Why your life matters- The Deep Structure of existence | Alan Watts

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  • @TheNightWatcher1385
    @TheNightWatcher1385 9 лет назад +1153

    It's one thing to be told this. It's another thing to figure it out and experience it for yourself.

    • @xT0Xx
      @xT0Xx 9 лет назад +137

      So true. I don't think that it is possible to understand this video completely, if you have not found it out yourself. Which makes it hard to share these thoughts with people :(

    • @zomb3kill3r
      @zomb3kill3r 9 лет назад +34

      xT0Xx A concept shared is no matter how close, is still so far from experience.

    • @kalebull4971
      @kalebull4971 9 лет назад +41

      ***** as open minded and "awake" as we are, it is our job to help others find the path that they need

    • @almadeliamendez3775
      @almadeliamendez3775 9 лет назад +69

      I found that out myself and freaked out, I thought I was going crazy, wasnt until i started to do some researches that I calmed down and felt proud of such discovery.

    • @aviatorlevi9
      @aviatorlevi9 9 лет назад +23

      ***** Very true. To transcend the "I" takes a bit of effort. It requires letting go of concepts, precepts and any notions of the self that we cling on to so dearly.

  • @OGCOPELAND
    @OGCOPELAND 4 года назад +77

    You can’t help but to cry tears of joy, when you finally GET it.

    • @youngtevanced8818
      @youngtevanced8818 3 года назад +2

      Same.. I experience the same.. gosh..

    • @granillo5618
      @granillo5618 2 года назад

      I would like to know what you think of it

    • @PradaCashHD
      @PradaCashHD 2 года назад

      @@granillo5618 no word can explain it

    • @JohnD0129
      @JohnD0129 2 года назад +2

      @@granillo5618 we are spiritual energy beings here to experience the so called “ physical form “ just enjoy the dance 🕺🏽 when we “ die “ and leave this avatar body we are free to experience another journey. We are forever lasting.

  • @EmperorsNewWardrobe
    @EmperorsNewWardrobe 9 лет назад +157

    I'm coming to the conclusion that Alan Watts may be a healer for mankind's mental suffering, the reassuring grandparent to a world of secretly scared adults

    • @haidengeary8277
      @haidengeary8277 6 лет назад +1

      You clearly have no idea about who the guy was. He was a drunk, and a terrible husband.

    • @idahoplantguy9027
      @idahoplantguy9027 5 лет назад +3

      @@haidengeary8277 Why do you feel the need to discredit someone just because you know something they don't?

    • @aidenconnor2126
      @aidenconnor2126 4 года назад +8

      "It's not about the messenger, it's about the message"

    • @zackf3688
      @zackf3688 4 года назад

      Well said.

    • @ChristianHDD
      @ChristianHDD 4 года назад +2

      Alan Watts is you & you are Alan Watts. As am I you and you are I. As is the device that you are using to read this comment, is you.

  • @Jgjules
    @Jgjules 4 года назад +38

    I remember being 5 years old on a trip to the planetarium and feeling this incredible connection, synergy, comfort, knowing, beauty of looking at the stars. It has stayed with me my entire life and now realize it was a very pure soul (by way of being so young and not yet conditioned) recognizing a part of itself. Beautiful

  • @MrPlTA
    @MrPlTA 10 лет назад +225

    "Your skin doesn't separate you from the world, it's a bridge through which the external world flows into you and you flow into it."
    Love the way his brain works. Thank you TJOP for this beautiful rendition!

  • @Will-xl7xp
    @Will-xl7xp 10 лет назад +111

    Reminds me of Bill Hicks quote, " All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow, vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves"

    • @pingagigante123
      @pingagigante123 10 лет назад +1

      I love this philosophy

    • @Will-xl7xp
      @Will-xl7xp 10 лет назад +21

      Also another quote by Eckhart Tolle "You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while." Very enlightening

    • @beefcakepantiehoes
      @beefcakepantiehoes 10 лет назад +10

      Here's Tom with the weather.

    • @lawrencegregory4605
      @lawrencegregory4605 8 лет назад

      +beefcakepantiehoes Haha! :L

    • @ojorumiogedoh3275
      @ojorumiogedoh3275 7 лет назад +1

      Will Y I always felt this when was little...but I thought I was crazy.

  • @nigiastephens6984
    @nigiastephens6984 9 лет назад +192

    I'll never grow tired of watching this. His words are healing to me. Well done.

    • @sweven9861
      @sweven9861 6 лет назад

      Nigia Stephens has gggg

  • @Bezol69
    @Bezol69 7 лет назад +9

    You yourself are the eternal energy that appears as this universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean - Alan Watts. This quote from him is pure gold.

  • @karlbuttler
    @karlbuttler 8 лет назад +68

    Thank Goodness for Mr. Watts, and who ever made the effort to keep all these lectures in the History Banks..

