Surrendering Does Not Make Sense, But It Does | Alan Watts
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- Welcome to Way of Thinking! Alan Watts shares his insights on surrendering and how it can lead to a more peaceful and fulfilling life. Alan Watts talks about our constant need for control can prevent us from experiencing the beauty of life and love, and how surrendering to the present moment can open us up to new possibilities. Alan Watts talks about the spectrum of love, how sometimes it doesnt make any sense to surrender; but in reality is the where our sanity lies.
Who is Alan Watts?
Alan Watts (1915-1973) was a prominent British philosopher, writer, and speaker celebrated for his significant contribution to bringing Eastern philosophy and spiritual ideas to the Western world. Originating from England, he cultivated a profound interest in Buddhism and Taoism during his early years. In the early 1930s, Watts moved to the United States, where he played an incredibly important role in shaping the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
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"The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding"
- Kybalion
It always works out....there's really no such thing as falling apart....only falling into place.
As someone trying to start an entrepreneurial venture, the way I interpret Alan Watts helps me keep going. I often get so worried about my path. Will the all the hard work be for nothing? Am I a fool? Will I be able to support myself? Alan Watts concept of love, helps me see that the anxiety I feel is the manifestation of the love I'm expressing. The reason why I'm going is because I find myself still on this path despite the fact that it's riddled with anxiety. Sometimes, overwhelming anxiety. However, the courage needs the anxiety. If anxiety disappears so does the courage. The Success or Failure label is subjective to the individual.
Fascinating to find this comment. Listening to Watts gave me the courage to start my own business and leave my old career and network and security behind. It was hugely successful until my partner/fiancé died last year… and while the business died this past year, it’s success gave me the time (and money) to properly grieve and grow.
I’m at the point where I must choose to either shutter it or start it all over and before - this would have caused me great anxiety and stress but I know it’s just a matter of if I still love the work or not.
Life is 99% our attitude about what the world offers us and the faster we accept what is in front of us, the better we are for it.
don't bother man, wasted 15 years following the entrepreneur **trap** - just get a job and save for a rainy day.
@@malthus101 the thing is you are absolutely right. I know it’s much more comfortable and less risky to be employed. But haven’t yet. Maybe someday I’ll find myself there again. Some of us are the types do things like marathons. It’s completely pointless and painful but we shell out money just to join.
Hi Lester, consider your anxiety as a message from you inner guru about how you are doing and how you are relating the present moment. I get that it looks like it is telling you about your circumstance, that is never the case. This is Alan's core message and it helps you see things a bit differently and get a glimpse behind the veil. You said, "I often get so worried about my path". The path was created by you, as was the anxiety, as was the veil.
Alan teaches life is a game, leela, is the ultimate cosmic game of hide and seek. Divinity, hiding itself from itself for the sheer joy of discovery once again. Leela is the practice of playing the game of life consciously as well as the basic nature of the divine.
If you think his teaching is telling you to continue on your journey for some future reward, you are missing his message IMHO. Follow the path and keep going from the understanding that tomorrow is an illusion.
The path is about allowing the expression of the Divine IAM always from the point of view of the eternal NOW
Deep Trances
@@malthus101 that's kinda weak
No need to take out the pauses and laughter from the audience imo. It adds to the message
yes and take away the fucking background noises/music. Juste leave alan watts no music and the audience
i agree
Duh
I don't mind either way. I appreciate that there's no added background music.
@@T-KRD There is background music. The fact that it's so soft and subtle that you didn't notice it means they really did a great job with this video. Though I agree that I would have preferred the audience reactions kept in.
Unconditional love is loving yourself. Loving every little flaw or imperfection, your weight, your looks, your financial status no matter how imperfect any of these are in your eyes. Once you learn unconditional love nobody can give you happiness or take your happiness away. They can only add to your happiness because you come to understand that true happiness comes from within so only you are in charge of how you feel.
Sometimes videos pop up seemingly out of nowhere but they seem actually just what you needed. Or is Google AI becoming more and more sentient?
