The Illusion of MONEY, TIME & EGO - Alan Watts

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  • @AfterSkool
    @AfterSkool  4 роки тому +4087

    It's always a joy to animate the words of Alan Watts. If you enjoyed this animation, please consider supporting After Skool on Patreon. Every donation, no matter how small, will go directly toward creating more videos like this. Thank you! www.patreon.com/AfterSkool

    • @GodEternalWithinYourBody
      @GodEternalWithinYourBody 4 роки тому +8

      at the end... what soundtrack u used there ? can you share please

    • @keeganchase5081
      @keeganchase5081 4 роки тому +21

      will do! thank you for providing these insightful vids, truly unique

    • @StoicBarber
      @StoicBarber 4 роки тому +11

      Bravo 👍👍 Alan Watts is my go to for self reflection.

    • @dayronejohnson1259
      @dayronejohnson1259 4 роки тому +14

      Did after skool have a mushroom trip or something? He’s seemed to know what to post

    • @wildebt
      @wildebt 4 роки тому +4

      Keep up the great effort!!!

  • @rathathalsarhan1603
    @rathathalsarhan1603 4 роки тому +22203

    6 months of being quarantined at home taught me more about life than 25 years of education

    • @Ashh9
      @Ashh9 4 роки тому +951

      Same, I’m so grateful for this time we’ve all received

    • @rhyno9798
      @rhyno9798 4 роки тому +87

      😂🤣😂😂🤣

    • @D.T.Hippie
      @D.T.Hippie 4 роки тому +203

      I’ve been making hiking videos with Alan Watts audio on my channel. Such deep stuff 🙏🏼😎
      Edit: I appreciate all the love on my channel from this comment 🙂

    • @Harru444
      @Harru444 4 роки тому +15

      💀💀

    • @guapodiablo
      @guapodiablo 4 роки тому +10

      Yup

  • @e7d485
    @e7d485 3 роки тому +12467

    Past = depression, melancholy
    future = anxiety, uncertainty, illusion
    Present = peace of mind.

    • @icedawggg
      @icedawggg 3 роки тому +366

      I would have to disagree.
      Present = getting worked up and angry over things that mean nothing in the long run.
      You need a combination of all three if you wish to live in peace

    • @23rdAGE
      @23rdAGE 3 роки тому +42

      @@icedawggg you’re right dawgg👌🏽

    • @MrBadintentionss
      @MrBadintentionss 3 роки тому +164

      just remember that you only came into this world with your mind and your body, so it stands to reason that they are the two things you need to nurture the most.
      an active lifestyle and educating yourself on nutrition is the best investment you can make in your life, because if your mind and/or body fail you, you don't have shit.

    • @BattleTested
      @BattleTested 3 роки тому +65

      @@MrBadintentionss yes I rather be rich in health then actual money

    • @kemp3746
      @kemp3746 3 роки тому +70

      @@icedawggg living in the present is peace of mind. Its hard to explain to someone who doesn’t meditate

  • @Casperh2000
    @Casperh2000 4 роки тому +5531

    Let's all just appreciate that there is no annoying background music

    • @howboutdis3908
      @howboutdis3908 4 роки тому +37

      Yeah but what was that? 1:59

    • @D.T.Hippie
      @D.T.Hippie 4 роки тому +5

      I’ve been making hiking videos with Alan Watts audio on my channel. Such deep stuff 🙏🏼😎

    • @vitticusrising
      @vitticusrising 4 роки тому +6

      @@OsirsVictorySkywell lol, no. It was a gong.

    • @aaronking8706
      @aaronking8706 4 роки тому +40

      It was the sound of now. The piercing sound before/after the silence

    • @vitticusrising
      @vitticusrising 4 роки тому +2

      @@aaronking8706 indeed.

  • @myown2101
    @myown2101 Рік тому +373

    As I get older I appreciate my parents more and more... These are the kind of conversations I had with them as a kid. I remember asking my dad: "What kind of job I will have when I grow up?" My dad replied: "Your only job in life is to get to know true self and be happy. And question everything. Especially ideas that claim to be the absolute truth."
    I was 9 )))

    • @LoveEarthHereAndNow
      @LoveEarthHereAndNow Рік тому +2

      #Education #Dogma #Discipline #Truth #Science #Knowledge #Wisdom #Authorities #TrustTheExperts

    • @martine8457
      @martine8457 7 місяців тому +5

      De bons parents 😊 👍

    • @fozzybearjr69
      @fozzybearjr69 6 місяців тому +11

      You had amazing parents

    • @seanchen4439
      @seanchen4439 5 місяців тому +1

      yep amazing parents !

    • @ottilie8890
      @ottilie8890 5 місяців тому +1

      You've got the dad of the century over here

  • @momsmushroomsjodyfoster5786
    @momsmushroomsjodyfoster5786 3 роки тому +1799

    Deep! “If you don’t learn to live in the present no need in making plans. You won’t be there to enjoy them anyways.”

    • @AudreySeybold
      @AudreySeybold 3 роки тому +5

      wow

    • @GoogleAccount00
      @GoogleAccount00 3 роки тому +1

      👏🏾🙌🏾🎯🎯🎯🎯

    • @gannjem
      @gannjem 3 роки тому +5

      WOW. That was like a SLAP in the face. Thx for sharing this quote.

    • @GoogleAccount00
      @GoogleAccount00 3 роки тому +20

      @K.C CHARLES Have your heard of the phrase “stress will kill you”? My interpretation is, that this means if you’re too busy worried about the past (depression) or future (anxiety), you’ll ruin your health and your plans will be pointless because you won’t be able to enjoy them. You’ll be sick or dead.

    • @Crucio_Occidere
      @Crucio_Occidere 3 роки тому +2

      That's why people say "going with the flow" or "vast in the moment" .

  • @zafartapadar
    @zafartapadar 4 роки тому +3974

    Life is easy, it becomes hard when living better than our neighbour becomes our goal.

  • @Eternalised
    @Eternalised 4 роки тому +7613

    “Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”

    • @tdotgang538
      @tdotgang538 4 роки тому +122

      seen this quote used way too often but it’s so true

    • @MrStraponJr
      @MrStraponJr 4 роки тому +59

      This is loosely based on the quote from Fight Club

    • @MrStraponJr
      @MrStraponJr 4 роки тому +106

      "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate, to buy s**t we dont need"

    • @carefulcarpenter
      @carefulcarpenter 4 роки тому +16

      See..... greed works to motivate. We think in the ideal; we live for the moment; we see in others those qualities we disdain........ so we love it when charming voices tell us the things we desire to hear--- even though we don't follow them long enough to understand the hidden message. 🌾🌿🐡

    • @thewriteinpresident
      @thewriteinpresident 4 роки тому +9

      Teacher…, Why do these FREE MASON Lodge Members lie to our faces about everything.?.?.? Had you done something that was so wicked, and so vile, and so upsetting, would you want others too know whom could hurt you back for hurting them first??? Let us take a look at the LOT of [their ways] #QANON /_\ where the Demolay - Jobs Daughters - Rainbow Girls, and Eastern Stars to Shriners like LISA HAVEN and AMTV have all they could want “with money” as they Denied PizzaGATE when it first came to the attention of we The nonmason Populations of Father Earth and Mother Heaven??? Why would she and he say these things “are not” True in Hollywood of the MTV FREE MASONIC Lodges??? Surly Comet Ping Pong, and the release of so much damming images and conversations all they way up to OBAMA and Hillary Clinton would have given any Honest Person some pause…. Moreover, how can RICHIE FROM BOSTON the Road Man give out $500.00 [to viewers] Q’ when none of us are WORKING??? He sounds just like them STIMULUS CHECKS U-Tube channels always saying WE GOT MONEY to give away to you if you will but {Like My Channel} and watch our Malfeasance!!! There is one thing Christ Jesus taught us about The EVIL ONES known as Angels called SATANS not SATAN Singular…..., and that is They Live for this world….., and when you live for this WORLD that is just a REFLECTION of what happened to our Real Celestial Sphere Home World if you have not been a Nice Person……., but one of Deceptions…….., and Misdirection no matter how convincing your “ACTING” as Actors and Actresses……..., there is always this one thing that if your really gave a damn about We nonmason…., you would say: The FREE MASON Lodge Members are “U.N. Troops” of JADE HELM 15 in all U.N. FLAG Territories for WE THE PEOPLE surely have no rights under our U.N. FLAGS even though WE pay all the Religious Military Government TAXES that allow people like Trump…, and Pence.. and Putin. and Xi, and Macron, and the Queen of England to LIVE OFF OUR Welfare as THEY LIVE Tell WE ARE what to do!!!! And even though I have singled out LISA HAVEN - AMTV - RICHIE FROM BOSTON cause they say they love Me, they still DENY that I Christ Jesus “have returned” in this Body known as The Host of the Spirits, and your body is the Host of another spirit, as is theirs, but what SPIRITS do these people whom LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING “have” for it is not the NARROW PATH of Honesty where you must say: The U.S. Government is doing high treason, Sedition, Treachery, nor do they talk about the ACT OF 1871, nor do they talk about THE MUD FLOODS, or our Celestial Sphere, or that we are all BORN into Purgatory for Redemption or Damnation!?!?!? Once you have this knowledge, and they speak it not, then people [like them] Q+ are just doing the work of THE WATCHERS to condition you to accept the Vaccines, the Mask, and that Christ Jesus will “never” return when ALL this Written Works PROVE That The Oracle Born of a Dead Wombman, and Touched by The SWORD of the ROMAN CATHOLIC God did so [choose me] Q’s to be the one to get us home... They don’t want to go home, or they know they can never go home for they too are The “unrepentant” that we call The Racka, and they have no hope for We The People of Pak-Toe… You know how to think things through, and these people might as well be more ALEX JONES “types” muddling the waters, but never actually speaking the TRUTH, nor the word of Our God, and Their God, and My God, and Your God… The Book of EXODICE!!!
      ua-cam.com/video/DQP3IqZuqbI/v-deo.html
      Since these people whom have EVIL SPIRITS in their SOULS do not care for the Mercy or Grace of Our God of Gods, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords from the Book of Enoch, they say: No NEWS is Bad NEWS “as long as” it runs Traffic to feed your UA-cam Hollow WOOD lives of Worldly FAME!!!
      Vanity Vanity, all is Vanity with these FAKE PEOPLE and “nonhumans” in the Spirits of their minds, and bodies, and Celestial beings…
      The Sentinel…
      #ProectFrance
      [///|||\\\]
      ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

  • @anaalvarenga6313
    @anaalvarenga6313 2 роки тому +479

    I can't even imagine how hard it must have been to draw this whole video. It is beautiful. Thank you for your hard work

    • @monicanguyen65
      @monicanguyen65 2 роки тому +19

      such a beautiful & mindful comment!! I hope ur having a beautiful day 💖

    • @anaalvarenga6313
      @anaalvarenga6313 2 роки тому +7

      ​@@monicanguyen65 Thank you for your kind reply!

