We're Already Playing But People Don't See It - Alan Watts Explains The Game

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  • An incredibly eye-opening speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts.
    Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts - Extended Seminars - Human Consciousness - Nature of Consciousness 2 - Video Produced and Edited by T&H Inspiration
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    “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
    Alan Watts
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Комментарии • 350

  • @awayofzen
    @awayofzen Год назад +270

    The truest Bodhisattva. No one else like him. He inspires awakening with speech alone. His words are like puzzles that are finding their spot inside your brain and you feel a connection with the whole.

    • @anthonykology1728
      @anthonykology1728 Год назад +2

      what would we do without it ?

    • @mnetzer6777
      @mnetzer6777 Год назад +12

      Well said my friend!!

    • @cjfredi
      @cjfredi Год назад +9

      AW was the shit!

    • @karolis-qf3ro
      @karolis-qf3ro Год назад +20

      I used to listen to Alan Watts a lot in past years, now hop on occasionally just to hear his voice which has calming effect on me, but why I'm writing this message is that after hearing his talking in some while or maybe months, even years later I get something from Universe like a situation which just confirms what Alan Watts has said and it settles down within me. I love this man, feels like an universe and infinite knowledge is just talking to me, would be interesting to hear his opinion on present times and future, like he predicted many many years ago precisely.

    • @juhleast7690
      @juhleast7690 Год назад +17

      You Are also Bodhisattva. What AW says is in each one of us. Actually, there is not “each one of us”. There is only I Am That Which Is. Playing the game in a beautiful synchronization of illusory perception of separation. 😂 it’s rather funny. 🎉❤

  • @dmackenzie3528
    @dmackenzie3528 Год назад +89

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

    • @jjrecon3024
      @jjrecon3024 Год назад +2

      Exactly...
      This is called cult'urally indoctrinated.

    • @user-tb4el1sr1q
      @user-tb4el1sr1q Год назад +2

      TRUTH

    • @hey_youtubeim_back2159
      @hey_youtubeim_back2159 Год назад +1

      This sounds deep but think about a sad feeling. We know what the word means and we relate it to a feeling in our heart that moves us In a direction opposite of a feeling that feels good. Just because someone long before us came up with the word does not mean the feeling is not ours and ours alone

    • @josephpercy1558
      @josephpercy1558 Год назад +1

      @@hey_youtubeim_back2159 It does not mean that the feeling is ours? Who is this that possesses a sad feeling? Who is this 'I' that feels?

    • @hey_youtubeim_back2159
      @hey_youtubeim_back2159 Год назад

      @@josephpercy1558 what is it that you are suggesting

  • @pattydixon6510
    @pattydixon6510 Год назад +85

    It's an extraordinary shift on perspective. Alan Watts words never fail to empower and inspire me.

    • @MatthewLogan777
      @MatthewLogan777 Год назад +1

      I feel much the same. This man has had a powerful impact upon my life.

  • @mnetzer6777
    @mnetzer6777 Год назад +132

    "Do you define yourself as a victim of the world, or as the world?" Powerful!!

    • @Isaac5123
      @Isaac5123 Год назад +9

      Neither. I'm in the world but not of it

    • @MatthewLogan777
      @MatthewLogan777 Год назад +4

      @@Isaac5123 And there it is. The veil is lifted.

    • @arnaldooliveira3672
      @arnaldooliveira3672 Год назад +2

      We are the world. there is no division. there is no me. No I.

    • @istoppain62
      @istoppain62 Год назад +2

      Our bodies came from this world although who we truly are is more than that. We are infinite and pure consciousness

    • @humptydumpty-m8u
      @humptydumpty-m8u 2 месяца назад

      To some extent, I’m the victim of the situations, but i tell myself not to focus too much or even not to grab hold of the ‘role’ of the victim in reality. In the midst of adversity, find ways to survive.

  • @brucegelman5582
    @brucegelman5582 Год назад +32

    I once told a friend during a 10 day wilderness hike that in my most awakened moments I am the world and everywhere is my home.He looked at me like I was crazy.I knew I was not, nor Alan either.

  • @maximelagace
    @maximelagace Год назад +17

    "To resist change, to try to cling to life, is like holding your breath."
    -Alan Watts

  • @newfreenayshaun6651
    @newfreenayshaun6651 Год назад +41

    If you're reading this, we need your involvement in the collective conscience to change the direction in which our world is falling. Your faith that we will come through to harmonic balance is paramount.

    • @zed4225
      @zed4225 Год назад +8

      Only after a reset is that achievable, lets hope humanity doesn't fk it up when/if given the chance for another go at it. Lets hope the reset is not through nuclear war. Meteorite preferable. Always known this is not how we are meant to live, we are nowhere near in harmony with the earth. Can't change at least 50% of humanity so a reset necessary.

    • @OnlyThisMoment
      @OnlyThisMoment Год назад +1

      🙏

    • @Taldaran
      @Taldaran Год назад +1

      In total agreement!

    • @pl7601
      @pl7601 Год назад +1

      Bless's from deep forests of Finland

  • @anthonysantellan1861
    @anthonysantellan1861 Год назад +20

    Ive been listening to alan watts for about 15 years now. Its funny how he can point out every problem and solution to life and get 3.5k views. Meanwhile millions watch the news just to absolutely lose their mind.

