How We Have Been Fooled - Alan Watts On The Ego
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@0:15 Reactionary. One's inherent freedom to oppress others freedom.
Show confidence than you will be bullied by the bullies (the psychopaths). So society demands you to be less. "Modesty". Under preform. To be invisible from the psychopaths to avoid being bullied.
Why do the bullies bully.
They always do this defence mechanism of break the "others" stick to make theirs bigger. Bully the smart so they can get ahead. Corruption, gambling, conning, and scheming. All the intention of making the smart people their victim.
The Ego
a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance. Not to be confused with with confidence; the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust. A math formula tested, and predicted its outcome.
Why does the ego attack confidence, something tested, proven, then predictable.
Give us theory about memories
I love a break away from the daily lunatic asylum by listening to Alan Watts.
Facts
It is no measure of health to be adjusted to a profoundly sick society.- said an old wise man called krishnamurti
@@accidentalwarrior1017 love that quote from him and we are indeed, in a sick society and people bury their heads and display Stockholm syndrome with their captures. The social engineers of this madness
Very relatable,I concur
@@accidentalwarrior1017 I feel grateful that I came across J. Krishnamurti. The wisest man I came across to.
We are perpetually stressed and this stress has been accepted as normal. To be completely relaxed is unacceptable in society, because its misunderstood, it’s feared out of uncertainty.
In capitalist society
@@nikhilwardrobe exactly!
Could you expand on your last statement "it's feared out of certainty" I understand what it means but I am not too sure I totally get it, an example would help. Thank you.
@@guillermochavez2170 like when you feel like everything is going right for you on a particular day and yet instead of feeling happy, you're wondering about when and how something sad will happen.
@@50.yashojha88 I get it, thank you!
Brilliant content
The ego is the disguise consciousness wears to have the human experience
What is consciousness, when it's not wearing the ego as a disguise?
Ego is not a disguise. It is an amalgamation of defence mechanisms in response to trauma manifesting on all levels of being. It is inevitable in its formation, but it must be balanced later in life, preferably reduced to its absolute minimum or even, if possible, extinguished altogether.
@@patrickpoulsen1 Yes true
We are multidimensional beings
There are many levels of perception
There are many layers of consciousness
We transcend and descend these levels during our human experience
Therefore the ego can be seen from many perspectives
Also ego is a programme
It is a lower state of consciousness
It is primitive in nature
My comment above is more a play on the spiritual adpect
@@TucciDaGucci it's nothingness
yes, its neccesary in a way to have this experience in so many ways, but to always know that is a game, show, role and not the real self who always present.
Ego: the marriage of an illusion to a futility. Priceless!
Non existent s merged with "hopelessness"
"...that was the Meet Puppets"
- (the late) Kurt Cobain ☝️🥺🚰
😶🌫️Do as I ask or ignore me!
There is know THIRD option.☯️
Especially when YOU called ME...
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CONCLUSION: WHO ASKED YOU???
Have you ever been MURDERED (buy) an "attempt"??
Not me.
- 12 years old ☝️🥺🚰
How to know his speakings are true?
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😂 that's the ego for sure
@@imiejj8665 😂😂
@@imiejj8665 🤣
Occasionally you kill your ego or “glimpse past it” and it’s an incredible thing to do. It allows you to live in humility and peace
plz tell are you distigushed from your ego?
Help
His laugh is infectious. I absolutely adore him and his chuckle.
He's right! As soon as we become aware of our own presence we tighten up! I've done that all my life, he knows it so true.
The ego: adding music to a lecture, somehow believing it needs something beyond the simple truth it contains. Language is an art in its own right, like philosophy, but today everything has to have more, 'be' more. People can't walk down the street with their own thoughts, hearing the sound of their feet and the things around them. Everyone is wearing earbuds, or on their phone, engaged in a reality outside themselves. Words are powerful on their own, but when someone adds music to it thinking they are making it 'better', they are in fact taking something very important away. Listen to Watts and enjoy the silence between the words and phrases. It is important to do this without music.
@Denny Morales I'm not the problem, I pointed out the problem. If someone is in a museum observing the Mona Lisa, and someone else comes in and scribbles crayon across its face in an attempt to 'improve' it, is that the fault of the observer? Does he object because of his ego? Does he object because he, "likes to think others are messing things up and he is perfect"? And should he "stop blaming outside circumstances" because that is "feeding his ego" and simply enjoy the new crayon-defaced Mona Lisa?