  • @saltaenutrof
    @saltaenutrof 9 лет назад +491

    Brilliant. Shouldn't this be taught at schools?

    • @vrsquz
      @vrsquz 6 лет назад +7

      marigold1232009 well said

    • @hellooutthere8956
      @hellooutthere8956 6 лет назад +65

      Enutrof Salta no tht would be education. The school system indoctrinates.

    • @oskarostermann4734
      @oskarostermann4734 6 лет назад +33

      Yes, it shall be taught. Philosophy together with science instead of religion and egoism.

    • @TFD.aep2
      @TFD.aep2 6 лет назад +16

      the government doesn’t care about the schools

    • @haidengeary8277
      @haidengeary8277 6 лет назад +4

      Uh, it is.
      They do not "keep it to themselves to keep us in line". It hasnt been totally accepted for a terribly long time. I mean some of you are in your teens, perhaps older. Yet you take this idea to mean you are actually the universe. You're part of the universe just as you are the nation you live in. Did "stardust" make you? Well, over billions of years when a massive star explodes at the end of its life, the resulting high energy environment enables the creation of some of the heaviest elements including iron and nickel. The explosion also disperses the different elements across the universe, scattering the stardust which now makes up planets including Earth.

  • @damo778
    @damo778 4 года назад +6

    You are..The fabric an structure of the universe it's self. I love this guy so much

  • @nathanpatera9836
    @nathanpatera9836 7 лет назад +85

    All is one. One is all.

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 4 года назад +4

      This is Pantheism
      There is only ONE thing in existance constantly going through perpetual construction and deconstruction, infinite recycling of itself.
      You were formed by the metabolic process derived from the lifeforms that your mother ate when you were in the womb, like those beings your energy and the lowest levels of your composition will be consumed and returned to billions of things, just as you were billions of things in constant composition and decomposition before the birth of your current temporary composition.
      Just as with the process of individual beings, all material entities, the earth, solar system, galaxy and universe also goes through the same process of composition and decomposition and the process repeats forever. The ALL was never born and never dies.
      There is only the ONE thing in all of it's different forms and masks.

    • @georgieorgy5589
      @georgieorgy5589 4 года назад

      @@whatabouttheearth Beautiful. Well said.

  • @fulldead7416
    @fulldead7416 10 лет назад +12

    gives me chills every time I see the picture of intergalactic space moving backwards.. so many galaxies. so much possibility of life. so expansive.. so beautiful.

  • @StevenHebert-m5o
    @StevenHebert-m5o 26 дней назад +2

    The.light is a possession of you.. you are light!!! Thank you alan watts for your great video on our existence... its beautiful

  • @azunia4
    @azunia4 8 лет назад +48

    Mr Watts, the catalyst of enlightenment.

    • @jestemriley6327
      @jestemriley6327 7 лет назад

      Maxime VH beautifully put

    • @PrimeNPC
      @PrimeNPC 7 лет назад +3

      "And in knowing That know you see that you never die"

  • @Aaron_Gentry
    @Aaron_Gentry 9 лет назад +334

    I, and every other living thing on this planet, are sentient stardust. When ancient stars exploded eons upon eons ago, in effect, that is when all living things on this world were born. And thinking about it like that, you are not twenty, thirty, forty or seventy years old, you are already billions and billions of years old. You are not in the universe, you ARE the universe.
    And if that doesn't empower you and make you feel a little bit bigger, then I don't know what would :)

  • @anders5611
    @anders5611 7 лет назад +225

    There is only one Truth about reality but sadly it cannot be explained or described through words. You can only experience it. Until you let go of the ego ( who you think you are ) you won't be aware of the Truth which is right in front of your eyes. You are not a person experiencing the Universe. You are the Universe experiencing a person. Reality is absolutely infinite. You are nothingness. You are the emptiness that contains everything possible and nothing at the same time. Paradoxically, Reality itself is a paradox. There is no limit to reality because limits themselves are within reality. Every possibility and impossibility already exists right now in the present moment. There is no escaping reality because reality is all there is and will ever be.

    • @sabrinasmith933
      @sabrinasmith933 6 лет назад +9

      This is the scary part right :) :) :) :) Anything really is possible. Very nicely worded

    • @kasia6598
      @kasia6598 5 лет назад +3

      spot on. absolutely beautiful

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 4 года назад +9

      This is Pantheism
      There is only ONE thing in existance constantly going through perpetual construction and deconstruction, infinite recycling of itself.
      You were formed by the metabolic process derived from the lifeforms that your mother ate when you were in the womb, like those beings your energy and the lowest levels of your composition will be consumed and returned to billions of things, just as you were billions of things in constant composition and decomposition before the birth of your current temporary composition.
      Just as with the process of individual beings, all material entities, the earth, solar system, galaxy and universe also goes through the same process of composition and decomposition and the process repeats forever. The ALL was never born and never dies.
      There is only the ONE thing in all of it's different forms and masks.

