Letting Go - Alan Watts
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- Alan Watts - How To Completely Let Go (Full )
In this profound and thought-provoking talk, renowned philosopher Alan Watts delves into the principles of Zen philosophy and the art of letting go. Drawing upon Eastern wisdom, Watts discusses the role of desire, attachment, and spiritual energy in Hindu and Chinese traditions, highlighting the contrasting perspectives of the West and the East. Exploring the concept of "kundalini" and the significance of redirecting psychic energy, Watts reveals how the practice of yoga aims to elevate consciousness and transcend the dissipating nature of sexuality.
With a blend of Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism, Zen emerges as a powerful expression of living awakened while actively engaging in the world. Watts elucidates the essence of Zen and its unique approach to existence, characterized by being "king on the outside and the sage on the inside." He delves into the interplay between practical affairs and inward introspection, offering insights into the Chinese Zen tradition and its integration with art, poetry, and scholarship.
Throughout this captivating talk, Watts sheds light on the nature of Zen training, emphasizing the dialogue between master and student, and the journey of self-discovery it entails. He explores the paradoxical nature of Zen, where teachers often reject students and provoke them to persist in their quest for authentic being. By immersing oneself in meditation, contemplating koans, and embracing rigorous discipline, students are encouraged to transcend the illusion of self and experience profound insights.
As Watts narrates captivating anecdotes and shares deep insights, viewers are invited to contemplate the nature of reality, the significance of self-exploration, and the transformative power of embracing the present moment. Discover the timeless wisdom of Zen philosophy and embark on a journey of self-discovery with Alan Watts as your guide.
Join us for this enlightening discussion on "Letting Go" and explore the profound teachings of Zen philosophy with Alan Watts, a masterful orator and philosopher who continues to inspire and challenge our perspectives on life, existence, and the nature of being.
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In this video, Alan Watts discusses morality and letting go.
About Alan Watts:
Alan Watts was one of the very first philosophers to interpret Eastern ideologies for a Western audience. Alan Watts was born outside of London in 1915. It was in his youth when he first discovered a nearby Buddhist lodge. In 1938 he moved to the United States where he became an Episcopal priest and relocated to Millbrook, New York,. it was here that he wrote his most pivotal book The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety.
Alan later moved west to San Francisco in 1951. It was here that he began to teach Buddhist studies, and in 1956 he started his well-known radio show “Way Beyond the West.”
By the sixties, his radio talks were aired nationally and the counterculture movement had truly adopted him as a spiritual genius. Alan continued to write and travel until the end.
How to let go by Alan Watts
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I allways listen to Alan when I feel lost, which is often.
Life is a beautiful journey of losing yourself and finding yourself over and over.
@@connor7048Notat the moment it is not with the war against mankind
Being lost is the way to be found!
Exactly how I felt
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Losing your mind
Losing your mind is terribly underrated.
All our lives we are taught to be analytical, rational, goal-oriented and in control.
That’s why most of us are forever living in our minds rather than in the real world.
In other words, we’ve got our heads buried in our screens or lost in thoughts rather than being present to what is here now.
And when you take a break from being in your head and look around you, your mind immediately tells you all the things that are wrong or lacking from this moment.
It’s a bit cold.
I wish it was sunny.
I’m bored.
I wish I had money/love/happiness.
I wish I was as tall/handsome/strong/popular as that guy.
Before you know it, we’re right back in our minds figuring out how to fix this moment.
In other words, we almost never live in this moment because we are always trying to get to the next, better moment.
But by the time we get to that moment, we will be too busy to really notice because we will be so preoccupied with getting to the next, even better one.
In this way, the mind separates us from life, from the magic of why we came here in the first place.
The mind is afraid of life, that’s why it’s always trying to protect us from it.
So if you have the opportunity to lose your mind, I suggest you seize it with both hands.
Don’t worry about what the others will think - they’re really too busy thinking about themselves and the next moment to really notice anyway.
You believe in yourself and what you think so much you actually miss the point of Alan's lecture don't you? The true meaning of losing the mind is to hand it over to the True Master, not mental masturbation.
Thank you a 1000 times for not putting music in the background!
Hear Here !!! Ty Ty Ty too!!!
