What Do You Desire? Thought Provoking Motivation: By Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
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Imagine if Alan Watts was an old man who lived down the road and you could pop in for a cup of tea and wisdom anytime.
Why he is
Best thought ever!!!
Someone had that!
@@victorcode2075 your absolutely right
shame you dont live done the road from me 😉
this man died over 40 years ago but he sounds as if he were sitting next to me and talking to me today
Wesley Jackson the greatest achievement in life is to allow your voice to be an echo in this world, that even when you are gone your words continue to be here
That is so true.
Wesley Jackson how about living that better ?
Jane Joanny yes while maybe we will get smarter
Wesley Jackson *It's called a recording*
"The moment you have a situation where you are really in control of things,
that is to say, in which the future is almost completely predictable, a completely predictable future is already the past.
You already had it ..."
I don't understand that. Why wouldn't you want something predictable?
Having a simple life is predictable, farmers' life are predictable yet could be very enjoyable.
I'm the sort of person who can enjoy mundane tasks.
Kazathul
Alan never says it could not be enjoyable, but that if one wishes to live an unexpected and unpredictable life, one must take risks
Gofaw Well that's a no brainer isn't it....
Kazathul Well it may be yet when the time comes to make that decision we get tangled in our own minds
I don't think he meant it in that way, to say that having a predictable life is not enjoyable but rather those who wish to have a life where they always want to know what will happen next (having control), are living in the past. The only way you can have a predictable future is having had similar experience in the past, which puts your present life in the past. The future comes unexpected and unpredictable, so take it as that and not an instance of your past.
I've found that spending too much time wanting things that aren't within your reach is also a bad idea. If you only focus on the main desire you have, and don't spend enough time focusing on the day to day things that can get you there, you'll end up frustrated, confused, and ultimately in a state of despair. Buddha said that desire is the cause of all suffering and in a way I've found that to be true. If you spend all your time wanting something in the future and don't live in the moment then what's the point of life?
Best insight ever!
Alan's lectures are what I always imagined philosophy courses would be like. Then I took philosophy courses and the teachers and other students used so much philosophical psychobabble and jargon that it seemed to me they weren't speaking a language I even knew. That sucked all the joy out of philosophy whereas Alan reintroduces a sense of wonder in going deep into the question of "Why?"
Philosophy class - prove to me - prove to me this chair on the table doesn’t exist? Final exam. People furiously writing pages of why?
Two words on my page. Hand in.
What chair?
philosophy courses are discussions of trivia and definitions
@@Mr47steam Spy Net. New kindren need lessons on Sarcastability ability. Real coping mechaictics require great responsibility for the big gulping of truth, as ONE would say.
Lower level philosophy classes/courses were never intended to be lectures like this as that would just be debate or listening to someone else tell you their view. They're intended to teach you how a starting place to go about grappling these questions yourself. And, like a lot of subjects, the very lowest level is there to weed out the people who are just looking for an easy A or who aren't dedicated to learning the concept rather than giving them a taste of what's to come. Upper levels will have those kinds of debate.
This is a nice saying- "a completely predictable future is already the past, you had it!"
u already know what happens. u already lived the moment, when u thought about it before it happend.
If you 100% know whats going to happen, you can consider it done already. Just like watching 1 movie 100th time. You know exactly. Imagine being in that state all the time, in controll of everything, boring af.
Each time I am getting troubles in my life, the first thing I do is to listen the voice of Mr. Alan Watts. Always finding the advices I need.
“do that, and forget the money”
Never a truer word spoken
Great quote: The completely predictable future is already the past. Thank you, Alan.
Mike Basil
no one can predict the future.sorry.
@@selvynquijada5599 Hence it's the past
@@LuisLascanoValarezoThe future doesn't exist, it's a concept
That's it. I'm leaving Collage writing , starting a band making films and traveling the world buying a winter hunting cottage in Vancouver and a summer beach house in Miami I'm done with this game I'm living life for me.
Did you do it bro. I really hope that you did do it.