@Denny Morales There's nothing challenging in this for me whatsoever. You're making assumptions and convoluting the point into something personal for you which is totally outside of my comments. I have no interest in your demons or skewed perceptions, try a 'woke' therapist and sell your crazy butterfly namastes' somewhere else, I get enough on YT already.
@Denny Morales I meet someone who uses manipulating, gaslighting, basically lying as a coping mechanism for his damaged ego and I couldn’t believe it. There’s people out here who’s unhinged, unconnected with their peace and morality and I don’t know how to leave in a world like that.
@Denny Morales Basically avoiding the victim mentality
@Phoenix 🤯
I could live a half dozen lifetimes and still not fully grasp all of the teachings of Mr. Alan Watts. With that being said, with the one lifetime that I have, I am going to grasp as much as I can.
You have much more than one lifetime for sure. Most people one Earth cant remember them because of its peculiarities, but some are born capable of overriding it naturally and others through something else, like hypnosis or medium's work.
When thé ego is no more thé center of thé existence it becomes thé greatest tool for our soul to learn the lessons 🕊
That's with lack of ego, ego blinds you and the world
Everything ego needs Our attention to even exist. without my attention and believe it doesn't exist. (::)
Trust in yourself fully, especially in areas you are uncertain. Grant yourself the power nobody else can. Your ego will be easier to control when you surrender your emotions to fate but fully trust in your abilities.
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I would adjust that last sentence, fully trust in your abilities and the fate itself (destiny resonates with me better than fate that it sounds like something happening by chance/there is no chance in this universe, it is pure intelligence that laughs at us sometimes.... is god a creation of ego or rather the opposite? ).
Surrendering emotions to fate is an interesting way of putting things. Now it depends on what you aimed to convey. Emotions can turn you into a slave without you even realising it. They can be strongly related to the ego, especially when it comes to anger or love, therefore it is better to observe and analyse our feelings and understand them so as we stand a chance at gaining some control over them.
I love Alan Watts and his laugh is so genuine❤️
Because hes knows how much a joke humanity is😊
The ego isn’t bad it’s just been abused it doesn’t know any better it lives off analytics and the data is negative. It just needs to put in harmony with the rest of the brain and not let it take charge. It’s trying to protect you in its twisted way. Once the environment becomes positive the ego will be balanced. But we lived in imbalanced world so our consciousness is out of wake.
The fact that we live in an imbalanced world makes it challenging to reach and maintain awakening.
@@guillermochavez2170 it gives us something to achieve
@Phoenix very interesting. So you’re saying a imbalance in the spine can create the Imbalance in the brain? Also are you saying our script has already been written in terms of how we think collectively? But somehow we’ve programs into our own thought patterns that become extra to the script predetermined to us? I’m sorry I’m just confused what you wrote sounds interesting I would like to know more.
@@shazamgod2240 is achieving the same as becoming? Or is achievement just another egotistical ideology. To achieve is to accept that we are unfulfilled and need more but if the essence of who we are is all things then all things are we. What more could one need if one is all? This is something I ask myself. Does anyone else battle with this question
@@mentalprograming5365 you become everything you achieve, you are one with your journey the goal is to bring complete awareness to your mind and said journey,”you can gain the world at the cost of your soul”,that’s why the first step is knowing/finding yourself!!
This man started my spiriual and musical journey. Thank you for freeing my mind. Thank you for showing me that I am not really who I am but from my philosophy you are who you are by what you do out of the realness of the heart. What you do unconsciously and or without thinking. Like for example giving away money or doing good “deeds” is who you are. Your actions speak clearly
But I keep growing as the heart can be deceiving
Man, this is pure poetry. Amazing 🎉
Another masterpiece! Thank you
Love it...it keeps Alan Watts alive! Thank you
What you think, you create. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you become.
You are pure love.
Much Love from a Law Of Attraction RUclipsr 💜
Back at ya. 👍
Not really, you're pure awareness.
i absolutely love this thank you!
Straight to the point. Brutally honest. Unvarnished. Authentic. Mr. Watts remains to this day a teller of Truth.
The words are deep and true, confusion becomes clear
Sir, You are making perfect sense ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
thank you Mr Watts. Thank you Life/Universe. 💟 beloved.
Thank you, again.
You just do it, I've had times where I was laying down the room would shake or spin and I'd fade into a dream 🤷♂️ happened since I was a kid I just never told nobody I thought it was normal
This is my medicine for past and future things to come. Music it's the way you use it. It makes you move and move the movement.
Nahko the Bear
You shed some light on my questions.
LOVE your content
Ego is something very friendly when you not realized about it... It becomes your enemy when start noticing it..