    • @STyl888
      @STyl888 4 года назад +3

      So enlightening

    • @Phoenix-tv4gb
      @Phoenix-tv4gb 4 года назад +6

      We are all infinite reflections of the One.... Imagine one being going into a room full of mirrors and seeing billions of reflections of himself... That is who we are 💝💝💝🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

  • @alejandrolegra4543
    @alejandrolegra4543 5 лет назад +7

    I always felt something like this but i couldnt express it or put into words. This gentleman gave words to my experience.

  • @S4rdon1c
    @S4rdon1c 8 лет назад +44

    His voice is so calming and soothing

  • @ucantSQ
    @ucantSQ 2 года назад +4

    I remember when I first saw this, that we all flow from the same source of consciousness. I tried explaining it to people, but I got the sense that people didn't want to be reminded of that. As if they were saying, "Don't explain to me the rules of the game, just shut up and play!"

  • @MotivationalPhilosopher
    @MotivationalPhilosopher 9 лет назад +131

    You are as much the universe as the stars are in the sky, just like each cells in my body is as much me as the head on my shoulders. - #MP

    • @TheJourneyofPurpose
      @TheJourneyofPurpose  9 лет назад +10

      Motivational Philosopher love it!

    • @Nautilus1972
      @Nautilus1972 9 лет назад +21

      +Motivational Philosopher Every atom in our bodies came from the explosion of a star. We are the universe, who created us, to observe itself.

    • @MotivationalPhilosopher
      @MotivationalPhilosopher 9 лет назад +2

      Nautilus1972 perfect. #MP

    • @thenaeryndam9250
      @thenaeryndam9250 8 лет назад +2

      Nautilus1972 ive had this view since I can remember before I learned about atoms and philosophy. that life is just one way in.which we experience ourselves

    • @lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385
      @lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385 5 лет назад

      Screw u

  • @avatarmccravy5210
    @avatarmccravy5210 11 лет назад +14

    this is absolutely awesome, i spent all night watching videos by alan watts confirming some incredible realizations. this morning i got onto youtube to watch a few more, i wondered why i hadnt seen this one last night. and that is because this video was uploaded today, crazy. :)

  • @lordoftheflings
    @lordoftheflings 6 лет назад +13

    Who are the 82 trolls that downvoted this magnificent piece by Alan Watts?

    • @toruslife
      @toruslife 2 года назад

      My guess is they’re people that believe Alan’s words are an affront to their religious beliefs. Please don’t hate on them, Religion is their way of connecting with their inner spirit and they believe they must fight to protect it. 🤗

  • @behemoth97123
    @behemoth97123 3 года назад +3

    The biggest thing that surprises me is that I didnt hear about alan watts until 2015.
    I appreciate the internet and people like this that spread his teachings.

  • @donaldhoover1254
    @donaldhoover1254 5 лет назад +5

    I first heard Alan in 1956 when I was 8. He was my teacher then and still is.

  • @vurvurvur
    @vurvurvur 9 лет назад +40

    dude i need to sit down, this video was just too good.

  • @hollythomason9013
    @hollythomason9013 9 лет назад +5

    I am that thing I see far far away in great telescopes. I love Alan Watts' words, and I needed to remember.

  • @mobiustrip1400
    @mobiustrip1400 5 лет назад +1

    Alan said so many beautiful things, he's a Yoda in many ways. He surprises you with a simple turn of phrase all the time... You do not come into the world, you come out of it.

  • @connorreed417
    @connorreed417 6 лет назад +13

    I cried tears of joy from this video. The first time I first hand experienced this feeling. I thought I was crazy or going insane. When I would describe it to other people, no one would understand me and they would think I was crazy. I now realize that I am the correct one and everyone who doubted me just will not know what I mean unless they experience it

  • @Cicuta__
    @Cicuta__ 6 лет назад +2

    Thank god for this man. He has enriched my life with feelings and thoughts that I never thought possible!

  • @nurse-oj3gm
    @nurse-oj3gm 6 лет назад +3

    I just cried. When he said the part about look at the stars and say that's me. I 100 percent found what I am.

  • @sparkely1122
    @sparkely1122 2 года назад +1

    It's so crazy, I couldn't stand listening to his videos. My brain just never could fathom what he was saying. Then in the last 3 months I had an extreme awakening brought on by a brutal "illness" I now listen to his talks and understand them as much as being on acid or mushrooms. It's so cool!!!!! Mind bending! My "illness" is now healed thanks to somatic meditation, allowing, accepting and Allan watts videos! Boom!

  • @danteking3596
    @danteking3596 9 лет назад +307

    wood is only hard in relation to a soft skin...a situation is only hard in relation to a soft will.