You gotta tell us if you did it
so did you do it...?
RoHaN P I’m going to university next year for film school, I’m currently holed up at home due to COVID, but that’s ok. because it’s given me time to exercise, write poetry and plan my next move. My friends the list you saw were life goals but rest assured I’m still working towards them. Thank you for your interest in my journey, I wish you all the very best ❤️✌🏻💪🏻
@@conorodonovan2501 all the best to you too...
Been like 40 years since he passed but still the most inspirational person to me
I have been a backpacker since April 2019. I've always moved around the UK living and working in hotels, pubs etc. I had a fiance for 5 years and had a full time job that I hated, she had kids that were good kids but no, can't do that and my partner was amazing but I couldn't live that life.
I decided to give it all up and fit my whole life into a backpack. It's been hard going but it's my happy life, the life I was born to do. Live in a tent. I've been homeless many times in the past, drug addict etc it's because I wasn't living my happy life. Everyone has one but it's so hard to find it and actually take the leap to do it. I'll never give up this life no matter what. I have literally 18€ to my name but that 18€ More than yesterday. I don't need much just food, water and somewhere to sleep. Everything else is a WANT.
Don't give up your dreams and live the life YOU want regardless of others. Like he said don't think about the money. Think about the life YOU want and get it. I have a channel but can't monetize it but I don't care.
You only get one life... make it count for you before anyone else
You and I are one. Do not be afraid of anything. The light is ahead.
One can attain absolutely anything if he/she has a burning desire🔥
Correct but you also have to consider that you gotta be okay with the ups and downs during the process of getting there
Great message, thought provoking. Very nicely edited.
Quaeroveritas - Just call me Q Nice name!
There's no need to desire anything. Just spend time resting in your being, no object/distraction, leave yourself alone and you will be what you were meant to be. Thoughts corrupt being.
with smoke breaks
I love this!! It's SO true!!
If we're going full buddhist/taoist/nihilist, I would change "Thoughts corrupt being" with "Identification with thoughts corrupts being."
I like to take a substance to support a powerful meditation, 100's if not thousands of times more effective with the right substance.
But with desire there is potential to be more than what you were meant to be. Strive for greatness. Don't settle for average.
I've only heard the first 3 mins of this in the past (in another video), but I like the remainder even better. I would not want to live forever with infinite power over my needs and desires..in the end, all we need is peace
Live a short life doing what you love instead of living a long one full of disappointment and trying to please everyone else
"...But when it finally comes down to it, nobody wants to be God."
I do a lot to spend time as God. It's heavenly. I just do this one drug. And the universe changes.
katen Kyōkotsu this kinda threw me at the end. what does he mean here because we all are a part of 'god' so it's irrelevant if we don't want to be because we already are. does he simply mean we do not wish to be burdened with the responsibility that an omnipotent anthropomorphic god would entail?
which one?
We are rebellion... God has more powerful inside.
which one?
"It's all wretch and no vomit" never heard that expression before. I think Allan Watts came up with that all by himself. Amazing. Genius always has a unique way of saying things. That's what I have observed.
To be a master at something is to be I. Love with what u are doing ..
Alan has helped me thru complete darkness. I didn’t find anything of his he found me .
I know I'm seeing this a year later, but I hope you still see this comment. The message from Alan Watts was amazing and 100% true. I really wish I could have spoken to this man and picked his brain about certain things. If I had someone like him talking to me while I was in high school, I'd probably be in a totally different situation than I am right now. Nonetheless, years later, I am honing in on what I truly want in life.
Not only was the message eye-opening, but your choices of clips for the video was absolutely perfect. They blended well and did not skew the message. You did a great job with this video. You should have so much more credit than you do!
Thought Provoking, indeed.