    • @seanbain-j5r
      @seanbain-j5r Год назад +2

      spot on

    • @JoseLopez-tk4tq
      @JoseLopez-tk4tq Год назад

      That's why I voluntarily elected to cease slavishly tune in the nightly "news" and escape the onslaught of fear mongering, deception, consumerism, and indoctrination. What joy could be given the world if a movie exploring the legacy of Alan Watts were to be made, Madison Avenue be damned!

  • @zed4225
    @zed4225 Год назад +6

    I'm always happiest in the natural environment, amongst the trees, under the stars, away from society. Don't know what that says about me. But it's what I know. What I feel. Can stare at the stars for hours. Watch an ant colony at work all day. The natural world is what I revere.

    • @eimondi53
      @eimondi53 Год назад +1

      Understand exactly 💯

  • @hide_and_go_sikh
    @hide_and_go_sikh Год назад +5

    My psychiatrist told me that I'm not playing the same game of life that everyone else is playing.

  • @lookupthereupinthetrees9860
    @lookupthereupinthetrees9860 Год назад +31

    The only real, small shame about listening to this is that if you've managed to make it this far, and fully comprehend all that he is saying, it is unlikely that if you shared it with most of your friends or family that they would either grasp, appreciate or understand the magnitude of what he unpacks.
    MY God; it's so good to be alive!!

    • @Vivekanand44
      @Vivekanand44 Год назад +1

      True !!

    • @rashadcallaway4800
      @rashadcallaway4800 Год назад +3

      That's the hardest part about all of this is knowing that you can't force this on family and friends. We just have to keep moving with grace with hopes that they'll see for themselves that this is where true peace lies.

    • @Unveiled_Seekers
      @Unveiled_Seekers Год назад

      you never lied !!

    • @Unveiled_Seekers
      @Unveiled_Seekers Год назад

      @@rashadcallaway4800truth

    • @arnaldooliveira3672
      @arnaldooliveira3672 Год назад

      the uni esse does just the same: keeps on existing despite our illusions of the self

  • @zeinabjannati1312
    @zeinabjannati1312 Год назад +26

    It makes me sad that he's not with us anymore....SO powerful and wise his words are...

    • @richardgoodrich4783
      @richardgoodrich4783 Год назад +9

      Yet here he is, still teaching. These videos keep his message alive and by extention, his presence.

    • @peterdebaere1881
      @peterdebaere1881 Год назад +2

      @@richardgoodrich4783 my thoughts exactly

    • @lookupthereupinthetrees9860
      @lookupthereupinthetrees9860 Год назад +6

      He's not dead.
      Listen to the video much more closely.

    • @mackcarlo
      @mackcarlo Год назад +2

      He came to see me a few years ago via Shaktipat through a massive full blown kundalini awakening… He will come to see you if you want him to.

    • @knpmolina
      @knpmolina Год назад +3

      He is with us. Right here. Right now.

  • @livondiramerian6999
    @livondiramerian6999 Год назад +14

    When you align yourself with your true self you can achieve what you want.

    • @brucegelman5582
      @brucegelman5582 Год назад +1

      Yes and the greatest "achievment" is to become nobody.

  • @joemonroeartistvloger7990
    @joemonroeartistvloger7990 Год назад +13

    Wow! Just Wow! I’m in tears. I love Alan Watts

  • @rizwana7256
    @rizwana7256 Год назад +3

    I have the solution to world's problems: Stop using the net, switch the TV and the radio off. Audience is gone. Drama will stop.

    • @genxchas
      @genxchas Год назад

      you mean you tube as well 😩😩😅

  • @TheSimpleTruthOne
    @TheSimpleTruthOne Год назад +4

    Too many people buy into the “Not Of This World” nonsense, and that mentality then destroys their entire view on life, and all its beauty!
    When ignorant people say “NOTW”, they are discrediting everything they claim to believe in, starting with God, the creator of the perfect & beautiful universe.
    “And God saw that all creation was good” and very beautiful!

  • @sinky187
    @sinky187 Год назад +10

    What he is saying (i think) is that we are all asleep when we are playing our roles in this span of life we have at work, and socially etc. All the identities beliefs ascribed meaning we have attached to ourselves is a complete illusion and an act, parts we play out unconsciously. But every now and then, usually early hours of the morning going to toilet from bed I will be struck powerfully by a realisation that all I have done, all I have attached all my beliefs etc are complete illusions and completely meaningless, it literally strips away everything instantly. And I feel completely alert completely conscious with absolute clarity that everything is an illusion except exactly what I feel when this thing, this massive slap that strips me to my core. I used to be shook from it and instantly scramble round my head for some quote or belief system to counter act it to comfort me and make me feel safe from it again but now I make myself feel it and like when it strikes me because I believe this is kinda what he’s saying that is who I really am just a piece of life when stripped of all the illusions I have accumulated since I was conscious enough to start being sucked in by them, that thing that hits in the early hours is real and that’s why it demolishes the illusions in an instant. It’s a smack that wakes you up.
    Anyone else experience this. Or anyone agree disagree or add?

