Alan Watts - Don't Try
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2015
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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
"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit---to the "conquest" of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature". Alan Watts deoxy.org/watts.htm
Background Music: Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche
This guy says more real shit in 5 mins than most people do in a lifetime
Well that's the point, isn't it?
@@joannewilliams6848 actually it's you who brings you to zen. This is just an aspect of Self that you appreciate, it's already in you, it is you.
every path is the right path, you don't anything.
Amen
Amen
What I wouldn't give to have heard this man in real life..
You are
well, you're not wrong
agreed being in his presence must of been an insane experiences.
+Kyle Roeder what you are
Technically this is real life and I have heard Alan Watts, I should have said in person lol
Consider yourself lucky to be of the few who have/will hear this man's wisdom. Even luckier are those who will never forget it.
I heard a lot of videos of this man but i really dont get what he is tryna say ( maybe i have comprehension problem or the subs are missing that is why )
Totally agree KosmicAura .... and what’s even better is that I actually get his words this time ( I didn’t get when I heard it a while back )
Even luckier those that hear this young, not at 50 when you’ve realized that what he said was the truth.
I've been listening to him for over a year now. I have a medical condition and have been trying to get my disability for the last year. Alan Watts has filled much of my time.
👏🏼 spot on
The point was to sing and to dance WHILE the music was being played...
love it
Why does this feel like the greatest advice one can give a person ?
+Arthur OneI Well said. This is exactly what I needed to hear this morning. So much of life tends to be a struggle, and it simply does not need to be.
Because it is
@CreationKing I thought it, you said it.
Positive mental attitude
Lifes body is like pin board wizard and the mind like a crescendo of fireworks
This is extremely vital to know when starting new relationships, no mater whether they go good or bad, don't force anything, let go and say to the universe: "Let see what you're gonna do"
This almost made me tear up because it made me think about all the wasted years I spent miserably doing things for the acceptance of everyone; and still failing. This may be the only life we get, I don't know. But if it is, then I don't wanna waste my one shot at existing just because others disprove of my life decisions. ****** that.
Frater Munky you didn’t waste anything because time doesn’t exist and the kicker is you don’t exist as you as a separate ego 🙂
I agree... except I still waste that time :(
Don't feel guilty about wasting years because you don't exist as an individual ego.you are part of the process of nature and everything that has ever happened to you is a natural phenomenon that was meant to happen and you never had any control over it.Just take solace in the fact that everything in nature is playing out the way it's supposed too
@@craigsmith8811 thanks for sharing this, your, comment. I felt a feeling of emptiness afterwards.
@@babblingidiot7903 was it a good feeling of emptiness as in the release of inner pain?
Love the ending..... "It was a musical thing and you were suppose to sing or to dance."
Wow, we should all lighten up and not take it so seriously.
After all, we are spirit with human experiences.
Oh my God what a treasure Alan Watts will always be.
+Robin Barsharsula :) male from Texas.
Hahaha, "wrong again" lol
"They made you miss everything by expectation."
I've been struggling lately, with myself , my life , my thoughts , I've been listening to Alan watts everyday for over a week now and I honestly feel like hes changed everything, I feel so much different after listening to his words and I wish he was alive today so I could thank him
Just be thankful for him and all those before him, who's teachings he studied :)
How are you doing now ? 😊
I might have to start that habit
This is probably my favorite little Alan Watts snippet. Such a bittersweet ending line about "missing the point the whole way along, you were supposed to dance". I love his laugh. Thank you for posting this, and putting such beautiful perfect music to it as well.
MoonDoggie BedYam right
Life is a musical thing. and you are supposed to sing or to dance while the musics being played.
I revisit this very speech many times sometimes 2 or 3 times a day just to put my mind back where it needs to be.
this might've just saved my soul
Haydn Veale I think one of the biggest realizations I've had in my life is not that I was lost in need of saving, but always full of limitless potential. We have the opportunity to put our lives on the the tracks necessary to achieve out wildest dreams. Isn't that cool. ♡
Haydn Veale Truth
kat van please help me what did you do about the potentials?...do you just pick the one right in front of you regardless of loving it and so never have the energy for it? Do you throw everything away and wander in la la land forever looking for something you love while you let everyone including your self down?
Did it really?
@@katvan844 Nothing like missing the point of what he's saying. Your "limitless potential" has nothing to do with what he's talking about and infact is the exact opposite. You're focused on goals and ends, as that is the only use for potential. Potential is meaningless in this moment. How good of a dancer you can be tomorrow is pointless when you dance now. Potential leads to trying.
