Alan Watts - Stop Chasing What You Think Will Make You Happy

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  • Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2018

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  • @Jhawk_2k
    @Jhawk_2k 14 дней назад +46

    Long bike rides are perfect for these contemplations

  • @konkowjosephson1607
    @konkowjosephson1607 16 дней назад +91

    Im thankful for youtube for this,not a big fan of internet and what it takes from imagination of the young. But the fact is that this groovy man is being sent too billions

    • @mushedits
      @mushedits 7 дней назад +2

      Isn’t it awesome? Im one of those people that was fortunate enough to stumble upon Mr Watts. He’s a life changing speaker 🙏🤙

    • @yoginikaltri333
      @yoginikaltri333 6 дней назад

      YASSSS!🌍🕉️🕉️🕉️👁️

    • @chantzd
      @chantzd 5 дней назад +1

      Internet = Blessing and a curse!

  • @chantzd
    @chantzd 5 дней назад +8

    This can’t be real. Just relax don’t take it so serious and please, feel free to do whatever you want while you’re here, just enjoy yourself as much as possible. Covid was the best thing to ever happen to me. 2020. Born in 88. Feeling LIT right now!!! ❤❤❤❤

    • @markhatch6809
      @markhatch6809 4 дня назад +1

      me too brotha

    • @chantzd
      @chantzd 4 дня назад

      @@markhatch6809 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

    • @PCE444
      @PCE444 3 дня назад

      IT IS REAL WAKE UP those words are words for losers i think, the young poor kid with a brain to work smart not hard doesn't even have the resources to better himself but he knows all about them you think he cares about fun when a break free lifestyle is on the doorstep but it seems like a leap of faith fun is temporary but bloodlines last forever and i care more about my sabretooth ancestors than 'having fun' indulging in degeneracy which is all of today ALL .

  • @steff1gbh
    @steff1gbh 5 дней назад +8

    My favorite philosopher by far, aswell as J krishnamurti and UG, dem boys spitting the real real

  • @James-wv3hx
    @James-wv3hx 27 дней назад +69

    l used to listen to him on the radio in the nineteen sixties. Thank you 🙏. KPFK radio station in Los Angeles has the original tapes still.

    • @thenondualisticmystic
      @thenondualisticmystic 6 дней назад

      Okay this is amazing. May I ask what country this was in and what sort of radio show aired him? I'm so curious because I write historical fiction set in the 20th century.

    • @James-wv3hx
      @James-wv3hx 6 дней назад

      @@thenondualisticmystic Los Angeles. On F.M. radio 📻. California. U S A. You can probably Google it.

    • @James-wv3hx
      @James-wv3hx 6 дней назад

      @@thenondualisticmystic KPFK radio station in Los Angeles still has the original tapes now. According to Google. I remember Elliot Mince was the host of the show.

    • @thenondualisticmystic
      @thenondualisticmystic 7 часов назад +1

      @@James-wv3hx Thank you so much!

    • @James-wv3hx
      @James-wv3hx 7 часов назад

      @@thenondualisticmystic for sure. I'd love to see what you find out 😁.

  • @jujumulligan43
    @jujumulligan43 26 дней назад +70

    I love the wisdom of Alan Watts. He taught humanity so very much to help guide us on this earthly journey. We need more souls like him on this earth. It is a blessing we have Tolle now to help us. RIP Alan

    • @enriqueteruel6574
      @enriqueteruel6574 23 дня назад +5

      its the wisdom of Buddha...

    • @fingerprint5511
      @fingerprint5511 17 дней назад +4

      Yes it's the teachings of the Buddha- and he died of Alcoholism

    • @enriqueteruel6574
      @enriqueteruel6574 16 дней назад +1

      @@fingerprint5511 so what?

    • @6slapplays931
      @6slapplays931 14 дней назад +1

      ​@@fingerprint5511 interesting.. enteresan

    • @shivadasa
      @shivadasa 13 дней назад +1

      It’s extremely difficult to be a Bodhisattva-to carry an open and loving heart in a world populated with beings who hate suffering but are quite hopelessly in love with its causes.