Also thank you 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Wow I never would have thought people don’t like the music.. I prefer it so much more with music
you can always use youtube music under it, or spotify. there is no beat in the video so any music would do and is easy to mix with his voice. music producer here.@@raweggstremist
actually there is background music at 12:24 perhaps the very first time Alan Watts' voice was mixed with music haha
I’ve been listening to and learning from Alan Watts for years on UA-cam and the most amazing thing is to see people discovering him and commenting on his videos every day. No matter when I click on a video of his there is always a new comment from a newly awakened person. He lives on as a teacher infinitely.
Yeah most of these recordings are well over 50 years old.
He truly was a special human
11:11 R.I.P DEAR TEACHER.. HIS SOUL LIVES WITHIN ME.. HIS SPIRIT WILL FOREVER LIVE ON
@@sublime_minds thank you for uploading them. You are amazing too
@@kendrick1111May1stHe was just a guy. He brings up Jiddha Krishnamurti.
“FAITH is when you let go, not when you hold on to” 🙌🏽
I have no need for faith. You>?
Letting go and trusting the universe
Piss poor philosophy.
The tenants of Buddhism rightly state that "Desire is the source of all suffering"
which would be more correct to say INWARD suffering.
The problem is the selfish conclusion that to avoid suffering, a person should not desire. But it is a mistake to avoid suffering rather than to suffer for causes worthwhile. To lack desire is to lack love, and all forms of passion.
Life involves pain. To avoid pain is to avoid a full life.
To let go of desire is to remove all substance from life.
This is the polar opposite of enlightenment. It is immature selfishness, pure and simple.
To live in perpetual contentment is to settle, rather than achieve.
To pursue personal happiness is to avoid genuine meaning.
To avoid pain is to cower rather than live principled.
This is the primary flaw in all similar philosophies.
Self esteem comes from accomplishment, not affirmation.
Accomplishment comes from painstakingly sacrificing for that which is greater than one's selfish base instincts, which is the importance of principles over policies.
Letting go is only a good thing depending on the value of the thing being sacrificed.
Faith is only a good thing when it is well placed.
Your (personal) truth is subjective and it's understanding is limited by perspective. THE truth is objective, and is limited only by the bounds of reality.
@@autonomouspublishingincorp8241 nobody's got time to read that crap. Get a life plz
@@autonomouspublishingincorp8241 Most of your statements above are correct, which is to say, I agree with them. However I don’t think avoiding desire is a tenant of Buddhism, at least according to Watts. “Avoid desire” would only be said to a student whose stated aim was to avoid suffering. The student may or may not figure out (as you have) that avoiding desire means avoiding life. The zen master, again according to Watts, would not see any problem with suffering or desire and equally no problem with avoiding them. There is only a problem if someone thinks they have a problem. So at least this is what I think I have heard elsewhere in Watts, hope it was useful.
“You can’t give it to them because everybody’s got it.” Gold.
That last line, “you can’t give it away because everybody’s got it, you have to make them see that they have it … that’s the most difficult task” calls to me from time to time and I come back to this video to hear it again. It’s so beautiful. Thank God for Alan Watts ❤ and thank God for every one of you, whomever may be reading this
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Was pretty profound for me that last line I almost lost interest several times but it was worth it... The reason I can't find what I am looking for is that its always been inside me. That feels awesome. Not that the journey stops here!
We already got it
I feel the same way. Grateful for your comment 😊🙏
Much love right back at you keep enjoying each passing moment
In my ever present attempt to overcome a crippling depression, I am coming to really enjoy the voice and the lessons of this man!
You're not alone
@@Elias-jp5gc❤
You may also like Albert Camus videos 🙏
Start feeling your body, in as many moments as you can, and especially (and it's gonna be tough) all the anxiety and fear. We ALL have it, I'm realizing, though to various degrees and in various places in our body (though tension in the head / face / behind the eyes seems very ubiquitous). Yet no one is taught to feel it. Not that you have to psychoanalyze all the reasons for the fear (of course those are important too), but at some level (and this is more important than the 'why' of fear) fear is just a sensation, a tingle, a stomach-bag-of-icky, a sensation that we all hate. It's the sensation of "Run. React. Get away. Don't look at this feeling."