True
Wrong. It is actually the reverse. It is the enemy when it convinces us that it is us and we are unaware that it is not
Both are bad
Ah how i needed to hear some alan watts thank you youtube.
I think with the video and the score, and Watts’ attention commanding voice, I could become emotional if he read the weather report.
His laughter♥️💕
I don't understand this much, but I love to lesson this again and again
Needed to hear this
Thank you 🙏
Being forty, and going through a spiritual awakening, then being thrown into the dark night of the soul, it's been so hard. My ego got hit for a six, and all that is left are questions and emptiness.
this is normal, don't despair, you will see this through, and it will all make sense in due time, it is in the not wanting to experience the feelings that our suffering arises.
periods of growth are preceded by periods of suffering
Bro, me too. No one wanted me at age 40. I was fucked. Got a job as a motel manager because no pay and 24/7. Started thinking better of myself, lotsa help and developed resilience. Now a big business buffoon at age 65 but... no one knows. Thank you Alan and contrast. So dang sweet!
How are you now bro? Im 48, 2 years of dnots, will it ever end
DNOTS is your spiritual awakening! Be thankful you are not your ego
ive been studying philosophy for about five years and nobody talks about this person
and with quote like this
"Ego: the marriage of an illusion to a futility. Priceless!"
its easy to see why
I'M IN AWE❤
AWESOME
I believe Alan Watts would just die (again) if he were to see these wonderful graphics melded with his stellar voice. Bravo to the max!
Also.... Leggo my ego!
Love it 😊
Brilliant. Thank you
Great insight…
WOW , Brilliant .
This is a informative video. Just a reminder for everyone that World Ego Awareness Day is coming upon May the 11th.😊
We humans evolved from primal self-awareness, to self-consciousness. This change came with existential dilemmas-with questions “why?” Like eyes that once could see without seeing themselves see, our primal sense of self was without question; a matter of spontaneous such-ness. By natural intuitions and unquestioned faith alone, we went with the flow of existence. Voluntary/involuntary action (like breathing) were inseparable opposites, arbitrarily distinct, working together unconsciously-‘doing without doing’- as a unity in polarity. Our human organism, and the environment that grew it, were simultaneously two in one experience. With self-consciousness came the sense of self as separate and alone in a world not of its own making. We went from ‘letting our existence be,’ to questioning and controlling it. Existential angst.
Once started philosophy nothing felt the same
False
Unreal ✔️
I can honestly say I left my ego in 2019 and it’s never coming back. I remember the idea of what an ego is and can see it in everyone but mine is gone forever and it’s fantastic.
Arrived here this week I guess and loving it.
The classical mistake... since we are "the only ones there", we assume ownership over things. As a byproduct, we get all the unpleasantness in our lives
I'm like uhh just *crys a little* amazing 👏
The ego is an illusion of their own minds. We know nothing other than what is in our own mind. Its solitary. How can we even think about what is in another's mind or tomorrow.... we cannot
Thanks
I don't know how ego but it separated us and make us feel special
The *ego* is a compressed [put in a box and limited] perception of who you *think* you are; again, based on what limited knowledge you have. It is said that consciousness is - in fact - by definition: a state of ignorance! As to Watts's definition of the ego, I differ:
- the ego is an unseen physical construct that develops over time. In fact, I would compare it to the growth of a tree or plant: the ego is dependent on two things, *a)* starting from childhood... every act you partake in; every course or path you take - including: prayer, sleep, meditation, studying a subject to specialize in, going to a party, who you have or don't have sex with - this creates a physical root system in time itself. In other words, your actions that are reliant upon the *heart* to *physically* move through existence. *b)* the second dependent factor of the ego is *the brain,* which I would compare to *the branches* and *leaves* of a *tree/plant.*
So, first you have the heart [that *DOES* represent *the SOUL* ] , which allows your *image* a.k.a. your *PHYSICAL BODY* to navigate existence -
in turn, you create pathways in the brain - referred to as *LEARNING.* These new pathways in the brain, i.e. neurons and their connections, wouldn't exist without first having the heart allowing us to create those pathways. And I would liken these neural pathways as branches and leaves of a tree.
Both the heart and the brain combine to create the ego - not the physical heart and brain, since these are merely hardware; like engine parts, that would be useless without the fuel/gas and electrical stimulus; the gas and electrical stimulus are comparable to *breath.*
The difficulty with the ego is that it transcends into consciousness itself; and we all know how difficult it is to define consciousness. Like consciousness, the ego is aethereal; and, though the ego is subject to change, it has a permanent signature from moment to moment. I am sure people have no idea what I am talking about(the last sentence, specifically). I would simplify and summate the definition of the ego to this: the ego is primarily the compression and rarefaction of *survival of the self* ; it then *transcends the self, as consciousness* - of which, *we all share.*
Thanks, you've tried to explain it.