  • @z_kitty
    @z_kitty 4 дня назад +5

    The idea that the Indian Guru is not manifesting his temper because he wanna teach how he can be real himself is so inspirational. I tried to become someone else who I looked up to and more perfect than me. But eventuality I noticed that this approach potentially ignores the needs of other people in my situation.

  • @KingfisherLtd
    @KingfisherLtd 20 дней назад +49

    Fantastic thing about Watts' speeches is they are so logical and clearly spoken, that even non native english speaker (like me) can understand them.

    • @theordinary1059
      @theordinary1059 11 дней назад +3

      Unfortunately you will never grasp an understanding that will end your suffering. There is nothing to be gained, nothing to learn. You are already as close to enlightened as you're ever going to get, it is not a matter of logic or mind. Oh the irony of me writing this😂 I speak as much to myself as you

    • @magomarlin
      @magomarlin 8 дней назад

      ​@@theordinary1059thanks

    • @Zopporillo
      @Zopporillo 6 дней назад

      Based ​@@theordinary1059

    • @Vanillamangaro
      @Vanillamangaro 6 дней назад

      @@theordinary1059what??

  • @rochelle5882
    @rochelle5882 2 дня назад +1

    i love you alan watts

  • @adamparker5696
    @adamparker5696 21 день назад +25

    This is what is meant symbolically in the Bible saying they ate from the tree of knowledge… The distinction of good and evil, right and wrong like and dislike. Thank you.

    • @tutorialchief
      @tutorialchief 11 дней назад +1

      right, they were "with god" and after getting the dual knowledge they get "kicked out", not one so called religious person gets this sadly. Still this is also a medal, because through this knowledge as elohim said "man became like us" in the misery of this form of conciou ess lays the new partaking of being a creator in a certain way, it includes having an will ourselves so we can do all kinds of things, ceate, invent, choose how to live and so on, what stays is the fact that all of that creates even more misery 😂

  • @Javier300k
    @Javier300k 4 дня назад +2

    Thank goodness for this message this is what I needed to hear at this moment

  • @m44235
    @m44235 22 дня назад +19

    I realized from this speech that, I make a lot of plans even to be out of suffering 😂😂… I guess I found my Zen moment 😍😎

  • @-lancepie-1002
    @-lancepie-1002 3 года назад +193

    it is this man's logic that made me have common sense

    • @williamlee7001
      @williamlee7001 27 дней назад +25

      he helped you realize what was always in you. he only helped you find it. Watt's has helped me realize a lot!

    • @Toddtesla8
      @Toddtesla8 22 дня назад +8

      A lot of ❤

    • @TheMark8765
      @TheMark8765 22 дня назад +4

      We are all born with that...

    • @noonespecial4171
      @noonespecial4171 17 дней назад +6

      Common sense arises from wisdom, wisdom arises from experience. The rest is delusion.

    • @justinmix143
      @justinmix143 12 дней назад

      If only it were common

  • @watermenplumbingfiltration144
    @watermenplumbingfiltration144 13 дней назад +6

    One may always be desiring, but if the things desired help other people, it's a win. I would argue that one can pray for Devine grace to help channel desire into a positive thing.

  • @starmelter-band
    @starmelter-band 25 дней назад +27

    the ending, though...

    • @stormaggeden
      @stormaggeden 25 дней назад +7

      Yeah that tripped me out

    • @_ilovenancy
      @_ilovenancy 7 дней назад +2

      I had just turned off my lights and I had to turn them back on, 🙀

  • @robertcostagliola3741
    @robertcostagliola3741 22 дня назад +29

    This guy is the only guy in the world that understood life, imo. Everyone else is wasting their time, especially politicians. "You have to accept unacceptance, as well". Genius. I have to get a copy of this lecture and listen to it over and over because there's so much in it...

    • @ericmotov9886
      @ericmotov9886 21 день назад +2

      Agree. I listen his teachings 3 years already and there is no doubt he gives us so many to understand. R.I.P. Mr. Watts

    • @wulf67
      @wulf67 21 день назад

      He’s not the “only guy” who understands. He’s great, but there are/have been thousands of others. Politicians? 😂Those guys are professional liars. They don’t enlighten anyone. Their job is to keep us in the dark while they pick our pockets to make the central banks and defense contractors richer.

