Living the Uncalculated Life--Alan Watts

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  • Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024

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  • @timpolder8382
    @timpolder8382 10 лет назад +45

    life is simple. you make choices, you are kind to others, and you don't look back

  • @Dollardhillon
    @Dollardhillon 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks been 13 years this was released on my first listen 🎧 today after 13 years of 2024

    • @SamahLama
      @SamahLama Месяц назад

      Wow I’m so happy I came back to listen to this stuff. I used to when I was a teenager

  • @prasantamukherjee6418
    @prasantamukherjee6418 4 года назад +5

    "you, as a separate effort maker is a myth, a fantasy"
    Truly genius

  • @variations3
    @variations3 9 лет назад +151

    Thank you for not putting music over Alan Watts

    • @mfrederick12
      @mfrederick12 8 лет назад +1

      Truth.

    • @DavidDasinger
      @DavidDasinger 7 лет назад +1

      Yep

    • @ptbonhomme9430
      @ptbonhomme9430 7 лет назад +2

      Yes. That's my biggest pet peeve with his talks on youtube.

    • @nicholascowan1731
      @nicholascowan1731 7 лет назад +2

      Gus Fermin Brens just curios as to why you guys don't like hearing it with music? you wouldn't object if you were listening to it, sitting by a fire with crackling logs.

    • @Russian5
      @Russian5 5 лет назад +1

      @@nicholascowan1731 Usually because the audio levels are off, or the music is intending to add emotion to something that does not need more emotion.
      With that said, when I listen to Watts I often open up another browser tab and put on some binaural audio (meditation type tones).
      I suggest trying that, it's peaceful.

  • @nehemaialord3622
    @nehemaialord3622 Год назад +1

    Your relationship with the environment is always in harmony i like that

  • @zachbenassayag1340
    @zachbenassayag1340 8 лет назад +17

    Wow the steering wheel analogy.. Brilliant

  • @derelict844
    @derelict844 12 лет назад +2

    What a great clip. Watts is an endless fountain of insight.

  • @timpolder8382
    @timpolder8382 10 лет назад +2

    may all the beings in all the worlds be happy. let us all be kind to others, and let us pray that other are kind to us and let us be the way we are.

  • @pineapplejack476
    @pineapplejack476 9 лет назад +4

    So observant, and has the ability to break things down to their simplest point.

  • @Tyboflexing
    @Tyboflexing 8 лет назад +5

    Great for the mind, body, and soul.

  • @thenuyoo6774
    @thenuyoo6774 5 лет назад

    One of the best ones yet of Alan Watts

  • @veganprincess01
    @veganprincess01 13 лет назад +1

    One of the greatest thinkers of our time :) Thanks Alan!

  • @iainab007
    @iainab007 11 лет назад +3

    love his laugh.

  • @nicholasgordon4607
    @nicholasgordon4607 10 лет назад +38

    He would have changed this generation, had he been alive, as he has changed me.

    • @xajovanela
      @xajovanela 10 лет назад +3

      I know what you mean, we need people like him now more then ever.

    • @Xinterp
      @Xinterp 10 лет назад +15

      Same here. We're so fortunate to live in the age of the internet where such wise characters thoughts and ideas can be frozen in time.

    • @pacioklot
      @pacioklot 8 лет назад +3

      +David We don't need anything.

    • @xajovanela
      @xajovanela 8 лет назад

      Adam Sujkowski I meant the people that actually listened and learned from him.

    • @pacioklot
      @pacioklot 8 лет назад

      David We don't need that.

  • @SomethingSoOriginal
    @SomethingSoOriginal 8 лет назад +1

    Cant get enough, this is a great talk

  • @ywalker435
    @ywalker435 13 лет назад +2

    I love his laugh

  • @fusion772
    @fusion772 6 лет назад +3

    He can't put any limits on "me"... that is pretty cool

  • @DAazEdd
    @DAazEdd 11 лет назад +2

    Alan would say you already have... The actions you take to "accomplish" such peace are the very actions that prevent you from realizing, as he would say, the real you.

