“To be awakened is to realize there’s nothing to be awakened to.” Just “be.” Live and let live, help others along the way if you want… And, don’t if you don’t. If you do, do it just because…
@TheFreedomBay better. quotation marks or hyphen to denote book title would be even better. and 's after author's name. the only remaining question is who butchered what? you're afraid you're misquoting (butchering) macros? thanks
@@chrisack3883 Yes, I do. The difference between being uptight and easy-going. Believers tend to hold on for dear life. Those that have faith deal in stride.
I think @Robb3348 are right to question this. It might sound dreamy, but it doesn't make much sense to be nothing. Subjectivity is not nothing. If you're here to enjoy you would be better off staying where you came from. Perhaps you're here to evolve, or to express your different aspects.
@@Vrangstrupen I think the comment is implying that "I" is a sense of a permanent and unchanging essence thought to be within, and that they are enjoying both the emptiness of the essence and its perceived substance, without making a definitive statement on either.
Oh Mr. Alan Watts, God has spoken most eloquently through you. May your words touch all individualized souls of all time and may we evolve as a collective consciousness of highly evolved beings.
@mrswomanfacelel Ah yes, you are completely right! I should have said "The expression of God through the individualized soul of Alan Watts" Thank you for catching that :)
@@MichaelMunn-sd3eb maybe, maybe not. I would prefer to listen to people who walks the walk, not only talks the talk. Speaking of enlightenment is not the same as the experience of it
At times I find it a little difficult to follow Alan's logic, but when I do understand it just rips my mind to pieces. I know that if portions confuse me I am not ready to understand it yet. One day I will return and it will make sense. Thank the cosmos for Alan Watts
That understanding is never given; its taken. In zen there can never be anything to give or even placed into words. You grasp it when you feel it profoundly through the silence. ❤ TYVIT
I like when the bells chime, and when I hear the giggling and coughing; sort of puts me in the room with them, in a sense... 50 some years ago when people interacted spontaneously because they were in the moment - no phone, buds, laptop, or I pad; just a room of life interacting with itself.
@@StriveNotOne day your comment will be considered to be in the past though, have you ever tried to be entirely present in an ever fluctuating Universe. You'd have to be completely mummified to be Still. Life is born out of silence ❤
@@StriveNot stop talking nonsense. Your comment has nothing to do with reality. As Alan Watts quite rightly stated, ' From the bath tub to the bath tub we utter stuff of nonsense' hahaha 🤣 archery and sin lol what are you bumbling on about
Being a saint is a state of mind, the highest knowledge cannot be grasped just by reading it or telling it to others and when you realise it there’s no one to tell about it, if we are stuck in name and form we should start with name and form only to realise beyond name and form.
These alan watts recommendations in my feed wont go away...maybe is it time? I already saw one in my feed and now this too. Are accidents even accidental? . . . ,~28th August, 2024 @2:12pm, Wednesday (Tuesday midnight)
The day I felt out of myself One day, I was doing an exercise of pretending to be someone else, like actors do when they’re preparing to interpret someone, because I had to write about a very controversial historical figure. I was on the third day of this exercise. I had to feel what he felt and therefore think as he did. But on this third day, I forgot to turn off my phone, and I received a very unpleasant message that I had to reply to immediately. However, I was so deeply immersed in the other person that I couldn’t return to myself right away, so something really, really weird happened: I left the character and did not return to my ‘regular’ self. In less than a blink of an eye, I saw the world and my own existence in a very different way, much clearer than a second before. An incredible sense of joy invaded my soul, and I remained in that state for three days. Meanwhile, I felt that many blocks that were the foundation of my blindness were dissolving; many of my small identities just vanished. I have never felt anything so powerful in my life. I had a glimpse of what the great masters say, and now I want to feel that again, as I want to remain in that state.
Many rivers that lead to the one ocean. Though, their directional course may be vastly complex in the size, strength and speed but they all lead to the one ocean. Issue is we identify ourselves as separate rivers and stand on that. Then even on one river we divide and conquer with that. This strengthens our grip on our illusory boundaries and game of seperateness, seluding us all the more. All is One. One is All
I do believe there are people who set out to destroy you and people who are sent to help you. I hope you realize that before I did. Never thought I would grow up to be such a fool. I thought I'd grow up and help people, but I couldn't even help myself. Life is a journey, may you find friends who want to see you rise.
When one discusses religion with people, they say they need a religion to hold on to, that is not the way to use a religion because if you use religion as something to hold onto, your religion is an expression of unfaith, faith is where you let go not hold on. When the cat falls off the tree, the cat relaxes. You see, soon the cat lands with a soft thud and doesn't get hurt, because she has faith
The cat doesn’t relax, it does the exact opposite. It’s nerves don’t relax, they put the cat on it’s feet. Wouldn’t faith be just freefalling and letting go? If you describe what the cat does as relaxing then words don’t even have meaning anymore. A cat stuck in a tree…
_"You see, soon the cat lands with a soft thud and doesn't get hurt, because she has faith"_ Huh... no. Cat's lands on their feet because of their reflexes, not faith. Get rid of the reflexes and no matter the amount of faith, the cat's gonna fall flat on the ground.
Pinksteren. Uitstorting van de heilige geest. Deze preek gaat over: "Wees geen heilige." (met magische prachtige beelden van de wereld) ♥ Je bent geen leraar als er geen student is...
Alan pulled me from trying to get people to get along. Now I just watch the world like I watch a tree blow or “weeds” invading parts of my yard. I can’t say I accept it anymore, but it’s going more and more into a show/movie. I do love asking people about things I’ve never been through. I do love asking people “Why?” if their opinion/stance/belief of very intense or hard core. When they can’t answer I always smile and say “Welcome to the edge. Now both our toes are over the edge.”
