindfulness and meditation is the key.

@stevewellman3154 6 ай бұрын

I have lived this dystopia and I’m jumping off. Good luck on your OWN!!!

@angr3819 6 ай бұрын

I am not sure what you mean. Are you ok? You wrote that as if you are ending your life. Why would you feel you need to do that? Please reply. I am worried for you.

@angr3819 6 ай бұрын

@@Musika1220 I wasn't asking you. I haven't seen anything else written by you anyway.

@thorodinloki 6 ай бұрын

@@angr3819Calm down weirdo

@iwon369 6 ай бұрын

😂@@thorodinloki

@audiohope_ 6 ай бұрын

lmao@@thorodinloki

@Skateboardfreakist 6 ай бұрын

This! This! everybody has to experience this. Once you see behind this once you realize it you cannot unsee it anymore. You stop caring about these societal expectations and your life is happiness

@danielmcmahon6744 6 ай бұрын

Love Mr Watts... have 100s of his lectures saved... brilliant man...

@johnny2b1 6 ай бұрын

Time is the most valuable thing you will ever have. You then trade away that time for money so we can buy more time. Buying time is the name of the game.

@DJJOOLZDE 4 ай бұрын

The older i get, the less things make sense. So i listen to Alan Watts talk and i feel like i've found something that does. What a gem of human kind this man was.

@SchmupKing 6 ай бұрын

My favorite person to listen to. This man had a way with explaining things that just hits home for me

@Axiomatic75 6 ай бұрын

If I could sit down with any person from history, Alan would definitely be in the top 3.

@PhamVans 6 ай бұрын

Life is short, just live it. 🙏

@deanayer3822 6 ай бұрын

This is everything. This is the whole game.

@AllThingsFilm1 6 ай бұрын

I've been hearing about "the moment" for years. Not in dogmatic religions, but in philosophies outside of such constructs. Having had the experience of being in the moment, I know how beneficial it is. On many levels. The most prominent of which is the feeling of peace. I'm glad I came across these videos of Alan Watts, because he has reminded me of the importance and benefits of being in the moment. This video in particular really hits home because he honestly portrays how the world raises and treats its children. Across many cultures. This is one of those videos I will replay as it is something I need to hear on a regular basis. Working full time, it's easy to get caught up in the need to make money, pay bills, and clean house. Thank you to all the channels that have uploaded the talks by Alan Watts. I really appreciate your efforts.

@zandrokos 6 ай бұрын

living in the moment is literally how i survived homelessness.

@roseblondie692 4 ай бұрын

The fact that you are trying is so valuable.

@LifeExceptional 6 ай бұрын

The lives that most of live are barely lives at all. How much time in our lives are actually spent on doing anything that brings us joy? For most of us, most of our time is spent doing things that we only do because we must, not because we want to.

@NathanDraxter 4 ай бұрын

I have lived life to the fullest, and then somehow I got caught into life as most people live it. I can tell that what most live is not life, is not good, is just a set of instructions that are followed until you die. Since most people never saw the other side, it must feel so dark and lonely. And I can honestly tell that it is, it is dark and lonely, and I am glad I had the oportunity to really live life

@MorganChaseCantees-iq5ud 6 ай бұрын

So enlightening ❤ I love listening to Watts talk.

@user-js9dc2yl9m 6 ай бұрын

Listening to watts Is best therapy Realizing Tht so much of wht have heard and read is ignorance

@nathananderson8720 6 ай бұрын

This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my KZfaq channel 9 months ago about self development. Now I have 1,696 subs and > 1k hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.

@shiftinggears9896 5 ай бұрын

I just subscribed.. I hope you reach your goals in life. Just remember desire is the route of suffering.

@nathananderson8720 5 ай бұрын

@@shiftinggears9896 Whoever you are, I don't know you personally but I can say that you're one of the non-judgmental and open-minded people who is not fixated on tangible or external factors in order to learn from someone like me. Just because someone doesn't have a piece of paper as a credential, doesn't mean that person is not entitled to share personal experiences with the hope & intention to inspire others. Keep up with whatever it is that you're doing to improve mankind or improving your life even to a slight degree each day. This is just one part of a bigger puzzle for creating my KZfaq channel about holistic health. I literally could have died back when I was 14 years old due to major depression but here I am right now replying to you, a KZfaqr, who's full of fulfillment and dedication to help others to be a better version of themselves. I ain't better than anyone else but my old self. That's all that really makes this KZfaq thing more meaningful and enjoyable. Thanks so much for your support! I am hoping that you can join me with this endless personal development journey! :)

@NathanDraxter 4 ай бұрын

I totally get it, and I am so glad that I got to enjoy life to its fullest. It does gets kinda boring when you keep pushing it after your moment. Like staying in a movie theather after the movie has ended, just because someone told you that there is a possibility that another movie will play again. Honestly, I truly believe few had the opportunity that I lived through, and I am glad I enjoyed it to the maximum.

@octofish 6 ай бұрын

Nice to listen to this man. Nobody even questions these things. Except a very few.