  • @michaelpissoff6784
    @michaelpissoff6784 Год назад

    I gave this some serious thought one morning as I sat looking out at the farm and a crane flew by giving me patience. Than as I truly saw we always get what we want a cardinal flew in beside me giving me a cardinal message.

  • @ReLLepLeo
    @ReLLepLeo 12 лет назад

    all titles from alan videos already give me chills XD and when i listen..oh, thats just light from everywhere, this describes the fascination of live, called maya, the defenition i was looking for is the indefinable tao :D

  • @Tilearian
    @Tilearian 11 лет назад +1

    I love that the group of people that usually listen to Alan Watts, or any other person of this nature, tend to be more honest or gentle. Usually is the key word here ^_^

  • @silverwindspirit
    @silverwindspirit 11 лет назад

    Why are people worried that there's no music added? The concept behind this mans words are already there. Adding music or having no music will not add or subtract any value on any level for any reason.

  • @MrBrianridin
    @MrBrianridin 12 лет назад

    hes reminding us that we forgot to remember this

  • @youshakespeare4965
    @youshakespeare4965 7 лет назад +4

    I like me and the wine,together

  • @OfficialMPD
    @OfficialMPD 11 лет назад

    i know this is speaking to me, I have to watch it more times.

  • @DELPHIIII
    @DELPHIIII 13 лет назад

    I was not aware of this talk, thank you!

  • @pixel8ated
    @pixel8ated 11 лет назад +1

    the paradox of duality. like up needs down, before needs after etc, to be seperate you need something to be seperate from, or at least the illusion or perception of being individual.

  • @hermantinoherman5319
    @hermantinoherman5319 7 лет назад

    good video.yes we really dont know what is really good for us and the environment.

  • @thakurboys5962
    @thakurboys5962 3 года назад

    Surrender is the only refuge 🙏

  • @cidcid25
    @cidcid25 12 лет назад +4

    coolest tree house ive ever seen

  • @hootiepaladin
    @hootiepaladin 12 лет назад

    No music: just Alan!

  • @opalgoblin
    @opalgoblin 12 лет назад +1

    Most of Alan Watt's speeches are recorded with an audience present, so there's always someone coughing or giggling. In one of the recordings he interrupts his speech to tell someone to shut up.

  • @simplelatinboy
    @simplelatinboy 11 лет назад +1

    Does anybody know where this clip was taken from? I'm really digging it and wish to see the full video. Thanks.

  • @juliah50
    @juliah50 13 лет назад +4

    Thamk you for not putting music. Great video !!!!!!!!!

  • @howtolinux1437
    @howtolinux1437 5 лет назад +1

    I and you are everyone and everything that exists, only I and you don't remember it. so what you do in this life doesn't matter, but it does matter in the sense that you are still going on as everyone else. so you can make hell or heaven.

  • @RingQuest
    @RingQuest 7 лет назад +4

    What's withbthe 3:55 yawner? Obviously startles Alan for a split second... Why is that so awesome?
    Alan Watts rules

  • @DaRealFiberOptix
    @DaRealFiberOptix 12 лет назад

    they invented the word genius to embody this guy in every dimensional aspect that is possible to exist

  • @johnwheeler9747
    @johnwheeler9747 10 лет назад +11

    my new favorite. it made me laugh. some shit is so simple.

    • @SueBlime187
      @SueBlime187 10 лет назад +2

      😊

    • @ascendedzen
      @ascendedzen 10 лет назад

      Sue Blime I love your name! :)

    • @touchdown7970
      @touchdown7970 6 лет назад

      John Wheeler anything can be simple. You can simplify anything

  • @alexreik424
    @alexreik424 9 лет назад

    Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy was a Ceylonese Tamil philosopher and metaphysician, as well as a pioneering historian and philosopher of Indian art, particularly art history and symbolism, and an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West. In his travels, he came across a sage, who he described as living a: "Perpetually Uncalculated Life In the Present."