    • @obo190
      @obo190 Рік тому +1

      I was thinking the same! It flows with the ideas so well. I hope you’re doing well 🤟

    • @Lebogangmatshabisa
      @Lebogangmatshabisa 9 місяців тому +1

      Amen ❤️🙌

  • @pushinglimits3285
    @pushinglimits3285 4 роки тому +3228

    Can we take a moment to appreciate the amazing art that this man has created to go with these wise words. Really impressive

    • @chitskirits
      @chitskirits 4 роки тому +17

      It isn't art is a software you can buy

    • @natscrib4753
      @natscrib4753 4 роки тому +2

      Josiffrank what software is it?

    • @averymiller52
      @averymiller52 4 роки тому +31

      Jang-geum Seo you are in the wrong video calling somebody words like that when you judge someone you are projecting your insecurities towards others

    • @j-fleduc9209
      @j-fleduc9209 4 роки тому +20

      @Jang-geum Seo Right, cause the software listens to the audio and generates the animation by itself. Smh

    • @picofsalad
      @picofsalad 4 роки тому +2

      One of my faves from Alan Watts is Myth of Myself try listening to it ua-cam.com/video/CkzNGbBM8P0/v-deo.html

  • @violetflame2111
    @violetflame2111 3 роки тому +3667

    Mark Twain said on his deathbed that all of the things he feared happening the most in his life...never actually happened. I try my best to hold on to that one.

    • @Jerry12533
      @Jerry12533 3 роки тому +10

      What for example? I'm just curious. And if anybody replays thank you.

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat 3 роки тому +41

      Interesting.
      Everything that I've ever feared (which is not much!!) have all come true over the past 6-7 years. The rest happened in 2011-2012. More is happening right now.
      Pretty soon... they'll be nothing left to fear nor lose. 😎 But, essentially: absolutely nothing matters anyhow, so... whatever. I just have a few extra 'empty years' in my life instead of being fulfilled right up until my death. 💪😎🤟

    • @Jerry12533
      @Jerry12533 3 роки тому

      @No one star what i like to here it?

    • @Jerry12533
      @Jerry12533 3 роки тому +1

      @@Novastar.SaberCombat i like to example of what happen that you feared sorry if I'm beginning to nosey

    • @bdi_vd3677
      @bdi_vd3677 3 роки тому +6

      Same with me. The journey goes on and fear becomes just another luggage not worth being taken along.

  • @MorganAldrich
    @MorganAldrich 4 роки тому +2230

    “Who you think you are is entirely dependent on who people have told you you are. You are not that.”

    • @HofsFinest
      @HofsFinest 4 роки тому +29

      Yes but he's telling you what you are not.

    • @chunmancarmenchan
      @chunmancarmenchan 4 роки тому +7

      True I still struggle with that

    • @misterresister8358
      @misterresister8358 4 роки тому +11

      Thing is, it's hard to believe that you're something else if you were told all of your childhood and all of your young adult life that you are something else. I don't believe that there is anyway to change that. I am that story.

    • @jimlander4175
      @jimlander4175 4 роки тому +6

      Spin around (like a whirling dervish) clockwise(yang northern hemisphere/yin southern hemisphere) or counterclockwise (yin northern hemisphere/yang southern hemisphere) (torus spinning). Chant any of these mantras 3 times each while facing east, west, north(in the southern hemisphere) or south(in the northernhemisphere): "ieouams", "a-u-m", and "om". Sleep with your head placed east, west, north(in the southern hemisphere) or south(in the northern hemisphere). Perform the 5 Tibetan rites. Play music at 528 hz.

    • @willflint46
      @willflint46 4 роки тому +9

      @@misterresister8358 and you will believe that fully until one day you wake up with a different thinking, different view, and everything mentally will fall into place, and over time you will develope a good view of yourself and your actions through mindfulness. i hope you find what you are looking for, friend

  • @LeoWilfo
    @LeoWilfo 8 місяців тому +7

    Alan watts the goat, helped me through the hardest times, could listen to him all day. 🐐

  • @thebeachvegan9203
    @thebeachvegan9203 4 роки тому +3886

    Lockdown has lifted the illusion for so many people. Some people have suffered mental health issues working from home because their only social interaction was with work colleagues. Now they have to face the reality that they don’t have many meaningful relationships, just distractions.

    • @neverbeforeseenvideos2249
      @neverbeforeseenvideos2249 4 роки тому +99

      Perfectly said.

    • @sirwalksoftly
      @sirwalksoftly 4 роки тому +74

      Sure I can see that. You can also say the flipside: lockdown has, in the same breath, dampered on people’s social lives because they cannot be in “groups” and enjoy company, depending where you are of course.

    • @patglennon9671
      @patglennon9671 4 роки тому +61

      Life in America, no community.

    • @dariousthomas478
      @dariousthomas478 4 роки тому +10

      I said the same thing. This is the cost of not paying attention

    • @baitman2368
      @baitman2368 4 роки тому +9

      But they have money, the precious money...

  • @ok..5271
    @ok..5271 3 роки тому +2573

    "The meaning of life is just to be alive"
    That hits different

    • @san2476
      @san2476 3 роки тому +4

      So when u die game over? Is that what u think it mean

    • @pedropeders2042
      @pedropeders2042 3 роки тому +55

      @@san2476 that question couldn’t be missing the point more. By asking what happens after we die, you are concerning yourself with the future, rather like that Gertrude. Watts’ quote at the end means precisely the opposite; not to be concerned with the future nor past but instead to live in and concern yourself with only the present. *bOngggggg*

    • @san2476
      @san2476 3 роки тому +23

      @@amandasmith3338 im high asf

    • @StrongBodymindandspirit
      @StrongBodymindandspirit 3 роки тому +9

      Read the book of Ecclesiastes to know “the meaning of life”

    • @A_m3ss
      @A_m3ss 3 роки тому +6

      Asking what is the meaning of life is like asking what is the meaning of meaning

  • @justinsanee
    @justinsanee 3 роки тому +8012

    We suffer more in our imagination than reality.

  • @BaoXuan-be7
    @BaoXuan-be7 2 місяці тому +1151

    there's a book called Secret Pathway To Triumph, and it talks about how using some secret tehniques you can attract almost everything in life it's not some bullshit law of attraction, it's the real deal

    • @suzume456
      @suzume456 Місяць тому

      Yeah the real deal of scamming people and buying likes😶‍🌫️

    • @carloslwanga3143
      @carloslwanga3143 Місяць тому +2

      There is only one failproof way to attract money into your life -- work hard and put something valuable into the world.

    • @jaimeorozco8652
      @jaimeorozco8652 Місяць тому

      Book doesn’t pop up anywhere , well at least not how you typed it

  • @ICEcoldJT
    @ICEcoldJT 4 роки тому +1709

    Things that CAN raise your vibration / improve your life
    -Try to drink a gallon of water a day
    -Meditation
    -Not relying on anyone else for happiness
    -Loving yourself
    -Sungazing
    -Vent to yourself
    -Working out
    -HIIT (some type of cardio)
    -Reading books
    -Semen retention / Nofap
    -Protect your sexual energy (females)
    -Having a leader mentality
    -Cold showers
    -Eating less
    -Chew food slower
    -Fasting
    -Waking up/ sleeping earlier
    -Having/ expressing gratitude for EVERYTHING
    -Cutting out fast food
    -Eat to LIVE , not for pleasure (natural foods, no need to feel obligated to go vegan or vegetarian tho)
    -Not comparing yourself to others
    -Only compete with yourself
    -Affirmations
    -Going outside (in nature )
    -Get some sun
    -Not caring what others think
    -Give / contribute more to the world
    -Focus on you, go within
    -Breathing in from your nose
    -Cut out sugary drinks
    -Wim Hoff breathing
    -“OM” Chanting
    -Stoicism
    -Minimalism
    -Express yourself with art (music, drawing, poetry, etc)
    -Practice a martial art
    -Have a balance between being alone and having social company
    -Having an open mind and be aware of what you’re doing/ using your time and energy for
    -Cleaning your room (MAKE YOUR BED)
    -Use social media / electronics less
    -No phone (electronics ) 1-2 hrs before bed
    -Try not to use electronics first thing in morning
    -Sober lifestyle
    -Journaling
    -Writing down dreams
    -Getting 7-8 hrs of sleep
    -Taking Herbs: blackseed oil, haritaki, sea moss
    -Take vitamins
    -Have faith
    -Speak less
    -Spend less time with toxic people
    -Full body stretches / Yoga
    -Sleep on back (face to ceiling ) to strengthen spine
    -Have good posture
    -Listen to 432hz music
    -Listen to chakra frequencies: (396, 417, 528, 639, 741, 852, 963)
    -Use fluoride-free toothpaste
    -Ground yourself (walk barefoot in nature )
    -Clap your hands more
    -Dance more
    -Use left hand more (using right side of brain)
    -Stop fighting against ego and work TOGETHER
    -Eliminate fear of death (have no fear all together)
    -Realize you’re a soul inside a body having a physical experience
    -Smile and laugh more
    Just some advice from what I’ve been doing. Please consider to try out at least 1 of the things from this list.
    (Feel free to screenshot this list if you want)
    If there’s anything you’d add to this list, comment below ‼️
    Just here to provide value to the people who need it. If it’s your first time seeing this, the universe wanted you to see this💜

    • @leicia1994
      @leicia1994 4 роки тому +15

      this is great, thank you!