Whatever the case, and you covered yourself brilliantly, Alan, you have a marvelous insight into the human whereabouts even though you were at many times a happy drunk. Peace be with you, old fox 💟
After five 10 day vipassana meditation courses over the last few years, this was my big insight. "I don't love other people, I love myself". I feel so fortunate to have come this far...
We're you always in love with yourself the whole time?
@@patricklopes5566wonderful question? Please tell us honestly
Vipassana is, everything for me right now! Such a wonderful path! So happy to have found it!
You love your man-made self ! The self created by 'I'. Dear o dear.
You should of walked away with just a feeling of love. It's not for you or others.
The amount of synchronicities in my life are astounding. I was thinking hard about committing myself to stand up and find my significant other and today I heard my brother talking to his girlfriend about how nasty I am for reasons I am well aware of (to feel good about himself I guess, it feels like a knife is turned in me every time this happens, consistently)
then this just comes up like some "terms and conditions" before joining something and with an added explanation about this sensation of getting a pat on the back. It was very connected to my day today. This feels too personal but it is meant to be in a way since this is for everyone. ❤
Life is a bit humourous with me sometimes.
Life is always quite funny if you know it’s a comedy and not a drama, in the words of a musician I love “life is one funny mo’fucker, a true comedian. you gotta love ‘em, You gotta trust em.”
When I met my wife the first thing I told her was literally, "I'm The Custodian, and I am a horrible person."
When we got divorced she said I was a horrible person and I calmly replied, "I know. I told you that the day we met when I introduced myself."
Looking back, what made her mad the most was not that I was more right than her but that I had always planned in advance some answer that gave me an agreeable out when she was right. 😁
I believe love is something that is different for everyone, I do agree that it is a choice, but also something that happens in an instant. It's like a reconnection and in that sense surrendering to love allows for the continuation of ourselves. I believe loving oneself (in your own way) and loving everything around you is the same thing, based on the law of reflection, as the world is our mirror.
Love this...💛💛💛
Fantastic, timeless wisdom
There is no way I can possibly express how much I needed every word of this video right now. ❤☯️
Wow. Im happy that this helped you.
What an episode man, just solid!
I "love" this speech.
This is just great. No more no less.
Genius. This absolutely describes all the problems of society.
We surrender when we DONT WANT IT ANY MORE !! FALL IN LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
finding your love is amazing moving in and marriage is falling in love
I do much needed this video. Thanks. I now understand that the seven types of Platonic love as put forward by the philosopher, Plato are really one form of the same thing.
I've come to realize that in loving,we are imitating the divine and it doesn't matter if it's lust or unconditional love, it's still expressing the same thing, which is the divinity in all.
This reminded me of praising a child with an earning every time they do something they should naturally do. Just like how we love our families already so Gods commandment is a piece of cake. So the challenge is showing love to an enemy lol or not so thought of person … lol as I type this he speaks of the verse I’m thinking of. How I practice being less selfish I put myself last. Even in prayer. Or serving myself food… progress ;) I like to think Alan and I would agree on many things and I wonder if there’s differences we could teach each other… or just have those questions answered.
First step is to realize you're a dirty rascal and don't have a good thing to be said about you. Nothing but a snake.
@@zackerybartlett8050 haha
I agree ❤
Yes. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
After 40+ years of stumping my toe on a stump that I've seen everyday is ridiculous. It would seem like I'd learn how to deal with that stump so I don't hurt my toe over and over right? Noooo, ..... Instead, I avoid the stump altogether. Only to trip and fall over another stump that I clearly didn't know was there in the first place.... It's insanity I tell ya!
Great 👍 😊
Dr.Alan Watts is one of the greatest philosophers of the modern era.Spiritually and morally speaking he is absolutely correct.Many people could benefit from listening to his lectures.
Thanks
complete worship whether u make me or break me up to u :) ,.. courage to go beyond 👌,..
14:33, On LOVE: "You have to take it and let it grow, where you find it."