    • @hummingbirdSage
      @hummingbirdSage  8 лет назад

      +Alex Reik Thanks for sharing. I will look into Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. Have you heard of Sri Ramana Maharshi? He has one main teaching, find the source of the "I"...but its not merely repeating "who am I?" again and again, there's more to it ;)

  • @Trueno33
    @Trueno33 12 лет назад

    he saw it while he was alive. That´s why he could laugh and speak as he did

  • @DaRealFiberOptix
    @DaRealFiberOptix 12 лет назад

    it still took courage to be the person he was, his ability to see what is real and to put it all together. he evolved what the ancients wrote and put it into terms that we could understand across the ocean of language, in a similar way einstein took newtons physics ideas and evolved them into general relativity. i guess i should iterate what i was referring to in a more specific way, but whatever way you want to look at it, stop looking at the glass as half empty

  • @fcdog555
    @fcdog555 13 лет назад

    listen to this with piano in the background and you will live

  • @obeymydog42
    @obeymydog42 11 лет назад

    Matt is right, but in case a few more words will help: your sense of being you, a separate entity, can only be felt by contrast with other beings or objects that you consider to be "not you" or "other". So just like an object can't have a top but no bottom, you can't have a separate self without something "other" for it to be separate from. Watts calls it polar thinking, to be able to see the connectedness of seemingly opposite aspects of the world (short can only exist relative to tall, etc.)

  • @zodiacfml
    @zodiacfml 12 лет назад

    Another great one from Alan Watts though the first part seems to be conflicting with his "What would like to do if money is no object?", in my perspective.

  • @SamA-nj7yr
    @SamA-nj7yr 3 года назад

    Lovely, I don’t mind music or whatever, really
    , so, upload however you please, either way
    , it’s awesome!

  • @AS-ze6ch
    @AS-ze6ch 11 лет назад

    What's the NEXT SESSION that he refers to near the end? AKA the part 2 of of this video? Can someone post a link reply? Pleeease?

  • @leoisforevercool
    @leoisforevercool 3 года назад

    Can someone tell me what lecture this is from please?

  • @ballbaggonebad
    @ballbaggonebad 11 лет назад +1

    Thanks for the lack of music the dude beating off and breathing erratically into the microphone was an interesting substitute.

  • @hUSCtla
    @hUSCtla 11 лет назад +2

    The best I can do is act like a ship in a storm and control to a certain extent the aspects of movement. Or better example is like skydiving. When I'm falling I have the choice of cupping my hands and spinning in circles, dive down like an arrow, do somersaults, enjoying my experience of falling, BUT ultimately I am still in an uncontrollable fall.

  • @wordsme
    @wordsme 11 лет назад

    very good, I like your view.

  • @GodofAnger2002
    @GodofAnger2002 12 лет назад

    I hate knowing this man is dead..... if there is anything in the end for us, I hope he get's to see it in it's entirety.

  • @BrilliantOrb
    @BrilliantOrb 13 лет назад

    Hmmm..... Hes one of those guys.... AND I LOVE IT, Im inspired..

  • @lobrien29
    @lobrien29 11 лет назад +1

    Yes, thanks for the lack of "inspirational music"!! I am loving these talks.

  • @forcedadventure
    @forcedadventure 10 лет назад

    HMMMMMMM.............VERY...............INTERESTING !!!

  • @Trueno33
    @Trueno33 12 лет назад

    his laughin is music.

  • @WKRPinCINN
    @WKRPinCINN 12 лет назад

    i've heard a lot of these alan watts clips on youtube over the years, i'm pretty sure that's a noise from the master recording tape these clips where taken from.

