Alan Watts - Thought
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2011
- www.alanwatts.com
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
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For anyone who has ever suffered from a mental illness such as anxiety or depression, this 10 minute video explains it almost with perfection. Very interesting words.
I can`t even begin to tell how many answers I found in his talks to things that I could notice all of my life but had no idea how to deal with.
Couldn’t agree more
I know this is a code to help me deal with what im going through right now because I can feel it but im so bummed that I can’t quite understand it...
@@andistripx4470 ask what you don't understand
You don't ignore anything, you just witness and watch the thoughts and images and everything that is happening within your mind. Imagine sitting at the side of the road and watching the people and the traffic pass. If you could only see the distance between the witness and the thoughts, you'd realize you are not your thoughts.
No body has ever explained me the phenomenon of attachement so clear as Alan Watts.
Thank you for sharing this.
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted.
Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Margolis
I know this was 6 years ago but damn
Alan Watts is another one of those people who is far far beyond their time. This recording sounds so much better though with the music overlay which can be found with a YT search again, with .flv on the end. Happy learning people. Proud to be a human again.
Watts was and goes on as a genuine gift to this planet.
This plus the Cinematic Orchestra- Arrival of the Birds makes such great beauty.
Alan Watts was the most helpful thinker/writer (philosopher) who was also a native English speaker in my opinion. I just realized that. I must add though, on the subject t hand, that science does say memories are stored physically in the brain.
The intriguing question that then arises is "In what form are they stored?"; and how does that form (presumably electro-chemical) get transformed into the images and words we know as memories?"
Mainstream neuroscience promotes the model of the brain as a 'container' for storing thoughts and memories. In this way the brain is seen as a sort of biological computer, or at least, a sort of 'storage box' for everything about a particular person's life experience, skills, and personality.
Another possibility, that I prefer to consider, is the idea that our brain works more like an antenna. According to this model the brain is more signal transceiver than storage box, with specific regions of neurones tuned-in to specific dimensions of consciousness or experience. In this model, neurotransmitter molecules may transmit information to/and from another dimension outside the four we know-you might think of this as iCloud for the soul, with the brain uploading and downloading content from another dimension-the dimension where the 'real you' (the Godhead) resides.
This type of theoretical signal-relaying might occur at the quantum level. There are curious things going on with quantum superposition and observation of electrons, for example. Google the Quantum Slit Experiment. Through the Wormhole made an excellent short presentation on this you can find on UA-cam.
There are also neuroscientists (whose names escape me) working at an Arizona university who have also put forth the idea that quantum phenomena play a central, still-mysterious role in how our brains work. The storage-box-computer concept of the brain appears prematurely conclusive (and problematic) in view of the mysteries we are unravelling around quantum mechanics.
The experiential proof of this is to drink Ayahuasca or vaporise the neurotransmitter nn,DMT. The profound, life-changing experience of these tools reveals through experience that the brain is much more than a shoebox of egocentric memories. The real story of the brain is more magical than mainstream neuroscientists presently realise.
Your idea is, of course, not new - just newly dressed up in "scientific" jargon. As you probably know, the brain is considered a sense organ (for sensing thoughts) in much of Buddhist literature. However, I don't think getting stoned on Ayahuasca or any psychedelic can be "proof" of anything but gullibility myself. "Anything possessing any sign is illusory." (Here you see my distinct prejudice against drug induced experience, as opposed to what in zen is called a "great satori", which, along with the kundalini experience, I know to be natural and as "real" as a heart attack.) Different strokes for different folks.
Simply beautiful.
ALAN WATTS.................................NOTHING ELSE MATTERS !!!
This is brilliant! Thankyou! Thought follows thought follows thought.... and behind your thoughts is your clear unblemished self, your godness.
I love Alan watts
to understand the words of Watts is equally awesome ... when more people walk in his path, then evolution is possible once more ... the modern day desire to find happiness in absence of cognition or superconsciousness must cease to be
Just witness whatever is happening inside your head, without "identifying" with anything that arises. Just watch. You will begin to see you are not the contents of your mind.
That's brilliant!
yea bruce is a beast, been trying to find time to watch it all while juggling life, i need more time in a day
Feeling a feeling is
Feeling
Thank you HDvids101
Absolutely brilliant, thank you.
for sure this video is in a class of its own
this is 1 of the best vids on youtube barnone
thank you much much much, im new to the game I appreciate your help!
I had a clue it might not be what you were referring to, but I had to laugh out loud when these words came to my mind, so I felt an urge to share it. I convinced myself it couldn't hurt. I think I was right on that assumption (;
I think that's a horrible idea. I don't claim to be the most intelligent person in the world (far from it), but I think that spreading his ideas would have such a positive impact on the world. The ideas philosophies he spreads are so beautiful and captivating. If only more people cared or even knew about such things, there's no doubt in my mind that the world would be a better place.
The observer is the observed.
- J.Krishnmurti
terrence and alan complement each other very well
rip aw thank you man.