    • @bentleymusic03
      @bentleymusic03 Год назад +2

      I like the way you’ve phrased this! The one thing I keep coming back to is why does human nature lead is to the point we are at? We play these games and roles to inevitable have the death of our physical body. Does it come down to love between people and nature? A love that sees past these boundaries and rules? What is the driving force that leads us to the complexity and belief that we have a story that needs to be lived and realized?

    • @alexandervonprellwitz1735
      @alexandervonprellwitz1735 Год назад +3

      I am currently in a struggle against anxiety attacks. I usually wake up in anguish.
      Three days ago, the words 'fear is an illusion' came to my mind and were very soothing. I've been thinking about them for days, and this morning I stumbled upon... this.

    • @sinky187
      @sinky187 Год назад +5

      @@bentleymusic03 thanks for commenting! My personal conclusion to what I think your getting at and I think your asking, why do we do all this searching for meaning and achievement, identities etc repeating it daily and never ever finding it and when we think we might possibly have finally found it or are on the right path to it, it seems to slip away again and the cycle begins all over.
      My personal conclusion is that there is nothing to live out or some meaning to life to find in it all, no matter what you do or achieve, no matter what title you have it is all futile and like you said it leads us all to death. Now what I have just said is quite difficult and maybe depressing for someone to hear which then could lead to “oh what’s the point then may as well kill myself” or it leads people to leap to religion or a man made belief system which assign a meaning of life to you, and you feel good again safe and like your heading to a better life but in religion and belief system they all tell you there’s another life waiting a better one an after life! But this is just another way of saying that then this life is meaningless if we are just living by divine rules and systems to reach this better life sod this one!
      So my belief or way is that yes it is all meaningless but I find my own meaning in what I do it’s my own personal existence up to me to live how I choose, my life my fate are my own. If you choose to see through the ridiculous routine of everyday life and realise it’s meaningless you will not feel it as suffering because you are no longer searching and asking for a universal meaning from a world that is silent and always will be if you ever ask what you asked earlier. If there is a place that transcends this world, as a human being that is to say with a humans limits and capacity you will never be able to know that there is. Has anyone ever claimed to have been answered? No. So live this life the one you can feel, resist, smell, touch, see the only one you and I have ever had life or consciousness in, unless your aware of one before or have seen one I haven’t, and find your own meanings in what you choose to do. Don’t take work, life or anything to serious it’s all illusions. See everyone and everything for exactly what it is and who they are, what’s obvious and under your eyes. It’s freeing.
      Also this is just an opinion I’m not telling anyone this is the gospel, and apologies for the length I’m not the best at explaining myself in short!

    • @sinky187
      @sinky187 Год назад +2

      @@alexandervonprellwitz1735 thanks for commenting, my thoughts on what you say are, that the waking up in anguish which I think is similar to what I was saying about when it hits me smack in the face in the early hours. So maybe like me you can perceive it differently and maybe see it’s the illusions you have accumulated like myself over years and also wen very young with an undeveloped mind that cause the anxieties, because they are just imaginary we don’t know how to stop them because it’s our intelligence that’s doing it the one thing we need to stop them, your intelligence is turning against you when you need it to work correctly for you. So the waking in anguish or like mine when I said it instantly demolishes anything I believed or thought of myself, identities etc it’s actually trying to wake you up and show you, you are not any of them anxieties it’s actually trying to help you see you are just a human being a piece of life just like anything alive on this planet, and anything alive on this planet will eventually pass by and die you are no different from anyone or anything alive only humans illusion themselves we are more than we are. see with clarity anything troubling your mind is nothing more than an illusion it is not real in any form. Strip yourself of them all until you finally get all the way back to your bare flesh and the reality you are just skin and bones anything else is imaginary. A good way to start is to just write what you feel, think, or just whatever comes out.

    • @kughdommed4582
      @kughdommed4582 Год назад +4

      @@sinky187 There are simply no words to express how much your words have made my inner world shake and resonate . I'm being completely honest.
      Then I ask the world , which you're included in it , " Why should I still be playing the game?
      " Wouldn't it be better if I just leave it all behind and just go somewhere else give love to everything and live outside of the game as possible? "
      Isn't this why the old sages just went to a mountain by themselves, to just get out of the game , this made up society, this fake scheme of things? which is obviously a huge matrix and concepts all made up ?

  • @healingmelody112
    @healingmelody112 Год назад +5

    You are capable of achieving amazing things in your life!✨
    You have within you the strength, courage, and determination to overcome any obstacle that comes your way!❤
    Remember to always believe in yourself, to stay focused on your goals, and to never give up on your dreams!🙏

  • @dark-cn9yq
    @dark-cn9yq Год назад +20

    It's so simple yet so many people miss it.

    • @TheSimpleTruthOne
      @TheSimpleTruthOne Год назад +3

      Too many people buy into the “Not Of This World” nonsense, and that mentality then destroys their entire view on life, and all beauty!
      When they say “NOTW”, they are discrediting everything they claim to believe in, starting with God, the creator of the universe.

    • @TheSimpleTruthOne
      @TheSimpleTruthOne Год назад +2

      @@dark-cn9yq Hey there dark 69’r, how you doin? Just because we quote “scripture”, it does not mean we necessarily believe it. It is however, more affective in getting a point across to those that still believe the holy Bible is the inspired word of God.
      Nobody made you read these comments, and nobody is pushing anything on you. You need to realize that “demons” only exist in the mind of those who fear them.

