These videos always make me cry. Not out of sadness or happiness, but I think simply because they speak the truth to me. They'd make sense in a way that nothing else does.
Yeah, be happy now, not in a future some day when you have this or that. If you're not happy now you will never be happy because there only is now. The future is just imagination.
old account Or do what you love... We forgot how to enjoy the process since we became conscious of our thought, and maybe that's why it can be somewhat difficult to relearn what we knew when we were like other animals...
+Slave2PaperWithInkOn You've missed the point. The message is not trying to tell you what you should do (be happy and ignore suffering in the world) but rather that you should love WHATEVER you do. "Dance each step of [your] way". Whichever way you walk on.
@Slave2PaperWithInkOn While I appreciate your spirit and your energy, the way you've communicated your message - CAPs and parentheticals and quotation marks, et cetera - unfortunately reminds me of the person shouting their truths on a street corner when there's an orchestral quartet playing to an otherwise attentive crowd. Or the overly-enthusiastic Jehovah's Witnesses who arrive on your doorstep just when you're about to give your baby a bath and just...won't...go...away. Take your pick. : )
Slave2PaperWithInkOn You thinl to mutch about the negative aspects. Not everyone wants to be rich or have a goal since childhood to sell weapons. I bet even the arms dealers had a different dream of doing something else in life. Guess everyone should chase their own passion, even if it is on wall street or a truck driver.
Have been a student of Alan's for over 10 years along with other master thinkers. His zen way of seeing the world has helped me grow in many ways. At the point of my life now here in 2020 locked down due to a virus outbreak, and through many months leading up to today, I realized I was missing a true purpose in life which I thought I had. No my purpose was not pursuit of wealth or success or even happiness. To me my inner feelings told me my purpose was to make the most use of the creative power I was given, we were all given as human beings. That purpose served me for many years and it brought me happiness even in adversity but still I felt it was not enough. Now it finally clicked to me about his comparison to music. It's not even about being creative but it's about really savouring every note and every beat of your time in this song we call life. Thank you
theJourneyofPurposeTJOP , I have always suffered from depression, darkness. I'm dramatic and melancholic but now, ı am trying to change it with your videos. Thank you.
I was living to retire until I watched this video. Listening to this has since changed my life. I now try to play in the present and experience fun today while I can, instead of worrying about the future.
That song... "Saturn" and the other one, absolutely perfect. Sleeping at Last will always hold a place in my heart as the most personal and transformative music that i discovered (along with Alan Watts), at the most critical time of my life and helped to initiate my Awakening... wow.
This video will speak out to your heart and that's why it gets emotional. Your heart knows truth and this is the way it must speak to you. Follow your heart!
I cry every time. Every. Single. Time. I'm young and ready for things to move along so I can be my own person but older people tell me to stop "wishing my life away". I'm not really, I'm just wishing this PART away, because right now, life is so meaningless.
@@thareealgee Hi, it's from the song it's played on the video: Saturn by Sleeping at last. When the video ends, it's the part that follows: "I'd give anything to hear, You say it one more time That the universe was made, Just to be seen by my eyes"
it can correlate to the point of the video, life is about living, that's it, no need to search for a greater meaning that itself. Make the meaning in the living. Doing things with meaning. If it brings true meaning for you, it will probably give meaning to your surroundings as well, and society at large. JUST TO BE SEEN, life is about experiencing, JUST FOR THAT SAME PURPOSE.
@@thareealgee :oo Thank you! I saw it one time in a book about the Shadow, I think, from Carl Jung, and I really liked the meaning "In Classical Greek metanoia meant changing one's mind about someone or something. When personified, Metanoia was depicted as a shadowy goddess, cloaked and sorrowful, who accompanied Kairos, the god of Opportunity, sowing regret and inspiring repentance for the "missed moment". This conventional portrayal continued through the Renaissance. "The elements of repentance, regret, reflection, and transformation are always present in the concept of metanoia to some degree, ..."
- Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it - Salvador Dali I'm sorry M. Dali, but it does exist and it's all the little things you do in life. - La perfection existe dans le cheminement, jamais à destination. - Johnny Cool
TJOP, my second thanks to you.... THANK YOU for the wonderful waves you are creating and setting in motion throughout the world and beyond, through your videos! Immensely thankful and grateful for your creation.
weird. He explained to detail about how i feel about the world. I love motorcycles and the thing about driving was always the journey, not the destination. I dont like how society is turning out. These days we use to mutch time on our social media, just like what I am doing right now!
I love Alan! He has enlightened me so much! His words are a beautiful counter song of spiritual logic against the so called materialistic "logic" of todays world.
TheSliderBy I've listened to every talk he's ever made probably three or four times. "The Joker" is awesome. "Zen and Bones" is amazing too, but get his podcast on iTunes. You can listen for days. "The World As Just So" is like twelve hours. It's life changing.
The sad part is that I thought I always knew it, but when the talking part of the video ended and the song kicked in, I skipped through it to see if there's anything after it. There was nothing, I was just supposed to listen to the song.
Most people are not ready to check out yet. If you love life there is no problem just dance with it. After all we are not significant, even the planet or galaxies is not.
he makes the same comparison as shopenhauer- of all the art forms, music is distinct in that it is not a representation but a direct copy of the will in itself
this oddly cuts out a few words which confuses the meaning when he says "one doesn't make the end of the composition " you leave out "the point of the composition", which is vital to understanding his point.
This experience is an involuntarily action, we're doing it but don't know how we are doing it. Like your heart beats. Why should I have to work my ass off or pay somebody else so that I can be an involuntary action? Simplicity was never supposed to be so difficult.
I don´t really agree with the point, that the analogy of life to a journey should be basically bad or useless, because if you really succeed to define goals and purposes in your life, they can be actually one of the best basics to live in harmony with yourself and the world around you, simply because you can live in peace and with the constant feeling that we are here to accomplish certain goals or create enduring things in art, science or humanity or maybe just to give life to a baby and be a mother or father. I really do believe that such a life would be at least as good and important as the view that life is merely a kind of adventure game or play without any particular destination, meaning or fulfilling substance..if life is really meaningless (to the individual self) then why live (or play) at all? Because then you could commit suicide right away, it wouldn`make any difference at all..why don´t look at us as loving creators than just as aimless entities, who are just trying to enjoy every single moment in a selfish kind of way..
MrEmotional33 he never said life was a the journey was bad or useless, hes saying, like he says in another talk, dont go on living doing things you dont like so you can go on living to do more things you don't like. Life is a suppose to be this thing were you go on and do everything you like, and not to be spent miserably.
Yes, but if you are doing those things to please someone or to be seen being sucessefull or something like that you are just fooling yourself, thats the point of his words. He all have goals, Alan has goals, but you cant forget to be present, to be hear and enjoy the moment. If you are training, will be much more enjoyable if you are present on the moment
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These videos always make me cry. Not out of sadness or happiness, but I think simply because they speak the truth to me. They'd make sense in a way that nothing else does.
i feel ya
The Sunflower Trail same here
Vicki Spencer yes, we are all looking for the meaning of our existence. Its a bummer. But we just try and live a meaningful life, be blessed.
Victoria Spencer same
Gifted people
Yeah, be happy now, not in a future some day when you have this or that. If you're not happy now you will never be happy because there only is now. The future is just imagination.
What I learned: Enjoy the process. The point of life isn't only to survive at some job you hate. It's to love what you do.
old account
Or do what you love... We forgot how to enjoy the process since we became conscious of our thought, and maybe that's why it can be somewhat difficult to relearn what we knew when we were like other animals...
Do what you love.
@@jonnywolf1234 Love what you love (and do? :D)
The moral... Don't forget to sing, dance & be happy along life's journey.
Dance each step of the way through life
+Slave2PaperWithInkOn if everyone on earth would dance with happiness, there would be no suffering ;)
+Slave2PaperWithInkOn You've missed the point. The message is not trying to tell you what you should do (be happy and ignore suffering in the world) but rather that you should love WHATEVER you do. "Dance each step of [your] way". Whichever way you walk on.