You be Spocken.
i totally love this!! I believe in the law of attraction 💯✔
Ive just randomly stumbled across this and its genuinely the best thing ive ever heard ❤️
The laughing baby :D
He makes you feel like you are listening to a good friend, doesnt he ? he makes me smile, feel less alone, ponder existance AND marvel at the fact that im actually ...here ! ;)
To push my boundries, to be clear, see through and real with someone, anyone and everyone, to cry to feel.
this video should have more views than his speech about love lol. everyone is a hopeless romantic. but this is what really matters
why have I only found out about this guy a month ago! what a genius, everything he talks about is mind blowing.. .addicting watching!
IKR! Can you believe he died in the 70´s? He was truly a wise man. This speech is personaly my favorite.
allan watts is alpha af
Watts was a master
Once in a while, I open the window in the room at my parents place and have a smoke while listening to Alan. And I'm not even a smoker. Slowly but surely, I'm starting to drift away. Lately not a day passes by without me having a drink at night. I don't know what's happening. I don't know anything anymore.
Missing your influence in this dimension old friend, see you on the other side 💌
i desire to desire and know that i don't want power, but i don't believe i can be positively surprised
Nice video,
If you don't know what you want to do, DON'T GO TO COLLEGE!
you can always just decide not to pay it. not like your gonna goto jail or anything
+Zak Mclaughlin Sure but it's not wise. Your debt will fall onto your kids or your family when you pass.
college or not...doing what you love to do or want to do is not...realistic. I can't just decide to run a hotel chain and make bowling balls for a living because I'm a creator. it's more complicated then that. That's why you got people in college picking up part time jobs and more then likely full time jobs that they really don't care for. Being a grown up is really what I was always looking forward to. Momma said I could be anything so I decided to work at a factory. it took me quite awhile to decide that.
Most people who are truly achieving their purpose... you will never hear from them any philosophy. Because they actively practice the way and understand that the realizations that lead to achievement are totally personal and in essence verbally nontransmissible. Their very existence is a philosophical statement. As every act is, including thoughts and ideas, philosophical statement.
Intention is the seed from which any act derives its essence and character. And so when we witness the deeds of any independent action, we know what was the seed by the fruit. So it is, that by supreme practice of pure intent, and a faith that the vast majority of humans are in search of fundamentally the same goals, that we can unleash calm upon this world and cultivate an environment in which those who prosper through the exploitation of uncertainty will find it extremely difficult to succeed. Should we so intend.
Vlad what happen if i was mighty god i order there to be free education
Stargazing by a fire each night, engaging in stimulating conversation with family and friends.
Sleep and eat all day.
So... get rich quick, live my dream.
Do what you love whatever it may be
amen!
*Cocaine
murder
Completely predictable future is the past. You had it.
AW over the sound track to "dark"
Thank you for this video. Alan watts the genius. And the movie Lucy is the best
Alan's wise words have always helped me through some of my most difficult situations in life. He has a good balance between heart and mind and this can be felt in his passion and energy, and thank goodness that this sort of energy is contagious. I was at one of his seminars in the early seventies and he said something that changed everything for me. He said - "A planned life is a closed life - it can be endured but it cannot be lived". great philosopher, and he always had fun! have a great day wherever you are and whenever you are! God bless. Johnny :-)
I almost started crying when I saw the children doing the same as the parents
We are simply energy, energy that is.aware of itself, Conscious Cosmic Energy. We come here to experiience the physicality and the emotionality of being via the host we call a human. We are the Cosmos.
This is JUST what I needed to hear today, thank you!
Thank you House Of Thought Media for the Post.
Desire isn't bad, it's a window to thefuture, it's free's you for who you are, and saids hello to who you could be, so go where your heart beats! it may not surely changed the world but it may change yours.
unlocking higher dimensions and the bliss of ever increasing insight = inlight
You are the first posh-sounding English bloke I've EVER warmed to.
Thanks😊
he was such a good friend of mine. Miss you Alan.
One of my favorites by him.
Incredibly well done, thank you!
🤔This is sow sow true!!! Thank you for uploading This vid is truely inspirational!!.
i've heard this particular segment of an Allen Watts lecture before. i really enjoyed your choice of vid clips, the sequencing was superb! editing well done, too. keep 'em comin'.