This should have 1 billion views. Bieber should have 37k. The world would be a better place if that's the way it was.
+Michel Schweinsberg Bieber is also walking on the path too my friend, as we all are. He is helping people through the medium of music, and he is progressing and changing greatly in his work and giving people enlightening ideas as he becomes more self actualized. He is one of the pop culture gurus in our world, and although different, the message seems to be the same. Wake up and be real. Alan Watts is a phenomenal thinker and great at teaching people how to reason, Bieber appeals to people that are dealing with complicated emotions, and music helps to set people free through releasing (Dancing/Singing/Movemnent/Etc) There is one body, many parts. Blessings
+AllDimensionalFilms Well said my good sir!
People have been turned into cunts who heartily support cruelty and materialism. Introspection for these people is a challenge. People don't like to be intellectually or emotionally challenged, people prefer to be stroked.
This video wasn't meant for every one to watch. Only the wise and successful people are here
+Lisandro Gallegos I'd say that only the future wise were here, not necessarily the successful. It's easy to tell from the video that success is relative and not of much importance.
The music is just perfect. Right volume, right tempo... just ... amazingly beautiful.
+Constantin Daniel Gabriel Constantin I agree with you :D
Ludovico Einaudi would be flattered
Constantin Daniel Gabriel Constantin
Nuvole Bianche - Ludovico Einaudi
Considering the commentary of all the other Alan Watts videos on the web... that is, indeed, an amazing comment.
Alan Watt's words can litteraly change lives. It changed mine and i am so thankful.
I have done so much in my life, I've really had a good ride. And still enjoying it at 64yrs old.
Thankyou Mr Alan Watts for sharing with us your understandings and awareness. Your ability to communicate such complexities of human nature in a beautifully simplistic way is extraordinary. We are in a current dance that is to be felt more than thought of, feeling of the moment here and now, with freedom from our accumulated past memories, however beautiful they may have been, it really is best to completely let go of it all. The more I release my past memories the happier I feel. It has become so easy to cherry pick all the best memories and then feel somewhat depressed when I currently do not feel this, and it just spoils my present moment to not only feel great happiness right here right now, but to really miss the whole point of our chosen existence. Your words are like a hammer hitting my thick head saying wake up!wake up!wake up! So I thank you once again, thankfully there are many of you, and I am listening, and I am truly trying to develop into a healthy natural being, by understanding the urgent need, to get out of my own way....
Keep coming back to his videos… year after year
this was real deep...
Loving these Alan Watts lectures
man that last bit really ties it ALL together
Surrender to the flow
Ava Sedna its true..surrender to the universal flow.
easier said than done.
You surrender to a man and his hot air. This man just sounds smart. He talks to amuse himself. Don’t be stupid. What you hear is a verbose pretension at wisdom.
He explains absolutely nothing.
Thank you. Most people on here act like this guy has so many answers to life's questions. He answers nothing. No technics or anything. He doesn't help by giving you any tools to help with anxiety or fear or anything.
The things this man say's makes it a million times easier for me to fall asleep at night.
this is the only thing that made me actually understand what life is not what life should be
5 people hit the wrong button because of the tears in their eyes
ryan foundoulis wow it's now 52 people
they liked it so much, they confused it with the download button.
This changed my life. The point with the dancing really changed my perspective. It's all the journey
MR. ALAN WATTS AND MR. ANTHONY BOURDAIN SAVED MY LIFE WHEN I THOUGHT IS WASN’T WORTH SAVING. I OWE MY LIFE TO THIER WORDS THEY SPOKE TO ME. MAY BOTH OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL SOULS REST IN PEACE ☮️ ❤
We have this strange anxiety in us, that if we don't interfere it won't happen. That's the root of an enormous amount of trouble. If you say "my life must go on" then life is a drag and not a game.
I was robbed of a proper goodbye and deception is evil
And u ruined everything I hate love
Rather never loved at all....pg13 screams with in and I'm not happy without u and I can't change it because I let the devil in....
All is great, but 5:17 til the end is absolutely genius.
I know man. It is absolutely breath taking
"The whole point of dancing is the dance!"
I don't get how anyone can dislike what Alan says, such an inspiration
People who had the experience of seeing his lectures in person are truly lucky.
I'd pay a million dollars that I don't have just to talk to this man for 20 minutes.
He has a beautiful voice
Great voice
thank you for not letting the contamination of advertising spoil the enjoyment of this wonderful man and the beautiful videos.