    • @stevewellman3154
      @stevewellman3154 Год назад

      Speak for yourself.

    • @0oo00
      @0oo00 11 месяцев назад

      @@dark-cn9yq projection. Prove there is no God and you might deserve the life you have. We're waiting.

    • @dark-cn9yq
      @dark-cn9yq 5 месяцев назад

      @@Aid-kd5nx Religion is made by man that's for sure. But Christian means "follower of Christ" it means you follow and obeying Jesus. Catholicism is the definition of religion. They follow Popes and priests and fathers and go to church once a week believing it will get them into heaven but every other day of the week. It's like they don't even care.

  • @beckyg9831
    @beckyg9831 Год назад +3

    It seems kind of sad and lonely--the "I", the God, is only one. It divides and creates many little lives, but in the end, all of the separate lives are really just one....the one singularity, that desperately wants to know "other". Each one of us is the fabric and structure of existence itself, and it all amounts to that one great thing....one lonely, great thing that must divide itself and forget itself, in order not to feel so alone.

  • @162tsb7
    @162tsb7 Год назад +2

    "The paper in our system is more valuable than the wealth. " . Let that sink in . Easily the most profound words I've ever heard in my life. Western civilization in one sentence.

  • @skynet4496
    @skynet4496 Год назад +25

    "but you begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental"
    Yep. I felt that because I didn't believe in a world past this one- that there's a non-physical soul, I could see that I exist now because of the world, and I will come back again.
    Fundamental existence. No need to explain why. I love how Alan Watts translates the zen riddles so well!

    • @sinky187
      @sinky187 Год назад

      Hi just trying to fully understand your comment. So you now do believe in a world that transcends this one?

    • @_ST4KZ_
      @_ST4KZ_ Год назад

      Wow ur breakdown is amazing

    • @Jack-r2v9b
      @Jack-r2v9b Год назад

      You're the universe experiencing itself

  • @arthurdolle5257
    @arthurdolle5257 Год назад +4

    Whatever and whoever is/are making these videos, thank you

  • @shannonvanderhoof4810
    @shannonvanderhoof4810 Год назад +14

    I love breathing in beautiful.

    • @SiriusZiriux
      @SiriusZiriux Год назад +2

      🙏🏻
      Love You; other Me. 💕😘🎶🍻🙏🏻🍷🌹
      Best start on some Content Ma'am; because I'm definitely Subscribing to You
      Time to Wake-Up!

  • @macbeavers6938
    @macbeavers6938 Год назад +2

    "The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself."
    --Augustine of Hippo

  • @JonathanAllen0379
    @JonathanAllen0379 Год назад +2

    2:10 - Fast-forward at least fifty years or more since he said this, and now it's more like $130 and there's quite literally hardly anything in the shopping cart.

  • @gazzarafalemozzy4766
    @gazzarafalemozzy4766 Год назад +17

    So powerful.. i feel sorry for the masses that dont contemplate this beautiful reality

    • @michelekaspar8805
      @michelekaspar8805 Год назад

      Yet you are the masses too.

    • @gazzarafalemozzy4766
      @gazzarafalemozzy4766 Год назад

      @@michelekaspar8805 possibly..hopefully..but we are joyous for the beauty in reality..it is sad some are zombies nothing more

    • @Aetriex
      @Aetriex Год назад +1

      I disagree, a lot of the time I wish that I was back in the fold of this version of reality, being caught up in the drama is far more fun then being under the constant weight of knowledge that none of it is real. I often envy those that don't consider these thoughts, because they are truly living in an enriched drama, whereas I am aware that I'm only watching a movie, it makes it far less enjoyable in my opinion. They aren't zombies, they are just enraptured in the drama, and that's okay, it what this place is meant for.

    • @gazzarafalemozzy4766
      @gazzarafalemozzy4766 Год назад

      @@Aetriex being aware that all of this plane of existence is just a small part of the source opens up the reality that there is far more DRAMA as you call it outside of this universe, in creation, knowledge and love which is far more interesting to me

  • @Thefunksoulbro
    @Thefunksoulbro Год назад +6

    Beautiful words, from a beautiful soul. 💞🌈🙏🌍

  • @jjrecon3024
    @jjrecon3024 Год назад +4

    The physical world is designed to deceive. This is the game that We are playing even though most are blind to it. Discernment is key in a world of deception. We All must learn to discern to earn the burn ❤️‍🔥

  • @gwynneshippy430
    @gwynneshippy430 Год назад +6

    I don’t need words to hold my great granddaughter in my arms and feel the connection and love..
    When our world is limited by time and space, we understand truth when it repeats itself in time and space..

  • @michaelbailey8729
    @michaelbailey8729 Год назад +5

    Its very hard to live it even if you understand it and work it every day.

    • @Nalber3
      @Nalber3 Год назад +6

      That's why a spiritual practice like meditation helps to integrate teachings like these into your live

  • @alejandrosandoval9915
    @alejandrosandoval9915 Год назад +7

    I guess we’re all Oscar winners in a way.

    • @jjrecon3024
      @jjrecon3024 Год назад +4

      Potentially,...but unfortunately everyone is acting out roles but very few are writing their playwright.