I guess this is the razors edge. I fully agree with what you're saying, but I think this Buddhist radical acceptance also accepts the other side of the coin. If you have an urge to help others, you shouldn't repress it. I don't think it's good to grasp, but the desire to want to change the world is human. I'm not a monk, but what I get from these RUclips videos when I'm stoned is that all must be accepted, even the desire to not accept. Peace and love
When Watts says "Don't be a saint," he's not suggesting that being a good person is inherently wrong. Instead, he's cautioning against the pitfalls of trying to be a saint in the classical sense. As in many religious and cultural traditions, a saint is someone who has achieved a high level of moral purity, selflessness, and devotion to a higher power or cause. While these qualities are certainly admirable, Watts is highlighting the potential dangers of striving for sainthood. He's is just encouraging us to embrace our humanity, with all its flaws and imperfections, and to cultivate a more authentic, compassionate, and balanced approach to living.
That is soooo beautiful. I love this writing, this reasoning, this artful soulful mind that made this comment. Watts makes me feel less lonesome somehow.
Alan Watts reminds me of Jordan Peterson as far as his vocal inflection and scattered talking points go. In a debate between richard dawkins and jordan petersen, jordan remarked “i think your more interested in specificity and i’m more interested in aesthetics, it’s what differentiates our thinking styles”. I’m not saying Alan Watts is dumb he just isn’t very precise to the point that his words can be interpreted in a plethora of ways.
It's worth mentioning that the Hebrew phrase "Yetzer Hara" translates literally to "evil tongue". It isn't really associated with human rascality, but rather about our speech. It isn't about actions like the Zen priests. I suspect he meant to use the Yiddish (Hebrew /German) word: Chutzpah, which is more in line with Watt's point @ ~44:40, regarding rascality.
External realization is the manifestation of man's internal imagination. God, the "I AM," is your own awareness of being. It's the unconditioned part of consciousness. And when you add imagination to "I AM," now God is moving and manifesting, realizing your assumed thoughts, or vision that you hold for an extended period of time. I am rich. I am joyful. I am strong. I am wise. I am. You can just be, or you can do.
If you painted the entirety of the canvas of babel at once, it would contain every experience you could have. Relative to you, the canvas is never complete. Relative to the canvas, you are eternal.
if you have an opinion..you still don’t get it. And to those who do get it-it’s funny. What’s the point? All “points” are imaginary perspectives..which is debatable at every level. The point is there are no points :)
yall my folks in Alabama sent me a coffee that I used to drink in college before moving up north, it’s really good stuff. Great processing too, it’s called Lucky Goat, based in Tallahassee.
welp that is it. what he says at the end just finished my entire three decades long quest to know. im Done. it’s wrapped up. And i Just Finished My Quest. if u can hear what he said and not reach the finality i am doing in this moment then maybe u are missing other additional info not found here within however - This Is It. my quest truly ends here and i can go back to what i was doing b4. iGET it now. and it all makes perfect sense.
How do you know it wasn’t just YOUR mind (thought) claiming that it is Jesus? From the Biblical scripture I have read, Jesus identified as the one essence or Holy Spirit, not a body/ temple or its thoughts.
@@juliarotunnoaccording to 99.99999% of Christians, he was a person. You can feel his presence I guess? But you’re guessing what that may feel like. Nobody has the answers and if they say they do be very skeptical and search for their motive.
17:25 "How do you navigate." "What's the problem?" "The problems are pluralistic. They include imperialistic conquistadors from many different ethnicities, hostile wild animals, plus a naturally reoccurring Armageddon in the form of toroidal loop great flood that occurs every 25,000 years or so. The last natural great flood was about 9,600 BC."
Siddhartha Gautama, the first Buddha said that you should not think that when he achieved enlightenment, that he actually achieved anything at all... each person should be a lamp unto themselves
"Beware of False Prophets"!. Don't listen to ANYONE that are trying to "complicate things", making you feel stupid or Ignorant, but also never listen to anyone that are trying to teach you the Opposite of this. It's most often bullshit "marinated" in very very Fancy words(that make you feel Ignorant). You must learn ALL the important virtues (Altruism, Compassion, Tolerance, Humbleness, Solicitude and so on) for your self through experience(suffering) as No one can teach you anything especially advanced or important about this through simple language(Speech). So next time you are helping a Snail to cross the side-walk as to not risking it getting hurt in the sun(Drying out), look around at those people watching you, and just try to even get eye contact with them, and there you have the moral foundation of the collective. I find it really comforting to know that i'm personally a really kind and humble guy, and that everyone that will come in contact with me will get "Handled with care" and affection, and that makes me calm, knowing that my fellow men are in good hands. I am NOT a "Saint", but rather just a genuinely kind person and there is nothing strange or special with that. Cheers
Personally, i find, for the most part, i dont need a book to instruct us to feel these universally benevolent feelings and sensation for regard of life. Books only show me whats already inside. Things ive already thought since i was a kid.
I teach to rid of suffering for all universes ❤ and the reality is mine to master choose wisely it’s your life and a mere population be happy be safe be the master of your own self opinion it is ty
It's ironic, because one of Watts students, Seraphim Rose, went on to become an orthodox monastic and may indeed be recognized as a saint. I think it paints a melancholy picture of the nihilism of Buddhism weighed against the life of the church.
" one of watts students", i am also sure at least one of his students murdered people. He taught and spoke to thousands, not responsible for everyone, most people that actually intellectually and fairly study hindu philosphy or buddhist philosphy come to prefer it, it's really shameful that ritualistic aspects of hinduism/buddhism are much more widely known and performed so they have not lead to a fair representation of the religion on a mass scale.
Without the church the western world would never have been settled. It lifts the community. Those who deny its positive influence are small angry people who are mired in their own self loathing and lack of intelligence. They enjoy a personal hell in which fear and loathing rule all.