This changed my life
I needed this today. Immensely powerful.
Great song choice! Apparat is awesome!!
What Do You Desire? Thought Provoking Motivation: By Alan Watts
House Of Thought Media
Improved English Transcript
What do you desire? What makes you itch?
0:13
What sort of a
situation would you like
Let us suppose
0:21
I do this often
In vocational
guidance of students.
They come to me and
say
“We're getting out
of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to do!”
0:27
So
I always ask the
question
What would you [like
to] do if money were no object?
0:39
How would you
really enjoy spending your life?
0:43
Well
It is so amazing as
a result of our kind of educational system
crowd of students
say
well
We'd like to be
painters we'd like to be poets
would like to be
writers but as everybody knows you can't any money that way
0:54
another person is
what i'd like to live in out-of-doors life and ride horses
0:59
I said “Do you want
to teach in a riding school?”
1:02
Let's go through
with it
What do you want
1:07
when we finally got
down to something which the individual says he really
1:10
wants to do i will
say to him you do that and forget the money because
1:20
If you say that
getting the money is the most important thing…
You will spend your
life completely wasting your time
1:25
[you] will be doing
things you do not like doing
1:31
in order to go on
living that is to go on doing
things you don't
like doing
that is stupid
1:35
1:38
Better to have a
short life that is full of what you like doing
than a long life spent
in a miserable way
And after all
1:50
If you do really
like what you're doing
it doesn't matter
what it is
You can eventually
turn it
You will eventually
1:54
become a master of
the only way to
become a master of something to be really with it
and
then you'll be able
to get a good feel for what it is
so we
2:04
don't worry too
much that that's the where everybody's somebody's interested
2:08
in everything and
anything you could be interested in you will find out what is
2:13
It is absolutely
stupid spend your time doing things you don't like in order to go on spending
things you don't like
2:20
doing things you
don't like
and to teach our
children to follow the same track
2:24
see what we're
doing is we're bringing up children educating them to live the same
2:30
sort of life
pendant in order that hey may justify themselves and
2:35
find satisfaction
in life by bringing out their children to bring up the
2:39
actual to do the
same thing
so it's
All wretch and no vomit
It never gets there
2:43
and so, therefore
it's so important
to consider
this question
What do I desire?
2:54
well
when we answer that
question in a naive way
we figure out
that
we want a desire
what we want is to
control everything
[e.g.] to create
girls that don't grow old
[e.g.] apples that
don't rot
[e.g.] clothes that
never wear out
3:17
Conveyance that get
from one place to another instantly so we don't have to wait
power available to do
anything that you could see and do it just instantly
like that
to get this funny
technological omnipotence
but if you take
time out to think about that
3:35
and really go into
it with your full strength of imagination
and find out whether
that's where you want to be …
you will soon see
that is not what you want
3:53
because
the moment you have a situation where you
are really in control of things
3:59
that is to say in
which the future is almost completely predictable
4:04
A completely
predictable future is already the past
You have had it
4:09
That's not what you
want
4:13
You want a surprise
you don't know what
that it is going to be because
Obviously you wouldn't
be surprised if you did
what a pleasant
surprise
but like you say
What sort of a
surprise would be pleasant?
4:31
you can't really
answer
4:33
because
you know if there are to be such things as pleasant
surprises there must also be unpleasant surprises
There must be rude
shocks
So you're like
somebody taking a one of those wishing well boxes
you know where you
fish it
and
you bring out a
package
and
you don't know whether
you have got
a dead rat in it or
a new camera
then that's the way
that's that seems to be
5:01
the thing that
really excites people
but quite certainly
there comes out of
this inquiry
5:09
feeling of real
disillusionment with the idea of power
to be in power | to
be in control | … | is not something that any sensible person
wants
people are
frustrated in love
people feel jilted
with their children
5:31
There is a natural
tendency to human beings seek power
and that's a very negative
things about having a bad time c power
after frustrated in
love
you should try to
get back on the love people
because
nobody wants power
you may say
5:55
“That is shirking responsibility” or “That if
you were a really responsible
person you would go
out for power and try to use power to the best possible
advantage…for the
benefit of all”
6:04
All right. What would be the benefit of all?