He was such a sweet man
One of my most treasured authentic exchanges.... oh how my ears wallow in the sheer grace and clarity of dear Mr watts x
This video brought me close to tears. I have been rushing my whole life, my attitude has been that way for so many years. Only how do I realise that I have already arrived at where I need to be :) and its so beautiful!
I read this quote in the past but I never understood. For the first time I genuinely do, I am at the Goal already.... this is IT--the endpoint and I can reliably it to the full because it is enough!
This has to be one of my favorites of his. What a great mind.
Point: "Don't try, just Do."
'It was a musical thing. You were supposed to dance as it was being played; as you enter the room without having to reserve a spot.' To just be there and do.
U were suppose to let me c ur eyes and kiss u goodbye
He's such a stabilising force 😂
What is he stabilizing?
thank heavens for that
+Clyde Rembrandt my mind
He? Who is he? Who is him? Who are you? Who is you?
this man is...amazing..
I’m just discovering this man, in fact, this is only the 2nd video I’ve watched of him, and all I really have to say as of now is wow. Truly incredible.
Live your true FLOW of your life . No resistance No stress . Just let it flow . Love you all more than you will ever,ever, know . It is the journey of life the unfolding the flow the moment to moment breath of life .
thanks :)
"It is the journey of life the unfolding the flow the moment to moment breath of life" Thanks for the reminder, always needed.
How did this video make me feel so happy? Allready 1 min in I felt enlightened, maybie that's why? I don't know but man, this guy is amazing..
i love you alan watts
Namaste thank you ever gratitude
"Aint no destination cuz the journey is everything"
This is literally amazing
Alan Watts was, and is, an amazing speaker. He had the gift of persuasion. He says things that I don't agree with, things that are debatable or downright wrong, but in such a way that I always find myself thinkng _Wow!_
mothman84 True, like a surgeon really cannot dance his way through study. I think this is a PART of the whole picture of what life is.
Brilliant! You could probably throw out all your self help books and just live this 5 minute philosophy and be fulfilled - putting on my 'Watch Daily' list -
God bless his mother I say, for giving the world Alan Watts.🙏
Thank you Mr Watts - When I say this I know you don't exist - So really I am thanking the Source - Which is me. I am thanking myself - I thank us all !
Why do you thank yourself ? Surely thanks are due to the Creator .
he's right. it is a game. help each other and have fun
Thank you my friend! Every time i hear your voice in my head,you set me free.
Thanks for #publishing the #infinitology of #alanwatts
exactly,i try a lot to relax around people, and try to let go, but just need to NOT TRY :)
Amazing.Truly amazing.
This is what I needed
Watts was a divine being.
*is
We all are
How glad I am to have listened to this. Thank you for uploading.
Thanks for posting. I love this man ! Changed my life.
Not trying does not mean doing nothing. It means to not get in your own way. Like how a boxer instinctively slips a punch- instead of thinking and contemplating his next step. or how a pianist naturally flows his finger without really thinking. or how a driver drives the vehicle without really "thinking" about it. Have you notice this? youre day dreaming and your body is literally doing all the rest and youre not really putting conscious attention to it. - kinda amazing
We have been trained in schools to stop and really think but all that does it puts us in a stiff state. our muscles tense up our actions get stuck
Everything Is Music; Always Be Listening.
Alan Watts is burned in my soul.
Civilization = Trying (really hard) and that is why all of us suffer as we do.
Everybody dies but not everybody lives
That makes me depressed.
Living is different for everyone. Some people don't count partying all night as living. Some people count volunteering at an animal shelter as living.
@@thedollofthemonthseries True.Everybody has their own idea of what happiness is.
Amazing
This is a great edit. The music is quiet enough for us to listen to him well, while also adding emotional value to his speech.
Our education system must be changed ! 😭
I'd say in the next few years and /or decades things are going to change dramatically. People like you and anybody else who sees past the belief systems will be essential to guide by example or share ideas as to which way we need to point. It will go one way or the other and I hope and feel that more people who become aware to what we truly are are going to tip the scales for the better outcome.