We should all laugh at the funny things people come to the East and learn a little bit and then purport to know everything. Then tell you not to have pride you learned something. Let’s have more Western Masters of Indian and Asian philosophy. The problem is, Western philosophers, including Alan Watts, like to categorize everything into segments; Hindu, Buddhist, etc. we don’t do that as tradition in the East. We just are 🤷🏻♂️
@@paawanarora1111 Huh Ji. At least they have something to contemplate on, it’s true. However, if they have even a small degree of critical thinking skills, they would realize the lens from which they are studying Eastern philosophy is skewed - akin to looking at something with the wrong prescriptive eyeglasses. The Eastern view has always been one of - not only tolerance for differing beliefs (even within the same household; say a Hindu family where the father prays to Krishna, the wife to Ganesh, the son to Shiva, and the daughter to Hanuman) - but unification of all belief systems, where you can be a Hindu but also in Sikhi, or even a Muslim and also a Sikh, or all three. Thank you for the response 🙏🏼 It is always nice to hear more South Asian voices expressing the true meanings of our belief systems; rather than the masses hearing them from other White people who visited India a few times to put it bluntly, perhaps too much so 😅 ✌🏼💜🙏🏼
After reading all these comments, I’ve realized that I don’t want to be a guru. I’ve never seen a thread of comments so devoid of rationale while also being so full of confusion. Fools.
@@paawanarora1111 no one so stupid enough to follow the great Buddha!! kindly do not critize any legends..we are so tiny in front of them!! Including all religions!!
14:15 “Chinese civilization was all rigged around the family.” - So is Indian Civilization. Alan Watts says Indian Buddhism is a conflux of Indian Hinduism and Buddhism, but only Buddhism was ‘exportable.’ Yet we are ignoring the Kama Sutra and all the teachings of the same The same is true of Sikhi ‘to be living as a householder, plus separation from the Maya world. Sikhi did not just begin because Guru Nanak came on the Earth. They had teachers and compatriots as well. Bodhi Dharma was a Buddha from India who travelled to Shaolin and is the founder of all martial arts in China; most prominently Shaolin Kung Fu. Bodhi Dharma lived in a cave, came from India, drank a lot of alcohol, and sat starting at a wall, and in Samadhi for a long time. These things I say are reputable and backed by facts; not anecdotal made up stories to suit a Western audience or to make them laugh. If Alan Watts, who we respect says “there is no humour in Indian Buddhism” then he didn’t study enough. He obviously spent more time in China than India.
Gurdjieff talked a lot about the saint he had a term called stupid saint. Buddhism focuses on the intellectual center, western religion disregards this and only develop the emotional center. Don't question just believe with all your heart, this is the stupid saint.
religion isnt something you only cling to believe in something, you dont believe in anything, To see what you believe you need to be in a very comfortable position, if you gain power and wealth and the things the more primitive humans desire, will you still be christian, will you go to the church, will you pray to Jesus and the Saints, or are you using it as a façade. Buddhism and philosphy is to mature and grow, a lot of people are children mentally and psychologically and they will never break out from the jails they themselves put because they will never let go of what they cling to learn to swim, I say EMBRACE THE EMPTINESS, EMBRACE THE WATER, EMBRACE THE VOID, ITS BEAUTIFUL, blessed are the ones who learned to swim by themselves, for it they ascended
He got a bunch of things wrong because of how Japanese culture changed after wwii. The tantric path somewhat opposes the views of Mahayana and Zen claims to be both. Whereas I would argue that Chan is from the lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism and has tantric origins because of Bon. These elements entered Buddhism before the Chinese got their hands on it. Whereas he's also wrong about the timeline with Taoism which is a new religion that emerged from Tengrism. Taoism comes from Wudang, Zhang Sanfeng etc which is a recent phenomina in history. People even go to claim that the military Taoist cult who created Doumu was an extension of esoteric Buddhism through the Marishiten cult that peaked in the Ming dynasty. Which went onto dominate the discourse and military/cultural transmission for every town and village of Japan. Shugendo governed as an umbrella all Zen, Pureland, Todai, Nichiren and Shingon philosophy. The tantric element with the Buddhist philosophy was always rooted in the Mahasiddhas of Vedic tradition. Hinduism is also another modern phenomenon that homogenised badly 36,000 years of culture with completely different emphasis on deities and practices. Indra for example was one of the main pantheon guys and after the Hindu reformation he's on the tertiary. But there's a huge divide in meaning between Mahayana practice of void and Vajrayana emphasis on tantric/yogic/3x human mystery principles. These distinctions are becoming more and more important as more information historically comes forward. For example the 8 limbs of Yoga and the 8 fold path of Buddhism is another example of a theological divide. The 8 paths of Buddhism want you to worry on the right speech, actions etc. Whereas the 8 limbs of Yoga demand you have rituals and exercises in the right speech, skills, meditations. One has you living in your head worried all the time and trying to quel ego whereas the other develops the self into mindfulness and skillful means through ritual and development. One is growth, the other suppression. Kukai said that teachings were meant to be easily understood, koans too, but that their use goes beyond the words on a page. But the sounds, shapes, images and symbols are all exercises in mind, body and speech practice. We try to become enlightened through realisation, what you get with this idea that there's nothing to see is a contradiction that doesn't develop more observational science and collaboration. There has been a muddying of the waters.