    • @hemzooted1653
      @hemzooted1653 4 роки тому +26

      U watching von lol

    • @ICEcoldJT
      @ICEcoldJT 4 роки тому +11

      Stop watching UA-cam you got shit to do yessirr, learned a lot from that man 🐐

    • @rarimapirate9237
      @rarimapirate9237 4 роки тому +32

      I use to stare at the Sun, or Sungaze. It definitely has some pretty interesting short term effects, but I would not recommend anyone do this except for in very small qualities. You will most likely damage your eyes. Great post though. Also learning something can elevate your spirits. Science is a beautiful and precious thing. Learn something new, think new thoughts, and maybe share your new thoughts with others. Cheers.

    • @subsnovids-jw7ft
      @subsnovids-jw7ft 4 роки тому +14

      GAZER GAZER

  • @ayannag1363
    @ayannag1363 4 роки тому +2246

    This confirms that I have nothing to prove to no one.

    • @papialeman
      @papialeman 4 роки тому +56

      Once you truly internalize that you'll be free

    • @dylancurtis6833
      @dylancurtis6833 4 роки тому +31

      Nothing to prove to no one could still mean you have everything to prove to everyone. Poor grammar

    • @curtiscollins-healthdept.5474
      @curtiscollins-healthdept.5474 3 роки тому +3

      Including to yourself beautiful soul; keep shining :)

    • @Stand-Alone-Complex
      @Stand-Alone-Complex 3 роки тому +22

      Don't confuse that with taking no accountability of your flaws and bad choices though. Often times our ego is too big and we tend to do toxic or harmful things that others would normally call us out on, but we'd have the mindset of being unapologetically ourselves, even if it means having bad traits that affect others around us. Once you bypass that, and learn to differentiate bad behavior with good, then you'll be good.

    • @MrDigztheswagking
      @MrDigztheswagking 3 роки тому +5

      You never did

  • @nehainthebay
    @nehainthebay 4 роки тому +762

    “I have nothing to think about except thoughts.” So true. As an introvert I often imagine myself very open to listening. But I am often lost in my thoughts and that means I am never really quiet enough to listen. Thanks for sharing these profound words and the engaging illustrations.

    • @nonya2905
      @nonya2905 4 роки тому +39

      I'm an introvert and my mind won't stop generating scenarios, possibilities, thoughts, except when I go to sleep and even then I have very vivid dreams. It's a fascinating part of the human body it gets me thinking even more lol

    • @tripzincluded8087
      @tripzincluded8087 4 роки тому +4

      "lost in thoughts" mean that you're being, is dreaming as a servant of your ego mind, instead of being human, with thoughts.. (::)

    • @nehainthebay
      @nehainthebay 4 роки тому

      @@nonya2905 haha! Yes, apparently we humans must always think.

    • @observingatoms
      @observingatoms 4 роки тому +32

      Introvert and extrovert are just ideas. Its all the game of past experiences. If you had good social experiences in childhood, you naturally grow up to be a good social talker. Otherwise, you become socially awkward just like me. The key to switch between these two natures is not sticking with your past. It is hard to do that, because we are the embodiment of past memories, ideas and thoughts. So, the struggle arises the moment you are not satisfied with your nature. This struggle keeps changing up and down in amount throughout our lives. So, to conclude, if you want a permanent solution then completely get rid of your past or short answer "get rid of thoughts". That is what mostly works for me in social situations. I try to be in a thoughtless state where i can't remember any previous awkward interaction and thus, remain in the present manintaining my composure.

    • @nehainthebay
      @nehainthebay 4 роки тому +3

      @@observingatoms Absolutely agree! This concept of “inter-being”, of knowing each of us is part of a whole is so true. We don’t exist in vacuum, we are in each of us. Thanks for sharing!

  • @enagammanagamma131
    @enagammanagamma131 4 місяці тому +991

    Kudos to you for creating such an informative and engaging video. I was recently shocked when I found a forbidden book on Borlest called Whispers of Manifestation . trust me, guys, I have never seen anything like it in my life. From secret dark strategies to some unbelievable ideas. Trust me on this, find the book.

  • @180subscriberswithoutvideo3
    @180subscriberswithoutvideo3 4 роки тому +4905

    "Don't take life TOO seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway"

    • @balancedboys
      @balancedboys 4 роки тому +9

      That is a Jim Rohn quote right?

    • @jameskulevich8907
      @jameskulevich8907 4 роки тому +24

      Jim Morrison.

    • @pennezita4095
      @pennezita4095 4 роки тому +172

      we’re playing a game that we know has no winners and always the same ending

    • @balancedboys
      @balancedboys 4 роки тому +2

      @@jameskulevich8907 lol crap it totally is. Thanks!

    • @alanssnack1192
      @alanssnack1192 4 роки тому +24

      but if you take life seriously, and strive to make as much precious money as possible and buy land and property, you can have many kids, you can leave the land to them in your family name potentially forever if you create a family pride of the land, you can own a piece of the world forever and ever. even if you are dead.

  • @hellbladevalstrax4231
    @hellbladevalstrax4231 4 роки тому +590

    My fight with depression is over. Alan Watts was a big help for me.
    I can write an entire book (I will) on how I conquered it, but to cut to the chase, the 2020 pandemic is what made me overcome it -- as ironic as that sounds.
    The virus deprived us of the things we valued everyday -- be it jobs, mobility, people, leisure, or money. And so, plenty tried to bend their lives to seek the happiness they've lost.
    In my pursuit to mental freedom, I've subconsciously thrown these standards of "happiness." My promotion, a better life in USA, a bigger circle of friends, and the stability provided by my family.
    I realized these "blessings" that people tell us are oftentimes the things that dictate our lives.
    What is a promotion if I am unhappy with work?
    What is migrating if it's just an excuse to be richer?
    What are anti-depressants if their only permanence is artificiality?
    What are relationships if they are just conveniences?
    What is an ambition if its only purpose is to cause anxiety?
    What is money if it's just a measurement?
    When I stripped away the things that ran my life, I became the one who ran it. I became free.
    When the dust settles, what's left is only ourselves. No time, no dream, no person.
    Happiness was never a pursuit after all. Happiness is me.
    -End-

    • @danieldominguez8958
      @danieldominguez8958 3 роки тому +17

      Very smart move not moving to the US, you’re good wherever you are fam just focus on the values you stated and I hope you complete your book!

    • @AudreySeybold
      @AudreySeybold 3 роки тому +8

      Congrats on winning the battle and good luck with your book, i would love to read it!

    • @GoogleAccount00
      @GoogleAccount00 3 роки тому +2

      👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

    • @laibakausar8161
      @laibakausar8161 3 роки тому +3

      I would definitely read it 🤗

    • @HeatherBonerRickard
      @HeatherBonerRickard 3 роки тому +3

      Next we need a power/internet outage. Let’s not give covid credit since many died. I get your point tho!

  • @walterwiseman7112
    @walterwiseman7112 3 роки тому +1933

    "There is no Future"
    "There is no Past"
    "There is only forever here and now"
    "For every day is a Gift"
    "That's why it's called the Present"

    • @taureemoten
      @taureemoten 3 роки тому +28

      Trying to remind myself that everyday

    • @tnl-warrior3218
      @tnl-warrior3218 3 роки тому +78

      Master oogway

    • @Intentspunk19
      @Intentspunk19 3 роки тому +8

      I wish the world could just be that simple.

    • @amandasmith3338
      @amandasmith3338 3 роки тому

      Yeah!

    • @amandasmith3338
      @amandasmith3338 3 роки тому

      Looking for psychedelic products? Send him a pm on Instagram @david_grantrig_ii
      He's a mycologist that grows strains of mushrooms and delivers LSD, DMT and MDMA anywhere discreetly. So friendly and transparent, check out his profile!

  • @diedforurwins
    @diedforurwins 2 роки тому +33

    I see a lot of comments who seem to misunderstand living in the moment.
    Living in the moment doesn’t mean “never buying groceries or letting experience inform your decisions”
    it means eliminating the needless worry about the future and not allowing yourself to use the past as an excuse for being unhappy forever.

  • @olivianelson1567
    @olivianelson1567 3 роки тому +1504

    I came here to listen to Allen tonight hoping it would make me feel better.. my little brother who suffered from Autism passed away because he had drown in a lake thinking he would learn how to swim. He was on a field trip and the people who were supposed to care for him lost him in the forest.
    I took care of him his whole life and suddenly now he’s gone.
    Allen has helped me through a lot of my hard times in life where I didn’t think I could go on. And now .. I feel the need to share my story with anyone who cares to listen because the reality of life and people around you and the places you go and the things you do with what you have is what makes life and consciousness itself a living gift from God & Universe.
    Everything is connected, not everything is love.. but we can choose to love one another and take care of each other.

    • @AG-it3vr
      @AG-it3vr 3 роки тому +42

      So sorry for your loss! Thank you for sharing.

    • @Kerrviii
      @Kerrviii 3 роки тому +38

      I love you my sister. I’m very sorry for your loss and I couldn’t imagine the pain you’ve been through. I want to extend my gratitude for sharing. You really spoke to me.... I’m praying for you and your family. You brother is home now. God bless

    • @bluecyanide9608
      @bluecyanide9608 3 роки тому +14

      May he be in peace
      much love and strenght

    • @brendaninthenow
      @brendaninthenow 3 роки тому +4

      💜♾💜

    • @wurm6635
      @wurm6635 3 роки тому +13

      I'm sorry for you loss.. losing a sibling is extremely tough on the brain.. especially when you were so close with that person. Much love Olivia, I hope you can find some light through your dark.

