Alan Watts - The Cosmos
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2011
- www.alanwatts.com
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Alan Watts (1915-1973) who held both a master's degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He authored more than 20 excellent books on the philosophy and psychology of religion, and lectured extensively, leaving behind a vast audio archive. With characteristic lucidity and humor Watts unravels the most obscure ontological and epistemological knots with the greatest of ease. - deoxy.org/watts.htm
Alan's voice is always soothing to me.
iv got every Alan Watts recording i could get ahold of... and still every time i hear it, i grab a new perspective from it. Thanks for sharing this video! =D
Can you please share a link with your collection?
Timeless.. that's why 😉
May the long time sunshine, surround you, and the true light within you guide your way on.
You're the universe, go with the flow and enjoy it. Fight it and you're fighting with yourself. Life's a huge cosmic joke, the best one never told.
pixelfizz
:D Nice one thnks for this comment :)
It's perfectly fine to spend your life fighting with yourself and others, as long as you find it fun :p
He's not saying that we literally create the universe. But by being this organism, we evoke this particular experience of the universe: Light, sound, smell, taste and touch. All of which cannot be explained in words but just experienced as they are. Different organisms process the multitude of vibrations of the universe in a staggering number of ways. We have this experience, a tarantula will have a different one altogether.
I can't get enough of this man.
waste? is there even such a thing as waste? as immortal as we are, we have infinite time to spend learning and experiencing
These 6 minutes and 10 seconds are just mind-blowing. The speeches of Alan Watts fail to disappoint me
In seeking a being of perfection we forget the perfection of being.
However many years later, and he is absolutely right at the 2:00 minute mark. Your eye ACTUALLY emits photons out of it in order to apparently pick up that lights reflection of the object which in turns enables the sense of Sight to function.
wow. the body truly is the temple
THANK YOU
Thank you for doing this video! Excellent audio and marvelous images.
Thx! ...another artfully done lecture by the profound Alan Watts ...it's a beautiful message.
"The lesson is: never try" - Homer Simpson
Never would've thought that would actually be good advice
Actually it's written on Charles Bukowski grave. Probably it was reference on him
the addition of music behind these lectures is a funny thing
Yes, Alan, I’m begining to see.
the point isn't to be the master but to go with it
Most profound
I have heard parts of this before but not all that you put here. Thank you!
i just got back from an adventure, and now we're listening to music.
Amazing stuff
Thanks
FANTASTIC VIDEO!! Great job :-)
The song "The Great Discovery" by "The Movement" led me here.
Resonates alot with irish mythology
this is the best.
Wow this is brilliant!
Is there a version of this with out music?
Energy + Light + Power + Force + Life + Development + Progress + Unity + Awareness.
I'm here because of Cynic (I have thought of writing something like this on UA-cam for ages, now I finally do it)
thanks Jens Finkhäuser :-)
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Giampaolo Mannucci sentito questo? sto vedendo il video di Ted x che hai commentato te, mi piacerebbe sapere che ne pensi pure di questo :)
Same :)
Ivano Forgione hahahah true pal! I'm here beause of Cynic too :)
Brilliant:--)
you suffer because you desire... so Im now desiring not to desire.... profound knowledge
Freeeeeeeeeeeedom!!
😂😂the braveheart music and then the eye of sauron or something that is funny to me lol
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only difficult if you decide it is
"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures..." --Albert Einstein
trippppyyyy
Clapping your hands is the cosmos. Drinking coffee is the cosmos. Snorting coke is the cosmos. Slapping your sibling is the cosmos. It is all the same shit.
I just now realized Watts kinda sounds like stewie griffin lol
Always IRie clouds driven by the force of wind
Not quite sure what you're implying
Always IRie haha, I just realized that too in another video and searched "alan watts stewie" in google to see who else thought that
woow
"There's jazz going on"
No, he means just the opposite. He means that which we really are. You and I are the whole energy of the Universe experiencing itself in these little momentary vortexes of complex matter. IT. Hope you're having a fun adventure over there! :)
lmao at Braveheart music... absolutely perfect mood but the association was ironic
What song is used in the background?