But just like you can concentrate on the tip of your finger and get it to start buzzing, you can put your mind on the physical sensations of fear, anxiety, anger, guilt, etc, wherever they are located in your body, and they start to change. It's not that bad becomes good, or suddenly you're ok with something you're not ok with, it's that the emotions become less and less crippling, precisely because a) you realize that you can feel them (versus running from them and being reactionary), and b) not only does willingly feeling fear cause it to subside, as you let go into the sensation of it, the sensation can transmute and you (and this might sound crazy) start to touch the Void, God, whatever. That's surrender - willingly feeling what you're shown, regardless of what your pride tells you you SHOULD be feeling.
Basically the secret is this: radical acceptance of all sensation (apart from physical, damaging pain). Which means you have to consistently remind yourself to feel everything inside, for as long or as minimal a time as it's in your awareness. And as soon as you feel something else, put your mind on that new sensation completely, until you feel something else, then put your mind on it completely, and so on, and so on. You're gonna be 'thinking' that whole time too. You can't stop that. Accept it. Just keep one mental hand on the PHYSICAL feeling (tingles, tensions, discomforts, pleasures) of being alive at all times. Watch where in your body you start to clench based on any given thought, and go to work there.
Just as Watts says: "You don't choose your thoughts. You don't choose your feelings." Look at your own experience of life and you'll see this is true. We do learn, thank God, thus the quality and pattern of our thoughts can improve. But we can't ever know what we're gonna think of or feel next until we've thought of that thing, and experienced the feeling associated with it. How would you choose a thought without already thinking of it? You can't. This uncontrollable (but yes we learn) constant flow of thought and sensation is basically all of experience, when you look at it honestly. What else is there affecting what you do, other than a thought and the associated sensation that accompanies it?
But, "You don't have to let go because there's nothing to hold on to," says Watts. Exactly. And that's the reveal. You don't control your mind. Mind doesn't work that way. It learns, and thus your patterns of thought and feeling might change, but even then, what is learning? We don't consciously rearrange our neurons to now "get it." Rather, learning happens or it doesn't.
You don't have to let go, because you're not in control at all. No one is. But that means you're not in control of letting go either. So you can, thus, REALLY let go. Watch what happens. Even more than that, feel it.
You may realise that by giving up the attempt to “fix” or “overcome” your depression, and just accepting whatever that has happened has happened and that your mind will do what it wants and you have no control over it, that you start to become free. Trying to overcome yourself and your mind is like a rope trying to climb over itself, or a carriage trying to push itself forward- will just result in more anger and frustration & therefore more depression. Make small changes and develop healthy habits but stop trying to control things (including your mind), only god can change and control things.
Listening to this on a mushroom experience was the key to unlocking my chains. It's been over a year now and every day is just wonderful.
Do you got psychotic because of the shrooms?
@@Christina-nb6ds if psychotic means not being depressed, sign me up
@@croozerdog believe me you don't want that either
@@Christina-nb6dsyou don’t have to take a lot of psychedelics at once to have spiritual experiences, in fact it’s probably better to build up over time.
I’ve never taken enough to really “see stuff” or have a big reality shift, and I’ve still had a life changing experience.
It took smaller doses over many days, but EVERYONE WALKS A DIFFERENT PATH
That’s the point
@@Christina-nb6ds no. I had a magical and self growing experience. It was absolutely uncomfortable and overwhelming at times but that's when the most work is done.
Only started listening to him since last night and most things he say just make sense to me and make me happy to hear. He reassures me that death is nothing to be afraid of and that nothing in life or survival of life is of real concern. Death and life are just two versions of existence and it doesn’t change me if I die. Life merely is, and therefore I don’t need to worry about anything or be anxious about something at school or with a relationship etc. I can live my life however I want to live and be grateful for its simple pleasures. I can choose to be sincere and compassionate to others, which is meaningful because that’s the person I want to be. I am eternally grateful to be here right now and being able to listen to him and others, and experiencing the gifts of life!
Welcome and keep listening to I have for years! Some lectures several times over
A young person thinks they’ll live forever, a middle aged person knows its coming, an old person is ready.
Our society has a neurosis right now where this doesn't hold true anymore. Some middle aged people still act like their young, some kind of way over extended adolescent.
