Just Let Go - Alan Watts
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2024
- Alan Watts on the art of letting go.
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Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience.
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Attachment is the root of all suffering.
thats great and everything but regarding people you either desire to not get hurt or attach to someone you cannot commit or love without attaching. " the new watts"
@@tarawillis3995 Sounds like suffering with extra steps.
@@nostarswithoutdarkness did you not get it?
craving
attachment is inevitable
Amen……….. 😢
For it is in closing our eyes that we begin to see.
bacon 🥓
Truth doesnt lie on the surface where sunlight is. Where its warm. Where its comfortable. Truth lies in the cold deep underground. Cold darkness is your friend
@@user-kb1hw2yq2fperhaps even your best and most kind friend. Difference between kind and nice
I’m bumping into things in the dark, is my trouble. I can’t get oriented. I have shadow work to do, I believe. That’s why I can’t let go of past trauma, pain.
@@kinbolluck476 true
“Sometimes
letting things go
is an act of far
greater power
than hanging on” x
Eckhart Tolle 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Wow--so deep--I think I read that once in a fortune cookie.
CORRECT!!!!
He is right letting go ceases suffering but we are all exactly where we need to be or else we would not exist. We have to go through our trials and errors for It is in the darkness we appreciate the light and in the light, the darkness humbles us
Got more from your comment than all of what Mr. Watts said. Thank you.
@theForrestGalantey happy yo be of service:)
…..or else we would not exist. Sheesh. You’re not lying.
"Pleasure in it's fullness can not be experienced when one is grasping it"
How profound!
In Martial Arts, real mastery is achieved when exhausted - when you are so tired, you no longer care, but still forge ahead, with no regard for the outcome. At that point, you have truly just let go - whatever happens, you did your best, you're still trying, but the outcome is outside your control & you are ok with that. Acceptance. Zero concerns.
At that point, The Universe steps in and takes control. Odd things happen. Usually good odd things.
And it's a beautiful feeling. Even if you achieved something once, you don't have to worry about trying to achieve it again, it means you're ready for the next thing, and you'll know you can get to there at some point.
I have let go of everything. My family, my friends, my career, my dreams and desires about the future, my past, my anger, my fears. Nothing makes sense any longer and Im all alone. But I feel peace, a peace I never felt before. Im curiuous how life will continue
Keep going.
Hahaha for some reason your comment sounded funny to me. @@richiestan.
Bro what do you do in your every day life?
I am in the process of Letting go but your level of let go sounds so scary to me.
Dont you have a job?
Do you feel any emotions at all?
Don't you miss your family?
Your old life?
@@Mixo1998all good questions
@@skunkgucc appreciate it bro
The way I have detached myself from the past is by realizing that this long gone human isn't me. We don't have the same personality, the same thoughts, heck even the same aspirations. Whatever happened to him happened to him and whatever will happen to me will happen to me. I too in a few years will probably be only a distant hazy memory, with another human resembling my image and sharing my name taking my place.
They are all you, my friend.
Well I get what you meant. Ase 💜
for those who struggle to understand - basically the idea is not to try too hard and being moderate with your desires because if you chase them then you get obsessed by them which leads to losing yourself and also the point of the end goal
This video delves into the profound realm of detachment and the art of letting go, drawing on the wisdom of Buddhism and the philosophy of living fully without clinging. The notion that true pleasure and the essence of life are found not in grasping tightly but in the freedom of letting go resonates deeply. It's a reminder that life's transient beauty is best experienced in the moment, without fear of loss or the burden of possession. The analogy of the little girl who squeezed the bunny too tightly, metaphorically illustrates the counterintuitive truth that to truly hold something precious, we must hold it lightly. This video doesn't just explore the concept of detachment; it invites us to reconsider our approach to life's pleasures and pains, urging us toward a state of being where we can fully engage with life in all its undulating, unpredictable beauty, yet remain free from the confines of our desires and fears. A truly liberating perspective that challenges us to find balance in the 'middle way,' embracing life's experiences without becoming ensnared by them.