@Slave2PaperWithInkOn While I appreciate your spirit and your energy, the way you've communicated your message - CAPs and parentheticals and quotation marks, et cetera - unfortunately reminds me of the person shouting their truths on a street corner when there's an orchestral quartet playing to an otherwise attentive crowd. Or the overly-enthusiastic Jehovah's Witnesses who arrive on your doorstep just when you're about to give your baby a bath and just...won't...go...away. Take your pick. : )
theJourneyofPurpose TJOP ty for another great video. Sending you peace and love :)
Slave2PaperWithInkOn
You thinl to mutch about the negative aspects. Not everyone wants to be rich or have a goal since childhood to sell weapons. I bet even the arms dealers had a different dream of doing something else in life. Guess everyone should chase their own passion, even if it is on wall street or a truck driver.
Alan Watts is a King! i think that no one else has reached such a deep knowledge of life at all like he did... R.I.P. Alan
Sleeping at last - Saturn. what a wonderful song for this video.
Have been a student of Alan's for over 10 years along with other master thinkers. His zen way of seeing the world has helped me grow in many ways. At the point of my life now here in 2020 locked down due to a virus outbreak, and through many months leading up to today, I realized I was missing a true purpose in life which I thought I had. No my purpose was not pursuit of wealth or success or even happiness. To me my inner feelings told me my purpose was to make the most use of the creative power I was given, we were all given as human beings. That purpose served me for many years and it brought me happiness even in adversity but still I felt it was not enough. Now it finally clicked to me about his comparison to music. It's not even about being creative but it's about really savouring every note and every beat of your time in this song we call life. Thank you
Existence is lit
2021 yes you reading this, welcome and open your heart to the truth. That you and I are one with the universe.
If more people listened to (and heard) the wisdom of Alan Watts the world woud be a better place.
I know I'm a better person because of him.
The ending was so beautiful. Especially with 60fps!
Who in theit rightful mind would dislike the video... just sit back and listen to the music play in life
The three people who just realized they're 40 and wasted their youth LOL
theJourneyofPurposeTJOP
, I have always suffered from depression, darkness. I'm dramatic and melancholic but now, ı am trying to change it with your videos. Thank you.
+Burak Görün thanks for your feedback may your 2017 be filled with blessings my friend
Burak Görün How are you doing five months after leaving the comment on TJOP?
I cried
Watched this 4 months later and I cried again
And that's why I think you're awesome Alex :)!!
So do I. Everytime I watch this video.
I was living to retire until I watched this video. Listening to this has since changed my life. I now try to play in the present and experience fun today while I can, instead of worrying about the future.
3.33 to 3.55 gave me goosebumps. Amazing
That song... "Saturn" and the other one, absolutely perfect. Sleeping at Last will always hold a place in my heart as the most personal and transformative music that i discovered (along with Alan Watts), at the most critical time of my life and helped to initiate my Awakening... wow.
Alan watts is BRILLIANT !!!
thank the heavens for Alan watts Alan watts you are heaven sent God bless you
This video will speak out to your heart and that's why it gets emotional. Your heart knows truth and this is the way it must speak to you. Follow your heart!
I love what you do. You craft awesome videos enriched with beauty, hope and meaning. Much thanks for this beautiful gift :)
I cry every time. Every. Single. Time. I'm young and ready for things to move along so I can be my own person but older people tell me to stop "wishing my life away". I'm not really, I'm just wishing this PART away, because right now, life is so meaningless.
Read John 1 in the New Testament then let's discuss it
The universe was made just to be seen by my eyes...
@@thareealgee Hi, it's from the song it's played on the video: Saturn by Sleeping at last. When the video ends, it's the part that follows: "I'd give anything to hear,
You say it one more time
That the universe was made,
Just to be seen by my eyes"
it can correlate to the point of the video, life is about living, that's it, no need to search for a greater meaning that itself. Make the meaning in the living. Doing things with meaning. If it brings true meaning for you, it will probably give meaning to your surroundings as well, and society at large. JUST TO BE SEEN, life is about experiencing, JUST FOR THAT SAME PURPOSE.