  • @lllllllllll10
    @lllllllllll10 3 роки тому +1314

    This is how I felt as a child and teen.. that money, power and ego were all superficial and not important. But through interactions with other people growing up I came to believe as if money was everything but now I need to unlearn that and just be.

    • @thinginground5179
      @thinginground5179 3 роки тому +103

      I've noticed that as you grow up you literally have no choice but to be conditioned by society to follow your inevitable orders. Slowly I notice myself losing my imagination, and my head is being pulled down from above the clouds as I grow older. In 25 years will I be open to Existence and be grateful for Life, or will I be working from 9 to 5 in a convenience store?

    • @NoOne-wf6hm
      @NoOne-wf6hm 3 роки тому +11

      @@thinginground5179 The Illusion of working...

    • @seenitpurple
      @seenitpurple 3 роки тому +30

      Money is a tool. U use it to buy things u need. Food, water, gas, clothing, shelter.. U can use the tool in the right way and budget. Therefore u have less to worry about than the other material things. You'll have the basuc material things to get through life that doesn't depend your life upon it.

    • @NoOne-wf6hm
      @NoOne-wf6hm 3 роки тому +14

      @@seenitpurple : No offence meant but I feel sad that you own a manipulated mind. Those words don’t come from yourself buddy. If you are a human being, you are capable of several senses. Including feeling and thinking.
      Is that what you truly think or just bullpoop the systems throw to you and your mind digests?

    • @googeliswiththegreys
      @googeliswiththegreys 3 роки тому +17

      I read Alan as a teen, young adult and thought how wonderful it was to finally know an intelligent adult. Once I gave the adult an inch they took the rest, they began to all say: 'get a life' and I have been spending all my time since, doing that. These vids bring back my youth and the pleasant knowing I had then that I cant seem to get back to. :{

  • @LuckyJamal
    @LuckyJamal 3 роки тому +2717

    That bell hit me to the next dimension

    • @braedonwolcott6381
      @braedonwolcott6381 3 роки тому +130

      I dead ass started tripping

    • @LearnGrowwithAnn
      @LearnGrowwithAnn 3 роки тому +14

      I love the bell!!!

    • @geehampton9363
      @geehampton9363 3 роки тому +32

      Sounds like chakra bowl 528hz used in meditation

    • @brejon96
      @brejon96 3 роки тому +6

      Facts like woahhhh

    • @thinginground5179
      @thinginground5179 3 роки тому +14

      @@braedonwolcott6381 I think i met the machine elves when that gong.. gonged.

  • @EbonyHoopGyal
    @EbonyHoopGyal 2 роки тому +49

    I truly believe Alan Watts should be taught in school because he seriously has an in depth knowledge of how to heal your soul

    • @LoveEarthHereAndNow
      @LoveEarthHereAndNow Рік тому

      the #BigPharma lobby, who design the curriculum, and pay decision-makers (politicians) to execute their bidding, will not allow this knowledge in the open.
      #AmericanDemocracy #SchoolSystem #Institutions #NYSE #HealthForProfit

    • @bnieto99
      @bnieto99 10 місяців тому

      Why would they want people to know truth in school. They want people to continue to believe the illusions and lies. School is part of the system of brainwashing.

    • @617christina
      @617christina 3 місяці тому +1

      That's y he isn't. Not is how to do your taxes grow food be self reliable...

  • @Panda72021
    @Panda72021 2 роки тому +818

    As someone who has always spent a ton of time in their own head, this was oddly comforting. I have often found that I am most peaceful...the most MYSELF when I am sitting in the woods listening to the birds, or out on a walk admiring the sky, or in my room creating an art piece or listening to music. There's a comfort in the now, just as it is. Regardless of what is going on in the world, the various versions of 'now' for each individual; our now is where we have the greatest influence. The 'then' or 'when' is where we slip into chaos and become unhappy with the burden of things that either haven't happened yet, or have already happened, so there's no possible way to go back for a cosmic "do-over".

    • @tylergoodell5205
      @tylergoodell5205 2 роки тому +10

      Love this comment. I feel the same, I’m only in the present and myself when doing my hobbies or in nature

    • @tigerskob
      @tigerskob 2 роки тому +11

      I agree.
      If you haven’t experienced a silent meditation retreat in which you sit in silence for a certain period of time, I highly recommend it. You will find the present moment like you never have before. I’ve been on two and I am going on a third one for 18 days next month. They will change your life, I promise.
      There’s a place called spirit rock in Cali and one called the Rocky Mountain ecodharma center in Colorado. I’ve been to both. Sitting with others in silence while meditating and while eating is one of the most beautiful things we can experience in life-from my perspective.

    • @xxmeanyheadxx
      @xxmeanyheadxx Рік тому +8

      some people struggle so hard to live in the moment, i struggle to see outside of it

    • @Panda72021
      @Panda72021 Рік тому +1

      @@xxmeanyheadxx Well put.

    • @worldfamousfruitman3945
      @worldfamousfruitman3945 8 місяців тому +3

      The word myself I don’t spell together… I’m by my Self … this self is something just like of if I were to say I’m by my car I wouldn’t say I’m by mycar… so why do we spell it the we we have since forever

  • @rocker24super
    @rocker24super 4 роки тому +323

    I only had social media for memes but I realized that the constant feeling of being connected to all of these people and pages was overwhelming. I didn't realize how much time it would take away from my day until I finally deleted it. Whenever I want to have a good laugh I just put a podcast on or watch some stand up, so I don't really miss the memes. Most importantly the extra time I use for sleeping more and I have never had a healthier sleep schedule since my pre-teen years. This definitely changed my life for the better, hopefully some of you also find this useful. Quarantine brought me down so hard, and honestly it's the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me. 😁 We are not alone, life is beautiful!

    • @noora6878
      @noora6878 4 роки тому +2

      so happy for hou

    • @davidjasaon1681
      @davidjasaon1681 3 роки тому +2

      So I should leave memes too?

    • @c3nzen
      @c3nzen 3 роки тому +7

      @@davidjasaon1681 You have to decide if they mean something to you or not.
      Personally I don't give a shit about memes

    • @eri.mireles_1173
      @eri.mireles_1173 3 роки тому +8

      Great response man! I agree, sometimes we don’t realize how much time we spend on our phones in which serves us with little to no purpose. We could instead learn to live in the present and use what we call “time” to appreciate life in so many other perspectives.

    • @rocker24super
      @rocker24super 3 роки тому +5

      @@davidjasaon1681 that's the thing bro, only you know how they affect you and the choice comes down to you. In my case they weren't adding anything of value, that doesn't mean that memes have no value. Things aren't good or bad they simply are.

  • @virtuazoso
    @virtuazoso 4 роки тому +193

    “Who you think you are is entirely dependent on who people have told you are. You’re not that.” So simple and obvious yet something I never thought about in my life until now.

    • @tankofun
      @tankofun 4 роки тому

      do you now know that you are God though?
      What Alan is saying there is far deeper than you may think, he is not just repeating some empty platitude there.
      He is referring to the mis-identification of the "self" with the body/mind/sensations (5 skandhas or 5 koshas).
      We do this because that's what we have been told - you are this body, you are your mind, etc. etc.
      None of it is true.
      That is what he is getting at there...
      he knows that "atman is brahman" (self is God)
      check this out, if you care: ua-cam.com/video/rPtHCCT1SZM/v-deo.html
      I highly, HIGHLY urge you to watch it...
      if you like western traditions (Christianity / Judaism) more, what must you answer when asked "Who is God?"
      "I AM".
      Yes, you are.
      There you go, its occulted in the western traditions, but if you must, go use them. Eastern traditions are way better, there is no occultation (hiding in parables etc.) its plani and out there.

  • @williamavant4698
    @williamavant4698 Рік тому +73

    Alan Watts saved my life. From suicide to understanding

    • @4Caytee.
      @4Caytee. Рік тому +2

      Straight up

    • @4Caytee.
      @4Caytee. Рік тому +7

      Was gonna do it 2 nights ago but I calmed down and came across alan watts yesterday helped me realize a lot and calm me down most of the times I was freaking out..

    • @marcusknoll9500
      @marcusknoll9500 Рік тому

      Why did you want to do that? Suicide that is....

    • @Defirence
      @Defirence Рік тому +4

      @@marcusknoll9500 That's a very complex and personal question some may wish to answer or not, there's a lot that contributes to feeling that way since I speak from experience struggling with it.

    • @marcusknoll9500
      @marcusknoll9500 Рік тому

      @@Defirence it's because......life ain't all that great...............

  • @ToxiCisty
    @ToxiCisty 3 роки тому +294

    The noise the bell makes is an amazing example of the moment. Hearing that bell, the sound it first makes and listening as it slips away. That is real, that is the moment, and the moment is the only place we will ever be.

    • @gjagster357
      @gjagster357 2 роки тому +3

      I may be wrong but I feel like Alan was speaking at the same time at 2:00 when he said the "the reality is..." and I feel like I missed the most essential part of the video. You could even hear him in the background as the noise fades

    • @estheradebayo2679
      @estheradebayo2679 2 роки тому +1

      @@gjagster357 this is kinda crazy

    • @rvermillion8188
      @rvermillion8188 2 роки тому +3

      @@gjagster357 oh me too! I need to reply it several times just to make sure the bell sound is real and not my ‘aha moment’.

    • @hexis23
      @hexis23 2 роки тому

      Ineffable. And you see what I just did? I used another word...

    • @_efayy
      @_efayy Рік тому

      That kinda hypnotized me

  • @jamescobia3677
    @jamescobia3677 2 роки тому +1055

    A few years of drug addiction leading to being homeless changed my perspective on life. Prior to being homeless I was a workaholic. Too much work and stress helped me become a drug addict. One day I was sitting by a canal and it occurred to me that everyone is racing to work and for what reason???? Money? I have been sober for 3 years now and own my own business. I work when I feel its necessary and play a whole lot! Alan is the man!