    • @chrissemenko628
      @chrissemenko628 Год назад +2

      ​@jjrecon3024 A few opinionated directors thrown in along the way.🎬

  • @PhilosopherNewport
    @PhilosopherNewport Год назад +8

    Alan progressed as a philosopher throughout his life. Near the end he was talking about this human experience as a great play, like a movie, and he said when we die we return to the green room and take off our costumes, take off our masks. Had he lived longer, he would have logically had to ask: Who scripted each role? And he would have rejected the idea that some sort of singular personality called "God" wrote each role for the literally ZILLIONS UPON ZILLIONS UPON ZILLIONS of roles on this earth alone. For you see, each living creature is playing a role and that includes living creatures such as all the insects in the ground and all bacteria and other microbes as well. The microbes within you are perfect spirits just like you -- they could have chosen to be a human personality instead of a microbial one supporting the biological body of a human.
    Alan was the greatest philosopher in living memory, but that doesn't mean everything he said was "right". It was a work in progress and he died young for a philosopher. Whenever you hear him say something that doesn't really make any concrete sense, then trust your intuition and common sense about it. It makes no sense to attribute the creation of life to something vague like a "universe" or "God" or "Nature". Had he lived longer, he might well have realized that the answers to the fundamental questions about Philosophy & Spirituality must meet the criteria of being the epitome of Simplicity, Fearlessness, and Good News for All living creatures. Any answer that feels vague or impossible to visualize must be rejected. Any answer that has even a hint of fear in it must be rejected. Any answer that is not as simple as possible and seems even a tiny bit complex must be rejected.
    I am not saying he was wrong to say the things he said, but I am saying, because he was almost constantly touring and giving these talks over many years, that what you hear are reflections of his ideas as he progressed towards the simple, fearless, good-news truths. And he was cutting edge for the times he lived in. He was an antidote to white, middle class, Christian indoctrination and/or the emerging atheistic religion called scientism.

    • @mickeyguide3112
      @mickeyguide3112 Год назад

      'christian indoctrination'... or Watts was another victim of the deception from the most powerful created being in this universe, Lucifer.

    • @AustinKoleCarlisle
      @AustinKoleCarlisle Год назад +1

      This type of thinking originated from "white" Indo-Europeans 1000s and 1000s of years ago, and it only recently came *back* full circle with the likes of Alan. We are beginning to rediscover what we knew many millennia ago, and the only thing that prevented this from happening sooner certainly wasn't white people.

  • @joedavis4150
    @joedavis4150 Год назад +2

    ... On this subject, I recommend the song, put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up, by Harry Nilsson

  • @Lisa-on3ee
    @Lisa-on3ee Год назад +5

    AMAZING!!! Thank you… so resonated with me and many others , I am sure💜💜

  • @alexyarza2252
    @alexyarza2252 7 месяцев назад +2

    I usually listen to Alan Watts to relax or fall asleep, but this time his speech woke me up!!

  • @StrawberrySoul77
    @StrawberrySoul77 Год назад +2

    We are playing a game for sure, but why? Why is my consciousness aware? What’s the point?

  • @alexghous
    @alexghous Год назад +2

    it is weird really... the best way to defeat satan at his own game, is not to play it.
    Where in..... the concept overlooks that there are those that do in fact perform what could easily be called evil or malevolence....
    it is odd really. in your concept. who rules? Yet someone does rule............. might you be shocked to learn who rules the world.

    • @alexghous
      @alexghous Год назад +1

      suppose that you wanted a car..... a Lamborghini. did you know, that there are beings in this existence that don't agree with you..... they brought you a beat up old pinto and said that that were all that could be done... you will simply have to accept it as it is... because there is no more.
      Now I ask you.. do you accept it?
      do you know that these beings, have prices.... things they want you to pay them, in exchange for said car........
      are you willing to pay your soul for a car that Good would give to you for free?

  • @MRoachthe1
    @MRoachthe1 Год назад +2

    You are very unique.
    Just like everyone else.

  • @datagiggles692
    @datagiggles692 Год назад +8

    A lot has changed for the better. I gave this speech in 1981 because I knew I would want to remind myself in 2023.
    If a mere actor can make you cry, what do you think I can do as the fabric of existence.

    • @zed4225
      @zed4225 Год назад +1

      What can you do? to achieve harmony as a collective. In the here and now.

  • @byebyeDuEi
    @byebyeDuEi Год назад +3

    As i am ❤

  • @deadreckoning6288
    @deadreckoning6288 Год назад +4

    I have played the sad victim in this play and it sucks. Wish I could go back to sleep.

    • @Headhighswell
      @Headhighswell Год назад +1

      Breathing is productive. You are the value, just for being you. Everything else is external. Love yourself wherever you are in life. Allow yourself that peace. You are important. Have fun! Sending love!