@@thareealgee :oo Thank you! I saw it one time in a book about the Shadow, I think, from Carl Jung, and I really liked the meaning
"In Classical Greek metanoia meant changing one's mind about someone or something. When personified, Metanoia was depicted as a shadowy goddess, cloaked and sorrowful, who accompanied Kairos, the god of Opportunity, sowing regret and inspiring repentance for the "missed moment". This conventional portrayal continued through the Renaissance. "The elements of repentance, regret, reflection, and transformation are always present in the concept of metanoia to some degree, ..."
In the moment
guys you need to make videos more often! please
This is so beautiful....all those images and the music.The message is not surprising knowin A.Watts.Thank you.
Video beautifully done. Alan Watts deserves no less than that. Thank You.
Lots of love from india
love your work and Alan pointing us to the dance. shared @loveenergyvibes on Twitter Pure Love Energy
This has such a profound impact on me... I don't know why I keep watching it repeatedly... Impressive thoughts make me think...
- Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it - Salvador Dali
I'm sorry M. Dali, but it does exist and it's all the little things you do in life.
- La perfection existe dans le cheminement, jamais à destination. - Johnny Cool
not sure why this talk made me cry. Alan watts. you live on.
TJOP, my second thanks to you.... THANK YOU for the wonderful waves you are creating and setting in motion throughout the world and beyond, through your videos! Immensely thankful and grateful for your creation.
weird. He explained to detail about how i feel about the world. I love motorcycles and the thing about driving was always the journey, not the destination. I dont like how society is turning out. These days we use to mutch time on our social media, just like what I am doing right now!
😇this message came right on time! #peace & abundant blessings to you all!😇
I’m seeing this for the first time and it holds true. The way he explains it is the perfect analogy that I never could put words to
I can keep on hearing Alan Watt all day❤💙💙💚💚❤
These videos give me piece and by reading the other comments feeling I've always known this but could never see it seems to be a common issue
I love Alan! He has enlightened me so much! His words are a beautiful counter song of spiritual logic against the so called materialistic "logic" of todays world.
Thank you so much.....
Beautiful collaboration of words, music and picture.
Best video i've ever seen, without a doubt. Thank you!
Woww... That was something wonderful. Great work (Y)
Best Video thank you Mr Watts
Wow.. just wow .. my heart
Great video! Alan Watts is my favorite! Does anyone have a favorite talk of his they could recommend?
TheSliderBy Alan is very fascinating. I recommend " The Real You" by Alan! That's my favourite one
TheSliderBy I've listened to every talk he's ever made probably three or four times. "The Joker" is awesome. "Zen and Bones" is amazing too, but get his podcast on iTunes. You can listen for days. "The World As Just So" is like twelve hours. It's life changing.
Adam Westbury Thank you for the suggestionso!
It isn't so much a talk, but a cool video made by GoPro with a few words by Alan is pretty cool; It's called Whale Fantasia
TheSliderBy Search up «Alan Watts and Jason Silva - The Death Problem». It's bloody magnificent!
excellent video! Thank you for this one.
this is so beautiful
Beautiful video! Thank you!
your welcome
Vesa Keinonen very beautiful! Agreeeeee
Thank you for this.
Buddy, i love your videos so much.
Thank you.
Another TJOP masterpiece
Wonderful video! Thank you! =)
This video really helped. Thank you.
beautiful.
Love IT.... I knew I knew that....
At 1:15 it should say one doesn't make the end of the composition.. "the point of the composition" for some reason it got cut off.
Beautiful
Amazing!
Feels!! ❤️
Amazing
If I just... ...then I'll be happy. I'm happy now but if I just... ...then I'll really have it all.
awesome video!
The sad part is that I thought I always knew it, but when the talking part of the video ended and the song kicked in, I skipped through it to see if there's anything after it. There was nothing, I was just supposed to listen to the song.