Profound 🔥
good way to indirectly talk about narcisism
There's a saying that says "to have loved and lost is better than having no love at all"
WISDOM
😜This guy would be an expert in madness and the intellectual hell👿 of to much conflicting information . God bless 😇.
Why don't you step out of your monkey mind for a bit?
Yes the western Zen Master...
How do you break out of a reality that you know you’re creating that’s in direct opposition of what you truly want?
I’d say realize you’re in control, can’t keep expecting different results with the same past bad thinking processes. Get in new positive thoughts and start with small actions in the right direction and trust me they will compound, making that reality true.
One step at a time
by realizing there is no you creating it
and there is no you to break out of it
or suffer in it
❤
I know what it means to love your enemies it’s very simple and very exciting
I was initially a little leery to listen to him. However, I’m glad that I did. I thought he made some very interesting and insightful observations.
I think Ayn Rand really clearly identifies the concept of rational egoism, or rational self interest. In other words, I think that she clearly and rationally explains what it means to love one’s self or oneself.
Subsumed under the concept of loving oneself is the idea that you love those whom you value. In other words in loving yourself, it necessarily means that you will love certain others, because they represent your highest values and virtues.
Ayn Rand articulates this comprehensively. I would highly recommend to anyone that they explore the ideas of Ayn Rand. She really gets to the essence, she explores all the ramifications, and she deals with any apparent or real contradictions.
Nonetheless, I really did enjoy this video.
❤W0W
BIG BROTHER
"BECAUSE WE ALL SHARE THIS PLANET EARTH, WE HAVE TO LEARN TO LIVE IN HARMONY AND PEACE WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH NATURE. THIS IS NOT JUST A DREAM, BUT A NECESSITY." - Dalai Lama
I think my obsession with evil comes with that in all that filth there’s something beautiful inside
for something to get that filthy it was never pure therefore not beautiful
It's the universal law of polarity, it's a spectrum.
@@tarawillis3995 Gibberish.
Hate comes from a combination of love and illusion. Hitler loved life's beauty and his illusion was that mass murder will protect this beauty. The opposite ensued.
Love (I love) Turns to fear (I might lose what I love!) Turns to hatred (I must destroy that which threatens what I love!)
Love is when one wishes for no harm to the object or person they love😊
Okay and being obedient also…. Even when it comes from an corrupted government. And to work like you’re working for God. Darn right you’ll fold those sheets with perfection… and help you forgot that mean old boss of yours 😅 lol lol and to how hardheaded and stubborn and strong willed you are. Ughhh too many topics I can relate to. I feel like someone gets me and understands me. And something worth talking about… because conversations nowadays have become dull and pointless.
Let's go down the rabbit hole called life.
We have to go down it anyway! The problems and solutions lie within use all.
Conversations have become dull and pointless because people are dull and pointless. Up for work, out to work and home from work and finally to sleep and just rinse and repeat. Get to see your children for an hour a day until they're 14 and then they and you don't even know who each other are. All for a job you most likely don't enjoy, to pay for an over sized house and a bright shiny car and to fund a retirement that you're really too old to even enjoy. Nobody lies on their death bed thinking they should have worked more hours and spent less time with their children. Modern times are breaking the spirit of man kind.
@@bordercollie1140well said
@@harmantumber Thank you my friend.
Hallo
Bin wieder zurück...
Man,was ist nur los? Mit mir? Menschen? Plätzen? Ich komme teilweise nicht mehr klar 🎉🎉🎉
Wünsche allen einen friedlichen Samstag...
Liebe Frieden Natur
Heuschnupfen... geplagten.. ich bin mit euch!
Ja, schlimme Zeiten 😅
.... voll Blackout...
the first step to tear down a wall, is to Accept there is a wall to begin with. then too remove that wall and build a bridge in its places. Too understand your Free will is to respect others Free will.
