🕉😀 You Cannot Improve Yourself - The Great Alan Watts
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- Опубліковано 19 гру 2024
- Alan Watts is a spiritual teacher with a Buddhist background. In this video he shows that it’s impossible to improve oneself. Instead of trying to improve oneself the best we can do is to remain the witness - peacefully observing what is going on inside of us and on the outside world.
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I interpret this as: to actually become a better version of yourself, you need to accept yourself as you are. By continually trying to improve, we are never satisfied, and never accepting anything. And so we fail.
Miss the message entirely
Enlighten us?
@@Richard-cm3pl first off you can't humans have limitations wanting to improve is the selfish will not universe or God's will, you are to live your life as a human not reject it because it's "bad" you must not get force yourself to conform to this world by doing what people tell you what's good for you. In short leave people alone. Remember dictators wanted people to "improve " and bad things proceeded from it. In short what you think is the truth is not the truth. I learn the lesson the hard way.
@@slipgate5293 your explanation is ok here, but your dismissal of someone else’s shared thoughts in a previous comment, that seems ill intentioned although an honest reaction. Curious!
@@pilipsba sorry about kinda nervous and scared
I fucking love his statement "the reason why you want to be better is the reason why you aren't" It took me 2 years to come to a healthy conclusion of what he meant. Its just literal! If you were better you wouldn't want to be better, literally. you would have no use for it hahaha basically you already are "better"
I always took it as a slight(like his audience from their vibe in the room), as I come from a christian background. I took it as "too bad you aren't good enough, basically having a sinner mentality of desire" But no. Be okay with not being "better" in your mind and you'll just stop wanting to be better, it mainly comes from fear so just be okay with being afraid of the perceived consequences of not being "better", be okay with not being "better"
Great perspective the way I see it is you shouldn’t go about and use means which regress you to enhance improvement because then the mindset will be polluted and will spark a polluted lifestyle
Takes a long time to understand that one. It’s absolutely one of my favorites!
I agree, but I think there’s another step. There are underlying causes. We want to “be better” because there’s a desire we’re trying to fulfill, and we’re fearful it won’t be fulfilled.
Perhaps we want someone’s approval for the promotion and the new house.
I think the key is learning that the improvement isn’t up to us. We’re just doing whatever seems best each moment, and we will continue to learn as we have experiences.
I’d love to get your take on this. Thanks
@@AlterAbility the problem arises when we think in terms of worse and better. It's about dropping that dichotomy.
I think what it really means is wanting to be better is why you are not better, because you can always "improve" there is no end to that task, and so you will never be truly satisfied.
So being better requires you to stop wanting to be better and accept yourself as you are.
But even this is essentially trying to be better even still and you will still fail.
So really the answer is to do nothing at all.
"I like the sound of my own voice" that's confidence !
Hello hello hello hello to everyone who has been spread myths and mistakes corrected by a team of people who whinge are the same people who are trained to the point that we are eventually going to become a member of the best strickers.
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@@craigsmith8811 Nailed it. There is a lecture of him describing a book about Zen where Zen master and student is speaking in "surprisingly incomprehensible" dialogue. People give meaning to things by naming them with words. If you associated word "tree" with what we call a "cow", a "tree" would become "cow" as "tree" is now "tree". Which means, that words, naming things, are useless practices in trying to achieve enlightenment. You don't need words to understand the world
Honesty those who talk alot do so be cause they like the sound
Wanting to improve creates negative energy, frustration and too much of ” trying hard” when instead we are at easy and relaxed and in a good wibe about ourselves and our life we will attract good things naturally….
I don’t understand. How can not wanting to improve e.g. being a better person, sibling, spouse actually cause you to improve without working on it? What am I missing?
@@BittertokkenBecause every relevant problem in our lives come because you Lost yourself into your own delusions (progress), and when you see that nothing must be done about yourself, your life and the world, you wont weaponise morality, making immoral actions or losing yourself from your true Nature.
I cannot improve myself. I have a serious working memory issue. Accepting this reality has given me a great deal of relief, and a reduction of major depression. Fortunately, so far, my colleagues/co-workers are patient with me.
“Don’t be sad son, that the things you lose, maybe the things that they set you free”
Charles Bukowski
A medical, DNA or an accident could have caused this. The issue is that you can improve what you think is yourself, however you are really improving the state of being by the use of using frequencies. Improving your health and awareness is true, but you are not achieving this - the Collective Conciseness is what owns you and is calling the shots. You think you are because within this physical realm, your ego distorts the truth.
@@bobcatt2294 so we just let the universe, which is us/"everyone", as a whole take care of everything because it is already doing/working on the things that we think about, "worry" about, desire, for us?
"That is the worst thing an American audience can hear!" How true!!!
which Americans? they're DEFINITELY not ALL the same hmm? Identity politics much?
Very few people seem to understand what his famous saying "the reason you want to be better is the reason that you aren't" really means. It's actually much simpler that some commenters think.
The part of you that wants to be "better" is your ego. The reason you aren't better is your ego. The reason you will never be better is your ego. The thing is being better means having a better ego. But the ego is an illusion, it doesn't exist, or rather it only exists in your mind.
So all desires and attempts to improve yourself are actually the desires and attempts of a fictional entity to be a better fictional entity, which is obviously absurd. You can't be better but you don't need to be. All you need do is recognize that you are always already whole and perfect because you are the universe/God appearing as a separate human being to have fun experiences. Easier said than done of course but that is what meditation and spiritual practice is for.