Thanks 😊🙏🏽
Everybody is just playing their roll, its all an act, some might take it too serious. And then when you try to explain then you are considered mentally troubled or even emotionally too.
Every word is a cry of the incompleteness and incompetence
The initial expression "from my philosophy" is a good example of what ego is: the definition of ego as a conventional designation built through relationships - as well as the whole talk - is not "Watts' philosophy" but a Buddhist teaching.
I love listening to this guy as a Catholic
8:01 the whole truth 🙏
I feel like I got a glimpse of this feeling of being detached from my ego when I last took shrooms. I looked at a picture of myself and I realized that this is just the body that I inhabit, I live this girl’s life, this is the person I live inside daily but I felt no attachment to her body. I just felt like me, the real me not attached to this world and I didn’t care how others saw me in that moment, because they only saw my body but I didn’t feel attached to that body, so their perceptions didn’t matter.
Did shrooms take you on a wild ride into your subconscious mind? If so, did it look anything like what we see or feel in the conscious state, if not can you describe?
@@zenwhitenoise7920 oh yes, I was definitely conscious and aware of my surroundings and where I was but I didn’t feel an attachment to who I was or what I looked like to other people, I was just me existing without fear freely. The colors were brighter, the sounds were magnified and my sense of touch was altered but I was definitely still on planet earth. I suppose it depends on how much you take,I didn’t take TOO much
@@millysmanifestationsInteresting thanks..Yeah I never took anything outside weed, sex was great while high, the whole time (as a guy) felt like a climax.
Yes, I am
I never have know who I am....this is uncomfortable yet liberating
Talking That Reality.
thank you
Understanding the neurochemical basis of ego death is essential as we enter the so-called psychedelics renaissance. Once shamed and stigmatised, substances like LSD and psilocybin (found in ‘magic’ mushrooms) are now being investigated in research centres and hospitals around the world as treatments for depression, anorexia, pain and other problems.
For more clarification and the right mushroom for it, I recommend Dwayne_myco, He is a great mycologist, He sells and ships discreetly
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The ego is a duality of every human being
Yes
let's see.. if our ego is our thoughts of who we are.. then letting go of our ego is being present with our whole being, which extends past our bodies and is one with all
I don't know why the algorithm brought this video to me
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But it helps
We are all living a predestined state. We are Spiritual individuals having a human experience.
HalleluYah!!!
😇🕊🕊
Wowww u gotta listen to the last second woah
Hi Alan , i seen as a bad Blank, john Wick style😊... one love Genius
That is Trippin
Simply our ego is how our soul and who we our define what we see in ourselves. We are souls in a fleshy body to express our lifeness, that’s why I believe we see thing and feel things on another level Like controlling ever muscle and throught in our brain and body.
My ego only rears it's ugly head when I feel threatened, and it can turn me into an ugly, angry mess ready to fight over a pittance, when I have the world to lose. My most horrible battles have been keeping myself, my ego, in check. 52yrs... and it can still kick my ass some days.
Ego is living to impress other yous, show off or for fill expectations.
And now, we are at a time in human history where it is "fun" to create an alter ego personality... Just check it on the medias, such as RUclips, how much it has become something "great" to enhance oneself, to upgrade oneself through an alter ego... To split oneself further more...
We really live in a crazy world.
Ego is not something we have but is something that is if identification with "I thought" exists. If no identication exists then no ego exists.
Enlightement is recognizing that you are not "I thought". You do that simply by not thinking in your everyday life until you see it clearly. It happens automatically from not thinking.
The world made me sick n Allan came along to cure me.i love you Allan
I know that I want to be able to help people in the best way I can in today's world. So that is natural medicines, eating the right food to support our wellbeing.
remember u cant get rid or desire to remove yourself, thats the worst part on spiritual path. the ego cant get rid of the ego. in some way i wish someone told me that, in another way that was a hell of weird deep and psycho experience. so take it wherever u feel 🙂
What is ego death then ?