    • @toastyvlogs8431
      @toastyvlogs8431 2 роки тому +10

      Howd you start your own business

    • @jasonaguirre945
      @jasonaguirre945 2 роки тому +18

      @@toastyvlogs8431 for real

    • @jamescobia3677
      @jamescobia3677 2 роки тому +77

      @@toastyvlogs8431 I've always been a fence builder so I just started my own company 🙏 you can do it too. Learn a trade or find something you love and create a source of income ❤

    • @chilldudie242
      @chilldudie242 2 роки тому +5

      @@toastyvlogs8431 1) start working for others
      2) profit

    • @eltaconoche3078
      @eltaconoche3078 2 роки тому +8

      @@jamescobia3677 that's really cool

  • @sauce4335
    @sauce4335 4 роки тому +239

    I’ve deleted almost every social media (aside for one for contact reasons if my friends want to make plans) because it’s an honest waste of time to ponder how you fit in with everyone else online. It’s important to live in the moment for yourself, not someone else.

    • @last5898
      @last5898 4 роки тому +8

      proud of you

    • @cazondra757
      @cazondra757 4 роки тому +6

      Same here!!

    • @sodkfniw2669
      @sodkfniw2669 4 роки тому +9

      They’re also usually toxic.

    • @noora6878
      @noora6878 4 роки тому +3

      same here so proud of u too

    • @yasmineelha1711
      @yasmineelha1711 4 роки тому +5

      I’ve been off social media and it took 2-3 months just to get rid of the mentality of oh I should post this and oh lemme see what’s going on in this and this and this

  • @Jophiel50
    @Jophiel50 7 місяців тому +1

    This is such an amazing video on an incredible forum… I am reeling over the portion where you compared the menu of food with the money that you pay for the food… Sans food. This is the most amazing point; one that I’ve been trying to make, with too many words, for a very long time. Epic.

  • @nolanjames9230
    @nolanjames9230 3 роки тому +106

    The meaning of life is to just be here, and exist. Not everything has to be good but we're here to experience good and bad, everything is.

  • @BlancaaDivinaa
    @BlancaaDivinaa 3 роки тому +168

    this is so true, most people are upset because they are walking around with all these skeletons in their closets & putting the blame on others..when honestly the future is in your hands! you can steer the ship however you want it..the mind is so limiting & powerful. wow. i love this.

    • @vildachaya6462
      @vildachaya6462 3 роки тому +14

      When I turned 12 I stopped focusing on everyone else, and focused on myself. It’s quite liberating and can be very rewarding

    • @BlancaaDivinaa
      @BlancaaDivinaa 3 роки тому +1

      Vilda Chaya ✨🤎

    • @BlancaaDivinaa
      @BlancaaDivinaa 4 місяці тому

      @MikeDonaldson-eh2ru to each his own. This was simply my perspective . 💚

  • @ThisReckless
    @ThisReckless 4 роки тому +49

    Can we just take a moment of silence to appreciate the quality of Alan’s understanding and the ability of the artist to visualize this for us; For sometimes seeing is believing.

  • @shepherd_x
    @shepherd_x 3 роки тому +417

    Learned this at 18, 25 now. Still living a basic life, never been happier :)

    • @atharvshrivastava1255
      @atharvshrivastava1255 2 роки тому +2

      Is it worth it? Does it actually make you happy and be at peace?

    • @CashMoney1987
      @CashMoney1987 2 роки тому +26

      @@atharvshrivastava1255 if you have to ask that you clearly didn’t read his comment

    • @lord.m2927
      @lord.m2927 2 роки тому +8

      @@atharvshrivastava1255 I can say from experience my life became significantly better

    • @khalid5538
      @khalid5538 2 роки тому +1

      Same.

    • @cr4yv3n
      @cr4yv3n 2 роки тому +3

      How do you define happy?
      Are you married or single?
      You live in a house or under a bridge?
      You have enough food daily or not?

  • @aidenconnor2126
    @aidenconnor2126 4 роки тому +1472

    "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibrations" - Nikola Tesla

    • @aidenconnor2126
      @aidenconnor2126 4 роки тому +89

      "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself" - Carl Sagan

    • @ashhcatchemall
      @ashhcatchemall 4 роки тому +1

      Astrology 😌

    • @jimlander4175
      @jimlander4175 4 роки тому +10

      Spin around (like a whirling dervish) clockwise(yang northern hemisphere/yin southern hemisphere) or counterclockwise (yin northern hemisphere/yang southern hemisphere) (torus spinning). Chant any of these mantras 3 times each while facing east, west, north(in the southern hemisphere) or south(in the northernhemisphere): "ieouams", "a-u-m", and "om". Sleep with your head placed east, west, north(in the southern hemisphere) or south(in the northern hemisphere). Perform the 5 Tibetan rites. Play music at 528 hz.

    • @chychywoohoo
      @chychywoohoo 3 роки тому +3

      @@ashhcatchemall yeah no

    • @ashhcatchemall
      @ashhcatchemall 3 роки тому +4

      @@chychywoohoo it's ok to admit if you're too stupid to understand astrology 😌

  • @angelsaenz8556
    @angelsaenz8556 2 роки тому +158

    First found Alan Watts when I was about 16 I’m currently 24 pushing 25 and man I can never get tired of his voice and his thoughts. Always seem to cheer me up in one way or another

    • @kimberlyelkins4964
      @kimberlyelkins4964 2 роки тому +10

      I wish I found him at 16. Making sure my teens know him .

    • @theplanetruth
      @theplanetruth 5 місяців тому +1

      Do you know how he died? He died in excess.

    • @angelsaenz8556
      @angelsaenz8556 5 місяців тому

      ⁠@@theplanetruthalcoholism, so what I’m failing to see your point in the comment besides pointing out a vague cause of death

    • @MetrowavePrime
      @MetrowavePrime 4 місяці тому

      His voice is somewhat spiritual

  • @Mischa337
    @Mischa337 6 місяців тому +2

    You really were fantastic Alan Watts. A great boddhisatva and its in so many ways a deep comfort to listen to your talks ❤❤

  • @kinsmundanestuff
    @kinsmundanestuff 4 роки тому +135

    This is a powerful perspective. The concept of time really bothers me in a way that I'm always thinking of my timeline. Worrying if I ever will become that person that I'm always wanting to in the future. Worries of everything that will happen in the future, that I'm constantly fading and not living for the present moment. It's always my dream to be in the medical field and somehow it makes me feel that my time isn't enough. Rushing to achieve things that I forgot to live in the present moment. This video made me assess how I'm living my life. I always say "Carpe Diem" but I guess, I never really lived a day in my life. I'm afraid not to be the person everyone expects me to be. But now I thought of how precious life is and shouldn't be spent asking for validation from others. There's this different level of happiness when you keep living in every moments of your life and not living for people, money, and everything that this harsh world expects me to be. To everyone reading this, live life well , not thinking much about unnecessary things, after all life is short and should be spent wisely. Live for love, peace and joy .

    • @perseusxavier9846
      @perseusxavier9846 4 роки тому +3

      You can do it Kathleen. I see that you're Filipino too.

    • @visionvixxen
      @visionvixxen 4 роки тому +3

      You have arrived

    • @mightymight24
      @mightymight24 4 роки тому +3

      Thank you. I always aim to live for the simpliest things in life but I always worry if my way of living is boring (because most people believes having a simple and peaceful life is boring or that I should go chase for things that will make my life "less" boring) but this video and your comment calms and reassures me that I'm living the way just as I want it to be and there are people who like me prefer this kind of life 💓

    • @kinsmundanestuff
      @kinsmundanestuff 4 роки тому +1

      Awwww. Thank you all for the kind words. Yeah.. Everyone can! Just gotta put your mind and heart to it. And don't forget to take a break for a while too. It's good to avoid being burnt out.

    • @sallyforth2955
      @sallyforth2955 4 роки тому

      The point of letting go of materialism is to free up psychic energy from desires and wants. If you are addicted to desiring to change, desiring non materialism, you will suffer just the same. Think of time as a journey that you may take a snapshot of, or string snapshots together into a narrative. Time, space and gravity cannot be separated. A photon of sunlight exists from its release from sun until infinity trillions of years later, at the same "time" because it is a wave. So this is your snapshot life. It already exists forever because it happened. You are the part of time that you are. Every baboon born, from when the first mammal evolved to the last, is equally part of the evolution of baboons. It's nothing personal. Yet only you can make your contribution to the process and flow of time.

  • @jordenbasque8347
    @jordenbasque8347 3 роки тому +309

    This is everything I think of on a daily basis and I’ve been trying to tell people that I’m just trying to live my life to the fullest and not make plans or future “goals”. thank you for finally putting it into words for me😩

    • @bradleyhenderson1198
      @bradleyhenderson1198 3 роки тому +9

      Do you buy food for more than the meal you are eating?

    • @cartergomez5390
      @cartergomez5390 2 роки тому +9

      Goals are important 🙌

    • @zack2zack215
      @zack2zack215 2 роки тому +1

      @@cartergomez5390 yeah that's what he's working on

    • @Bonanzaking
      @Bonanzaking 2 роки тому

      And this is how people like you will end up screwed in your final years.

    • @diedforurwins
      @diedforurwins 2 роки тому +2

      The real secret is that you don’t need to tell anyone. They don’t need to understand, only you do.

  • @BryantHiggs
    @BryantHiggs 4 роки тому +811

    After Skool comes before school

  • @jebbennett4619
    @jebbennett4619 3 роки тому +61

    Absolutely spectacular. I always hear “live in the present, don’t worry about the future” and I never understood how one could do that. But I realized during this video that if you always look in the future, the future you want will never come. You will always be looking for something else. Even if you found what you used to look for, you won’t be in the present to enjoy it. This is really changing my thinking.