Everything he says is true. Nothing can stick to the real mind....it's like trying to stamp the word "sky" on the sky.
this video is the opening of the door to infinity
Me, My self, and I.
Body, Soul, Mind.
Observe, Learn, respond accordingly.
Balance them
He is so right, while you are hearing that your ego is so afraid
Everything you need to hear doesn't go beyond 2:30. The constant "boop" you learn from childhood is what creates the ego, which makes you feel separate from (yet a victim of) your thoughts. It feels good when you focus your attention on the "separation", but that's just enhancing the feeling of being a separate self. That's not quite what he's trying to teach here.
The next step is to ask that separate self, "Who is this self that understands Alan's words?" and "Where exactly is this self located if it's separate?" Is it not just another appearance in your present moment experience?
Do you have more filmed lectures to see? It would be wonderful to see him speak as well. I feel like we're missing half of the performance.
Watts ❤️
There's always the sound of small planes flying of the setting of his lectures.....interesting.........
True
I like the sound of the airplanes -- frozen in 'time' :)
wow this guy is a beast
Is there a video with the rest of the lecture? Why not have the whole lecture here? It cuts off at the end.
It appears you have all the answers. Peace, my friend.
If we didn't have names, it would be hard to know who someone is talking to.
Names even help babies know they're being spoken to. It makes communication much easier.
Also, if you allow your kid to name himself or herself, they're most likely going to pick something they will heavily regret in a few years. But I don't think it'd be legal not to, because they'd need a birth certificate. If you avoided that successfully and they wanted to change their name again later, major problems would arise.
Can anyone tell me what lecture series this is from? at the end he had just mentioned "the ceramic world" which refers to 'plato's heaven' and seemed about to go into differing ontological theories further... I am interested.
There is difference only in seeming for one is all and all is one.
Hi there, what full length lecture does this correspond to?
Because he is God, as am I, yet he is not me
Nonexistance is not an experience....he never truly "died", he was reborn
I like that 0:00 is the most replayed.
plz where can i find the whole lecture ! its really good ty for uploading this..
Alan Watts - Out Of Your Mind - CD07
Thanks for reminding me. 🙏🤪
According to this, I'm very enlightened when I'm high or on drugs? I never wobble or criticize my thoughts and I feel without feeling my feelings. I live an un-paused stream of thoughts and dreams like a child as well as act without second thoughts or self-reflection. I'm pretty sure that's not what he meant. giving him the benefit that he meant we should seek a balance in this issue and not like that.
@longfootbuddy i think it would be a subconscious library of all thought .
You are acknowledging the existence of a thinker, thoughts are thoughts and are just a flow like a wave, saying to sit aside from your OWN thoughts is proposing someone else is creating or maintaining this flow, when it is actually you who is creating the thoughts. but perhaps because you have developed your "thinker" to be real, when you are involved in your meditation you see the two personalities between mind and self (who you identify as). but the truth is they are one
I like the bit where he says "Boop diggydiggydiggydiggy boop diggydiggydiggydiggy boop..."
So if self controlled brain memory is stored in what part of the cerebral cortex .then why is it we have to right things down for memory ?
Letting go of obvious thoughts doesn't come quickly. After that, tho, one has to let go of basic assumptions and all emotions and all thoughts, obvious and subtle, of self. When you do that, then you will begin to understand zen.
You can call someone a fool while saying you're insulting them. "You are, and I mean this as an insult, a fool", unless he meant literally at the same time.
+Redstar2613 He meant at the very same time. He was comparing it to thinking.
Nyan nyan,
Nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan, nyan nyan nyan! Nyan nyan nyan nyan? Nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan....
Nyan
this is the ancient greek parmenide's filosophy incredible!
what is that?
Reminds of watching a short film in which poor children were given chicken leftovers picked out the garbage. They had the hugest smiles on there faces. They didnt know there supposed to hate there life and and be miserable. That thought had not been and or believed.
You might enjoy Csikszentmihalyi's work on 'Flow'.
what is the larger speech this was tken from?
so to remove the idea of a thinker is to fully experience reality for as it really is?
do we need names?
why do we have names?
why do we need names?
god what the fuck aim doing wit my life.i would go insane if i were sane
Is there a collection of Alan's lectures that can be purchased?
On his website
The ego's vile, vicious, innocuous, and diabolical approach to things is the reason people can't get along and why they fight each other to the death. God really won't show up much in one's life until the ego is resolved to some extent. Surrendering daily to God.Being humble unto the Lord. Loving oneself. Being kind, caring, considerate, and compassionate to everyone in every case is the way to transform ones life and wake up to this new way of life. Log on to Robert Smalley org page for more.
i still dont really understand it's kinda confusing i need to replay a few times to get what he says...
Interesting. What would thought really amount to if it be seized frozen for a moment ? If deprived of the opportunity to relate to the dynamic of change or development? can there be a 'unit' of thought ? what is thought anyway ? A dog chasing it's own tail surely :-)
My brain always gives me too much feedback so i get worried does that mean i need to learn how to not give a shit or whats the soloution ? anybody ?
who is writing notes in the background?