Yawn
And yet Alan Watts died relatively young due to being an alcoholic… therefore couldn’t attain that what he preached
Thankyou so much for explaining further 😊
I respect your insight.
Long winded
I love that ❤
I'm always troubled when I listen to Alan Watts, and the same with Trungpa Rinpoche. Both were full of wisdom about suffering, yet they both died relatively young of alcoholism. I guess we have to seperate their teachings from their lives. We're all such enigmas.
They are actors illuminati
You can separate art from the artist, but not spiritual teachings from the teacher, otherwise no one would see anything wrong with cult leaders and priests who molest people while teaching purity and abstinance. Nobody who is truly content needs spiritual help, and you're absolutely right to be troubled by those issues. I disagree that attachment is the root of all suffering, but letting go is one way to deal with it effectively. The nature of this world is suffering itself, whether you're attached to it or not. Let us not forget that these same teachings were used to brainwash young Japanese pilots to plunge to their deaths as kamikaze pilots in World War II. "I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."
Perhaps it's depressing to know so much; to also have others look to you for the hard questions of life and meaning. He certainly had an active life. Also, you know as well as I do that everyone struggles with something. If you read some of his books, like Behold the Spirit, there's an emphasis that what he teaches is more of pointing to the way, and not actually the way itself. I believe he held this belief constantly and that throughout bits of time he struggled and made his comebacks only to fall once again into it. And though he taught about suffering and attachments; he is not hypocritical in the sense that he says to not drink, do not smoke, do not etc.. and does it himself! But rather that he too had an attachment which was holding him, and he was telling people to let go! I think of this as the struggle of all people spiritually and physically; I think his teachings are still precise and still valuable.
According to Mark Watts (Wikipedia) Alan planned his death due to an illness. Who knows…..
@@srobliski Not judging him at all. Who am I to do that?
Exactly what I needed to hear at this moment.
me too same
So does your shrink too.
I know what you mean it’s nice to see that people still want to help even when things don’t go right I’m a Christian so I want to say god bless you and I hope things are going well for you many prayers your way my friend
This world needs teachers like Alan Watts, Osho, Sadhguru so much more now than before. So grateful for them 🙏🙏🙏
no not sadhguru please
why not?@@holocaste9256
I find that Alan stands a lot further than those other two. But I agree. Metta.
Osho was a cult leader who ripped off his cult members.
@@robfromvanExplain how?
So very true.
2 years ago I met a great beeing, that just so happend to be a beatiful young woman.
But that wasnt what attracted me, it was her energy, her compassion and the way she carried herself.
She saw my whole beeing right away, the joy and the pain. It took me longer to really see her, I felt her more.
The thing is, the moment we called hethother boy and girlfriend, I was so affraid to loose her, that my whole beeing changed.
The worst part is, that I know that you shouldnt pick a beatiful flower and that you cant own anything, but things in my past, let the scared little kid take the wheels as soon as she was "mine".
We have to remember that we are not only the human experience, we are also pure energy and that energy can never go wrong, it is exactly thr way it is suppose to be and we will always pull and push the right energies around us as we need, as long as we stay true to our self.
I wish all my brothers and sisters peace of mind ❤
So, did you consummate the relationship or did you just talk a lot of philosophical BS?
@@111Benzie 😂
I’m affraid if I let go there will be nothing left, of me. I have been fighting for so long that my personality has become dependent on my quest. My struggle.
At some point, you will be forced to let go by life itself. Once that has happened, you will be surprised how capable you actually are.
The self can die and be reborn multiple times in the existence of a single body. Even when the change is positive the loss of who you were is always mournful.
When you let go, you overflow with your authentic self. Its the old version that doesnt want to be forgotten. It’s an ego death… LET GO. The real you never disappears. Its just more of who you are. The real you never ceases to exist.