    • @stevelivingstone4616
      @stevelivingstone4616 20 дней назад +1

      There are a good few.

    • @keithmurf426
      @keithmurf426 19 дней назад +1

      Yet he died of alcoholism. 🤷‍♂️

    • @vincentkeller4725
      @vincentkeller4725 19 дней назад +6

      ​@@keithmurf426so what, were all going to die regardless & you ain't no better than anyone else! Let go of the fear

  • @JeanetteBaylor
    @JeanetteBaylor 20 дней назад +4

    "...and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains ... Within the sound ... Of silence..."
    Your edits are glorious.
    🕐 🎶

  • @inthekingdom1996
    @inthekingdom1996 3 дня назад

    Excellent share. The teaching is pretty distilled here

  • @tyroneorozco7289
    @tyroneorozco7289 9 дней назад +3

    this is pure mastery the art of chronological commonsense

    • @BF3MeGusta
      @BF3MeGusta 8 дней назад

      And then people ask me what was the lecture about. Huh? I would have to quote the whole thing xdddd

  • @johnnyawful5120
    @johnnyawful5120 2 дня назад

    This is exactly what I need. Thank you Alan watts

  • @SpookyThaAnti-Spook
    @SpookyThaAnti-Spook 5 дней назад +4

    Anyone else getting double mumbled audio in the background???

  • @user-sm7wr6vz9k
    @user-sm7wr6vz9k 9 дней назад +3

    I am not trying to make things better, rather just trying not to be bored.

  • @PC-gc6ck
    @PC-gc6ck 28 дней назад +13

    If one listened to only one of his pieces, this would be it.

  • @jokevermeer3828
    @jokevermeer3828 Месяц назад +5

    Thank you ♥

  • @berthacheese8924
    @berthacheese8924 22 дня назад +9

    I love that it repeats… “like a trap” at the end…. 😂😂😂 it’s a trap!! 😊🎉😂❤

  • @ds3965
    @ds3965 23 дня назад +4

    so many things said, one thing and its contrary, and we're always the same

  • @ThoughTObjecTMusic
    @ThoughTObjecTMusic 14 дней назад +2

    Nice touch at the ending

  • @sajonac
    @sajonac 12 дней назад +2

    Wisdom at it finest.

  • @contemplatingwithamaster
    @contemplatingwithamaster 20 дней назад +1

    Thanks 😊 ; me too

  • @TheDREADlight
    @TheDREADlight 23 дня назад +6

    Middle path 🙏

  • @ZENIFORNIA
    @ZENIFORNIA 17 дней назад +2

    Great stuff in this one☯️

  • @uStepProductions
    @uStepProductions 26 дней назад

    Amen

  • @williamjacobsen2291
    @williamjacobsen2291 7 дней назад +1

    The presence of God.

  • @tapedpopsicle
    @tapedpopsicle 17 дней назад +3

    Anybody else hear the opera singer in the background? lol

  • @yoyo-wr9ep
    @yoyo-wr9ep 8 дней назад +1

    I am an unlabled 💥

  • @Mythikal13
    @Mythikal13 День назад

    Lol the ending of this was spoopy

  • @Keely-ml2gp
    @Keely-ml2gp 8 дней назад +1

    We came from the forest, we aren't alone there, the ocean either. I like alone time don't get me wrong i told them ride a horse up a mountain bareback when they told me go find God lol like they had control or i for that matter.

  • @anonymoushuman8344
    @anonymoushuman8344 4 дня назад

    Archie J. Bahm cited at about 43:40.

  • @AkshathaNirmal
    @AkshathaNirmal 15 дней назад

    We dont have to go to forest to know that. You can understand by deconditioning and understanding thoughts that is instant perception the intelligence 😊

  • @Yetipfote
    @Yetipfote 10 дней назад +1

    Trying too hard to do the "right" thing implies that I don't feel good enough

  • @satinderpalsinghkang1816
    @satinderpalsinghkang1816 17 дней назад +6

    Jiddu krishnamurti and Alan watt both enough in schools..