  • @theshape1681
    @theshape1681 6 лет назад

    The first one minute and 27 seconds of this video is the most inspiring and moving spiritual teaching I have ever heard. I found Alan Watts about a year ago and I listen and read everything I can by him.

  • @koonerd321
    @koonerd321 10 лет назад +206

    "what you are basically, deep-deep-down far-far-in is simply, the fabric and structure of existence itself, and when you find that out you laugh yourself silly"

    • @alejandrolegra4543
      @alejandrolegra4543 5 лет назад +5

      Yes we were there...

    • @MrCool-vu1nr
      @MrCool-vu1nr 4 года назад

      ok really strange

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 4 года назад +11

      This is Pantheism
      There is only ONE thing in existance constantly going through perpetual construction and deconstruction, infinite recycling of itself.
      You were formed by the metabolic process derived from the lifeforms that your mother ate when you were in the womb, like those beings your energy and the lowest levels of your composition will be consumed and returned to billions of things, just as you were billions of things in constant composition and decomposition before the birth of your current temporary composition.
      Just as with the process of individual beings, all material entities, the earth, solar system, galaxy and universe also goes through the same process of composition and decomposition and the process repeats forever. The ALL was never born and never dies.
      There is only the ONE thing in all of it's different forms and masks.

    • @travishibachi
      @travishibachi 4 года назад +4

      That's what having a good sense of humor means. The ability to laugh at yourself knowing you are existence itself :)

    • @travishibachi
      @travishibachi 4 года назад +1

      @@whatabouttheearth There is only Oneness yes. Hope your day is going well, James :)

  • @jazzsnare
    @jazzsnare 7 лет назад

    More us than I. Had to stop there for a bit. How priceless. Watts continues to be a great source now as when he lived.

  • @ryanrodriguez8926
    @ryanrodriguez8926 8 лет назад +11

    "And when you find that out you laugh yourself silly" I honestly did and then laughed some more at the fact that he caught me :)

    • @SwAxiJoHn
      @SwAxiJoHn 8 лет назад +2

      Now your still walking on 2 feet paying taxes fantasy helps but making it sound soooo serious is annoying

    • @thegreathawk3659
      @thegreathawk3659 5 лет назад

      @@SwAxiJoHn 💩

  • @dimetime99
    @dimetime99 4 года назад +1

    When I'm listening to Mr. Watts speak, I feel like my mind is expanding, opening or relaxing. I really can't describe how I feel while listening to him. Its not just in my head, it's throughout my entire body. It's kind of a tingling, soothing sensation that resonates inside and outside of my body. I can't be the only person that feels this way while listening to Mr. Watts speak. If you're reading this and you experience similar or odd feelings while enjoying Mr. Watts , I would love to know what you feel , if you don't mind. I apologise for my vague attempt to describe these feelings.

  • @2TheAbbeyClinic
    @2TheAbbeyClinic 9 лет назад +18

    Buddhism is like a technology that teaches you to become established in this reality- that you are NOT. You are inseparable from everything that came before and will come, from everyone. It's hard to remain established in this truth, while living in the world, but Alan Watts helps you do this. He is a master.

  • @jasont4532
    @jasont4532 2 года назад +1

    This message with that music. Chilling.

  • @axplayakc
    @axplayakc 9 лет назад +50

    I totally know what he means when he says "you will know when the universe shows you what it really is" for example...a few months ago i would say " wow i get it, thats weird,,, " but i only kind of understood it, but i thought i completely got it!!! then one day driving my truck at work on a dirt road in the middle of no ware i started thinking deep about what i new,, and then out of no ware i sat up strait grabbed the steering wheel and hit the brakes and started screaming "HOLY FUKN SHIT ....I AM THE UNIVERSE" my life has changed completely since then,, i am not the same person i was 2 months ago, the only thing the same is my body!!! I DESIGNED MY OWN UNIVERSE AND WOW!!! TRUST ME!!!

    • @alexdragon6893
      @alexdragon6893 9 лет назад +3

      Kc Poopiepants i'm happy that you understood brother.
      Blessings!

    • @axplayakc
      @axplayakc 9 лет назад +1

      The Wondering Wanderer I sure do!!!

    • @barancekim3060
      @barancekim3060 8 лет назад +3

      What does it mean that to be universe?

    • @MrDionstarrr
      @MrDionstarrr 7 лет назад +3

      Kc IMNAIBRAIN I'm trying to get to where you are at brother. congrats on your rebirth.

    • @inferno3080
      @inferno3080 7 лет назад

      slimjimdion I don't understand!! What did he discover??

  • @selvynquijada5599
    @selvynquijada5599 6 лет назад

    I listen to this every other month, because sometimes; the world just simply gets to me; thank for your thoughts Mr.Watts, they help me every passing day, I just need a reminder.