🎯 if more humans detached from worldly things, they'd be at peace and not killing each other every second of every day
We’ll said
I wonder that day would ever come on this earth…..
That is exactly the problem, humans looking for something on the outside always striving for more, will never be satisfied or at peace.
They need to look inside themselves we have everything we need 🙏
Just let it go, dont look back.....stay strong 💪💪💪💪
Thank you kindly and always unconditionally
I so wish he was here now.....😢 truly smart person....
Thank you. Beautiful 🙏
For it is in letting go that we find our grip ✨
This is right on queue for me today.
Hit home for me as well. Congrats!
Yes! If you are satisfied that you gave all! Then just let it go!
Blessings 🌹
A genius…Allen watts 💯
He was really wise.
When others saw him smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, he saw himself smoking only one cigarette in the present moment.
Such a genius.
I fully believe we are put on this earth to learn a lesson. I even believe we are sent back again until we learn the lesson. My lesson was her and I’ll make that mistake in every lifetime we meet ☺️
That was very sweet and touching ❤
im sri lankan , loved hearing our sinhala "anithya", " duka" in a very popular video like this❤❤ hope you all get tge peace y'all are looking for😊
The irony is that the mind cannot let go of the mind; it'll believe it can, it'll create thoughts that think they can, but letting go is out of our mind's control. I like mindfulness meditation for practicing letting thoughts dissipate. The workbook called 30 Days to Reduce Anxiety by Harper Daniels is helpful.
Alan watts 🧚♂️❤ always amazing and your live also in my teenage boys 🙏❤
That is truly disturbing. You know how twisted these kids will be when they keep listening to his goobly gook philosophizing?
Strange Energy For Old Soul Warriors GOD WINS 🙏😇🙏❤️ I FEEL YOUNGER
my mentor at his best
THANKS FOR YOUR INSIGHT AND WISDOM💯👍 VERY INTERESTING WISE CONTENT BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AMEN🙏💯🌏🌎🌍👍
GOD & the universe alwyas give me the right message when I need it thank youuuuuuuuuu to this channel Alan watts I love his wisdom
I don't know how, and I'm suffering. Majorly.
I’m sorry you’re suffering. I know it doesn’t seem like it and it’s really cliche, but it does get better . Hang in there! It’s worth it
UA-cam Mooji ✨👍🏻
Ze bugs... eat ze bugs.... you shall own nothing and be happy... the company owners are trying to monopolize
I've been through this kind of place once, I'm not saying it's the same place at all, but, I've suffered greatly before and I think I have figured out what these great masters of humanity tell us everday, at least part of it. So, I'm yet to see a suffering that doesn't have a cause even if you don't know what's the cause, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, but from what I've experienced and observed, probably when you don't know why you suffer, if it's not clear what you're wishing to be different, then probably the wish itself is the thing, I mean, I was always a simple person and didn't need much to be okay, but even that way I was still suffering, it came to a point where life itself turned into a problem, I was very afraid to die, especially a scary or slowly painful death, and we all know that to die it simply requires to be alive, what I meant to say with all that is that you suffer because you're not okay with how things are, no matter how, no matter what, something in you is still resisting the flow, either you are too afraid of the future, of having to go through a rough process or even fear of the possibility to pass through any traumatic experience just like me or just wishing for something new, like a drug to keep you always addicted to the "happy" state of mind, I will not say that it's easy to just let it go and flow, if you still see yourself, your "ego" as you, it will be tremendously difficult, but that's why the masters teach us to look inside beyond the self of the ego, a place I can hardly explain in words but I feel that everything's fine in that place, not because nothing happens, but because no matter what happens I'm still there, it's all like a movie in the cinema and I'm just watching it without getting emotionally envolved, quotes like "being in the world but not of the world" start to make all the sense after that discovery of what were always there inside watching and knowing. I kinda like this one I've heard once: "we are all gods already, we are here to learn how to be humans" but we can't mess things up, not necessarily is the same meaning of gods like powerful beings like superheroes or the common concept of God, I think the divine thing is the peaceful mind state even when it's dark, because you're the whole light yourself. Sorry for this big essay and for any grammar mistake, I originally speak portuguese. Wish you all the best.😅🙏
@@Zelda2829wow why do you have that much time to write a dam near full ese’ on YT
It is thought,it is said,it is thought,it is done.....free at last❤
Pleasure and pain are like flipping a coin. I think that is why detachment is important for one to achieve sustainable happiness, which comes from freedom.