You are So true
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But the actual middle age and old age is not the same as it was 40 or 50 years ago. People died younger so 30 was middle age and 55 was old. Now people are dying aged 90. So 45 is more middle age and 85 is old. But 30 year old are not considered young. They keep youth at the same age and expect people to embrace the older category even though it doesn't apply to them
Since absolutely everyone and every living being dies, how bad can it be? It is terrible for those who continue. That's so odd, but I wouldn't change any of it.
I know he passed long ago.. unfortunately. Still saving lives though. He’s a permanent voice playing on my daily drive to a job and a life I want to shed.
It’s not unfortunate….it just is……as we listen to or think of Alan, he is here, present with us…I love you all😘
@@penishead0073 interesting.....its the energy then.....that "alan watts" energy....is present today......
@@penishead0073 🤨🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣👻🙏👻
His work transcends time and I think people will still be finding value in many years to come still. If you are looking to adjust your reality I would suggest listening to Neville Goddard. There are some videos on this channel. You can create any reality you can imagine
Primordial energy called Alan Watts is not dead, energy cannot die for it does not percieve time or space. Hes part of the collective consciousness, he is everything. 😊❤
His voice and his laughter is appealing lighthearted and kind.
He was one of a kind!
@@sublime_minds you don't understand what kind means!
@@dangerousideas We don't understand.
😂
@@Monotonous-Tedium 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"the highest teaching is not to grasp nor to cling"
Equnimity ..
Alan Watts changed my life.
Alan Watts is the rascal. In explaining the game he has played it perfectly. The magician whose trick is showing you the trick. He has outwitted us completely. I see you and your compassion Alan.
The Bridge from East to West.
Hey man
It would seem that the virtual master played the role of the student, if you listen to his nonchalant way of teaching, you discover that he almost asks, and answers his own questions without being noticed
@@clintstiemke3788we’re all student and teacher, just from different perspectives. remember-it’s all relative 🤔
I'm 15 and i love alan watts so much I listen everyday oml
You’re doing great!
You are amazing ❤love for you
Periodically I hear the call, an inevitably find my way back to Alan. My realms of idealized imaginations ring with his voice from every leaf and petal.
Very True. Many paths lead us to Alan haha
That's beautiful
Everyone on the planet should listen to this at least once.
But listening is committing, and by committing you throw your innate cosmic perfection off-balance, creating a divide between yourself and the world in the process.The choice of Buddha is not have to choose, the ice hockey of Dharma is played without sticks.
What an amazing human being Alan is
I can’t believe these talks are over 50 years old
Alan - if you can hear us, come back & teach us more… ❤❤❤
Buddha's teachings are available at a library.
@@mariekung9109 - thanks Marie ❤️
He was blowing hippies minds back in the day lol. Love Alan Watts, but he himself never claimed to be anything more than a "spiritual entertainer". He was an incredibly intelligent, studied and well spoken person, who got a "kick" out of holding lectures and discussing topics he was passionate and learned about. He was no prophet, just a man. By no means does that fact negate any truth that may be found by those who listen to his talks. Quite the contrary. He was a conduit of the universe, speaking about itself, to itself. As are we all. "You see?"
Alan takes us right to the edge, up to you to jump :)
@@dlm9293 what a great take, I enjoyed that very much. Good for you
I come from a hardcore Catholic family listening to Alan Watts is my act of after adolescence rebellion
Thank the Universe that we have all these recordings of Alan Watts. He has done a great service to Western culture by bringing Eastern philosophy to us in ways we can easily comprehend.
alan watts is still alive inside me, one of the spirits that is guiding me through depression suicide anxiety, at this very moment am going through alot crying and alan watts is talking to me thank you, i hope and wish for everyone happiness love health am alive and i wanna live to learn to evolve same for everyone ❤
I read your comment and it resonated with me. I just want you to know that you are not alone. I am in a very similar situation as you described, and listening to this along with some wonderful Ram Das lectures here in this dark, lonely hotel room, It provided me with some much needed comfort, encouragement, and good advice. I wish you much success, love, comfort and peace on your journey. Good luck my friend that I have never known and will never meet. May you find healing and enlightenment and cultivate the changes you need to live a happy and rewarding life.
Things will get better mate. Good luck!