    • @PhilosopherNewport
      @PhilosopherNewport Год назад +1

      You ARE asleep -- we all are. This is a spiritual dream. Ever notice when, as a human, you are asleep and dreaming, it never occurs to you that you are at home in bed asleep? Time & time again, when I am dreaming a bad dream, I will say something like, "I wish this was just a dream, but nope, this is definitely real", and then I wake up and marvel how convinced I was that it wasn't a dream.
      Many times I tell someone in a dream that it is only a dream, but when I wake up, I realize that when I told them that, I was not aware I was actually in bed asleep.
      There is no "waking up" within a dream. There is no one who is awake within this mortal world in spite of what anyone claims or has claimed. The only true waking up is death. It is our automatic, unconditional return to our original & unchanging Reality of spiritual sanity & sobriety. Our Homestate of Awareness is a blissful Reality and it never ever changes, just like we as Perfect Eternal Conscious Energy never, ever change.
      And so what are we to do throughout Eternity as never-changing thinking-feeling entities? Obviously we script & predetermine these spiritual dream-movies full of many changes so that we have a vacation from our Home-Reality that never ever changes.
      If you are constantly aware of a never-changing bliss without any contrast, then bliss becomes dull. This nightmare we are living in is a desired contrast. And I know it won't be popular to see that word NIGHTMARE in the comments section of a Alan Watts video because many viewers are at a phase in their "life" where they think they can transcend pain & misery & misfortune and "life" will be happy sailing from here-on forward, but the older viewers will know that it is only a phase. Been there, done that, and still the beat goes on.
      There is absolutely nothing you can do to change your mortal self nor your destiny here. It's all been predetermined by YOU before this world ever manifested. Being infinitely intelligent, we obviously figured out how to forget who we are and the fact that we scripted this story that we are living in the flesh.
      You may often be sad, but you aren't always sad. And if other people appear to not be sad, it's only how it looks right now. Everyone eats their fair share of shit in this world. Everyone without exception. Some take it harder than others. Some shrug it off faster than others.

    • @kezmac5955
      @kezmac5955 Год назад +2

      If you look at life as a series of moments, as a process, rather than a result, you can change the direction at any point. You can’t change the past but you can change your perspective on it now. I think that’s why you often hear people emphasising gratitude. It’s hard to feel gratitude if you are unhappy. But when you make peace with yourself and let go of comparisons, you can take in the moment and feel gratitude.

    • @PhilosopherNewport
      @PhilosopherNewport Год назад

      ​@@kezmac5955 You may be convinced today that you can change your perspective in the now regardless of any circumstance, situation or condition, but it is only a phase you are going through. Live a bit longer and you will find there are times when gratitude is not the panacea you currently believe it is. Ditto for letting go of comparisons. Ditto for looking at life as a series of moments.
      Enjoy the phase for as long as it lasts. It is not permanent (as you know full well that nothing is permanent in this "life" of impermanence).

    • @kezmac5955
      @kezmac5955 Год назад

      @@PhilosopherNewport I’ve lived a long time and through a lot. It has taken me a long time to understand the gratitude bit. I also acknowledge that most of us reach a limit to our ability to adapt. What that limit it is different for everyone and varies through life. Most of the pain comes from attachment

  • @edwin.jansen
    @edwin.jansen Год назад +2

    Nobody knows if they want truth until you get it.

  • @Lebensbewusstsein
    @Lebensbewusstsein Год назад +4

    Ich liebe ihn, Alan Watts, einer der besten Bewusstseinslehrer und Erklärer....

  • @rogerlin9602
    @rogerlin9602 Год назад +1

    We are playing a game: nothing happens unless it's put in words.
    You know that you know. You are forced to rely on words and symbols.
    The world is the drama of God
    God is the Self. We are all that.
    Sat Chit Ananda - experience of the ultimate unchanging reality.
    Sat, that which is.
    Chit, that which is consciousness.
    Ananda, that which is bliss.
    The reality is gorgeous. The universe is a celebration.
    Audience and actor are one.
    Your life is what you put yourself into.
    Divine actor (you) plays all the roles.
    Do you define yourself as the victim of the world, or the world?
    Feeling that your existence is absolutely fundamental. Nobody imposes on you.
    Say, “I did it.”
    Thanks Alan. 20 April 2033.🍔🕯🕎🔔🤩🎈🐼🌀💖👍

  • @ruthcormack1765
    @ruthcormack1765 Год назад +1

    It's a great post, but I would say given the evidence of NDE reporting, MOST DID NOT WANT TO COME HERE. And that's a LOT of DEEP Reporting. As for me, yup, I came here the hard way.

  • @RudeBoy77777
    @RudeBoy77777 Год назад +6

    I love listening to Alan Watts - I wish it were without the dramatic background music.

  • @arlene7057
    @arlene7057 Год назад +3

    Really Excellent Video! … The essence of Alan Watts 😁

  • @reeblesnarfle4519
    @reeblesnarfle4519 Год назад +3

    Whether comedy or tradgedy, I did it.
    So profound. 😎🙏

  • @boyutlararas6160
    @boyutlararas6160 Год назад +1

    Is this video generated by AI ? why u have to put so much video file every word of Alan says :D..I hope next video u will put just a ladybird walking on the leaf.

  • @Cristian-ej9nk
    @Cristian-ej9nk Год назад +2

    This human was born before his time.

  • @Strangepete
    @Strangepete Год назад +2

    Awesome! Could you tell the name of the music during the last two minutes?

  • @mattpilot
    @mattpilot 11 месяцев назад +1

    Could you share the name of the soundtrack at the very end? The one listed during the credits at 10:25 is a different one. Thanks

  • @Diana-we4fp
    @Diana-we4fp Год назад +2

    This is so profound... So beautiful... Tears.