  • @cadecampbell8047
    @cadecampbell8047 8 лет назад +48

    "You are the fabric and structure of existence itself..and when you find this out you laugh yourself silly". Haha, in that moment that's all you can do.

    • @instantkarma6592
      @instantkarma6592 6 лет назад +3

      Word! Love that part as well. So powerful

    • @goose33
      @goose33 5 лет назад +2

      When i had my kundilini awakening i literally laughed/cried with happiness

    • @goldehh1069
      @goldehh1069 4 года назад

      Shane goose i’m excited for the day i have mine

    • @elizabethbailey4299
      @elizabethbailey4299 4 года назад

      thats crazy lol but amazing at the same time

  • @solodolotrevino
    @solodolotrevino 4 года назад

    Alan Watts developed his own theory of everything mixing science and eastern philosophy to give us a beautiful and simplified explanation of what this whole thing is. I’m forever grateful for his work.

  • @ZombieWolfe
    @ZombieWolfe 8 лет назад +10

    I always wanted to know what God was. I thought to know what it is I had to be in some kind of religion. But The more I listen to Alan Watts the more I realize it's not about knowing its about realizing and understanding that we are all God pretending not to be God and just living to live. Like he said "the God hood is unknown to itself" all that life is, is a game. To have fun. And enjoy now.

    • @TH0MASALEXANDER
      @TH0MASALEXANDER 6 лет назад +1

      へんたい せんぱい The All , Universe by definition is all that exists , it contains all the power and knowledge and awareness and is omnipresent. From the water and iron in our blood to calcium in our bones we are inseperable from the greatness, carbon atoms inside us were made billions of years ago from the centre of our Star, the sun.

  • @ff_hao
    @ff_hao 6 лет назад

    His every word makes me melt and I am bursting into tears everytime I realize something which...I am.

  • @humanbeingenhanced6877
    @humanbeingenhanced6877 8 лет назад +21

    I am in fucking sane. Billions and billions of years of solar galaxy creation, solar systems craetion, planetary creations... millions of years of incarnation to get to this point just to know that the reason of my existence is because I do??? that is.. that is utter, insanity. I AM INFUCKINGSANE, THAT WAS SO AWESOME.

    • @jestemriley6327
      @jestemriley6327 7 лет назад +1

      wE arE connecteD what a wonderful realization. Nothing is truely serious.

  • @gangigirl1
    @gangigirl1 10 лет назад

    The source of all light is in the eye.
    If there were no eyes in this world there would be no light.
    You evoke light out of the universe.
    Eternally grateful to Alan Watts for ever opening my eyes so I can let the light in.

  • @Phoenix-tv4gb
    @Phoenix-tv4gb 4 года назад +4

    We are all infinite reflections of the One.... Imagine one being going into a room full of mirrors and seeing billions of reflections of himself... That is who we are 💝💝💝🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

  • @baltofanforever
    @baltofanforever 6 лет назад

    True awakening for those who are still asleep. Allan watts is forever the greatest philosopher of the times.

    • @TheNightWatcher1385
      @TheNightWatcher1385 6 лет назад

      It wasn't really his philosophy. He merely packaged it for a western audience. And for that I'm eternally greatful.

  • @WildWarriorBill
    @WildWarriorBill 11 лет назад +16

    it was beautiful tjop, thank you

  • @rotschimmel
    @rotschimmel 2 года назад

    We are our beings plus the environments we live in. We can't be separated from that. Alan Watts was a true Master.

  • @janscott602
    @janscott602 7 лет назад +9

    Once you realize your self is largely an illusion and that more or less the same versions of you will always exist in time and space, death becomes more like sleep and less like existential horror. This isn't magical thinking or reincarnation. It's the very reality that we inhabit.

  • @richardmignone1184
    @richardmignone1184 9 лет назад +1

    It's not about figuring out or understanding as that would be just another, albeit interesting, philosophy. Alan Watts is speaking these truths from his very EXPERIENCE of life. This experience is available to anyone willing to investigate their own nature. So what he's saying is interesting as an idea, but sublime as an experience...

  • @ThaRSGeek
    @ThaRSGeek 11 лет назад +10

    Thanks for this amazing video!

  • @chinstroker1862
    @chinstroker1862 3 года назад +1

    Alan watts speak such sense...to think he died almost 40 years ago is mind blowing...

  • @hamidcoolboy
    @hamidcoolboy 10 лет назад +7

    Incredible editing, well done and thanks

  • @VisitingwithMrV
    @VisitingwithMrV 4 года назад

    Beginning at 2:37, Alan reveals the secrets of the universe. It's just that simple. Bless you, sweet soul.

  • @Gwyllm01
    @Gwyllm01 10 лет назад +3

    Thank You Isaac. Much appreciated.

  • @charlesmiller6281
    @charlesmiller6281 10 лет назад

    Once you get Watts its hard to pick a favorite, but this one's right up there with The Real You, for sure. Just really well done. Thanks!