HDvids101 yeah you are so right....our education system is now in a very bad condition just bcz people don't know who they actually are...they are running and chasing which is futile....if they understand this somehow there can be a big drastic change affecting the whole society including a child who is forced to participate in a race which takes us nowhere, his childhood is being ruined by this race cuz his mind is being diverted in the direction which is just opposite to his soul's...😕😕 i have been also affected badly by this and now too...everyday i see many children like me, who has became just like a machine and who believe that the whole universe is just like a computer, processing some data and giving the output 😭😭😭 they don't know what is life, how to feel its essence and how to feel their soul....all they know is a race which has to be won by taking over the others ! 😭😭😭😭
Sajal Saun the whole world system has to be changed .We are slaves of the Jesuit order
Franco 3830 yeah...it's not the world system...it's the world chaos actually !!
Sajal Saun yes s new world order rules
Seneca - On the shortness of life
This makes the seemingly simple idea of "life is a journey" have so much more meaning now
the chinese word for nature DZZZZZJAAN
ahahaah i dont know. still funny tho
ahahah it also made me laugh :)
youbox would you happen to know how to spell that word in English?? I'd like to read up
Many thanks, my friend. This actually isn't the first time I've asked someone online, thank you for being the person to finally help!
That which happens of itself.
thanks. he's a genius and keeps it really simple
This man came closer to understanding the true meaning of "Life, the universe, and everything" than any other human has come in history.
He is just one of many that pass on knowledge. There are many paths and ones that are smoother for some minds than others. It all depends on how you assimilate knowledge. Tom Campbell who wrote " MyBigTOE " has much more first hand knowledge of how reality works than Alan Watts but that doesn't make him any better? No because some people may not need more knowledge to be started on their journey of discovery. Just a few videos of AW is what they need or Eckhart Tolle or Ram Dass or their Husband, Wife, Boss, kids... teachers are everywhere and the better ones you already know ;-)
Great mind!
I would just simply like to explain that when I explain it is not too control because I explain that I don't have control of explaining my consciousness and experiences and it would be absolutist to limit explanations to always control things or people or whatever, so on this point Alan has never experienced me and never will, because evolution creates The unprecedented as ever. Thank you as I continue to enjoy Alan's brilliance.
So then now then ❤
Finally figuring out the trick to playing it’s wonderful
Loved this.
How does he expect me to finish my homework with this attitude? Ugh. The only thing to do now is travel the world in hardship and experience suffering and Being in its fullness. Nothing can satisfy me now. Great.
The paradox is that we have to "try" in order to basically undo the consequences of all the instances the we "tried" in the past...
Beautiful.
Thank you!
I love it. Thankyou
I’ve just tried this out and can confirm it works good
this is amazing
This video is life.
wow !!! truly inspiring , and true
Enjoy it live life to the fullest. Life is a dance there is no end point or you will miss life's greatest moments
Love me some Alan Watts
Wow
Fantastic. So truth.
What's school for if you're born with your IQ. Knowledge one would say. But the knowledge you need to succeed in your life, you will read books or google the knowledge you seek. Perhaps spending your whole life reading books.
I grew up to be an electrician, yet school never taught me anything about electrical. It takes on the job training. My employer was so desperate for help, he didn't care I actually skipped a lot of school. You see the definition of brainwash is to force an education. I did not take forcing well.
The Traveler me neither. Whenever I'm taught to make something in school that just doesn't make sense to me I simply just skip it. So I once went home one day when we were taught to watch a movie which we already had seen several times and my classmates actually blamed me for it. That's real indoctrination right there and I feel sorry for them.
love him...
wonderful
Legend so smooth
#that in the quest for the ordinary pleasures of the world: food, sex, power, possessions-all this becomes a drag and I think ‘No, it isn’t there.’ So I go in for the arts, literature, poetry, music, and I absorb myself in those pleasures-and after a while they aren’t the answer.
Life is a journey , not a destination. life is for living, everything you do or have done has been done by your own mind . Sometimes it's boring , sometimes it's great , we all have our ups & downs (so to speak) it's all about learning . kindness & not judging ppl is the best way. remember you send out vibrations even with your thoughts . I've learnt that the hard way lol (but it's got me to the here & now) I must of been doing somit right . For all my hardships ect have taught me valuable lessons , now I can put down to experience. & on hindsight the little steps I took during my worst of times were realy giant leaps into the unknown. I also say if I have learnt something out of any given situation, lesson then in turn becomes a blessing. There's good & bad in everything, & everybody. watch for the ones who take your kindness for daft Ness. you learn to weed them out fast. never to return to your life & happiness, I called them emotional vampires. They will suck you dry. They don't know any other way . ! I'm getting deep lol.
#justthoughtadshare.
wow that was beautiful
and powerful
first time understanding the simplistic point of the universe being in no hurry nor direction. it just goes... 😊