  • @beniamino939
    @beniamino939 Год назад +1

    $30 for groceries would be a dream today!

  • @morris9524
    @morris9524 Год назад +3

    thank you for making these!

  • @CDeen
    @CDeen Год назад +4

    Divine consciousness is the truth

  • @motivationsamuraiofficial
    @motivationsamuraiofficial Год назад +2

    I can tell you put so much effort and passion into making this video. It definitely shows!

  • @andrewpipitone1572
    @andrewpipitone1572 Год назад +2

    I think this is one of the most brilliant talks from Alan Watts

  • @adrianramirez4997
    @adrianramirez4997 Год назад +4

    👌👌👌

  • @harkin8395
    @harkin8395 Год назад +1

    What lecture is this from ?

  • @matchbox555
    @matchbox555 Год назад +1

    WHERE IS THE OPTION TO TURN OFF THE MUSIC?

  • @shirleylincoln4406
    @shirleylincoln4406 Год назад +1

    His words alone can awaken those who are sleeping. No need for a mountain top hermit mode. Just listen to his wisdom and you can feel the truth resonate and Soul knows.

  • @hishambashat
    @hishambashat Год назад +1

    What is the Disease Of Conceit.....!!

  • @ajfernandez5679
    @ajfernandez5679 Год назад +1

    Evolution huh? Talk about the snake... "The Voice of Evolution", and listening to it was the... "original sin?" 🤔😮😬😊😎🙏🏼✝️💜☯️ 🙈🙉🙊

  • @mellison1007
    @mellison1007 Год назад +1

    Alan Watts is a Legend, We are all one, and many all at the same time. We are also at one with the cosmos, and with all those who live in the cosmos. As Alan said I am the fabric of everything. I am everything!

  • @omosgod
    @omosgod Год назад +8

    He helped me navigate my breakup in 2020 and the Pandemic.....❤❤❤❤❤

    • @Taldaran
      @Taldaran Год назад +1

      After speaking to many people, the pandemic caused a lot of them to end relationships for a myriad of reasons. Alan has helped me navigate through the break up, and helped me to be a better person.

  • @chestrockwell7023
    @chestrockwell7023 Год назад +1

    Blah blah blah....you still gotta wake up tomorrow and be a wage slave 😆

    • @croissantlover1
      @croissantlover1 Год назад

      also doesnt help with grief and loss of a loved one :( So we must just ignore our emotions?

  • @RoyEldorado
    @RoyEldorado Год назад +2

    Now that's motivation!

  • @e.smiles450
    @e.smiles450 Год назад +1

    We feel the felt sense of fear before we learn to think. Our thoughts are just 1 trigger to this sense.

  • @HavingCoffieWithMrSatan
    @HavingCoffieWithMrSatan Год назад +3

    Mr Satan vreeee😊

    • @gwynneshippy430
      @gwynneshippy430 Год назад +4

      You are a precious soul and God loves you.

  • @grigoir
    @grigoir Год назад +3

    Thank you!

  • @doramarcelino768
    @doramarcelino768 11 месяцев назад +1

    Espantoso!
    Obrigada.

  • @WAWANI-Nation
    @WAWANI-Nation Год назад

    Hmmmmm. I definitely do not believe we developed consciousness. Conviuosness ( thought) preceeded everything.
    We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. We are FIRST. Conciousness.
    If this is NOT the foundational thought process for this video. Then ....🤔🤔

  • @AnOdeto-uv3cj
    @AnOdeto-uv3cj Год назад +3

    Powerful.....❤

  • @1SpudderR
    @1SpudderR Год назад

    The Profound Massage Of Wisdom!? Mental Yoga satisfyingly enlightening!?

  • @SamoneTheGoddess
    @SamoneTheGoddess Год назад +3

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Jack-r2v9b
    @Jack-r2v9b Год назад

    That's why I never ask for a paper receipt

  • @ZosoRocks1
    @ZosoRocks1 Год назад

    The Games We All Play
    I started in this Chase by playing in Forrest's fun house of puzzles, but do you also realize that I am also playing a "game" alongside yours. In fact, there are at least four games being played out:
    - a game created for play by the originator of the game - but to be played by participants with an intended "known" outcome
    - a game being played by the participants and resulting in being watched by the originator of the game as it is played out in unknown ways
    - a person is playing the game for the creator's reasons, but seen being played from their own participant's perspective (multiple participants = possibly the same multiple perspectives = unknown variables)
    - a person is playing the game for their own reasons, unknown to the originator of the game being played
    ...but yet, even still, there are the fifth and sixth reasons this game is being played, built into the game as well - which results in the "games" that will play out afterwards, as 'bi-products' of the original singular game.
    The fifth is the reason or outcome that is of the original "projection" by and of the creator and their game - both being viewed from the creator's perception. The intended reason the game was created.
    The sixth is the reason or outcome that is of the original "projection" by and of the player and their game, and how the game can benefit their life - which is being viewed through the participant's/player's perception.
    And yet, we can now realize that there is a seventh reason. One that plays on the outcome to begin, yet another game. Also a "bi-product" of the initial game, but also the goal of both the creator and a player.
    In summary:
    1. The creator's game with the intended / "planned" outcome
    2. The player(s) playing the creator's game being watched by the creator - unknown variables are in play
    3. The player playing, but from his/her perspective - controlled variables by the player(s)
    4. The player(s) playing for reasons unknown to the creator - controlled variables by player(s) w/unknown results being watched by the creator
    5. The projection and perception of the game by the creator, unknown to the player(s) - the intended reason for the game
    6. The outcome of that projection or perception by the player(s) - how will it benefit the player(s) - their intended outcome
    7. The true outcome of the game - the actual result of the game as viewed by the creator and players - Fate/Destiny?
    Can one even tabulate the odds of all of these variables and come up with a statistic that ultimately succumbs to be the same result?
    Unfortunately, no one knows they are playing the "7th game", because no one told them they were. And yet, we can see they/we are playing with a full throttle, in order to complete the initial game we all set out to play.
    A game that no one knows the results, but once they start playing, the results show the player what they are actually playing for.
    Oh sure, disappointment is playing too. The players know it is there, but they sometimes push it aside, in hopes to see that it never surfaces in front of them.
    We see the endless loop it creates for an individual, yet, the participants don't.
    How do we proceed to have a winner in a game that is not controlled by us?
    Easy, we guide the game to our liking. We know the plays ahead of time, in order to steer and stay a course we create.
    We know that there aren't any established rules -- so why not allow us to create the rules?