existence is illusion. thus you will die with no memories you ever existed. cos you are nothing... from nothing back to nothing, empty, zero... no idea, no brain, no intellect, no love, no thing... yayyy
When to know who you are as human beings to be among those who have been put into a line separation from how you see them is uncall for my people putting them on mother earth 🌎 to live like it is in my Gold house and forgot love are in your Closet and your dreams you have not founded yet and you have turn to your Dark side and your feelings are going from you and the same old days path still within you like saying I like to walk through Bloods on your mother earth with know respect 🙏 🫡 ❤️
Don't "be a saint" (you can't, really) i.e some ludicrous standard of perfection (that is also often idiosyncratically crafted by some authority - think e.g. sexual prude morals that are also and esp. patriarchally loaded) often "backed up" by some form of punitive attitude (esp. toward oneself), but don't disregard the well-being of others in how you act. Unfortunately, many of us are too focused on "what's in it for us" more than we are on whether we a) should really have or really need to have whatever is in it for us and b) the consequences that obtaining what is in it for us and especially by whatever method are on others (which isn't just other humans, but other life on Earth and maybe even elsewhere in the universe when the thinking gets really long-term). And I don't mean just intellectual focus but much more importantly _visceral_ focus, i.e. that we may see something wrong but be unable to override the urge. It's not about meeting some dumb perfection standard as it is shifting the mind and the modes by which actions come to be so as to thoroughly integrate the interests of others as well as "oneself" in true equality ... and when you get really far down that road you start to see it sounds like the dissolution of separation-consciousness itself; I would suggest thus that also conversely, if one is still acting in a way that would not be justified when one has such a cognition, that one hasn't, in fact, dissolved the separation-consciousness entirely at that point, even if one thinks one has. (And that in turn gets us to Buddha again because Buddha's plan in many ways involves seeking out enlightenment _through_ mindful, ethical conduct and he even defines many spiritual attainments _by_ ethical attainments ... thus what I just describe about how the separation-consciousness dissolves as one pursues ethical conduct in a more essential and less "rules-bound" way.) (Also I find "Buddhism was Hinduism stripped for export" something puzzling enough I'd want to know where that came from. Because Buddha famously _contended_ with the proto-Hindus [Vedic Brahmins] of his time.)
I enjoy very much listening to Alan Watts. But there are always these snippets of inherited religious dogma lurking around haha There is a profound plot twist in all Religions, Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism included etc... You are looking up to someone or something or some deity to give you the answers. They cannot. You are the full Answer, You always have been. We are all One, timelessly just experiencing itself. No need to go through all the fruitless nonsense and ego driven (here including that spiritual ego as well). If you are willing to really dive deep inside yourself and find out who you are and surrender, you will understand what all the Masters and Religions really mean... Terence McKenna once quoted a beautiful Van Morrison's song that talks about this: "No guru, no method, no teacher, Just you and I and Nature"
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A Gathering Of Thoughts: ruclips.net/video/AahehisdLJ0/видео.html
“To be awakened is to realize there’s nothing to be awakened to.”
Just “be.” Live and let live, help others along the way if you want… And, don’t if you don’t. If you do, do it just because…
To be awakened is to see through the whole game, the Indra Web 🕸
But to be subtle is acting like there's nothing to be awakened to.
@@joeblack3878 Idk, I like to observe.
Beautiful
@@joeblack3878 As if we are all the same? I am wise, I only know self, and what can kill you..
@@childpeanut5095 then Good sight seen.
"We are hypnotized by our environment and don't know anything beyond the horizon of our experience." - Sri Yukteswar - Incarnation of Wisdom.
We know we don't know anything even ,what we may think.
@TheFreedomBay can you rephrase? it's not obvious what are you saying
@TheFreedomBay better.
quotation marks or hyphen to denote book title would be even better. and 's after author's name.
the only remaining question is who butchered what? you're afraid you're misquoting (butchering) macros?
thanks
"The only thing I know is that I know nothing" -Socrate's
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To believe is to grasp. Having faith is letting go.
Do you believe those statements?
@@chrisack3883 Yes, I do. The difference between being uptight and easy-going. Believers tend to hold on for dear life. Those that have faith deal in stride.
@@Arseface-X80 Sounds good but belief and faith are really the same thing. It's just semantics.
@@EddBSmith Sure. With honest intention.
@@EddBSmith It's only semantics when experience is lacking. There is an ocean of understanding that separates the two.
I am nothing, appearing as something, now enjoying both.
Are you really though?
@@Robb3348 does it matter?
@@sjoerdev what does it mean to matter?
I think @Robb3348 are right to question this. It might sound dreamy, but it doesn't make much sense to be nothing. Subjectivity is not nothing.
If you're here to enjoy you would be better off staying where you came from. Perhaps you're here to evolve, or to express your different aspects.
@@Vrangstrupen I think the comment is implying that "I" is a sense of a permanent and unchanging essence thought to be within, and that they are enjoying both the emptiness of the essence and its perceived substance, without making a definitive statement on either.
Oh Mr. Alan Watts, God has spoken most eloquently through you. May your words touch all individualized souls of all time and may we evolve as a collective consciousness of highly evolved beings.
@mrswomanfacelel Ah yes, you are completely right! I should have said "The expression of God through the individualized soul of Alan Watts"
Thank you for catching that :)
@@soarer25gttbeautifully said
Precisely the case that in a way there is a problem but in a way there is none
@@MichaelMunn-sd3eb maybe, maybe not. I would prefer to listen to people who walks the walk, not only talks the talk. Speaking of enlightenment is not the same as the experience of it
I loved reading your comment. Thanks.
At times I find it a little difficult to follow Alan's logic, but when I do understand it just rips my mind to pieces.
I know that if portions confuse me I am not ready to understand it yet.
One day I will return and it will make sense.
Thank the cosmos for Alan Watts
This is his most important talk in my view. I have listened to it so many times it does not get old. You did a wonderful job for visuals. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it and I greatly apprechiate the kind words! 😄🙏
The visuals so exceptional that distract me from listening to the lecture. English is not my native language
That understanding is never given; its taken. In zen there can never be anything to give or even placed into words. You grasp it when you feel it profoundly through the silence. ❤ TYVIT
I like when the bells chime, and when I hear the giggling and coughing; sort of puts me in the room with them, in a sense... 50 some years ago when people interacted spontaneously because they were in the moment - no phone, buds, laptop, or I pad; just a room of life interacting with itself.
Are you sure they were in the moment? We romanticize the past due to our inability to be with what is🙏🏼 i would know..
@@StriveNotOne day your comment will be considered to be in the past though, have you ever tried to be entirely present in an ever fluctuating Universe. You'd have to be completely mummified to be Still. Life is born out of silence ❤
@@bunchofgrapesorafigto sin means to miss the mark, it’s an archery term. And you my friend have missed my point🙏🏼 enough said.