  • @TigerintheMist
    @TigerintheMist 10 лет назад +8

    This gentleman is completely 100 percent right when you think of it our body is of the earth but the breath of life that God gave us is of the universe because he is the creator of the universe and the universe came out of him and he put the universe into us which makes us an unstoppable abundance !!!!!!

    • @TheRealFufuchs
      @TheRealFufuchs 10 лет назад

      Did the universe come out of god's anus? .__.

    • @TigerintheMist
      @TigerintheMist 10 лет назад

      Lolololol I would say his conscience so which makes us the ambassadors of earth and the universe think about it

    • @aziz04ify
      @aziz04ify 10 лет назад +9

      the fact that you mention God proves you don't know Alan Watts quite enough.
      He is not a deist ( christian, Mulims or Jews " and the variants of each religion), he doesn't believe in a God who created the universe and therefore us.
      He is more a Pantheist, that means that Pantheists do not believe in a distinct personal or anthropomorphic god. Some Eastern religions are considered to be pantheistically inclined.

  • @TheModernApe
    @TheModernApe 7 лет назад +2

    This is beautiful. Although i often find myself disagreeing with many of the things Alan says, i have to admit he was an intellectual who helped give birth to the intellectual and spiritual change that many people needed in their lives. This includes me. Btw these videos are masterpieces. Keep it up!

  • @ryanfatal
    @ryanfatal 6 лет назад +66

    Perhaps this is what Jesus realised. When he tried to explain it, everyone mixed up his sentiments and created an entire religion based on a misunderstanding. He understood he was the eternal energy of the universe manifested briefly as a human-being; hence ''son of god'. It's almost comical to think about really.

    • @davidcraig7771
      @davidcraig7771 5 лет назад +1

      Ryan I understand what you are saying but he was in reality a practicing Jew. He claimed to be the prophetic messiah of the Jews.

    • @lukehartsfield5646
      @lukehartsfield5646 5 лет назад +5

      No not quite
      Jesus understood his nature of being 100% God and 100% man. His goal on this earth was to become a propitiation for our sins and reunite us with God in eternity. His message was clear throughout scripture. He gave us wisdom to allow us to live godly lives in the wake of his second coming. The religion (if it must be called this) was created long before and Christ simply fulfilled over 300 prophecies in his coming. The reason was because of our sinful nature and because “the wages of sin is death” we need a savior as our spirits had become eternally separated from God. We know there is nothing we can do to save ourselves . “For by grace you have been saved, through faith. This is not a result of your own doing but a gift of God; so no one may boast.” But simply believe in his deliverance, accepting our sinful consequences, and admitting the need of a savior, unlocks His eternal kingdom. Didn’t mean to share the entire gospel with you but I kinda did

    • @crypt1d550
      @crypt1d550 5 лет назад

      Luke Hartsfield no one asked you to either

    • @uusa
      @uusa 4 года назад +3

      Stop talking about myths... this is science..

    • @hamsafarvlogs8718
      @hamsafarvlogs8718 4 года назад

      Thats what people do to prophets

  • @rogerlin9602
    @rogerlin9602 3 года назад

    You are the eternal thing that comes and goes. You evoke light out of the universe with your eye. The whole cosmos looks out through us. We are the fabric and structure of existence itself.
    Thanks Alan. 🤩🌷🎯🌎🐧💖🥂🎈🌴⚡🤠🌾

  • @v1nAyA
    @v1nAyA 5 лет назад +5

    In Hinduism, there is a description of the 1st person to know this fact, the fact which is TRUTH itself about LIFE. We call him god. So, from that very moment, he's trying to wake the world since then, maybe from billion years, but some wake up some don't. I've not yet. Alan Watts did in the past century. So, my point is, making Human blossom, is a very very hard task even for enlighted beings working together. Anyways, I must say LIFE is so beautiful that nobody can give any explanation other than it being a dream of a being who is light itself. Let wisdom hit us all.

  • @qualitydag1
    @qualitydag1 2 года назад

    absolutely wonderful background music that brings out the emotion in his statements.

  • @butterflyman33
    @butterflyman33 4 года назад +2

    This man is a genius.

  • @alexander2705
    @alexander2705 10 лет назад +1

    It is only passion to know the truth, the love, strive towards understanding and finding that which we look for all our lives, ourselves, in this path of learning is the key to all the doors inside of us,we are it... we are what we are looking for,we are love.

  • @DavidColyer
    @DavidColyer 10 лет назад +6

    Your efforts are producing positive impacts on society. :)

  • @woofmeow5514
    @woofmeow5514 11 лет назад +1

    Wow...truly no words for this...

  • @Crawdad_Nick
    @Crawdad_Nick 9 лет назад +8

    Have we grown tired of forgetting ourselves yet? Is it time to rest from the game and remember again?