Ask them “What do
you want me to do with his power”?
6:14
…
(Assume)
I'm dictator What would you like me to do?
Well nobody knows
because
6:18
they have not thought
it through
6:19
they think of all
sorts of short-range things
…and these are
largely conflicting and confusing, because they're not well-thought-out
But again when it finally
comes down to it
Nobody wants to be God
Simon Masters Thanks for writing it down because not all of us can get Alan's accent. Much appreciated.
Many thanks for the transcript. Much appreciated.
Wow!! This is awesome! Thank you.
very deep and powerful words by a great man !
I desire to be wealthy, have all the time to be free and travel, take amazing photographs, share my wealth with my loved ones and be full of life and happy ...
Brilliant !
Thank you... what a great video.
i have watched this hundreds of times. anytime that i need reminding..
The incredible true story and transformation, of the man that saved the world
Truth!
This is what is described in Zen as a heart to heart transmission , time is a mind made concept
Woow
That's great
carry-on
"A completely predictable future is already the past"
Excellent, I need to decide what I really want to do !
simple answer ....POWER
exactly I graduate very soon and I am scared shitless... But I know in the end I will be ok.
Wow what a video !! Really like it deep and interesting
I love this man
Thank you so much this really helps me on my qwuest on finding my Tru purpose in life thank you
So good, thank you for your work
Thanks for this vid!
Our pleasure!
thankYou
its great and inspirational influential inventive very bright
good job alan watts
I wanna wake humanity up !!
thumb up,we we are together
Wow....why d I not hear this b4???
Makes so much sense
if we are not the content of our mind, then desire call are are also not from our self...but easy to say.. pleasant to listen...loving to comment 😀
the irony of a successful person saying "anyone can do it." never chased money, did what i loved and in the end life had different ideas. "i am the liquor" -jim lahey
this really did help give me motivation in life.
I like being a happy me.
So then, continue the train of thought. What makes you the happy you? Doing what? Owning what? Having what? Keep in mind that being a happy you is not a fixed goal, it is not a finish line. Once you're the happy you you want to be, life will still go on. Things will still happen. Happiness is how you look at those things, i think.
Your right .
Job Moret that's why it's called "the pursuit of happiness" Chasing is happiness
happyness*
"Somebody is interested in everything" Wonder did he really mean to say, everybody is interested in something?
Beauty.
for my future is not my past,and my past is not my future
profound words
follow our hearts continuously love one another
Those lucky souls who had Alan freakin Watts as a counselor...I wonder if they even know about his huge collection of lectures
very good video btw nice videos combined with his speach
I want to create music. But it's so hard to live this life saying this knowing that thousands of others have the same dream, and I don't have the materials to paint my dream into reality. I must just try as hard as I can to create it.
Ani Rose I have this same problem, I want to make music but its only me and this dream so motivation is hard to come by knowing that its such a big game to get into
thanks alan - i finished up my uni degree now im going to follow my heart and create a clothing business - i hope i can earn money this way. either way thank you.
Togetherness and love .... No matter what we do, where we are..dead or alive.. We are all one yet very different. But yeah...
I appreciate the effort put into the video and all. But some people really can't do what they want.
I simply live in a war torn country, Syria, and leaving home puts my life in real danger. It's been like this for 5 years and would still go on another 5, I'll be 36 by then. My life, my young years poof!
If you are not in a position like me, GO AND LIVE YOUR LIFE! There's no excuse! Good luck.
Matthias Smit Why don't you trust Allah (swt) and really go try and do it. Even if you die in the proccess. We are conquered by our fears when faith is not present in our hearts.
Don't lie, your not syriac
I want to make the world a better place :) I want people to feel good about themselves, to love themselves, to treat themselves with kindness.