I highly recommend listening to Michael Singer as well. Has helped me immensely.
@@ChrisCulbreth i couldn’t agree more with you, and ram das is wonderful could you believe it that i have been listening to both for the last one month always at night when it’s dark and it’s amazing, at the end i can wish you the same you wished for me and more
@@ChrisCulbrethYou will get to meet each other. Just not in this reality. (although still connected energetically)
This was from my experience in an nde-like dream ❤
Nothing as dangerous as a righteous saint. Brilliant
I'm no Buddhist, but I do admire it.
I've practised mindfulness and meditation before, and they've both helped me control my anxiety.
your name is storybuddhas but ur no buddhist?
Of course, Watts did not consider himself to be a Buddhist, either.
Watts - I’m not a teacher I’m an entertainer 😊 Wise man Mr Watts
When he said Ignorance “ignore-rance” I am free from embarrassment from my college experience when my professor asked me what is the meaning of ignorance and I answered “ choosing to ignore “ but he said to me “yes you can put it in that way but that's not the answer I am looking for” I thought I didn't make any sense because everyone was laughing at me but yeah thanks to this video ❤
To reference the video about the illusion of the problem, for some fun. Was the fact that everyone laughed after your response an indication they were laughing at your expense; or was it the possibility that you answered a question with many answers concisely and it still wasn’t good enough?
We create the problem. It is an illusion, wether they laughed at you or with you. You simply made them laugh.
There was no presence of a negative exchange.
Only one you chose to imply. Perhaps they didn’t even understand why they were laughing, because your answer was not incorrect.
The funniest thing about the exchange with your professor was being right about being wrong, and then told you are wrong for being right.
“If you ask a question, you get 30 smacks of the stick, if you don’t ask a question you get thirty smacks of the stick.” This is what the zen masters were trying to teach.
I am just now realizing how to integrate this into real world situations because of you. Thank you 🙏 it started working itself out as I was asking the questions. 🙏
@@FastHands1504Smoking love this morning 😂
Awesome
There is nothing to show when asked who you are.. you are you. Your consciousness is proof. You do not need a reason to feel you deserve something, that you have to work to get something, that you have suffered enough to deserve something, just like when asked what is your name, you think about your name and you know its yours no one can take it away you instantly know that its you when someone mentions your name. So live life as if you have everything and that you have nothing. Everything is yours so long as you want it, and when you lose something just think that you had nothing in the first place so its not a loss.
Make a trend everywhere so that everybody listens to him and see how many we are
"Seven times down, eight times up. Such is life"
When you realize you were the only one holding onto it you'll also how much of your time you've wasted on nothing but your choices so I decided to choose better for self without any blame to others ❤❤
This may be one of my top Watts videos, this is beyond enlightenment
This is beautiful! I was saved from the trap of Christianity at 40! True freedom!!! The kingdom of God is within you. Forgive them…..for they know not what they do….🙏🏽✨
“ in other words show me who you are” - thanks Alan for reminding me to be authentic AF ✌🏻
Day in and day out the ropes of following the crowd pull but I will from now on, be myself
Far ahead of his time. What he spoke then in the 60s still applicable today even with todays AI and cell phones and satellites - EVERYTHING. Mr Watts knew!!!!
'50s
Eckhart and Alan are who I’m listening to and practicing their teachings. I am.
“You don’t get something out of it, you are it”
At this point I've lost count of the times this man saved my soul.❤
facts
Why are we here?... Because we're here... Roll the bones...
I've always kept coming back to alan watts after getting stuck into everyday life loop and always found myself again and again .
He was a fascinating man a ordained priest who quit being a Christian and became a Buddhist master. Brilliant man but what a transformation. I can understand that though. Zen and Buddhism in general is the non religion religion. In my opinion it holds the most acceptance of other faiths and does not subscribe to the dogma of one theological view of god. It is just a much philosophy as a religion. It is more of a way of life and at least in the East people lived it
Thaks to who ever is putting these rays of light through the shit storm!