  • @SacredGaea
    @SacredGaea 10 лет назад

    Dear TJOP,
    I love all your videos particularly the ones with Alan Watts. There are several videos with Alan Watts' voice on RUclips but most of them ruin the experience of watching the video because of the horrendous music that becomes a huge distraction! But when I watch your perfectly made videos, with divine visuals and soul soothing music topped with the great wisdom from Alan Watts., I feel as if I have attained nirvana at least for those five minutes of the video and then I am back to my mortal self. I would like to thank you for your your time and effort for making the videos. Your videos are not just an audio visual experience but a journey into the sublime. Looking forward to more such journeys. :)

  • @JayJohnBryce
    @JayJohnBryce 9 лет назад +24

    "Wow, that's me!"

  • @MrJamesdryable
    @MrJamesdryable 5 лет назад +1

    This is the most important concept man has discovered. Nothing else matters in comparison.

  • @jgallant3814
    @jgallant3814 7 лет назад +14

    This video saved me...

  • @Rex_Lordship
    @Rex_Lordship 2 года назад

    I have lived this realization and am continuing to live it while I am alive.

  • @renefraters8780
    @renefraters8780 10 лет назад +18

    Why?? That is me..... So beautiful.

  • @TheJudokaGrappler
    @TheJudokaGrappler 9 лет назад

    I have these on audio book, these lectures are awesome when you combine them with the imagery and music.

  • @MrOAKIL246
    @MrOAKIL246 9 лет назад +74

    Anyone else crying...?

    • @Torres1710
      @Torres1710 9 лет назад +10

      yes :) but smiling at the end, when he says: "when you find that out, you laugh yourself silly."

    • @Weirdbrah
      @Weirdbrah 7 лет назад +1

      MrOAKIL246 i feel you guys.

    • @MikeKollin
      @MikeKollin 7 лет назад +2

      Yes.,...

    • @rumarin84
      @rumarin84 6 лет назад +1

      Gets me every time it randomly toggles into my videos and I click on it.
      I'm always like "You beside me, YES YOU! Stop cutting onions!" ;o;

    • @TheStruggler101
      @TheStruggler101 5 лет назад +2

      @@degaussingatmosphericcharg575
      He makes no assertions, this is literally the reality of things, and science has shown this to be the case. That reality is that YOU are the universe. You are not something that was outside of it that was placed into it when you were born, you grew from it, you are something the whole universe is doing. The human condition (A product of our biology and evolution), makes us feel as if we are something inside our bodies (behind the eyes and between the ears). We think that we are the ego, which is the idea and opinion you have of yourself and the world, but we know that this is a complete illusion. The self is an illusion. This universe is just a big playing of energy, and the human being is just a complicated pattern of energy, and this pattern has given rise to consciousness and essentially allowed the universe to observe itself. When you realise this, that there is no duality (self and other) and that it is just one big playing of energy, you loose the idea that you are just some poor little thing inside of the universe, a stranger, afraid in a world that it never made. You are this universe, and there is no woo woo rubbish or outlandish claims made in that, it's just the way things are.

  • @Dimethyltriptamin
    @Dimethyltriptamin 2 года назад

    This always get me back to earth when I am lost.

  • @HesitantBear
    @HesitantBear 9 лет назад +66

    its 4:30am and its way too late to have an existential crisis

    • @chrisparker2118
      @chrisparker2118 7 лет назад +5

      How does this make you feel purposeless? I find great comfort and a sense of purpose when I watch this.

    • @DragonGoddessMagick
      @DragonGoddessMagick 6 лет назад +2

      time is just an illusion made up by mankind 😉 Anytime is the perfect time for an existential awakening ☮

    • @amiewonch3526
      @amiewonch3526 4 года назад

      God is here Alan said so

    • @amiewonch3526
      @amiewonch3526 4 года назад

      God is here Alan said so

  • @TrojansFirst
    @TrojansFirst 3 года назад +1

    I had that experience he talks about at the end. I laughed for 8 hours straight. It started near the peak of a 9.5 dried gram mushroom trip.

  • @molomix23
    @molomix23 9 лет назад +115

    it's nice talking to ourselves huh guys hahha we are just a being experiencing itself

    • @molomix23
      @molomix23 9 лет назад +6

      We are creation, we are the intuit, we are the fire, we are the parable we are, we are, we are, we are

    • @I_Am_Midnight-i
      @I_Am_Midnight-i 9 лет назад +2

      +Pr3ssPl4y We are the universe, but we are different parts of it, therefore we are not the same being. It's a nonsense to call "you" me since that is logically equivalent as asserting that you don't have a conscious of your own. Try to think a little next time.