Sons of Scotland by James Horner (Braveheart)
Does anyone know what lecture this is from?
Good clip but music is distracting. It does not match.
Does anybody know what movie the background music is from?
Oh it's braveheart!
neat! like a more down to earth Timothy Leary. dont get me wrong, i like Leary, but this guy comes across as more humble.
Though Alan Watts valued a psychodelic experience, Alan Watts wouldn't say it's necessary to have like Leary would. Timothy Leary was wonderful at throwing out "What ifs" and Alan Watts had more structured relatable "What ifs" (in my opinion). Though Alan Watts does have some wonderful lectures on LSD and other psychodelics.
It is as easy as being what you naturally are, our societies and cultures just make it hard for many to make that move psychologically. Many have cracked when they realized that the world that man laid over the earth is the fallacy.
when he says "it' does me mean the ego?
@soulmate119nickmel He is implying that sight as an experience is only the way our consciousness deals with a phenomena, that otherwise existed irrespectively of us. That is, photons always went about their business but they became 'light' when an organism evolved an ability to utilize them and render them to the conscious.
Of course it's difficult otherwise we wouldn't experience so much suffering since millions of years, but is there anything else do to than to try to practice ?
@99francesco how is that shocking? It's anything but. He's said that it is better to live a short life full of pleasure is more valuable than a long life without pleasure.
haha is that clip at the begining from Crysis?
>> Some people will use a symbolism of the relationship of #God to the #universe , wherein God is a brilliant light, only somehow veiled, hiding underneath all these forms as you look around you. So far so good. But the truth is funnier than that. It is that you are looking right at the brilliant light now, that the experience you are having that you call ordinary everyday consciousness--pretending you're not it--that experience is exactly the same thing as "IT". There's no difference at all. And when you find that out, you laugh yourself silly. That's the great #discovery . [...] The source of all light is in the Eye!
Little bit of petitio principii there when defining "living."
this is amzng
Just found out he died at 58 of a heart condition and that he was an alcoholic. Shocked
+Brandon Adams At least he could have over dosed on LSD or MDMA.
+Patrick Dowden Good call 1 year later moron. Go cry to your mum 12 year old
Patrick Dowden people without an ego don't laugh at anyone.
He used to call himself the (a) Rascal Guru. There is a certain honesty in this. He was most certainly one of the great commentators of the 20th Century in the field of spirituality. He liked a drink and a smoke and didn't hide the fact. he wasn't a hypocrite. He just told it as he understood it. Pretty good for a self-made man
'just be'
can you add subs please?thank you
So life is pain, in essence...suffering owing to desire, if could stop desiring, stop suffering...now I want to (desire to ) stop desiring, the man says, and Budda says why would you want to do that...desire already is....so, my point, again...the suffering or what have you, is part of IT, to Alan (though he does not say it), and don't try to end that, i.,e. get a leg up on the universe, so, go with the flow...but by the same token, hell, just bang that chick then, married or not, you desire to?
Like if you are on acid.
...lol
Nick :
On what planet do eyes emit photons ?? This is absolutely absurd !
I don't think you understand where Alan Watts was going with this.
Timothy2239 Tim - Excuse me ? I understand the English language very
well ... and he said this! Where was he going with this statement? As I said "This is absurd!"
Oh, I'm not trying to question how well you know the English language. But, that you have failed to see what point Alan Watts gave. What he does give you are examples that you *Invoke* light out of the universe. This doesn't mean you create or emit light in anyway.
All he is saying is that without our vision, light would not exist. He is right. Light is simply a subjective interpretation of sense to see. You form images in the back of your brain yet no light actually reachers there, it is all simply electromagnetic signals made into subjective and recognizable patterns.
Ted Hart
your eyes absorve the universes photons not emit
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Theoretically not difficult, Practically.. very difficult which is why we Bow to Buddha
I disagree if all living creatures on earth and earth were to be destroyed the universe would still be here. Humans are a creation of this universe not the opposite; the universe a creation of humans. The true question is what humans will do with this awareness. Was this earth made for humans or humans for the earth?
Lol all my struggleling seem so unnecessary
The background music is lame. So are the visuals.
Cédric Muller This comment was lame