  • @TaylorTauaWisdomFaithAction
    @TaylorTauaWisdomFaithAction 6 лет назад

    Thank you :)

  • @lowrider692
    @lowrider692 12 лет назад

    good clip.thx

  • @metricmoo
    @metricmoo 11 лет назад +2

    that's just the microphone brushing against AW's clothing....classic technical glitch inherent in a lot of his talks.

  • @BigCecDesertDawg
    @BigCecDesertDawg 11 лет назад +1

    This is not Alan Watts talking You...This is you talking to yourself...

    • @reygannelson8090
      @reygannelson8090 16 дней назад

      I know this is a very late response ( what’s time anyways?) but exactly. This is exactly it. There is no seperate “ other”, or thing, that’s not just truly you.

  • @Biolupus
    @Biolupus 11 лет назад

    if you walk in the emptiness, how can you feel walking? You need the existence of a way to feel you're walking. You cannot feel walking without the environment. So the walking, the way, and you, are all the same, and inseparable. If you walk without "here" and "there", there's no moving. If you exist without "no you's", there's not the feeling of "I", there's only a point and the empty. But as you and others are inseparable, actually there's neither you nor others. Obvious and paradoxical.

  • @JaaliHeruRaHotep
    @JaaliHeruRaHotep 11 лет назад +3

    Start meditating.

  • @AS-ze6ch
    @AS-ze6ch 11 лет назад

    what is the part 2 of this video?

  • @BigCecDesertDawg
    @BigCecDesertDawg 11 лет назад

    i am thinking about what to comment, and in the comment box you see my comment on what i will be commenting....thus the world goes round.

  • @AntonSlavik
    @AntonSlavik 13 лет назад

    lol @ the end
    I love how magical and free my life has become after Alan Watts and other find Teachers entered my life. They wouldn't let me suck on the finger, they kept directing me to where it was pointing.

  • @KissTheFuture
    @KissTheFuture 12 лет назад

    Yes, thank you for NOT putting it to music :)

  • @NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK
    @NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK 7 лет назад

    20 people live calculated lives

  • @mistresspav
    @mistresspav 11 лет назад

    in reply to Ariues' incomplete disillusionment...
    he says "let's not beat around the bush" an expression meaning let's be cleair and straight to the ponit

  • @DaRealFiberOptix
    @DaRealFiberOptix 12 лет назад

    agreed

  • @BigCecDesertDawg
    @BigCecDesertDawg 11 лет назад +1

    you can't explain it, don't get it, and you got it. look for it and its gone....Just remember you have nothing to remember..take a long laugh and look around hahahah

  • @Torchbearer666
    @Torchbearer666 13 лет назад

    What a fucking god this man was................

  • @silverwindspirit
    @silverwindspirit 11 лет назад

    Well....it depends on the person :)

  • @MrsSudsawat
    @MrsSudsawat 11 лет назад

    me too...

  • @tHatReaLSHiZ
    @tHatReaLSHiZ 9 лет назад +3

    Life is the balancing forces of the universe in motion. Google
    ⓉⒽⒺ ⓉⓇⓊⓉⒽ ⒸⓄⓃⓉⒺⓈⓉ and read "The Present"

    • @mrman9260
      @mrman9260 7 лет назад

      Jade Chev NOT OKAY!

    • @mrman9260
      @mrman9260 7 лет назад

      But I agree it is misguided advice

    • @normanleach9587
      @normanleach9587 5 лет назад

      @@jadechev6388 Always uphold the right to change your mind. Press delete...and start fresh.

    • @normanleach9587
      @normanleach9587 5 лет назад

      @@mrman9260 "...Consider the lilies of the field." -- Jesus

  • @drsalka
    @drsalka 11 лет назад

    also "lack of" :)

  • @forfunsabaidee
    @forfunsabaidee 10 лет назад +1

    I don't know why, but every single one of Watt's lectures don't seem to get really through to me. It's like he is talking some kind of a Jibberish philisophy mixed with Jibberish jokes :-)
    On the other hand, when i listen to Eckhart Tolle, every single word sounds to me as clear as a bell and makes totally sense....