    • @Baumgardner
      @Baumgardner 9 лет назад +2

      +ByRTD yO (byRTD) You are assuming separate consciousness must make something not part of a single whole. You have no logical basis to make that assumption. You have different parts of your brain that are separate - conscious and unconscious thinking. Perhaps we have a lot consciousness points, like a bunch of eyes.

    • @I_Am_Midnight-i
      @I_Am_Midnight-i 8 лет назад +3

      Dr. Michael Baumgardner Are you trying to be stupid on purpose or are you just joking? My existence is the only thing in the whole universe I cannot doubt. I am aware that I am thinking, feeling, doubling, therefore I exist. Even an illusion requires my consciousness to exist. I can doubt the universe exists, but I cannot doubt my existence. Sorry but you failed. Yes, the proposition that we are the universe is sound and valid but not the proposition that we are the same being. Your flaw is thinking that just because we are part of the same being that therefore that makes us the same, but that is not true since we have different minds.

    • @I_Am_Midnight-i
      @I_Am_Midnight-i 8 лет назад +2

      Dr. Michael Baumgardner Even if it's only one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, that still doesn't make us the same being by the simple facts that we have different properties such as different minds and experiences. You guys are confusing the idea that just because we are the universe looking at itself that therefore that makes us the same being ignoring that we have different unique properties such as different minds like I've said.

  • @williamwalt1349
    @williamwalt1349 10 лет назад

    these are great snip-its of what Allen had going on in his talented writing and as a speaker. My teacher knew him rather well, and so I am well and at calm when I hear these short pieces if colorful words on life this Life Our Life which we share..

  • @LeeDahle
    @LeeDahle 11 лет назад +3

    Thank you.

  • @phientanglement801
    @phientanglement801 9 лет назад

    I came on to this realization shortly before I saw this video and began to ask myself if I was crazy, then I heard it from Mr. Watts mouth and am quite positive now I'm not crazy. We are all so obviously one.

  • @Slumber-gz5rx
    @Slumber-gz5rx 5 лет назад +4

    We are light we are life we are all the same we are all one

    • @martygenplay5646
      @martygenplay5646 3 года назад +1

      We are also darkness, without darkness you would not be able to tell between light and darkness...

  • @GMoneyMacTao
    @GMoneyMacTao 10 лет назад

    a beautiful job of perfecting this video, TJOP... thank you so very much for your brilliantly creative work

  • @GiaS777
    @GiaS777 9 лет назад +5

    ""And when you find that out, you laugh yourself silly." LOL how true...:D ♥ ☼

  • @MitchTrachtenberg
    @MitchTrachtenberg 10 лет назад

    Thank you for spreading this beautiful talk with beautiful work.

  • @carlofantozzi7404
    @carlofantozzi7404 5 лет назад +3

    He right though, because when I figured it out, I was driving. And sure enough, I literally laughed myself silly. Wondering how the hell I did not know this all along. LMAO

  • @ComplexRealitiesInAll
    @ComplexRealitiesInAll 9 лет назад

    Very inspiring video. We are the actual universe. Alan Watts is awesome. Thanks for the video theJourneyofPurpose TJOP

  • @brianb5939
    @brianb5939 8 лет назад +14

    This hit me hard.

    • @markdelej
      @markdelej 5 лет назад

      Hit “who” hard?
      There was no one there to get hit!

  • @sageejumanjee
    @sageejumanjee 8 лет назад +1

    thank you Alan watts. thank you.

  • @koonerd321
    @koonerd321 10 лет назад +3

    life changing video ....... srs!

  • @likklej8
    @likklej8 4 года назад

    Thanks Mr Watts flashback and foreword time forever

  • @soniavenegas13
    @soniavenegas13 10 лет назад +6

    Awesome

    • @이섭배
      @이섭배 10 лет назад +1

      먼지씻어 멋진작품 작품 주셔서 감싸듯 극적인 차원 우주 감사합니다, 친구 주셔서 행복 하세요 ^..^ 미소

  • @TheMissingLink1
    @TheMissingLink1 3 года назад

    Alan Watts saved me, as I'm sure he saved a good deal many others, from the very brink. I was lost and asleep. He helped me wake up.

  • @Fuzzled369
    @Fuzzled369 5 лет назад +4

    Am I the only one who cried at this

    • @lukeharris1bear
      @lukeharris1bear 7 месяцев назад

      No, you're not the only one. Far from it.

  • @wayofspinoza2471
    @wayofspinoza2471 Час назад

    Alan Watt shares his wisdom in a provocative and creative way; yet, what he communicates, even though insightful, will not change your ego to an enlightened state of being. The belief in free will and free choices are an illusion. Gurdjieff explains that man is asleep, and how can anyone acquire knowledge when you are asleep? Studying Gurdjieff’s work and Spinoza’s philosophy these past 45 + years have awakened me, since then, I have created a method of awakening one’s higher thinking intelligence, then true permanent enlightenment, and happiness are possible.