  • @yarakodmous8818
    @yarakodmous8818 26 дней назад

    If you're happy and you know it, CLAP YOUR HANDS. :)

  • @turabalikhan1341
    @turabalikhan1341 Год назад

    I know why I'm (we are) playing the game. Pretending we don't know. Because if we do, we might stop playing.

  • @osterlaich6395
    @osterlaich6395 Год назад

    I am aware its a double blind exhibition and the boosted Bonobos banded together hammering away on typewriter trying to get one usable line out, failing spectacularly One might add...
    As stated above and repeatedly noone who matters plays chess o.0 neither the 2dtiling problem variant one nor some invented 5d variant.
    JFYI

  • @quinktap
    @quinktap Год назад +1

    How dare you usurp.

  • @everydaymotivation1986
    @everydaymotivation1986 Год назад +1

    Powerfull. thanks!

  • @fueu2617
    @fueu2617 Год назад

    I am responsible for this life? I just love that. Thank you who ever you are ;) I am happy. . ...

  • @Gladys_772
    @Gladys_772 Год назад +1

    I found you the way the spirit found me

  • @eliasfeao2084
    @eliasfeao2084 Год назад

    Had to watch this a couple of times.
    Persona lly funny parts of realization, stark reminders and creation of new ideas and hidden dangers.
    Things i knew , just a bit more refined and palatable.

  • @MrFossilMetty
    @MrFossilMetty Год назад

    We're all victims of the world. Birth is a curse and life is a prison. And none of us get out alive. Stop kidding yourselves. Face reality, instead of trying to make it sound better than it is.

  • @jojoantenna
    @jojoantenna Год назад +4

    The most soothing kindest voice I've never heard ... My busybee mind calms on the pillow as he lulls me into wakefulness!

    • @jojoantenna
      @jojoantenna Год назад

      PS- Competing for Pillow Talk is Terrance McKenna with his sing-song voice lullabying me into jungles of deep cellular memory.

  • @nihilmiror6312
    @nihilmiror6312 Год назад

    I know that I don’t know. The most important thing I have discovered. 🙏😏

  • @veraintuizione6497
    @veraintuizione6497 Год назад +2

    LEGEND ❤️❤️

  • @samreich7042
    @samreich7042 Год назад

    THE **†SELF†** IS INTERCEPTED WHEN WE ISOLATE OURSELVES FROM OUR LIFE. TO FIND GOD IS TO ENGAGE YOUR HEART TO LOVE AND IT WILL LEAD YOU TO HIS THRONE.
    DEUTERONOMY CH.4 VS 29. READ IN THE OLD KING JAMES VERSION.

  • @hermitcrabdeluxe2176
    @hermitcrabdeluxe2176 11 месяцев назад

    Love Watts. Don't consider myself the victim, but this does make me just wanna stay at home :)

  • @samreich7042
    @samreich7042 Год назад

    WHAT IS INSTINCT AND HOW DID THEY EVOLVE INSIDE THE MIND OF ANIMAL LIVES?
    NATURE PUT THEM THEIR.
    TODAY"S SATAN IS OUR INSTINCTS AT PLAY.😅😅😅
    AND LOVE IS FROM THE IMAGE OF GOD WITHIN FOR THE LIVING.

  • @erin3292
    @erin3292 Год назад +1

    I did it

  • @Samenessthemiddleway
    @Samenessthemiddleway Месяц назад

    These Budhas came to realise themselves and resonate energy and pass on knowledge, they were and are and will keep on coming to sell mirrors to Blinds.

  • @reeblesnarfle4519
    @reeblesnarfle4519 Год назад +1

    Deep deep deep...💜 Lovely, uplifting...🙏

  • @adamsmith1267
    @adamsmith1267 Год назад

    The background imagery and music is too busy, distracts from the actual message.

  • @Privatesecurityofficer
    @Privatesecurityofficer Год назад

    i taught this guy everything he knows ...old AL is jockin my style

  • @rogerproctor7453
    @rogerproctor7453 Год назад +1

    Outstanding! Bravo Mr. Watts