  • @PolishDrake
    @PolishDrake 4 дня назад +1

    Put more ads, one every 4 minutes is not enough.

  • @Shemrsperfect
    @Shemrsperfect 2 дня назад

    💫✨💛

  • @dustinemerzian5989
    @dustinemerzian5989 12 дней назад +1

    "To make a trap, to make a trap, to make a trap, to make a trap..."

  • @RenatasVilcinskas
    @RenatasVilcinskas 20 дней назад +2

    What kind of music are you currently listening to?

    • @theshadow8900
      @theshadow8900 12 дней назад

      Peter green: I have got good mind to give up living

  • @ezekielalkhabeer7084
    @ezekielalkhabeer7084 23 дня назад +2

    42:45

  • @gwnbw
    @gwnbw 7 дней назад

    🎉🎉🎉

  • @TheFXofNewton
    @TheFXofNewton 16 дней назад +4

    Make a trap. Make a trap. Maybe a trap.

  • @delenthiairby9156
    @delenthiairby9156 6 дней назад

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @blackrook29
    @blackrook29 23 дня назад +14

    This man will have us just sitting doing nothing.

    • @noonenowhere6920
      @noonenowhere6920 23 дня назад +7

      Tells you, don't chase pleasure, while smoking a pipe and drinking.

    • @bike4aday
      @bike4aday 21 день назад +24

      Before enlightenment, chop wood carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood carry water. What changes is our understanding of everything, not necessarily what we do, even though that might change a little bit just as any growth or development would result in some kind of personality change.

    • @ian123412
      @ian123412 20 дней назад +4

      @@noonenowhere6920 and? does a that take away the perspective from his words?

    • @fingerprint5511
      @fingerprint5511 17 дней назад +1

      ​@bike4aday it's not the personality that becomes enlightened. How could it when it's a conditioned response?

    • @texasd1385
      @texasd1385 16 дней назад

      ​@@fingerprint5511 You just answered your own question

  • @mesumit37
    @mesumit37 16 дней назад +1

    46:17

  • @msenglish8382
    @msenglish8382 4 дня назад

    I'm heading to the forest to be quiet

  • @user-en7cc2xi4n
    @user-en7cc2xi4n 21 день назад

    I'm all ready pin up so I don't need to be among people with knowledge so don't worry about who I am as I with respect and Thanks you much ❤

  • @paulkdickson
    @paulkdickson 5 дней назад

    I love Alan Watts’ teachings.
    Segue, I just noticed Stewie sounds almost just like him, and now I can’t help but picture it. 🤣

  • @titanitedemon8583
    @titanitedemon8583 3 часа назад

    Il frusciante

  • @7paula777
    @7paula777 22 дня назад

    The plot thickens! 😊

  • @user-hm6zb2fq6r
    @user-hm6zb2fq6r 19 дней назад

    iF I stop chasing your MEN...would you make UNCLE SAM happy with what he already has??? YOU...LiLIths' son

  • @J_Mc314
    @J_Mc314 18 дней назад

    But they do fight fire with fire. They call it a fire ring or fire barrier. They do it in fighting forest fires.

    • @BorkedShlong
      @BorkedShlong 18 дней назад +1

      balls

    • @fingerprint5511
      @fingerprint5511 17 дней назад

      Go back to the TV

    • @J_Mc314
      @J_Mc314 16 дней назад

      @@fingerprint5511.....As John Prine said..."Blow up your TV, throw away your paper, move to the country, and build you a home!
      Not sure what you meant by that beings I don't watch too much brain rotting TV.
      And whether you like it or not....Do your research because the forestry service does do this to combat forest fires. Look up my homie Cody @ #Wranglerstar or any other of the US forestry people or pasture farmer people and they will all enlighten you. Now...#Actaccordingly

  • @kliipt
    @kliipt 15 дней назад

    I just wanna be with Charlie tbh

  • @stillthesame-uo9pi
    @stillthesame-uo9pi 20 дней назад +1

    Why is there some ghost singing in the background ?