@@StriveNot stop talking nonsense. Your comment has nothing to do with reality. As Alan Watts quite rightly stated, ' From the bath tub to the bath tub we utter stuff of nonsense' hahaha 🤣 archery and sin lol what are you bumbling on about
I use to think the coughing was a sign that it all was live. Now
Being a saint is a state of mind, the highest knowledge cannot be grasped just by reading it or telling it to others and when you realise it there’s no one to tell about it, if we are stuck in name and form we should start with name and form only to realise beyond name and form.
These alan watts recommendations in my feed wont go away...maybe is it time? I already saw one in my feed and now this too. Are accidents even accidental?
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@2:12pm, Wednesday (Tuesday midnight)
Great stuff! ButI also highly recommend his talk called ‘ They Made it all up!’
The day I felt out of myself
One day, I was doing an exercise of pretending to be someone else, like actors do when they’re preparing to interpret someone, because I had to write about a very controversial historical figure.
I was on the third day of this exercise. I had to feel what he felt and therefore think as he did. But on this third day, I forgot to turn off my phone, and I received a very unpleasant message that I had to reply to immediately.
However, I was so deeply immersed in the other person that I couldn’t return to myself right away, so something really, really weird happened: I left the character and did not return to my ‘regular’ self.
In less than a blink of an eye, I saw the world and my own existence in a very different way, much clearer than a second before.
An incredible sense of joy invaded my soul, and I remained in that state for three days. Meanwhile, I felt that many blocks that were the foundation of my blindness were dissolving; many of my small identities just vanished.
I have never felt anything so powerful in my life. I had a glimpse of what the great masters say, and now I want to feel that again, as I want to remain in that state.
@@brunocortese holds out hand..it can get lonely..help me teach?
We are all plural. Jung called them archetypes.
Go read Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism you posers. Enlightened people don't go around posting in RUclips Comment sections.
@@eMZ3RO yes you’ve just proven that yourself! 🤣
Tldr
The problem is people who aren’t enlightened are really good at talking about enlightenment.
There are 1000 paths to that 1 and none of it is wrong
Many rivers that lead to the one ocean. Though, their directional course may be vastly complex in the size, strength and speed but they all lead to the one ocean. Issue is we identify ourselves as separate rivers and stand on that. Then even on one river we divide and conquer with that. This strengthens our grip on our illusory boundaries and game of seperateness, seluding us all the more. All is One. One is All
Alan Watts is still alive ♥ Thank you for this an for the fact that there is no music in this video.
Death does not exist. Life is infinite.
Yes I find music extremely distracting ❤
We all have a billion atoms that where once in alan watts
What about Greg Secker? The Devil. Satanas. Eosphoros!
This talk by Alan Watts is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing! ☯
Are you aware of the certain fact: Greg Secker is the Devil. Satanas. Eosphoros ..
0:39 bless you!
jokes aside
i lovehow he is all over the place with info ❤
it helps keep me focused aaaand opens doors like crazy 🎉 mr watts ❤❤❤
Nothing can harm a pure soul .
I do believe there are people who set out to destroy you and people who are sent to help you. I hope you realize that before I did. Never thought I would grow up to be such a fool. I thought I'd grow up and help people, but I couldn't even help myself. Life is a journey, may you find friends who want to see you rise.
The number 444 represents archangels who are sent to help you
such beautiful photography , thanks for the upload.
I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Thank you for posting this.
When one discusses religion with people, they say they need a religion to hold on to, that is not the way to use a religion because if you use religion as something to hold onto, your religion is an expression of unfaith, faith is where you let go not hold on. When the cat falls off the tree, the cat relaxes. You see, soon the cat lands with a soft thud and doesn't get hurt, because she has faith
The cat doesn’t relax, it does the exact opposite. It’s nerves don’t relax, they put the cat on it’s feet. Wouldn’t faith be just freefalling and letting go? If you describe what the cat does as relaxing then words don’t even have meaning anymore.
A cat stuck in a tree…
_"You see, soon the cat lands with a soft thud and doesn't get hurt, because she has faith"_
Huh... no. Cat's lands on their feet because of their reflexes, not faith. Get rid of the reflexes and no matter the amount of faith, the cat's gonna fall flat on the ground.
Religion is holding on to that 1 which is expressed in 1000 ways
There are no teachers like this today as we fully enter the age of false prophets
There are legit teachers too become legit and authentic to get the eyes too find them, the world is as you see it
You need no teacher friend. You have everything you need within you already
Best A W and l love the church bells. Most concise lecture ❤😮
Let the breath be deep and the self be still.
Pinksteren. Uitstorting van de heilige geest.
Deze preek gaat over: "Wees geen heilige."
(met magische prachtige beelden van de wereld) ♥
Je bent geen leraar als er geen student is...
Een naaste Alan Watts fan ? Ik zal een eeuwige student blijven , zoekend naar antwoorden om elke hoek, onder elke steen , just because 😊
Nice talk, nice pictures (most of them).
I could listen to Mr Alan Watts all day every day
why don't you, then?
🤔. sorry that was rude i’m enlightened so i can’t be rude. im gonna go take an enlightened shit now
And would keep learning the whole time.🪬
@@soap5420 my question was well-interntioned
Don't try to be a saint. You have to be dead to become one.
You will never know when you wake up... But that's when you actually wake up
Alan pulled me from trying to get people to get along. Now I just watch the world like I watch a tree blow or “weeds” invading parts of my yard.
I can’t say I accept it anymore, but it’s going more and more into a show/movie.
I do love asking people about things I’ve never been through.
I do love asking people “Why?” if their opinion/stance/belief of very intense or hard core. When they can’t answer I always smile and say “Welcome to the edge. Now both our toes are over the edge.”
I guess this is the razors edge. I fully agree with what you're saying, but I think this Buddhist radical acceptance also accepts the other side of the coin. If you have an urge to help others, you shouldn't repress it. I don't think it's good to grasp, but the desire to want to change the world is human. I'm not a monk, but what I get from these RUclips videos when I'm stoned is that all must be accepted, even the desire to not accept. Peace and love
He spoke from Jiddu krishnamurti. Also very interesting Man.