i love those videos
This can be applied in various circumstances.. if you're socially anxious person, it could be due to your excessive desire for approval of other people.
The video explains that you ought to get to a point where you don't need approval where rejected does nothing to you.
Only when you're okay with rejection will you find the approval you seek.
If you want something .. you have to be okay with not having it.
Ironic.
I love philosophical and spiritual videos
"This is the moment of just letting go." -- Cardinal Copia
The algos obviously know what I need and when 😅
Meta datas + bias
Letting go ❤yes
Gracias
"Let Go and Let God."
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I see alot have made comments lately ❤ happy to see however a worry.. wish you well ❤ please look at the moon cycle and hope that helps with your thoughts also 😊😊
I finally understand.
I was wondering how to adopt this method when asleep? Dreams can be unsettling!
I have always desired not to desire, and was getting attached to this idea by itself
If we let go the things, then the things will come back to us in unexpected ways...
Let go, not to get a better grip, but let go completely...
Interesting.
0:11
The art of letting go.
3:40
Poor in spirit. No attachment.
5:50
Buddha can’t be stuck. He is always in the flow.
When I was a child I heard a quote from Sanskrit, Mana Pragya meh vacha: meaning control your mind as this stalian which can go aimless.
letting go moves you forward with energy to anyone wondering what entirely letting go means. How to spot it? You feel an urge to move in the way your heart is telling you and you cannot foresee how you will do it and how it will turn out. You can only forsee the part where you let go until you cant foresee anymore, USUALLY 2-3 into the future. Usually this intuition makes me feel as if you will fuck up or be weak and clueless as it goes against you current beliefs on strength, which keep you weak. Ive found letting go only works if you have an intention first, then the intuition comes for you to let go. So the intuition for me is forseeing myself immdeiatly listening to the intuition to move towards purpose. I'll give and example, back in primary i join the basketball team and would enjoy it but never really let go id get the ball and immediatly give to someone else? I could forsee myself bouncing it and i could feel the freenes it would give and theimmediate movement of going forward however i could not for the life of my feel that i would not fuck it up, i could not feel how i would make it bounce more than once and run same time. So i did not let go that year. Next year i was determined to get better. The intentions were stronger with the more risk. So during a match i recieved the ball and in that second i had the intenttion of bouncing the ball and moving forward. I followed it while not knowing if the second bounce would be under my hand. It was, once you let go life takes care of everthing. It wasnt until i was halfway down the court i realised i was bouncing this ball with so much accuracy, applying all the training i had done in real time with flow. My intuition kicked in to snap me out of thinking and to move again so i followed it instantly and next thing i know im slamming that shit into the hoop. My close friends all happy for me cherring and closest friend geneinly please to see me let go and have fun. Fromt that day anytime i wanted something, gains, more friends, girls in class, different sports, deeper conversetions with clsoe people etc.. i always had the intuition. The fun part is once you let go with one intuition it snowballs. Whatever you had to let go of during that intuion, you will noticed stopped holding you back from other things. For example i went home slept over the weekend after match and during pe next week i was in flow during other sports without needing to face that fear again. It left me feeling more free. TH efun part is that you can keep on getting intuition and the more you follow them the deeper you find yourself the more free you become. During all these years there is one intuition the biggest of all i cant do its to crazy a feeling of if i follow this one i kill who i am.