Thank you for taking the time to comment! What do you think of the newer videos where I breakdown some of the different elements of his teachings? Always looking for ways to improve the content for everyone
This is only my second clip. I will keep you informed. Thanks again.@@sublime_minds
This is just wonderful to listen to, I'm from somewhere there is no 'culture' and I'm lucky because I already feel zen, nothing phases me, appreciate everything I have and the life I live and have common sense. I don't need to chase someone or something for a 'higher meaning' , too many sheep out there just be your self and everything will fall into place naturally. When you go on holidays to escape your 9-5 job, Forget what day it is and just live in the moment and clear your mind as much as you possibly can. One more thing don't use social media it just clogs your brain full of useless nothingness.
Whites Snow I think you are right about social media, thank you for your wisdom friend.
Thanks for your valuable insight. You're spot on of course. All the best x
Wonderful words. I can't believe it took me 40 years to find Alan!
@@fuzzhead19 Took me about 47 and purely by accident. I really cannot believe I didn't hear of him earlier but they say 'when the student is ready the teacher appears.'
I feel a special affinity with him because he died 3 weeks before I got born. I'm also amazed at what he achieved in 58 years of life...
When you say ‘yourself’ who is this ‘you’ that you refer to? Self doesn’t exist my friend- we are everything.
He's very knowledgeable, enlightened & deeply profound! Would love to sit with him drinking tea & have conversation with him!
Too bad he died in the 1973 =\
With AI I suppose a facsimile of this could be possible
Not me,he already said enough
His voice is so important and inspiring. To remember the way I can feel him say his words so intentionally and firm reminds me of the importance of how we use our speech to move people
Whenever I hear Mr. Watts’ voice, I immediately feel better. XOXO
change is the one CONSTANT in life
Imagine the only notable thing you ever did in your life was annoyingly coughing in the background of an Alan Watts speech
haha
notoriety ? no thanks .
For two years now I have been listening to you Alan. Often listening again to what I've heard you say before. But each time I listen I know it just a bit better. I find that highly enjoyable.
U put my experience to words.
Have you listened to Neville?
@@aldrinmercado3475man that old school shit takes a while to dip in to. I’ve come across a bit and some manly p hall but you’ve got to prepare for that stuff lmao
Just started to cry as soon as he started to speak, he strips away all the bull and the layers we bury ourselves under...
These days 'woke' is used in a derogatory sense. Alan proves that this attitude is short-lived and reminds us that karma and intent have leverage in the long game. Alan is Socrates, I get so much more, listening to Alan compared to reading. His storytelling is captivating. Each lecture is unique. Alan fills all the spaces with words or thought.
Thank you for showing light
His voice is so soothing
Wonderful.
I know im always going through something when his talks pop up on my feed, his talks keep me grounded and aware of what im going through so one day it may pass
The screen graphic is amazing thanks it's not too distracting and you can still listen to everything that he is saying
Perfect.
I was listening to this while on the treadmill in the gym and several times i just burst out in absolutely joyous laughter when i heard some of the things he said, it was the feeling like you could see again, like you finally understood some obscure mechanic. An amazing uplifting feeling, i hope its at least a little close to that Aha!/satori that was mentioned.
After living 6 years in Chinese-speaking Asia in the 1990s, I can't help but think that Alan Watts had a very idealized view of the Chinese.
Explain what you mean in m0re detail.
Amazing. Thank you for the upload
One of his best.
When I was a child, I actually had an imaginary friend called Alan, whom I would talk to in the mirror.😊
Beautiful 🙏
He really was very special
Pure Brilliance
Thank you universe
It easy for someone to let go when they see the beauty of the other side ❤
needed this reminder like a massage. Stress reliever indeed.
I really liked the music in the end. And thank you so much for not having ads 🙏🙏🙏
"Hinduism is a way of life.."
Well defined Alan.....🙏
Buddhism is Hinduism stripped of cultural necessity for export - paraphrasing Alan
Hinduism is a way of life, but which also includes the pitylessness of its various societies and sects.
@@verity4917 don't get me started on the subject of sects and societies in Abrahamic religions
Yay I’m being awakened again
What a wonderful talk.
"The joker is that card that can play any role in the pack"
you are seeing this at the right time
Since a little kid I have always thought I’m these ways but always thought I was weird for being the only one who stood up for how I thought. Makes me know that this is not my first go around.
I used to listen to Alan Watts on the radio in the nineteen sixties when I was a kid when I went to bed. I love the sound of his voice and what he says compared to all the other b.s. in the World.