Jesus preached that there is no others. We are all sinners and therefore all equal. Imo it's a very unique and humble POV, although I think the non-duality buddhist way of thinking is somehow similar, although extended to all living beings and without the idea about sin.
I hated my father for 33 years. That changes today!
I’ve hated mine for 42 years
14:46 "The essential pre-requisite from the beginning is to let it have it's way"
That's what she sa-
Lies in my LIFE. Actually I am still surprise to know myself thyself. I know who I am but cannot able to accept myself fully. Doing inner drama to accept my thyself. As UNIVERSE energy levels. This lies to myself. AMEN
I self destructed instead of surrendering and now I'm dying
Inshallah
Well stop it then!!
Many of us did.
That's the whole point. Ego death.
Starve it, fast for 36 hours . Some even do intermittent fasting for 30 days. There are cures for everything.
The Joker character from the Dark Knight related his relationship to the Batman in this context
What’s that song at the end please?
This audio is sped up and thats baaaaad!
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful."
--Oscar Wilde
Falling asleep
I got angry. Now I'm having anxiety and I'm starting to get sleepy. This video confirms my choice to disregard convention and have sex before getting to know the person well. LoL! It didn't work out in the long run, but I'm good now! Being too careful is a problem. I would have missed a good experience. I really needed a good experience right then. Over protection to avoid feelings. Not so good.
0:56 ❤❤ 0:59
My uncle once walked back in suddenly after being the first to leave a family gathering to overhear everyone talking about him in a nasty way. He made the statement, "if not for heathens like me then who would you Christians pray for" then he left lol
Don't condemn, appreciate the nasty ones because they bring the niceness in you. Coexistence is the only way.
can someone explain to me why I can´t love myselfe?
btw. the guards not only watch each other but also search each other ...
"Who is going to watch the guards?" ....2023 "DOHHHHH!!!"
did he talk about surrender?
MAYAYAPAHRTA-JINNAH 💯
Gosh darn ticking alot of boxes of how the world fundamentals work.
Love ia a 4 letter word Nothing more Nothing there!
Read a book called making sense of nonsense by Raymond Moody it's all you need do now and surrender will make perfect sense. RW ❤️ 🙏
When the couple was kissing it had almost a heart ❤️ shape in between them🤔 interesting
Self is just an illusion...!!... that's the realisation...then u have the whitest spectrum.. Devine love so celebrate 🍻🍻 & wake up.. that's what you're here for..🎉
I think I know were George Carlin got some of his material!
I personally adore that he always uses booze as an example 😁❤
Unfortunately he died from alcoholism
❤️❤️❤️🥰🙏👍👍👍🎉🎉🎉
What if you're alone and have no saved people
1:56 selfish people
6:36 selfish people
Why cut out the pauses?
Cuz long videos fuck with copyright law they probably were trying to shorten it and retain the wisdom
The most importing thing is to laugh yourself. There is nothing sad in this life.
Do not believe this.
Freedom is the state where you are empty of all nonsense talk. You will see the truth when your mind is empty of any form of logic, concepts, memories, etc. Our mentality is that we don't easily get convinced unless the speaker is a guro. We assumed everything the guro was saying was true because we believed they were more knowledgeable than us.
But if you follow someone, you are more likely to get misled. The truth has no path, and there is no need to make an effort to find it. No one can lead you there.
😂
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Yeah tell me who isn't selfish
❤️🌈❤️🌈❤️ hugs and good vibes to my cyber stalkers 😉
Whos's gonna watch the guards
2+2 equals 4, but it doesn't.
9:38 I couldn't be part of this saved group, there glasses are so dirty
ah but what an experience....😂
Nobody proofread the burned-in captions. (Nothing like taking someone else's work, monetizing it, and treating it casually at the same time.).
Surrendering to what is. Alan watts is purposely contradictory to make us think..