  • @JustFutureBlessUp
    @JustFutureBlessUp 3 роки тому +224

    I’m glad I’m starting 2021 off with listening to this, I hope a lot of people tune into this video this year. Wise words as always from the man himself

    • @AtomicOwl
      @AtomicOwl 3 роки тому

      Yessir

    • @Cyprimm
      @Cyprimm 3 роки тому

      I’m a good 3 months late to finding out this man’s existence and honestly 2021 now feels a bit more bearable

    • @icecoldchilipreppers
      @icecoldchilipreppers 2 роки тому

      @@Cyprimm I would say you were like a decade late but most of what he had to say was recorded.

    • @icecoldchilipreppers
      @icecoldchilipreppers 2 роки тому

      How'd your year go?

    • @JustFutureBlessUp
      @JustFutureBlessUp 2 роки тому +2

      @@icecoldchilipreppers it was quite the year but overall well. Had its ups and Had it’s downs, achieved a majority of my goals this year, found consistency in a couple of good habits while dropping old ones. Shedding old layers of myself and working on myself has became the big focus lately. Blessings. Happy New Years to you I hope you succeed in 2022. Thanks for asking

  • @PROPERPAPA
    @PROPERPAPA 3 роки тому +3091

    If you're reading this, we're on the same energy wave.
    What up.

  • @oddarneroll
    @oddarneroll Місяць тому +2

    I'm dying from cancer right now. I'm sad of loosing my future present. But I love my present right now. Just a putty it will not last. That's why I live hard, as hard as posible while I can. Living hard means doing what gives joy to me and my surroundings. You don't have to wait. You can start today.
    How to start? The most joyful things in life are children, spouse, famely and physical activity. Remember to first do the physical activity, because one have to first help one self to help another.
    For me this means to ride my bycicle to and from the hospital and to and from my local errands here in beutifoul Norway.

  • @noel3466
    @noel3466 4 роки тому +266

    Life isn’t pressure .. the system is pressure it tells you their standard of living.

    • @RonaldinhoNZ.
      @RonaldinhoNZ. 4 роки тому +23

      There is no such thing as failure. It only exists when we compare ourselves to others and society's standards

    • @11WaterSkier11
      @11WaterSkier11 4 роки тому

      who is they

    • @11WaterSkier11
      @11WaterSkier11 4 роки тому

      their or them
      is a project of you

    • @alexaht5079
      @alexaht5079 4 роки тому

      I agree but do bunnies in the wild feel pressure?

    • @Shortstacksandticktacks
      @Shortstacksandticktacks 4 роки тому +1

      @@11WaterSkier11 Advertisers, now they call them Influencers.

  • @bcvc3365
    @bcvc3365 4 роки тому +308

    The purpose of life is exploration, adventure, learning, and pleasure.

    • @warrierrohit
      @warrierrohit 4 роки тому

      Not pleasure*

    • @spellrush2097
      @spellrush2097 4 роки тому +11

      @@warrierrohit Idk.. Would you say then it's meant for suffering? I believe to an extent: "indulgence not compulsion." Balance. It's definitely pleasurable to spend time with family and friends, explore and learn.. It's our egos and addictions we must be wary of.. Least that's what I think thus far. Attachment leads to suffering. And in the end we must let go, lest we be bound to our own shadow.

    • @warrierrohit
      @warrierrohit 4 роки тому +22

      Pleasures are temporary , if you follow your life for pleasures your doomed bro
      Happiness is not equal to pleasures , happiness is something you are , pleasures are just chemical releases for some shit that happens to you, happiness is something you are , you are a vessel full of it and everything around has joy you just have to go ahead and reach it , there aint no good or evil in this world , its our ideologies, i could say a lotta stuff but nvm , have a great days from today guys ❤✌

    • @spellrush2097
      @spellrush2097 4 роки тому +4

      @@warrierrohit Thank you. I feel I have more clarity on the difference between happiness and pleasure now.. I appreciate it.

    • @amalldekan1432
      @amalldekan1432 4 роки тому +4

      no its to be alive

  • @annisaaacson3629
    @annisaaacson3629 3 роки тому +33

    I'm 53, and having watched this video, I may have found my perfect way to learn. To SEE it and HEAR it at the same time was a revelation. The very was amazing and enhanced every word. Thank you to the artist that did this. This work was simply amazing. I don't UA-cam much but I'll be watching more of your videos. Thank you.

  • @courtneyawalsh
    @courtneyawalsh Рік тому +30

    If I listen to even two lines of modern pop songs I lose SO many brain cells. Then I come to Alan Watts to restore them. Works every time. 🙏🏼

  • @danaiortiz1779
    @danaiortiz1779 3 роки тому +63

    every single art depiction of what alan watts was saying was absolutely beyond amazing. the artist is so very talented. alan watts will forever be my favorite human.

  • @ProtoMario
    @ProtoMario 4 роки тому +485

    I truly believe persuing things you would use and enjoy go far beyond anything else.
    Doesn't matter if you have thousands of games if you only play 1 or 2...
    Doesn't matter if you have 3 cars or 3 houses if you only use 1...
    Waste is the suffering of our souls.

    • @Dawit1385
      @Dawit1385 4 роки тому +7

      Holy shit dude I used to watch your videos... crazy seeing you here

    • @telesnow
      @telesnow 4 роки тому +1

      Ok protomario

    • @AnupBhatt
      @AnupBhatt 4 роки тому +9

      @Cole Ritter Things that help you learn and grow ARE technically useful. Therefore, wasting your life is a useless way to go about it.

    • @rachelmckeighan5805
      @rachelmckeighan5805 4 роки тому +9

      We are mass producing clothing still. We are all mass producing chemicals. We are all mass producing greed, hate, separation, anxiety, diabetes, we need love here. We need love. The shootings, the technology. Are we driving the car or the car driving us?

    • @rachelmckeighan5805
      @rachelmckeighan5805 4 роки тому +4

      Life doesn’t need to be useful. I’m sorry you were made to feel not useful. Life should be loving. Loving feels the best in our bodies and biology. Choose love and see.

  • @drebushby9085
    @drebushby9085 3 роки тому +119

    With being quarantined for just about a year I have learned so much about my self

    • @angelenergia2163
      @angelenergia2163 3 роки тому +2

      🤎we all feel that with you

    • @potentspirit3096
      @potentspirit3096 3 роки тому

      You are not self. We’re all living organisms within this sole universe

    • @midnull6009
      @midnull6009 3 роки тому +1

      Lol I never quarentined myself because quarantining would have taken everything I cherished and loved the most: family, community, hiking, exploring, learning, etc.

    • @drebushby9085
      @drebushby9085 3 роки тому

      @@midnull6009 yeah it did take everything from me and it made me try and be happy just with me because that is one of the most important things you can learn to do

    • @midnull6009
      @midnull6009 3 роки тому

      @@drebushby9085 you can do that without being quarentined tho. We are social creatures in general and too much isolation will destroy our mental health. Before covid there were paper on papers on isolation and confinement and how it eventually destroyed people. And than as covid hit....those research papers just got pushed down into a void. In fact, several states tried to pass laws banning solitary confinement in prisons because 99% of the inmates committed suicide or were never the same after.

  • @nannue
    @nannue 2 роки тому +1

    I am sure I have been here before in the present moment. I am glad to hear and watch this again with more clarity on the now. It is an exciting time to be here with you all. Enjoy your now and thank you for being here with us all.

  • @dillonsaleh5660
    @dillonsaleh5660 4 роки тому +400

    holy cow i can’t get over how much i love this comment section in comparison to all the people i know in real life.

    • @andrew8411
      @andrew8411 4 роки тому +5

      You are a loser, that’s why.

    • @tishagonzalez725
      @tishagonzalez725 4 роки тому +2

      Lol you are not a loser , you simply don't have much friends

    • @JavierHernandez-oo6lb
      @JavierHernandez-oo6lb 4 роки тому +14

      Maybe is for the best no need to contaminate yourself with bad energy. Maybe is time to find yourself and unlock your full potential.

    • @picofsalad
      @picofsalad 4 роки тому

      One of my faves from Alan Watts is Myth of Myself try listening to it ua-cam.com/video/CkzNGbBM8P0/v-deo.html

    • @bigcj8956
      @bigcj8956 4 роки тому +4

      andrew what are you lol

  • @user-rf9wm3bv4f
    @user-rf9wm3bv4f 4 роки тому +49

    Alan Watts changed my entire perception of life

    • @hoppas77
      @hoppas77 4 роки тому +2

      how so.. What was the main thing?

    • @Miketar2424
      @Miketar2424 4 роки тому +2

      For me he helped deconstruct the fallacies of the Roman Catholic Church I was raised with, and helped me understand Jesus had a mystical experience, which anyone could also have. He also helped me realize I am not my thoughts, I am being itself. He was a truly great man.

    • @user-rf9wm3bv4f
      @user-rf9wm3bv4f 4 роки тому

      @@hoppas77 ..Just seeing through the veil of so called reality. Understanding that were all one collective consciousness and death is by no means the "end" of anything.

    • @gwho
      @gwho 4 роки тому

      Mine too.
      Specifically, that life is too short to be listening to rambling droning overrated "wise" people.

    • @D.T.Hippie
      @D.T.Hippie 4 роки тому +1

      I’ve been making hiking videos with Alan Watts audio on my channel. Such deep stuff 🙏🏼😎

  • @oursuninti9290
    @oursuninti9290 3 роки тому +65

    The legacy of Alan Watts, along with Ram Dass have been of significant healing and teaching legacies for me on my personal spiritual journey. I met and spoke with Ram Dass' spirit in my dream recently. It must have been my frequent state of gratitude, and loving thoughts about his graceful teachings that drew him to me. I love you to whomever may be reading this. Truly.

  • @Malabarismo
    @Malabarismo 2 роки тому +12

    Wisdom
    I remember Fred. My old dance teacher. He used to say illumination is available for everyone, right here right now.
    He also says something I really like:
    "I am where my body is
    I stay where my heart desired
    I go where my spirit wants."