When Watts says "Don't be a saint," he's not suggesting that being a good person is inherently wrong. Instead, he's cautioning against the pitfalls of trying to be a saint in the classical sense. As in many religious and cultural traditions, a saint is someone who has achieved a high level of moral purity, selflessness, and devotion to a higher power or cause. While these qualities are certainly admirable, Watts is highlighting the potential dangers of striving for sainthood.
He's is just encouraging us to embrace our humanity, with all its flaws and imperfections, and to cultivate a more authentic, compassionate, and balanced approach to living.
I think it's similar to the Zen koan "If you meet the Buddha on the road, you must kill him"
That is soooo beautiful. I love this writing, this reasoning, this artful soulful mind that made this comment. Watts makes me feel less lonesome somehow.
Alan Watts reminds me of Jordan Peterson as far as his vocal inflection and scattered talking points go. In a debate between richard dawkins and jordan petersen, jordan remarked “i think your more interested in specificity and i’m more interested in aesthetics, it’s what differentiates our thinking styles”. I’m not saying Alan Watts is dumb he just isn’t very precise to the point that his words can be interpreted in a plethora of ways.
It's worth mentioning that the Hebrew phrase "Yetzer Hara" translates literally to "evil tongue". It isn't really associated with human rascality, but rather about our speech. It isn't about actions like the Zen priests.
I suspect he meant to use the Yiddish (Hebrew /German) word: Chutzpah, which is more in line with Watt's point @ ~44:40, regarding rascality.
External realization is the manifestation of man's internal imagination. God, the "I AM," is your own awareness of being. It's the unconditioned part of consciousness. And when you add imagination to "I AM," now God is moving and manifesting, realizing your assumed thoughts, or vision that you hold for an extended period of time. I am rich. I am joyful. I am strong. I am wise. I am. You can just be, or you can do.
The view of 'I am' is a conceited view which means it's a delusion and fetter.
@@Manoj-vp5in so God is delusional? That's literally God's name. 😂
There is a difference between being "holier than thou," and avoiding taking stupid risks with your soul.
Monica Furlong wrote a deep searching biography of Alan Watts .
It's called Zen Effects .
It's worth buying . ❤
If you painted the entirety of the canvas of babel at once, it would contain every experience you could have. Relative to you, the canvas is never complete. Relative to the canvas, you are eternal.
This is where it’s at ❤ here and now
I really appreciate the lack of music and the beautiful pictures!
Thank You! 🙏
if you have an opinion..you still don’t get it. And to those who do get it-it’s funny. What’s the point? All “points” are imaginary perspectives..which is debatable at every level. The point is there are no points :)
That's your point is it? Don't worry I can easily concede that in a way there is no reality and I definitely find the word consensus funny
Yup. If you get it, you get it. The key is to not try to grasp it, its not able to be understood by finite mind.
yall my folks in Alabama sent me a coffee that I used to drink in college before moving up north, it’s really good stuff. Great processing too, it’s called Lucky Goat, based in Tallahassee.
I think some points are in a superpositional state like a hyperdimensional crystal of unfoldingness
Such as love, heat, pressure, surrender, …
I need something like the Twitter filter words thing but for RUclips so I can filter specifically and basically exclusively "Alan Watts".
great feeling to hear this ❤
I am the master of my own mind and reality multiple universes each carries a different dimension a different life
welp that is it. what he says at the end just finished my entire three decades long quest to know. im Done. it’s wrapped up. And i Just Finished My Quest.
if u can hear what he said and not reach the finality i am doing in this moment then maybe u are missing other additional info not found here within however - This Is It. my quest truly ends here and i can go back to what i was doing b4. iGET it now. and it all makes perfect sense.
Amazing! 🤩
Padre Pio was leaving the planet apparently. He became a Saint.
St. Seraphim of Platina aka Fr. Seraphim Rose actually studied under Alan Watts. The first true born American saint
All is ONE! Know this, FEEL this, BE this. The rest is just chatter for the mind (which is also the ONE appearing as chatter of course!)
Hello me
Thank you so much 🙏🏽
Things I wish I knew when I was I was kid Im having terrible time sleeping wishing this shit just wasn’t true
I teach the beginning of suffering and the end of suffering.
I'm listening to Jesus right now, but he is trying to convince me that he does not exist.
How do you know it wasn’t just YOUR mind (thought) claiming that it is Jesus? From the Biblical scripture I have read, Jesus identified as the one essence or Holy Spirit, not a body/ temple or its thoughts.
ruclips.net/video/x3xueXaG2rI/видео.htmlsi=HCEUrRvKJcqYNw87
@@juliarotunnoaccording to 99.99999% of Christians, he was a person. You can feel his presence I guess? But you’re guessing what that may feel like.
Nobody has the answers and if they say they do be very skeptical and search for their motive.
@@lindboknifeandtoolthey also say bow down or face eternal torture 😂 I think the names got mixed along the way
do you exist? who are you? what is existence? just a thought? a persona? perception? everything is nothing so nothing is everything
17:25
"How do you navigate."
"What's the problem?"
"The problems are pluralistic. They include imperialistic conquistadors from many different ethnicities, hostile wild animals, plus a naturally reoccurring Armageddon in the form of toroidal loop great flood that occurs every 25,000 years or so. The last natural great flood was about 9,600 BC."
Why not exist and try to be good to people who are you. Simply existing is pointless. Hell even
that's why people so scared of it)
I think I will become a saint. ❤
Good luck
@@Na_bruh thank you so much!
Sweet 😔☯️🙏
Siddhartha Gautama, the first Buddha said that you should not
think that when he achieved enlightenment, that he actually achieved anything at all... each person should be a lamp unto themselves
Spiritual gold!