😵Not really. His job is to "keep you on the edge of your seat begging for more " and that's from his illogically logic mouth.😮its a business first !👿
Tell that to the bums outside the gas stations mumbling about God and Fritos
😢😔💚🙏
Wish we/I am were are using and have no issues with and "winning" the true energies power of love and in the right Spirit mind within and with the true loving God source Spirit Creator and Christos saviour within all. Genuine and true and balance harmony with the right spirit mind psyche of the true loving God source Spirit Creator.
True light love healing merciful forgiving Life forces.
And none of us were evil or negatively dangerous in the selfish and self destruction sabotaging ways. Or fallen towards the dark/Satanic negative forces energies.
Watts is wrong about self love. The problem is that most people do not authentically love themselves. Most people don't even really know themselves. When a person seeks inwardly for self knowledge, one encounters their shadow or dark side. The reason the shadow is split off from the Soul is because it is not loved. The most difficult thing one can accomplish is to love their shadow and integrate it. It is an immense moral challenge. Most people project their shadow onto scapegoats and minorities.
Or people associate and integrate their own shadow too much, your shadow is nothing more than your own shame and regret for previous actions decisions and all that you wish could be changed, truly loving yourself is letting go of all of it and realizing you can change your interpretation and raise your own concious vibration for the better regardless of what past mistakes are made because soul is separate from your body and the ego is simply a manifestation of your own experiences, working with your shadow is accepting what cannot be changed and what you can do right now in the present moment to become the person you envision yourself being and any resistance is the shadow or rather a part of you thay clings to certain moments,,, but there is no time only the current moment in existence, which is relative to whomever is there to perceive it,, the past is simply measurement of memories long gone and living in your own shadow is not necessarily going to solve anything but accepting what your shadow is and how you overcome it not integrating it into your everyday life although maybe you worded it weird,, I wouldn't say integrating your shadow is how you live with it but recognizing what it is and moving forward with always being present so you dont look back and go gahd dahmmet i dun screwed up again lmao
I heard him as saying what you just said, funnily enough. I felt that when he was talking about what loving your enemies actually means, he was talking about just that - embracing your shadow.
You just said what he always says 😅
The thing about self love is that we have a false sense of self so what do we love? In reality we are love,everything is love that's why he says it's like kissing your own lips❤
We need enemies
I would love other people if they were nicer 😂
Said the man who confessed"When i dont drink i dont like myself"Go figure...!!!!
I don't agree with me depending on an enemy at all really. I hardly, care or talk about this with my Peers but some nasty people fuck the shit out of my peace for no reasons. Seems like they don't want to be content with myself.
Biblical Adam and Eve were the first to Fall in Love with Creation....
Seems different from the ancient Tao or Vedanta that teaches physical life is an illusion😮 of the five senses and is "magic" or maya the temptation😵 and the the inner here and now of Self Awareness ,found in Meditation ( eyes closed) is the purpose of any life .😇😇 Identification with your body or mind is the original sin or mistake👿. You are not the body or mind you are Eternal spirit. trapped in the body and mind..❤.good luck .
The body and mind came from the eternal spirit and thus, one with it. It was the separation of the mind that makes them seem divided.
Love the video but I think its a funny coincidence whe he switches to talking about nasty people after talking about the saved people, the family changes from a white family to a black family.
humoros when you realize it
Describes the Jewish people perfectly; they claim to hate Edom and the Christians but absolutely need them to make them feel like special victims, so that they can stay unique, bonded and unassimilated for over 2,000 years.
Matrix mind
Judaism is all about “antisemitism”
😂
Ye but they not fit to go all in
nothing is embarrassing. we are the experiential creators. when we feel shame or enbarrassed it's an identification with our mind. it's approval, not freedom. I like Mr. Watts but he is in a inferiority complex and not happy. A lot of people meant to be spiritual teachers get identified with their mind. All experiences are my creation. When I feel sad, I feel sad. When I in shame, I am in shame. It's my responsibility to become aware and take the responsibility for myself, and have the authority of my own reality and communicate it to others, which creates intimacy, not right. Being in the present experiencing the moment is call Gestalt reality. Concepts and constructs die when you wake up.
God is the greatest manipulator.