@ReynaSingh 6 ай бұрын

Wonderful 🤍

@geraldfrankel538 6 ай бұрын

❤️🕯️🙏 thank you.

@P-39_Airacobra 6 ай бұрын

"Making plans for the future is of use only to people who are capable of living completely in the present." He phrased this so perfectly. Everybody should be told this in their early life. So many people lose countless years of life from not understanding this simple principle.

@SynchronisedMinds 6 ай бұрын

That was a cheery message

@happy-8717 6 ай бұрын

Thank You 😇

@nathantaylor4381 6 ай бұрын

Smart man. Enjoy his opinions.

@onelieisenoughtoquestional5437 6 ай бұрын

What a speech. Absolutely brilliant!

@seanh0123 6 ай бұрын

Alan watts is the man. I recommend When You’re Silent it Speaks

@onelieisenoughtoquestional5437 6 ай бұрын

@@seanh0123 Thanks! I will listen to that.

@maheshjayasundara5088 6 ай бұрын

Really interesting ... Love from srilanka 🇱🇰

@Frostydyn 6 ай бұрын

Thank you

@TheBlueOwl21 6 ай бұрын

For a lot of people life is a con. We start off at the programming centre (school) where all individuality and creativity is knocked out of us, you are programmed to play your part as a cog in the big wheel of work, paying your taxes, never being quiet satisfied, you must get that bigger house and car, be glued on the road of consumerism etc and always looking for the next thing in order to feel that you have finally arrived. Eventually we reach the ‘golden years’, now is the time to enjoy ourselves. The problem is you may already be dead or now physically and mentally incapable of for-filling your dreams.

@minibikes502matter 6 ай бұрын

It's setup like that so you can be an excellent consumer and taxpayer.

@bengelukkig3738 6 ай бұрын

We know nothing. Dont act like you do

@comradecameron3726 4 ай бұрын

There’s so many people that parrot these same things but none of you ever actually try to change.

@TheBlueOwl21 4 ай бұрын

@@comradecameron3726 I certainly have 👍

@Brian-bg2cb 4 ай бұрын

So true. So good. So Apt and Appropriate for this time and all time.

@doramarcelino768 6 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@otorishingen8600 5 ай бұрын

Such a great teacher ✨

@bettyhaines2570 6 ай бұрын

Amen Brother Allen Watts 😊❤🙏💝

@c.galindo9639 6 ай бұрын

Quite a way of seeing into the perspective of one’s life, own wellness, and center of wellbeing. This is a realization that one must find in order to gain the reward of the pursuit. An excellent video to understand

@Artezia 6 ай бұрын

If the pleasure is not in the process of doing something but in the outcome of struggling to do, then the pleasure will never come.

@darinmckee2320 6 ай бұрын

The GOAT of enlightenment

@thiagonazario2145 6 ай бұрын

Amazing!!

@MaxDickus-bj5qu 6 ай бұрын

I quit a “normal” $150k job and never looked back. Make half now and have twice the time off but my time is more valuable then money. Also can work from anywhere. Three countries this year and three more next year and still in early 40s. Don’t wait until you are old and tired live your life now. I alway felt like the money was good but just numbers on a digital screen. Sure I could buy this or that but what I really wanted was freedom to come and go. I remember the day I went to the airport counter for my first international trip and the reservation lady asked me sorry sir problem with your ticket no return ticket? I told her don’t need one, not sure when I am coming back just will come back when I want, when I feel like it. Man I felt like chains fell off that day forward and I knew my time was more important then money. And everyday since that day I have lived the present not the future.

@chefboiardeeznutz9881 6 ай бұрын

4:02 whatever this jam is, I love it.

@beherenowtherescomingsomet8505 6 ай бұрын

I want to know as well so bad. Someone tell me pls

@youngmauro12 6 ай бұрын

This is a really good one!

@DailyReadMotivationHub 6 ай бұрын

best of the best , no body will tell such story 👍

@larrykanner37 6 ай бұрын

AWESOME!!!

@vivekchaudhary3794 3 ай бұрын

Maza aa gya ❤❤

@gosuhenke 4 ай бұрын

This is great man

@TheRedcroatian 2 ай бұрын

In the Spirit of living life to the fullest, once I drove from NYC to Austin and all I listened to along the way was this man, the great AW. Get out there people and live your life before that dreadful retirement party :)

@fraserpye9667 5 ай бұрын

I've actually had that moment where I was like, yep, I can die now it wouldn't phase me. I need to remember that.

@CarlosPalacios-gs3gx 6 ай бұрын

I've watched a large amount of Alan watts speaking. And this has to be one of the most easy to digest.. it's pretty clear cut why I can never make any plans because who's to say I will even want to carry out the so called plan once the time arrives..

@FinanceFrontier101 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful video.

@theeskimo7239 6 ай бұрын

We Viewers are actually playing the game hosted by you! 😮

@alanchriston6806 6 ай бұрын

Wonderful 😊🏴‍☠️🎈🎩🥃

@eyecred1394 6 ай бұрын

Amazing 🎉

@rafalfelinczak7333 5 ай бұрын

Live and teach future generations how to live. ❤ .