  • @opedromagico
    @opedromagico 3 роки тому +454

    These illustrations were as profound as the speech 👏🏻

    • @sweetp.e.a.8065
      @sweetp.e.a.8065 3 роки тому +4

      I wholeheartedly agree with you

    • @drift8021
      @drift8021 3 роки тому +1

      Pretty sure it's a program, no?

    • @anonymousrbe4706
      @anonymousrbe4706 3 роки тому

      Resource Based Economy , 7 pillars supporting the matrix

    • @thomasjones4570
      @thomasjones4570 3 роки тому +2

      Nothing profound about it. If there is no past or future and never will be, how are you hearing him say this...he has been dead for almost 50 years.

    • @Zezeguizee
      @Zezeguizee 3 роки тому

      Hi Pedro ! Can I ask you again when do you re located. I saw your messages on the psylocibin related video :)

  • @shreyagadkari7884
    @shreyagadkari7884 4 роки тому +48

    There is something about Alan Watts...his charisma,his elegance,his way of speaking... it all seems so true.....

    • @shreyagadkari7884
      @shreyagadkari7884 4 роки тому

      @timwins31 Absolutely

    • @jacobkuca7711
      @jacobkuca7711 4 роки тому

      He wrote some great books you might be interested in. Very easily digestible.

    • @shreyagadkari7884
      @shreyagadkari7884 4 роки тому +1

      @@jacobkuca7711 Yeahh when I watched his video for the first time....I immediately googled him and started reading his books. He is truly a gem.

  • @FarAboveRubiies
    @FarAboveRubiies 4 роки тому +144

    “I have nothing to think about except thoughts” that part 👀

  • @iagomnogueira
    @iagomnogueira 2 місяці тому +1

    This is the best video i've watched in a very long time. Real importance in life planing, perspective of who i am, what am i doing and what do i really want to experience and remember as life goes on

  • @One-Up
    @One-Up 3 роки тому +53

    I'm getting obsessed with this dudes work, the more I learned from him the more I realize how much of a genius he was, great stuff, thank you for sharing whoever uploaded this video and of course Alan Watts himself as well.

  • @sk61181
    @sk61181 4 роки тому +60

    The things you own, end up owing you. Let go and live, just live.

    • @LolCatflix
      @LolCatflix 4 роки тому +2

      @Derek Kranz "Second rule of fight club is that you don't talk about fight club"

    • @joeturner6024
      @joeturner6024 4 роки тому

      Spin around (like a whirling dervish) clockwise(yang northern hemisphere/yin southern hemisphere) or counterclockwise (yin northern hemisphere/yang southern hemisphere) (torus spinning). Chant any of these mantras 3 times each while facing east, west, north(in the southern hemisphere) or south(in the northernhemisphere): "ieouams", "a-u-m", and "om". Sleep with your head placed east, west, north(in the southern hemisphere) or south(in the northern hemisphere). Perform the 5 Tibetan rites. Play music at 528 hz.

  • @uncensoredwithleo_8688
    @uncensoredwithleo_8688 4 роки тому +137

    "We are psychologically perverted in a say that some of us would like to have money rather than real wealth"
    WORD!💯👌

    • @joeturner6024
      @joeturner6024 4 роки тому

      Spin around (like a whirling dervish) clockwise(yang northern hemisphere/yin southern hemisphere) or counterclockwise (yin northern hemisphere/yang southern hemisphere) (torus spinning). Chant any of these mantras 3 times each while facing east, west, north(in the southern hemisphere) or south(in the northernhemisphere): "ieouams", "a-u-m", and "om". Sleep with your head placed east, west, north(in the southern hemisphere) or south(in the northern hemisphere). Perform the 5 Tibetan rites. Play music at 528 hz.

    • @Metzolino
      @Metzolino 3 роки тому

      And then.....?

    • @BROKENHE4RTS
      @BROKENHE4RTS 3 роки тому

      @@joeturner6024 😳

  • @zit1999
    @zit1999 6 місяців тому +3

    Thank you so much!
    I could never concentrate on what Alan was saying before, but with your visuals it makes it easy for my mind to follow and understand ❤

  • @ydiesel2214
    @ydiesel2214 4 роки тому +8

    I just wanna hug Alan Watts for all the wisdom and clarity he has given me. Thank you for making this video and the illustrations.

    • @writteninthesky
      @writteninthesky 4 роки тому +1

      hug yourself too and pat yourself on the back, wisdom is earned 💫

  • @frialsharefabdo2047
    @frialsharefabdo2047 4 роки тому +178

    💚 From Syria to all living beings on Earth ...we are all One

    • @valobrien9596
      @valobrien9596 3 роки тому +8

      And love💚 to you to Frial, from Ireland! I feel the same as you, that we are all One. How is the situation in your country today? I don't believe much of what I hear in the media, but it does seem like your country has been through a very hard few years. I hope that things are going in the right direction, the direction of peace, tolerance and respect.

    • @christinac4472
      @christinac4472 3 роки тому +3

      Sending love to you all from New York :)

    • @Random-kn9ty
      @Random-kn9ty 3 роки тому +2

      Greetings from the Philippines.. -----****------

    • @elvizprezilly651
      @elvizprezilly651 3 роки тому

      We are ruled you very by these liars
      ua-cam.com/play/PLiZnkb_gY_JVNgHsN7Ji_r-rjRZLhDeCY.html

    • @Crypt0_Yoda1
      @Crypt0_Yoda1 3 роки тому +2

      Much love, from ETHIOPIA 🇪🇹 ❤️

  • @seanbickel6528
    @seanbickel6528 4 роки тому +531

    "You are all God in disguise." The best line that I have heard in a long time.

    • @Kittysticks
      @Kittysticks 4 роки тому +66

      “And when Jesus figured it out they crucified him” really got me too

    • @seanbickel6528
      @seanbickel6528 4 роки тому +4

      @@Kittysticks yeah Joshua was awesome and arguably mythical but definitely one of the best Israelis

    • @rookie4311
      @rookie4311 4 роки тому +44

      We are God’s creation. We are not the one true God but we are gods in that we create certain things like our creator. We are not perfect like God but he makes us perfect through his perfect Son’s sacrifice on the cross for our sins. We are made righteous through faith in Christ and our relationship with God is restored and we return as children of God instead of the Devil.

    • @seanbickel6528
      @seanbickel6528 4 роки тому +37

      @@rookie4311 I do believe that you are missing the point of line and my posting of it

    • @seanbickel6528
      @seanbickel6528 4 роки тому +1

      ****point of the line

  • @williamwasilewski7925
    @williamwasilewski7925 2 роки тому +17

    Thank you for taking the time to put Alan’s words with the animation. 🙏🏻

  • @ymron24
    @ymron24 4 роки тому +617

    This is what we should be teaching in schools.

    • @chrischill5439
      @chrischill5439 4 роки тому +75

      That's against the matrix you can't do that 😂

    • @alex-xv5nq
      @alex-xv5nq 4 роки тому +59

      This is something to be discovered not taught, it needs to be understood within oneself

    • @akhilbs5637
      @akhilbs5637 4 роки тому +4

      They don't
      That's why it's named Afterskool

    • @lifeisagameofknowingyourro6327
      @lifeisagameofknowingyourro6327 4 роки тому +13

      @@chrischill5439 lmao good one but on a serious note school is just pure brain washing, I like seeking my own truth if it resonates with me I understand it well rather then being forced stupid subjects into your head

    • @chrischill5439
      @chrischill5439 4 роки тому +3

      Magical like this π precisely bro they set kids up to want to be slaves their whole lives. The indoctrination of the work till you die mentality is learned at school

  • @VaneezyTV
    @VaneezyTV 4 роки тому +71

    2020 is changing us all. We're going to look back at this year & just laugh about everything. May we keep on growing! Love y'all!

  • @c_62turnt
    @c_62turnt 4 роки тому +84

    Man that picture of the ego you drew of the green man putting on a mask (ego) is my exact experience on shrooms. I saw everyone as just a mask and even my self. This body will mean absolutely nothing when we “die”. It will be decomposed into thin air until it’s absolutely nothing. This body would not be something if it wasn’t for the you that’s inside it. As in the same way the peel on the orange is the thing we do not eat but we throw away. It’s the fruit that grabs our attention and we work hard for. So find your self and you get a great deal of satisfaction from the bs of this world

    • @GeorgE-yo5yc
      @GeorgE-yo5yc 4 роки тому +3

      Correction.. you body will decompose into Something not Nothing. Atoms just don't tend to disappear lightly unless fused or swallowed by a black hole. Your body will decompose and become a part of inanimate Universe and some of the atoms that made up your body will become part of a new living creature...

  • @websurfer1585
    @websurfer1585 3 роки тому +47

    Each present moment is the seed of the next, what you FEEL NOW is creating your reality.

  • @Gazz106
    @Gazz106 3 роки тому +51

    After 58 years on this planet I'm kinda having a light-bulb moment after listening to this 💡☯️🕉️😊 Namaste 🙏😘

    • @xaviert6828
      @xaviert6828 3 роки тому

      me too 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 i am happy to be alive

    • @xaviert6828
      @xaviert6828 3 роки тому

      im serious

  • @cuzzisama248
    @cuzzisama248 4 роки тому +162

    i cannot get over how good this material is to watch when tripping on LSD or psilocybin. absolutely amazing

    • @joshhitchcock74
      @joshhitchcock74 4 роки тому +5

      Helps the mind grow bro

    • @smitty333
      @smitty333 4 роки тому +3

      watch thoths prophecy if ur tripping rn it’s on their page 10/10

    • @naygzlez912
      @naygzlez912 4 роки тому +3

      Where did you get psilocybin?

    • @psichonautas9684
      @psichonautas9684 4 роки тому +6

      watching this while candyflipping.
      one of the best videos I've seen in a while.

    • @jessievixen2763
      @jessievixen2763 4 роки тому +1

      Haven't tried that yet but not sure I've even tripped since I found this channel. It's been a couple of yeas or more

  • @malcolmharris5277
    @malcolmharris5277 10 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for illustrating the words of one of my favourite human beings so beautifully.
    I am utterly sure that Alan would love your work.