"Beware of False Prophets"!. Don't listen to ANYONE that are trying to "complicate things", making you feel stupid or Ignorant, but also never listen to anyone that are trying to teach you the Opposite of this. It's most often bullshit "marinated" in very very Fancy words(that make you feel Ignorant). You must learn ALL the important virtues (Altruism, Compassion, Tolerance, Humbleness, Solicitude and so on) for your self through experience(suffering) as No one can teach you anything especially advanced or important about this through simple language(Speech). So next time you are helping a Snail to cross the side-walk as to not risking it getting hurt in the sun(Drying out), look around at those people watching you, and just try to even get eye contact with them, and there you have the moral foundation of the collective. I find it really comforting to know that i'm personally a really kind and humble guy, and that everyone that will come in contact with me will get "Handled with care" and affection, and that makes me calm, knowing that my fellow men are in good hands. I am NOT a "Saint", but rather just a genuinely kind person and there is nothing strange or special with that. Cheers
but also never say never
Personally, i find, for the most part, i dont need a book to instruct us to feel these universally benevolent feelings and sensation for regard of life. Books only show me whats already inside. Things ive already thought since i was a kid.
I teach to rid of suffering for all universes ❤ and the reality is mine to master choose wisely it’s your life and a mere population be happy be safe be the master of your own self opinion it is ty
It's ironic, because one of Watts students, Seraphim Rose, went on to become an orthodox monastic and may indeed be recognized as a saint. I think it paints a melancholy picture of the nihilism of Buddhism weighed against the life of the church.
" one of watts students", i am also sure at least one of his students murdered people. He taught and spoke to thousands, not responsible for everyone, most people that actually intellectually and fairly study hindu philosphy or buddhist philosphy come to prefer it, it's really shameful that ritualistic aspects of hinduism/buddhism are much more widely known and performed so they have not lead to a fair representation of the religion on a mass scale.
Don't be a saint unless you are a saint
Church is a place for people to gather and help people who are lost spiritually find there way back to society
Church did the opposite for me. It's when I left the church where I found my personal relationship with The Christ.
If only.😔
nope
I think it's a place where people who are lost spiritually get fleeced.
Without the church the western world would never have been settled. It lifts the community. Those who deny its positive influence are small angry people who are mired in their own self loathing and lack of intelligence. They enjoy a personal hell in which fear and loathing rule all.
My response to somebody that asks me if I am saved is, yes I am, and thank you for your concern about my soul.
I would caution you against such notions pride is the most insidious of sins and can worm it's way into our hearts
@@cyberpunkfalangist2899and righteousness
Saved from what?
We should all laugh at the funny things people come to the East and learn a little bit and then purport to know everything. Then tell you not to have pride you learned something. Let’s have more Western Masters of Indian and Asian philosophy. The problem is, Western philosophers, including Alan Watts, like to categorize everything into segments; Hindu, Buddhist, etc. we don’t do that as tradition in the East. We just are 🤷🏻♂️
Exactly paaji, these westerners won’t get it they are caught too much into Maya so these kind of content give them something to contemplate upon
@@paawanarora1111 Huh Ji. At least they have something to contemplate on, it’s true. However, if they have even a small degree of critical thinking skills, they would realize the lens from which they are studying Eastern philosophy is skewed - akin to looking at something with the wrong prescriptive eyeglasses. The Eastern view has always been one of - not only tolerance for differing beliefs (even within the same household; say a Hindu family where the father prays to Krishna, the wife to Ganesh, the son to Shiva, and the daughter to Hanuman) - but unification of all belief systems, where you can be a Hindu but also in Sikhi, or even a Muslim and also a Sikh, or all three.
Thank you for the response 🙏🏼 It is always nice to hear more South Asian voices expressing the true meanings of our belief systems; rather than the masses hearing them from other White people who visited India a few times to put it bluntly, perhaps too much so 😅
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After reading all these comments, I’ve realized that I don’t want to be a guru. I’ve never seen a thread of comments so devoid of rationale while also being so full of confusion. Fools.
Buddhism is finding peace and happiness.. this is what we seek the most in life!! Every religion has its own unique benefits..!
Christians and Catholics are weird when they demand their god is all powerful. I have to disagree with you
Every religion is saying you are not your mind and body
@@paawanarora1111 no one so stupid enough to follow the great Buddha!! kindly do not critize any legends..we are so tiny in front of them!! Including all religions!!
Bad things come to good people by proxy or not, it is the way of the world. that’s why good people become bad
him talking abt chicken while showing video of sautéing a chicken is diabolical
Made me hungry because I don't dress up a chicken as cuddly toy. 🍖
@@GrandpaOnATunedScooter oooooookay 😂
14:15 “Chinese civilization was all rigged around the family.” - So is Indian Civilization.
Alan Watts says Indian Buddhism is a conflux of Indian Hinduism and Buddhism, but only Buddhism was ‘exportable.’ Yet we are ignoring the Kama Sutra and all the teachings of the same
The same is true of Sikhi ‘to be living as a householder, plus separation from the Maya world. Sikhi did not just begin because Guru Nanak came on the Earth. They had teachers and compatriots as well.
Bodhi Dharma was a Buddha from India who travelled to Shaolin and is the founder of all martial arts in China; most prominently Shaolin Kung Fu. Bodhi Dharma lived in a cave, came from India, drank a lot of alcohol, and sat starting at a wall, and in Samadhi for a long time. These things I say are reputable and backed by facts; not anecdotal made up stories to suit a Western audience or to make them laugh.
If Alan Watts, who we respect says “there is no humour in Indian Buddhism” then he didn’t study enough.
He obviously spent more time in China than India.
Yes.
He saw the truth.
He was always a student. Brilliant mind.
Yes because he wasn’t realised anyone who isn’t realised stays a student, the Buddha though wasn’t a student
I'm a new subscriber 🙏
That's awesome Brother Jerry! Thank you 🙏
thx
Son Goku was an incel which is why he figured out that power levels were fake by getting hit by his mother.