@tinmanden 6 ай бұрын

If you werent already depressed, you surely will be after listening to this

@ogaga.u3562 5 ай бұрын

Right 😂

@munirumagomu8366 5 ай бұрын

😂I see where you're coming from

@MoneysBestFriend888 6 ай бұрын

I hope ppl know he is being literal. This is actually a game with no rules but human perception. Anything and I mean anything is possible. Dream as big as possible and it will be, infact it must be.

@deltaradiance9034 6 ай бұрын

Wow 😢❤🎉

@linbooma1 6 ай бұрын

Truth

@mistervova11 6 ай бұрын

Life is a remedy that we take against the eternal presence that we are.

@ebenwrogemann2512 6 ай бұрын

Makes sense for the feeling of suddenly realising Me & You are God. Always been friend. Life is not that serious. Its just a play. A Way for God to Experience Himself.

@mistervova11 6 ай бұрын

@@ebenwrogemann2512 I was god, but i chose to stay there. God is literally just an aware vibration in infinite void, there is nothing besides being aware in the presence and not knowing how you came into existence. And there are no others, it's all you.

@ebenwrogemann2512 6 ай бұрын

@@mistervova11 i agree. Tho not the same sentiment. But the same principle view of what we are . Meaning what ever God is, he is everthing so. We as Human might get it but we can never understand it.

@mohamedmusthafa6182 3 ай бұрын

Present moment 🎉

@kimsteinke713 5 ай бұрын

This is so depressingly true I'm 63

@user-li9gq6rh4y 6 ай бұрын

Aamiin...Soha..............................................OBRIGADO my Brother Alan **

@dalepointer9414 6 ай бұрын

Life is a game. The day we are born we are being trained to play this game. We adhere to our parents' rules and follow-up with school rules. Schools are a minature version of governments where we learn to vote, praise the football team, and be totally loyal to the school, all the while hating other schools. The same applies with religion. And if we play this game well, we become a team leader, leading other players ( our children ) to advance in the game so their children can continue playing this game forever. And the beauty of it all, you will never win because the end is only new players.

@superflyguy526 5 ай бұрын

@dalepointer9414 - a thousand likes for this comment for you my friend!!

@comradecameron3726 4 ай бұрын

Religion is not the same.

@michellefno 6 ай бұрын

He's talking about nothing but truth.

@arkdark5554 6 ай бұрын

The Great Alan Watts…

@ebenwrogemann2512 6 ай бұрын

Btw. He is Me. He is You friend. We are all, Everything, God Experiencing Himself.

@gihan27 6 ай бұрын

🖤

@stmboat 6 ай бұрын

"To be a guru..."

@hasanal-dhabyani1950 6 ай бұрын

❤

@dylanexplores18 2 ай бұрын

Life

@OfficerMcLawDawg 3 ай бұрын

I feel so trapped in life I think about just ending it. If this is indeed a simulation it’s a real shit one.

@taergehtsiram 6 ай бұрын

Damn.

@febobartoli 6 ай бұрын

Great, can you post one of his complete lectures, thanks!

@therussmeister 6 ай бұрын

Click on the link under the title, that says 'more' you will find a link to complete lectures. Or just do a KZfaq search for 'Alan Watts'

@buxeyotl 6 ай бұрын

❤🙏🔥⚡💯

@danbygrave2652 6 ай бұрын

👏👏👏

@Mario-ot3sb 6 ай бұрын

The conjure games!!!

@codecaine 5 ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏

@gareauagindustries 6 ай бұрын

🎉❤❤❤

@Overlord236 6 ай бұрын

I know we're playing a game I'm having fun

@AlexReyes-wj5il 6 ай бұрын

I feel like I'm remote controlling my Brain from somewhere else and when I supposedly die I'll wake up

@zandrokos 6 ай бұрын

this is likely closer to the truth than you realize.

@vvalasek 5 ай бұрын

Don’t wait til you retire to enjoy your life

@petelongrs 5 ай бұрын

It's all about money and power. It shouldn't be but that is what we still have now.

@KISSTRRADES 6 ай бұрын

Life is all about experiences!

@tam-tam1970 4 ай бұрын

And what is the purpose of just accumulating the experiences? This is like accumulating “ things”.

@KISSTRRADES 4 ай бұрын

@@tam-tam1970 God or higher power created these "things" for us to experience them so why not live a full life and experience more things that fulfill you as you play the game. Death is the only thing absolute here on Earth so would you want to die still dreaming or die happy that you experienced a great life.

@tam-tam1970 4 ай бұрын

@@KISSTRRADESto live that “greater life” depends on how we understand it, I guess.

@devarshmakwana9723 6 ай бұрын

👍

@adamburton5184 5 ай бұрын

There's a drinking game i used to play at university where you play the game but do not know the rules. Each time you make a mistake you must drink. The game is to work out the motion that other players are doing which is set by the leader to stop them drinking .This is in essence how real life works. Anything important you must discover yourself and it takes years for most people, very few find out the rules as children or young adults. Bu the time you discover life is a game you could literally be about to die or have missed 50 years of life.