  • @floop2935
    @floop2935 4 роки тому +863

    Money and time are literally human-made concepts.

    • @darknature9716
      @darknature9716 4 роки тому +10

      Yep

    • @ericscaillet2232
      @ericscaillet2232 4 роки тому +25

      @Reid Ballantyne of course time is real as we are moving, no movement no time, you could say hence death, but human time is an absurdity.

    • @spypengyn
      @spypengyn 4 роки тому +21

      time has existed since the big bang, doesn't matter if humans existed or not

    • @vipneat7265
      @vipneat7265 4 роки тому +2

      Yes and 2+2=5 right?

    • @MageAtYou
      @MageAtYou 4 роки тому +1

      wow Floop, big brain moment there? You're wrong because you simply made two sweeping statements.

  • @andreaoconnor7424
    @andreaoconnor7424 4 роки тому +5

    Your illustrations brought
    a new awakening light
    to thee all might mr. watts
    Love that moment of silence & those eyes 👁
    STAY CREATIVE .... I’m only 2 minutes in so back to the program

  • @traumametaphysical7459
    @traumametaphysical7459 4 роки тому +15

    This video literally changed my life

  • @j0ann
    @j0ann 2 роки тому +1

    This was a lovely watch. My dog even stopped and watched along with me - take that for what you will. Thank you 💛

  • @youngmarcy7087
    @youngmarcy7087 3 роки тому +23

    This video changed my life. as I suffer through sickness rn I realize I’ve been just speeding through life because of my ego. I miss the past so I cling on to the uncertain future. This is a recipe for disaster . Thank you kind people !

  • @peaflo
    @peaflo 4 роки тому +76

    “If i talk all the time, i won’t be able to hear what anyone else has to say”

    • @ahhwe-any7434
      @ahhwe-any7434 4 роки тому +2

      When other ppl talk i cant hear myself think & thats annoying. Shut up

  • @gabriellemiller2133
    @gabriellemiller2133 2 роки тому +9

    I had a near death experience for like 3 days now and I just recovered , this brought great insight to how I look at life now . Blessing to you and yours .

  • @fauzineto5622
    @fauzineto5622 Рік тому +3

    Alan Watts’ book “the book” is really mind blowing and I really really recommend I haven’t read it all the way through but that just goes to show how ahead of his time this man was

  • @bcullen5417
    @bcullen5417 3 роки тому +52

    Alen watts was a genius. He will always be remembered for his great philosophy and knowledge.

  • @gatitosilly
    @gatitosilly 3 роки тому +18

    so interesting that the point of this video was something my intuition made me realize this summer exactly watching my first kitten live, eat or sleep. she lives in the moment and she brings literally peace in my life. i would've never imagined how powerful it is to live with a pet. my dream is to connect more with nature and animals to feel this peaceful feeling to the fullest.

    • @alfredorodriguezdc
      @alfredorodriguezdc Рік тому +1

      I had the exact thought about my cat during an acid trip lol

  • @GreenEnvy.
    @GreenEnvy. 4 роки тому +354

    And to think, people have been taught to spend their lives from the hours of 9 to 5 making other people money.

    • @tishagonzalez725
      @tishagonzalez725 4 роки тому +50

      Green Envy we go to school to learn how to waste our lives just too sad for the generations, I’m glad a few are waking up now .

    • @tishagonzalez725
      @tishagonzalez725 4 роки тому +5

      Cristiano dos Santos Gomes really! Why do you say so?

    • @thatguybob6088
      @thatguybob6088 4 роки тому +20

      to be fair, if that's the world we live in, which it is, it's better to adapt to that situation and still enjoy life, than make yourself miserable chasing dreams of "hitting it big" or being special

    • @tishagonzalez725
      @tishagonzalez725 4 роки тому +1

      That Guy Bob I feel you Bob guy! Let’s chat on instagram if you will ! I’m @ tishmariaislovely

    • @chuforeichi
      @chuforeichi 4 роки тому +3

      Idk do you prefer to be homeless?

  • @gustavoodysseytrance4ever706
    @gustavoodysseytrance4ever706 Рік тому +9

    We reach a point in life where we realize that the most precious things are the ones money can't buy.

  • @isabelsaavedra7947
    @isabelsaavedra7947 3 роки тому +118

    "If I think all the time I have nothing to think about except thoughts." ~A. Watts

    • @AjayKumar-yn4qb
      @AjayKumar-yn4qb 3 роки тому

      💯🔥

    • @letdomf
      @letdomf 3 роки тому

      Doesn't really make sense

    • @arbaz1
      @arbaz1 3 роки тому +4

      @@letdomf It does because thinking all the time will only result in you having thoughts rather than experiences. So when you think, the only thing you can think about is the thoughts you've gathered because you've achieved and experienced nothing. You get it?

    • @letdomf
      @letdomf 3 роки тому

      @@arbaz1 Yes, makes sense that way. Thanks

  • @awakenedbeing8532
    @awakenedbeing8532 4 роки тому +449

    “ The meaning of life is to just be alive “

    • @cormyat07
      @cormyat07 3 роки тому +5

      Life is not a journey. It's a destination.

    • @MirageandReality
      @MirageandReality 3 роки тому +16

      ‘The meaning of life is just to be alive” but is it? Just because Alan Watts told us it is? It’s obvious because Alan said so? What about the people in the concentration camps from ‘Mans search for meaning’ by victor frankl? The only ones who survived were the ones who found meaning. Why do you think that is? I’m sure their meaning wasn’t ‘to be alive’. Being alive was hell for them. What about the idea that we can access our own meanings from our own souls without anyone telling us what it is?
      Does that satisfy you really and truly? Just ‘be alive’? I think people get stressed out because they are following someone else’s idea of what the meaning of their life is not because they are trying to achieve something. Achieving something you really feel in your soul is an adventure. Not having a driving force can easily make someone listless and depressed. Alan watts and eckhart Tolle obviously had a meaning driving them otherwise they would not have made the effort to write and give talks.

    • @Hara-lamb
      @Hara-lamb 3 роки тому

      @@MirageandReality Yes their meaning was to be alive and to keep on living.
      Otherwise they would just hit some nazi officers or tell them to shoot them or refuse to obey them and they would be dead instead of going through all the months or years of suffering.
      But most of them didnt do that, because ego tells us to do everything to survive.
      What do you think courage is? Is going against the ego, against the primal instinct to get ourselves safe instead of saving somebody in a burning building.
      But there are people that do that even if it costs them their lives.
      So yes, just be alive and try to live every day like its the most important one, because thats all you have.

    • @MirageandReality
      @MirageandReality 3 роки тому +1

      @@Hara-lamb please look up the book I mentioned. It’s a well known study by a psychologist who was in the concentration camps. The study found that the ones who survived were ones who had deeper meaning and sense of purpose and beauty. It absolutely wasn’t just to be alive. Also may I ask you, have you faced terrible illness, have you faced true evil trying to break you down or an otherwise hellish period of your life? If you had you would know just be alive is not enough. David Goggins also has a meaning to do what he has achieved under great pain. My opinion is from personal experience and research, I don’t need philosophy. A person needs a transcendental connection to who they really are and what their soul longs for despite all the attacks. So many forces try to take you away from what you actually are. I think its better to balance it out a bit and view that it is BOTH. Its about the journey, its about the ability to sense the beauty around you in the moment, when it is there, but its also about the reconnection to your true being and being able to express that on this plane of reality. Its not about achieving something beyond yourself, but I would argue that it is about achieving the manifestation of yourself. Your real, actual self. The shamans call it the reconnection to your true being. You must reconnect to yourself and reconnect to the natural world around you of which you are part. Then you will be capable of guiding your own self and you wont need anyone to do it for you.
      Unfortunately when we are born into this world we aren’t like elephants able to just hang around and ‘live’, or like other wild animals. They have their own physical struggles of course, but the human being has to contend with very human conflict, and often they must fight to be themselves in a world where there are many who want to have a piece of you in some way.
      On the inner planes there are forces that try to control the way you see the world, the way you see yourself, and many other subtle aspects. If you want to be free and happy, you have no choice but to exert your own force and wrench back the control for yourself of your own sovereign being. You cannot be complicit or lazy when working on yourself, otherwise power to be yourself and manifest your own reality will be taken from you, not only by brainwashing influences, but also by your own biology, emotional predispositions, and spiritual injuries, without you realising it even happened. Therefore a philosophy of just being ‘alive’ is insufficient on a practical level. You need something much stronger as your polestar, and I would say that comes from your soul.

    • @awakenedbeing8532
      @awakenedbeing8532 3 роки тому

      ​@@MirageandReality actually quite the opposite of being stressed out... maybe you should consider keeping an open mind to new ideas and not just your own. i like the idea of just being without the pressure of the matrix.

  • @heyjonbray
    @heyjonbray 3 роки тому +51

    "Today is but yesterday's tomorrow. And yesterday? Why, yesterday is the day before today."
    - Dan Kweed (420 BCE, Letter to Socrates)

    • @tyyphoid2268
      @tyyphoid2268 3 роки тому +1

      I see what you did 😏

    • @GunNutty
      @GunNutty 3 роки тому

      Nice

    • @ETL5555
      @ETL5555 3 роки тому

      Ok so meaning time doesn't exist? Illusion is time

  • @friendly_lp
    @friendly_lp Місяць тому +1065

    it's kinda crazy how nobody's talking about the forbidden ebook called exit the matrix

  • @vincentmagana3517
    @vincentmagana3517 4 роки тому +7

    The Alan Watts ones are definitely my favorite, all of them has hit me in a good way and helped me see more clearer.

  • @BerryMan427
    @BerryMan427 4 роки тому +9

    One thing I hated about school was awaiting to do a test for like a week or 2. Teach me something, test me, let's go! I see now how from a young age all of us have been tought to wait for (noun). I love Allen Watts, great video! ✊😄