Thank you for respecting his true memory, adding any music in the background of his speeches ruins his lecture.
What a great teacher he is ❤️
I always return to Alan Watts!
Best of the best ever 🙏
This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my UA-cam channel 5 months ago about self development. Now I have 327 subs and almost > 100 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I couldn’t have learned without getting started in the 1st place.
I don't know you but I'm proud of the courage you have found in yourself.
@@annahunter2192
Thanks so much!
I realized that the main reason for doing this is not about the success but the inspiration I've been providing some people with my stories while helping others do the same as I shared the lessons & experiences through making videos to have a sense of meaningful purpose. Therefore, I’m planning to quit nursing to pursue youtube full time as there are lots of issues in our traditional health systems as these don’t align with my values. It’s a huge learning curve but I love helping people through making videos.
Also, as part of my video creation progress, I’m switching to a better editing software and a camera so the learning curve is much higher and slows down the completion speed of my next videos so please hang on tight! I do appreciate your support and kind words! I am hoping that you can join me with this endless personal development journey! :)
@@nathananderson8720 Good work! I've just started studying Counselling (after working in Insurance for 24 years) so I feel you when you talk about the learning curve and your values not aligning. It's hard; but you're doubly learning something - about your new line of work and about yourself.
@@annahunter2192 Whoever you are, I don't know you personally but I can say based on what you said, that you're one of the non-judgmental and open-minded people who is not fixated on tangible or external factors in order to learn from someone like me. Just because someone doesn't have a piece of paper as a credential, doesn't mean that person is not entitled to share personal experiences with the hope & intention to inspire others. Keep up with whatever it is that you're doing to improve mankind or improving your life even to a slight degree each day. This is just one part of a bigger puzzle for creating my UA-cam channel about holistic health. I literally could have died back when I was 14 years old due to major depression but here I am right now replying to you, a UA-camr, who's full of fulfillment and dedication to help others to be a better version of themselves. I ain't better than anyone else but my old self. That's all that really makes this UA-cam thing more meaningful and enjoyable. Thanks so much for your support!
25:58 Reminds of how Adyashanti has talked about meditating for so long that his tendons had to be surgically reattached to his knees 😮 So probably not just a myth…
At 14:34 Alan refers to this book which is one of my favorites which you can still find which was written in the '40s. It has the tao te ching chapters interspersed with Chuangtse writings, and they compliment each other very well, and I find Lin Yutangs translations to be much more easily understandable to my Western mindset. If you're interested in the tao te ching, this book is a must have! I also wanted to say that I've been listening Alan Watts lectures for years, and I've never heard this one and it made me smile when he referred to a book that I have enjoyed for a long time. Thank you so much for posting this!
"thinking about the past and future is in the present moment of it's focused thinking..." not worried and uncontrolled. Nice to hear. I love to journal and choose future priorities, then live it. Planning and dreaming has taken me many amazing places. Cheers.
Rest in power, legend 🙏
Alan Wilson Watts
6 January 1915 ~
16 November 1973⚘
He's an amazing teacher still
I just discovered Alan Watts today- bits of his lecture had me in tears. It's good to know that the journey can be hard.
So glad to hear that! He was very influential at the start of my journey. Still so relevant now even though it was recorded like 50 years ago
In November this year he would have passed away 50 years ago. I was born three weeks after he died but only discovered him a couple of years ago by sheer accident. Although they say there are no accidents...
Love his way of speaking
🙏🏽❤️
Absolutely master piece
❤ Belief clings, faith lets go ❤
RIP Alan ❤🌹
He was reborn decades ago.
He brings us the Key to deliver us from our fears, the fondations of slavery
🔥Blissful thinking🔥
Jai shree sitaram
I love you.
Late night UA-cam algorithm 🤝 Alan Watts
Perhaps its just me but his voice really calms me down.
How fortune we are to be able to listen.
How fortunate we are to be able to listen...
To one self
Thanks for posting.
You're welcome
His genuine laugh is what makes me love his lectures
Listening to Alan’s recorded philosophies from years ago makes ONE feel like they are sitting in the parlor of an old friend. It’s just US friends here. Kind, Curious. Spiritual Souls here-❤ Keep choosing Love.
Wow. What a profound punchline