Enjoy the ride everyone, certainly time isn't it. I'm 75 and still want to dance. Allen Watts can take you thru the journey, always has..
Words of wisdom
Loozah Suwal one of the smartest man!
Well done ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
It’s not the destination...it’s the journey.
Most people are not ready to check out yet. If you love life there is no problem just dance with it. After all we are not significant, even the planet or galaxies is not.
... "they made you miss everything by expectation"
enjoy LIFE, which is a journey. do not focus on the destination
wow!!!!!
It’s all a game. Everything.
Hi can you make 4k videos with alan watts message.
he makes the same comparison as shopenhauer- of all the art forms, music is distinct in that it is not a representation but a direct copy of the will in itself
Risk being seen...in all your glory.
Sub titles would have made a wonderful presentation!!
God made us his Children with a purpose ,Once our purpose is done here on Earh our Breath of life returns to God and our bodies return to the dust .
this oddly cuts out a few words which confuses the meaning when he says "one doesn't make the end of the composition " you leave out "the point of the composition", which is vital to understanding his point.
Hello old friend...
👁️
The journey IS the purpose
What journey?
I only get depressed when I think about living life without my mum dad and 2 brothers. Not so much if I die but if they do
...I have no brothers or sisters, and both of parents have died ...I have no partner ...the world has become a cold and lonely place
Death is simply spiritual sleep.Stick with The Holy Trinity of the Bible and you will awaken to the Throne of Grace
It does not matter how fast you go to your destination, reaching the destination is what matters.
But again what is real destination?
Don’t jus exist in this world but to actually live it.
The point of life is being alive
It is Krishna, for He is Arjuna's charioteer. A brief mention in this confounded existence, but never alone. Nothing would occur, otherwise.
cried
I would really like to add subtitles to your videos to make them enjoyable for everyone :D But it doesnt seem to be possible with your videos. Why?
Truth is cool :)
Yes...
Who cares if i die right now or in 60 years. Im just a grain of sand on a never ending beach. No balance in the world would be lost without me
Love your videos, keep it up!
I just wanna experience the beauty of the world but society doesn't let me.
I like this comparison, but viewing life as a journey gives people something to look forward to in difficult times.
That's weenie_ism ❗️Not being ready for LIFE the way it presents itself. Be with - no matter what .•°
This experience is an involuntarily action, we're doing it but don't know how we are doing it. Like your heart beats. Why should I have to work my ass off or pay somebody else so that I can be an involuntary action? Simplicity was never supposed to be so difficult.
We only need to look inside...
I don´t really agree with the point, that the analogy of life to a journey should be basically bad or useless, because if you really succeed to define goals and purposes in your life, they can be actually one of the best basics to live in harmony with yourself and the world around you, simply because you can live in peace and with the constant feeling that we are here to accomplish certain goals or create enduring things in art, science or humanity or maybe just to give life to a baby and be a mother or father. I really do believe that such a life would be at least as good and important as the view that life is merely a kind of adventure game or play without any particular destination, meaning or fulfilling substance..if life is really meaningless (to the individual self) then why live (or play) at all? Because then you could commit suicide right away, it wouldn`make any difference at all..why don´t look at us as loving creators than just as aimless entities, who are just trying to enjoy every single moment in a selfish kind of way..
MrEmotional33 he never said life was a the journey was bad or useless, hes saying, like he says in another talk, dont go on living doing things you dont like so you can go on living to do more things you don't like. Life is a suppose to be this thing were you go on and do everything you like, and not to be spent miserably.
Yes, but if you are doing those things to please someone or to be seen being sucessefull or something like that you are just fooling yourself, thats the point of his words. He all have goals, Alan has goals, but you cant forget to be present, to be hear and enjoy the moment. If you are training, will be much more enjoyable if you are present on the moment
Does Universal Mind have a telos?
Forgive me, but I wish to know to know the soundtrack of the video. What's the title, please?
Xsouley Phillipes Saturn. sleeping at last
He doesn't understand what goes on in a senior center community. We don't go there to die!