    • @madden12
      @madden12 18 дней назад

      Because its an old recording device that has backround noise

  • @leon305
    @leon305 2 дня назад

    Why do i hear an operah singer in the back

  • @ChadKingOfficial
    @ChadKingOfficial 15 дней назад +1

    You actually needs salt to be hydrated so that metaphor is wrong.

    • @BrennyMadeABeat
      @BrennyMadeABeat 10 дней назад

      No… it’s not. Because ocean water kills you lmao. He never said sodium in general is bad get a grip 😂

    • @ChadKingOfficial
      @ChadKingOfficial 8 дней назад

      @@BrennyMadeABeat "Adding a small amount of salt to your drinking water helps replenish these lost electrolytes, promoting better water absorption and preventing dehydration." Ocean water kills you because it's too much salt for your body.

    • @ChadKingOfficial
      @ChadKingOfficial 8 дней назад

      "Adding a small amount of salt to your drinking water helps replenish these lost electrolytes, promoting better water absorption and preventing dehydration." The reason ocean water can kill you is because it's too much salt.

  • @malabuha
    @malabuha 20 дней назад +2

    My parents trained me how to give up desire as humanly possible. They even named me Desire 😅😅 And they didn't even know it.
    What a joke 😅😅

  • @jakobrossi647
    @jakobrossi647 День назад

    To make a trap

  • @doreekaplan2589
    @doreekaplan2589 22 дня назад +11

    Why did he drink

    • @ian123412
      @ian123412 20 дней назад +3

      Because he was in a flow state. Did her ever say not to drink?

    • @Needabeer76
      @Needabeer76 19 дней назад

      Cause he COULD. And he enjoyed it. Why else? You wierdo.

    • @fingerprint5511
      @fingerprint5511 17 дней назад +2

      Because he could not actually practice what he taught.

    • @texasd1385
      @texasd1385 16 дней назад +6

      ​@@fingerprint5511 Why do you insist on imagining that drinking alcohol has a moral component? Or that teaching Buddhism for a living means you can't drink?

    • @texasd1385
      @texasd1385 16 дней назад +8

      Because it's fun and he enjoyed it. The miracle that put Jesus on the map was turning water into wine so the party could keep rolling

  • @johnpaddy8195
    @johnpaddy8195 4 дня назад

    Ads? Alan Watts be rolling in his grave

  • @MrHammerlein
    @MrHammerlein 5 дней назад +1

    AI shit

  • @vision3691
    @vision3691 13 дней назад +1

    How is he gonna say that while getting drunk and chasing that high on a daily basis?

    • @zachvanslyke4341
      @zachvanslyke4341 7 дней назад

      For the same reason that YOU have all of your human shortcomings. No glass houses in this life; no one is superior to anyone else. Those that suffer from the delusion that their shortcomings are nil and claim superiority over others are simply narcissists. Perhaps that is one of your shortcomings, among others.
      A land full of perfect beings would be boring and without any point, without any color, a void of sorts.
      Have a great day.
      🙏

    • @vision3691
      @vision3691 5 дней назад

      @@zachvanslyke4341 I do have shortcomings, you right.
      But you have missed my point.
      Alan is asking me to do something impossible. Which is to not chase what i think will make me happy. I am a human with shortcomings. I can’t stop chasing what I think will make me happy.
      What do you think?

    • @zachvanslyke4341
      @zachvanslyke4341 4 дня назад

      With infinite variety and adventure, the cost is infinite paradox and rascality. You are correct, “you” cannot stop, none of us can. The conceptual “I” must disappear and we have to totally surrender, in a way. However, running off to a cave and renouncing all worldly matters may not work, either. So long as we identify with the physical body and the plane of form, suffering and chasing after things will occur. The idea is to not be caught by it, to detach, but in such a way that cannot n described with words. The chasing just is, that is all.
      Some trees grow strate, others crooked. Some seeds die in the soil.
      🙏

  • @kemallinlien2745
    @kemallinlien2745 18 дней назад +1

    Prihvatio sam ne prihvatljivost. Imao sam sve do sada Samo putem ničega nadam se sveopštom iscijeljenju svijesti.

  • @northwoodshaman
    @northwoodshaman 26 дней назад +5

    T o m a k e a t r a p