    • @fredbaby1
      @fredbaby1 10 лет назад +3

      Eckhart Tolle was gibberish to me until it was time for me to get it. So was Ram Dass, Osho, ect...And then...boom... I understood it. Alan is not for you yet or ever. The mind always resists the unfamiliar. No biggie.

    • @mfrederick12
      @mfrederick12 8 лет назад

      +Fred Thunder Insightful reply, my friend.

  • @Jantles
    @Jantles 11 лет назад

    Want to test that theory? play this video as you also listen to dubstep.

  • @Sterreism
    @Sterreism 13 лет назад

    no music..thx

  • @leahnicole725
    @leahnicole725 12 лет назад

    Awesome! Thanks for no music!

  • @manie54321
    @manie54321 11 лет назад

    Ho'Oponopono.

  • @stephenalevesque2361
    @stephenalevesque2361 11 лет назад +3

    To exist without a purpose is, in itself, suffering. I believe we all want to be free in its truest and fullest sense. I propose here that we are most free when we are free to fulfil the purpose we were intended for. A blender being used to prop open a window or door, in this sense, is not free because it was intended for mixing. The question is what purpose are people intended for?

    • @stephenalevesque2361
      @stephenalevesque2361 9 лет назад

      It is true when someone identifies with non-permanent things like their profession or possessions and believe that "I am THIS..." (doctor, writer, football player, etc.) sets them up for an identity crisis the day they can no be THAT. I am proposing that there is an identity that cannot be lost or taken away. That identity is "a child of God through Christ Jesus" an Ultimate and Eternal identity that cannot be lost.

    • @simpleravenraven6358
      @simpleravenraven6358 7 лет назад +1

      Just "we" instead of "me", the end.

  • @SomethingSoOriginal
    @SomethingSoOriginal 8 лет назад

    What talk is this?

  • @mattwalthius53
    @mattwalthius53 11 лет назад

    Who are you?

  • @trainofaaron
    @trainofaaron 11 лет назад

    you missed the whole point then it was musical thing and you were supposed to dance!

  • @LeafFreedom
    @LeafFreedom 12 лет назад

    No.

  • @trainofaaron
    @trainofaaron 11 лет назад

    @smarteffort1 oh so by you saying that knowledge has been there all along gives you a sense of security? Pride? Understanding? His way of teaching is what we are facisnated by. Fool.

  • @415Dub
    @415Dub 11 лет назад +1

    I wish there were music, but good either way :)

  • @katjathesaurus3800
    @katjathesaurus3800 8 лет назад

    no, im a graveyard

  • @davidmayhew4818
    @davidmayhew4818 6 лет назад

    Pulease... He sounds sooo confused! Sophistry. What is love? You could spin on that definition until you turn blue. So there are paradoxes in life. He's a guru trickster. He answers and doesn't answer. It sounds good at first, but soon becomes vacuos.

    • @vladimirpazur1344
      @vladimirpazur1344 6 лет назад

      he said that,he is selfish ...he knows what,when and why he is saying what he is saying

  • @stephenalevesque2361
    @stephenalevesque2361 10 лет назад

    TO laotzu4272; Thank you for your comments! Well you are correct if coming from the idea that identity =role, station or occupation in life. But I am referring to one's core identity from which our thoughts, words, actions and thoughts proceed. It supersedes all such labels or states. My understanding of identity is derived from the biblical understanding which uses a lot of imagery (light/darkness, sheep/goats, wheat/tares, saved/lost, etc.) in order to define 2 core identities a person can be, best summed up in John 1:12 "But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God." So if you have rec'd Jesus then you are a child of God, and THAT is your core identity which cannot be stripped from you and from this identity all else flows. It’s the only identity that really matters and carries eternal significance. :)

  • @BE74297
    @BE74297 11 лет назад