@@FistOfHatred ego death is to be a monk in short. ego death is deactivate the concious mind, which is yourself, your desires, who you think u are completely. being in a state of the soul which is enternal, always being now, but witout any personal journey.
it isnt something that your concious(yourself) will like it to be because its beyond yourself.
u can take yourself to be in new or different self journey in life, if u quest and learn about your mind, how it work, concious and subconcious mind, beliefs, habits, surrounding and alot more.
the first step is redefine who you think u are and your relationship the universe/subconcious/spirit that will help u throw your journy. if u want to learn more about the truth about theself(ego death) hear allan wats lectures. if u want to redefine and recreate yourself listen to people like bruce lipton, bob proctor, and books like the power of your subconcious mind, law of attraction etc. good luck
@@chuka10 You seem to have knowledge on this. Is it possible to create such an outcome through LSD? A few years back I was in a bad trip with multiple substances and I just sat in my head, thinking about all of my bad choices, how I looked, if I will ever amount to what I want to be worth, although my emotions constantly paralyzed me, stopping me from pursuing. Then I decided to just tell it to go away, to leave me alone, for a few minutes I was saying it, feeling the emotions grow stronger and then out nowhere it was silence, calm, center. Ever since then my mind is silent unless I try to search through it manually or if trauma triggers it. It’s like my brain is skipping the step of translating into words, instead of words I can feel it. I can’t see pictures either, only happened once on LSD I had a flashback of memories. Although without photographic memory, I can feel how things looked, and I can just know things without having to physically see or hear it in my mind
@@cloutcamellife7768 im not a psycholog, but it seems that something clicked there because u gave ur brain an order,combined with drugs, to stop with all unpleasent thoughts, and it seems it actually workes for u and all the vibrecal talk that drive people crazy and exhausted, is silenced.
im myself also experienced something similar with weed and depression, i asked for god to help me because i was suffering with spirals of negetive thoughts, and a thought came to me with this words: its just in your head and i got a clear and very alert mind for a few moments. this experience sent me to a wholeeee of spiritual and mental journy,along with a 10 month trip to the far east.
any way, if ur intrested in it, u can always find the right topics, books, people and information about it, but with it there is alot of twisted info that can actually lead u wrong. if u find and feel that person who touches u, persist with him and his teaching or whatever. he will lead u to another good teacher or book.
MERAA...SELF RESPECT...
Alan Watts and j Krishnamurthy are two ppl whose talks are so deep.
If the universe had a voice it would sound like Alan
No it would sound like Isaac Hayes speaking like Alan
This man is right so I play The joker just like you do behind your
If he is true and I expand this thought of the non existing "ego" and look at other entities like "science" or "society" and even further on every sound perceived by our ears which has a "meaning" to us I end up at Nietzsches essay ""About truth and lie without morality".
In this short essay, about 17 A4 pages, he says the same about truth and lie as Mr. Watts says in this speech.
Truth is if Nietzsche was true nothing more than words arranged in a pattern without contradiction.
If this is true we might be able to see "truth" but we will never be able to communicate this truth.
Quote Wittgenstein: "If there are no words for something, we shouldn't talk about it."
Anyway
"worth" hearing and fowarding it to a friend
Thanks for sharing Mr. Watts
wanna try some psychedelics??
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Alan Watts saves lifes….
The contrary
You are your “heart” not the organ. But the mind of the heart. The saying “the heart wants what it wants,” is your actual self. What you do out of the “kindness” of your heart or what you do without restraint or thought is who you actually are. At least thats my way of thinking
@Ponytail Tony you are right. My mind will always keep growing. Like in these 3 weeks after that comment I grew even more me mentally. But it’s true the devil wants you even more when you are closer to peace and god… I’ve had some extremely fucked up and vivid dreams about demons and slitting skin of my enemies because they wanted to take me to hell and just things like that. It’s amazing what you can do when you put your mind, body and soul to something and go straight for it. I hope you doing well! And achieve all of your dreams. The heart can be decieving
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There's no such thing as a bad allan watts lecture
Yes there is
Bro I’m 18 and understand half the things he says it’s mainly the words he used I need to learn more 😩
In other words, one can't live without his ego. It's one of the most precious things which shape our entity. It represents who we are. How can one express his opinions without saying "I believe..." "In my opinion..." "I guess..."? The pronoun "I" embodies our ego. Most people misunderstand the true meaning of this concept which has nothing to do with arrogance
No but ignorance is bliss
I represents consciousness, not the individual’s ego
I AM
Develop and maintain a monster ego my fellow males
Conscious Ego = your personality/character unfettered by past conditioning, charisma, enthusiasm, excitement
Unconscious Ego = what you've been hearing about; the false self; unconscious identification with form and ideas
I love how they all laughed at that first line 😂 like they even think its joke 🥹
"The you, you're talking about doesn't exist!"
Always love subtitles when someone reads auld Scots- "Gift tae gie us" not "gifted ears "