Why do we have to do Life in reverse?
Get old to learn to let go... Stress, anxiety, keeping up with the Jones... etc..
Only to have what we started with...
Materially...
I just hope I can keep my Memories...
❤❤❤
WE CAN NEVER MEASURE THE IMMEASURABLE 010 d.
I have a lot of things that I would like to get out of my apartment, but I am having a challenging time releasing them. I can sell them, but it is time consuming operation. Part of me thinks I delay for attachment, and this among other Alan Watts teachings has me thinking about it more and more. How about you?
Other people will never allow you to let things go.
Why do you require permission?
when you let go and you realize you have no attachments to begin with
8:04 Then how could one improve to avoid falling into the habit of desiring too much?
just let go of improving, be honest with yourself, state clearly 'I cannot avoid it, so I'll just observe this tendency of mine'.... stay playful.... I'm also speaking to myself by the way, so this is by no means a preach :) hope it helps
@@edoardodalio5741 many thanks! ^^ it seems a reasonable path to follow, I shall listen to it, thanks!
🙏odaat
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stop distracting yourself - be it greed, envy, seeking power, seeking money, seeking status.
go your own way, or your regret will destroy you
I know that I'm here
Like at 6:20
I really love my girlfriend but I feel as if I’m suffocating her at times. And then I get needy, she really loves me. But I still must not be unbearable, I must let go alittle bit.
Remember what Hootie said--sometimes you just got to let her cry.
@@111Benzie facts
True Meaning of WHAT ❓😅❓ Exactly
Which talk this video is excerpt from?
anything bond is not free a human bond by desires or etc is not free , energy bond is not free
There's a famous saying, In colorado.If you want the rocky mountain high, you got to smoke a thousand bowls of weed at asap...
Which lecture is this video a part of?
this is sadly AI generated. Disgusting 😓
Where are we going?
“She loved the bunny to death” Analogies stick with you.
The Art of Letting Go, Just let go my echo 😅❤😂
If you can't let go, just don't. I am willing to have you.
🙏❤️🙏
🎉❤
He actually said "the world is ANITYA and ANATMAN (not an Atman), which is an older way of saying Anattā
You let go of that cigarette
Should we not have desire? Or am i just mixing desire with ambition
Am i not supposed to clinge to someone?
Desire means sexual /or evil desires. Setting goals is healthy and normal.
@@xaviersantos1504 in what sense do you mean clinging
Where did Alan Watts go?
In desiring not to desire, I'm still desiring, so there is no getting rid of desire. In rich dummy terms, Buddha was full of bunk.
Actually, the point is exactly to stop seeking, to stop desiring even the desire to stop desiring, just sit for a bit and observe yourself, then you'll eventually reach and see the balance, he would be contradicting himself if he teached the middle way and encouraged to desire something so much, I understand the confusion, we want to stop suffering, but the suffering itself is not as bad as we think and everything is from the mind, so we just need to understand the mind, then the rest will be as it always was, but clear like the water to you. 🙏
Awww poor rabbit😢
At around 3:45 the narrator speak about people who are "spiritually poor" and states that they don't cling to any property.
Thinking that he is confusing the meaning of "spiritually poor" with being "materially poor".
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3)
The interpretation of this line from the bible could result in endless hours of philosophical debate about what
is the actual meaning behind the phrase "poor in spirit".
I quit smoking. No thanks to Alan Watts.
The Art of Letting Go
While he is obviously on the hook of the habit of smoking?
Also view 21,574
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But then… Nevermind. Mental note: balance dopamine and serotonin.
Really gotta change the part in subtitles when it says “sexual life” he is saying sensual (full of sense or participation in life)
It’s nice not seeing AI BS
Speak in riddles and in circles… 0:32
This sounds like it’s another edited audio that’s why it shows photos and not Alan talking
Why most of his videos has a water closet sound?
Great to be so non material!
Your desires do not trump your health