Where do you get this stuff? He didn't die of alcohol poisoning.
namaste
was he talking about dark matter at the end?
Well. Unless the thought had some information before it become senseless it would think nothing. You can't feel sadness unless there is something to be sad about (unless the mind has some problem but let's not get into that.) You can't be confused without there to be confused about. I don't know about you, but I think in words, sounds like I'm talking in my head, when I do math or think about life etc. If the mind had no way to learn how to think it wouldn't think.
nyan nyan nyan....
dear god.
where can I find the full lecture?
ua-cam.com/video/1rXmOz9xW9w/v-deo.html
Redefinedacoustic ah man! 6 years but the wait was worth it! Appreciate you!
@@TAWFEEK19903 you're most welcome
6:35 - propeller planes/helicopters??
but that is exactly the opposite. you are your own mind and subsequently you are your thoughts, you are also your arms and legs and everything else, you are a complex organism identifying itself by the sound "human" and its extraordinary that whoever is reading this is making thoughts of sounds which i have put there with these symbols on my computer screen. i tried your experiment but i realized immediately that by ignoring the thoughts im creating thoughts to ignore and thinking about ignoring
Does anyone know from which lecture this segment is extracted?
"disturbing confusions of the mind"
From the "out of your mind" series
What the fuck.... it just cuts off???? Where's the rest??? Some one please tell me where the rest of it is
when you decide to think on purpose who thinks ? the mind or the awareness ?
u are taking it to wrong way. He is trying to say that there is no who that can be explained by words because words itself is a imagination
Memories may be thoughts but the mind keeps them there (not perfectly but it generally does the job), so they are real. They're details of events that happened in the past which lead to the current moment. So I don't see how he can call them phoney.
Exactly
thats not the context i was referring to
🙏⭕️🙏
faith is believing in things you don't know. its a belief.
it's funny realy.. i just discoved this myself for the first time a month ago or so. i finaly understand. if only i would have seen this video earlier in my life. i'm 22 years old, who knows where i would have been by now.
then again maybe i would not even have understood it
I know I wouldn't have understood it. All in the timing...
Fookin planes !!!! :-)
Is he become englihtened
Listen to Bruce Lipton. ;0))
I'm still trying to decide if Eckhart Tolle is disagreeing with Watts on the subject of the thinker behind the thoughts. Tolle states emphatically that there is an awareness behind the thoughts and the feelings; that there is an identity behind form. He calls it the "I Am". In other words, that which is aware of the thought is not the same thing as the thought. Watts seems to be saying that there is no awareness or identity outside the thoughts, perceptions and feelings; that any form of identity is pure illusion. I'm just not sure what to think here.
I think Eckhart Tolle wants to say that the "i am" is it self empty so "nothing" is their and alan watts in explaining us about this "nothing". it is the nothing that cannot be label which itself is infinity and everything at the same moment.
Eckhart tolle does not disagree with Watts. Tolle is explaining more of an system so that people get solid results. Which he has done greatly! Tolle talks from an experiental perspective instead of a philosophical one
Nitephall this is one of the differences between Buddha Dharma and Hindu Dharma; "is 'it' a solid unchanging something or a constantly changing void?" Both are aware of "it;" can't agree what "it" is(n't).
Ps please don't chase this one too far into the woods, I can't say these things as beautifully as Master Watts but I know you get what I mean.
actually I guide my thoughts. there's a difference. and I'm sure there's something deep down that is the center that experiences what is collected throughout the day. however, alan watts train of thoughts eventually led him to alcohol poisoning which I'm sure he just wrote off as "there's only drinking"; however, we all know that he was the "drinker" getting drunk. can't fool yourself mr watts, i still love your work though.
Not at all.
Lmao man I totally agree these guys bullshit themselves at the end of the day there's still somebody experiencing the product of what was thought so that coexist for a reason this teaching i get it but the point their missing is that you are still both the drinker in thoughts of leading you to drink
0:38 Someone make a Nyan Cat-remix out of this baby.
Digidigidigidigi boop! =D
this sounds lame but, there is a way to test these theories of mind.. on a deeply sub conscious level.. by doing something that takes skill that your acustomed to or already good at... for me I play with my consciousness while gaming.. when I win at playing the game of consciousness i notice that I am not missing any shots and am playing like a robot... proof of the mastering of the mind... I wish someone like watts was around to unravel whats going on with this
this makes me doubt religion... in a good way. we all blindly have "beliefs" but even these beliefs are uncertain :/ i don't even know.
Your always going to have uncertainty just observe that, if u believe theres no need to be uncertain
I knew that Nyan Cat is the prophet of new era...
I think "education" suits it rather well
diggy diggy digggy boop
Holy shit I listened all the way from 0:00 to 2:51 and then I just got universe mind fucked.
hehe, glad there was a laugh
Naturally, DMT is experienced during Birth and Death........hmm. Let that marinate.