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Gurdjieff talked a lot about the saint he had a term called stupid saint. Buddhism focuses on the intellectual center, western religion disregards this and only develop the emotional center. Don't question just believe with all your heart, this is the stupid saint.
religion isnt something you only cling to believe in something, you dont believe in anything, To see what you believe you need to be in a very comfortable position, if you gain power and wealth and the things the more primitive humans desire, will you still be christian, will you go to the church, will you pray to Jesus and the Saints, or are you using it as a façade. Buddhism and philosphy is to mature and grow, a lot of people are children mentally and psychologically and they will never break out from the jails they themselves put because they will never let go of what they cling to learn to swim, I say EMBRACE THE EMPTINESS, EMBRACE THE WATER, EMBRACE THE VOID, ITS BEAUTIFUL, blessed are the ones who learned to swim by themselves, for it they ascended
every time
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He got a bunch of things wrong because of how Japanese culture changed after wwii. The tantric path somewhat opposes the views of Mahayana and Zen claims to be both. Whereas I would argue that Chan is from the lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism and has tantric origins because of Bon. These elements entered Buddhism before the Chinese got their hands on it. Whereas he's also wrong about the timeline with Taoism which is a new religion that emerged from Tengrism. Taoism comes from Wudang, Zhang Sanfeng etc which is a recent phenomina in history. People even go to claim that the military Taoist cult who created Doumu was an extension of esoteric Buddhism through the Marishiten cult that peaked in the Ming dynasty. Which went onto dominate the discourse and military/cultural transmission for every town and village of Japan. Shugendo governed as an umbrella all Zen, Pureland, Todai, Nichiren and Shingon philosophy. The tantric element with the Buddhist philosophy was always rooted in the Mahasiddhas of Vedic tradition. Hinduism is also another modern phenomenon that homogenised badly 36,000 years of culture with completely different emphasis on deities and practices. Indra for example was one of the main pantheon guys and after the Hindu reformation he's on the tertiary. But there's a huge divide in meaning between Mahayana practice of void and Vajrayana emphasis on tantric/yogic/3x human mystery principles. These distinctions are becoming more and more important as more information historically comes forward. For example the 8 limbs of Yoga and the 8 fold path of Buddhism is another example of a theological divide. The 8 paths of Buddhism want you to worry on the right speech, actions etc. Whereas the 8 limbs of Yoga demand you have rituals and exercises in the right speech, skills, meditations. One has you living in your head worried all the time and trying to quel ego whereas the other develops the self into mindfulness and skillful means through ritual and development. One is growth, the other suppression. Kukai said that teachings were meant to be easily understood, koans too, but that their use goes beyond the words on a page. But the sounds, shapes, images and symbols are all exercises in mind, body and speech practice. We try to become enlightened through realisation, what you get with this idea that there's nothing to see is a contradiction that doesn't develop more observational science and collaboration. There has been a muddying of the waters.
I got Nothing ❤
This officer is such a passive aggressive, condescending person. Should not be an officer.
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20:12 Emptiness
Don’t be a (bad kind of) Saint
2:45 then dont
And shoosh up!
existence is illusion. thus you will die with no memories you ever existed. cos you are nothing... from nothing back to nothing, empty, zero... no idea, no brain, no intellect, no love, no thing... yayyy
So enjoy this.
When to know who you are as human beings to be among those who have been put into a line separation from how you see them is uncall for my people putting them on mother earth 🌎 to live like it is in my Gold house and forgot love are in your Closet and your dreams you have not founded yet and you have turn to your Dark side and your feelings are going from you and the same old days path still within you like saying I like to walk through Bloods on your mother earth with know respect 🙏 🫡 ❤️
Don't "be a saint" (you can't, really) i.e some ludicrous standard of perfection (that is also often idiosyncratically crafted by some authority - think e.g. sexual prude morals that are also and esp. patriarchally loaded) often "backed up" by some form of punitive attitude (esp. toward oneself), but don't disregard the well-being of others in how you act. Unfortunately, many of us are too focused on "what's in it for us" more than we are on whether we a) should really have or really need to have whatever is in it for us and b) the consequences that obtaining what is in it for us and especially by whatever method are on others (which isn't just other humans, but other life on Earth and maybe even elsewhere in the universe when the thinking gets really long-term). And I don't mean just intellectual focus but much more importantly _visceral_ focus, i.e. that we may see something wrong but be unable to override the urge. It's not about meeting some dumb perfection standard as it is shifting the mind and the modes by which actions come to be so as to thoroughly integrate the interests of others as well as "oneself" in true equality ... and when you get really far down that road you start to see it sounds like the dissolution of separation-consciousness itself; I would suggest thus that also conversely, if one is still acting in a way that would not be justified when one has such a cognition, that one hasn't, in fact, dissolved the separation-consciousness entirely at that point, even if one thinks one has.
(And that in turn gets us to Buddha again because Buddha's plan in many ways involves seeking out enlightenment _through_ mindful, ethical conduct and he even defines many spiritual attainments _by_ ethical attainments ... thus what I just describe about how the separation-consciousness dissolves as one pursues ethical conduct in a more essential and less "rules-bound" way.)
(Also I find "Buddhism was Hinduism stripped for export" something puzzling enough I'd want to know where that came from. Because Buddha famously _contended_ with the proto-Hindus [Vedic Brahmins] of his time.)
next video .... be a saint.....youtube pffft
Alan Watts has been dead for a long time. This is nice to see.
How do u know he didn’t achieve eternal lifeeeee 😳
Nice talk, but the stock footage is so random ;)
holy yap of hell
clown to clown communication
I enjoy very much listening to Alan Watts. But there are always these snippets of inherited religious dogma lurking around haha
There is a profound plot twist in all Religions, Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism included etc...
You are looking up to someone or something or some deity to give you the answers. They cannot.
You are the full Answer, You always have been. We are all One, timelessly just experiencing itself.
No need to go through all the fruitless nonsense and ego driven (here including that spiritual ego as well).
If you are willing to really dive deep inside yourself and find out who you are and surrender, you will understand what all the Masters and Religions really mean...
Terence McKenna once quoted a beautiful Van Morrison's song that talks about this:
"No guru, no method, no teacher,
Just you and I and Nature"
But who we think we are is an illusion, the nature is also an illusion, there is only 1 and we are part and parcel of it