What Watts was saying was learn to meditate properly so that you cultivate Witnessing consciousness and embodied presence. When you are simply here now witnessing everything that arises you experience your oneness with everything and this state is bliss or Awakened or Enlightenment 😍
My friend, you've made a brilliant observation. Much respect!
“Our endless desire for self-improvement can itself be the biggest obstacle to our self-improvement. Such desire clouds our perception and prevents us from seeing that sometimes not effortfully trying to improve ourselves can actually be the best way to do so. Instead, we perpetually try too hard and usually end up making a mess of it.”
I love this man's insight and his wit!
Wanting to be better is just being yourself until you realize that you’re just spinning your wheels.
You’re still trying to be better if you try to stop, until you realize it for yourself and accept everything as is
So this is what I will share... I had a bondage of cannabis addiction. In order to rid it, I do shrooms (In fact I did it several times). Everytime I stop weed and open the door to psychedelics. Psychedelic made me disciplined, exercise more and be more productive. But then I tire myself out. Again I relapse. Again to stop addiction, shrooms. And today I realized: "So what! Big deal you smoked 3 times a day and grounded yourself and took the edge of as a therapy and medicine... Maybe, maybe it's the JUDGMENT that is the real problem." Sure anything excees is bad, but it's the MIND that's GUILT TRIPPING you to think anything excess is bad as a form of judgment.
It's like when I am on a routine of weed I get into a rhythm. Then get into a rut and open door to psychedelics. I realize with shrooms you can wipe out negative karma and use law of attraction. Pretty soon THAT becomes a trap where you are CHASING after producitvity and cash and fame and notoriety or 'lower chakra shits' of this earth.
And the samsara continues. Society doesn't teach you to be content. Thus tis better to be a happy loser. In the end, it's all you got.
excellent speech, thanks for posting.
You're very welcome Ben:)
This is one of my very favorites of his! Except for the dancing model flailing about. Pretty flowers, though :)
I agree. If she’s a model she’s clapped
Lol.. have to agree on all accounts.. as everytime I dared to look at the screen..there she was again’. 🫣
the girl joyously bouncing thru the flowers was well meaning, however the ‘looping’ visual ‘did not age well’, throughout ..
Having said that..
I’ve listened to more than my share of Alan Watts videos over the years.. this was indeed powerful..as it resonated deeply
and yet
I’m still attempting to wrap my head around the ‘takeaway’
Perhaps that is why it captured my attention🤓
I Always work to improve yourself. Accept yourself as you are but always strive to Improve. If you’re 450 pounds doesn’t mean you should lose weight because Alan watts said you’re good as you are.
Well this person missed it
Maybe the excess weight gain was a result of not accepting oneself in the first place don’t you think?
Don’t work on the consequences, just go to the source!
Never give up
“The reason you want to be better is the reason why you aren’t”
It took me a long time to understand this but once I heard this lecture I had already started figuring it out. Don’t do things because you “should” or “ought” to. Do things because you genuinely accept yourself and your own humane light and the light dively placed within you. Then suddenly you will find you naturally improve. Don’t be a self improvement junkie, because they become frustrated and are on a never ending loop.
State what you are, state what you want and watch. Have faith that it will happen. We are a big creation machine. Every thought word and deed leads to our ultimate future. I want to have a pain free child birth. That statement is flawed in this way of thinking. But by saying “I am having a joyous birth as my body and my baby prepares for a needed delivery” is way more powerful. Love yourself for who it is you are and you will naturally love others and any challenges that come your way. How? Deciding, that’s it, no program needed. Just decide. I love myself and all my little bruises. I love myself the way I am now and boom! Life will happen for you and loving god, universe, others will come naturally to you.
We are not our bank account, our looks, our degrees.
We are simply improved and accepting ourselves now will ultimately attract upgrades from god (higher power) NATURALLY.
As said by another brilliant man. “I don’t want your time, your talent or your money, as much as I just want you, give me your whole self and I’ll give you a new self instead, in fact I’ll give you myself” Jesus Christ has already done the payment for your self improvement, you simply accepting that takes a load of crap off your shoulders and allows you to actually improve without shoulding all over yourself. I know Alan is Buddhist but who cares, what he says rings true and many Christian’s who understand this are vitally true Christian’s and I’m finding there aren’t many. His yoke is easy and his burden is light, is essentially what Alan is saying here! So profound how different ideologies and “religions” actually connect more than most of us are willing to accept.
Just as excellent as your english well said ❤🎉
This is something I think everyday how happy I'm looking all religions and scientist getting along finding out everyone was saying the same but in the Language each one knows better.
Nutcheck
I am enough. I trust the universe. I can barely wait to see what happens next, but I do.
I love it! That's what I do too!
You are the universe.
That goes for every single skill, from very basic common to unique virtuous ones. From sleeping at night and getting up in the morning to becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you're not meant to achieve the former you're probably not meant to acheive the latter either.
And to top off what Alan said - there's no free will either. The outcome's fixed. Yet you have to try as hard as you can. Yet that together with how hard you actually can and will try and what impact that trying will make on the outcome is fixed too.
I think Alan Watts would be really amused about Jordan Peterson (no offense)
Shut up and clean up your room...lol
@pleasant day on uTube yeah ive been trying to figure this out too. But alan watts is talking about ones feelings and emotions, jordan peterson is talking about one's life style.
I know!! And I love them both! But Alan a little more, Peterson is for the general public ass people perhaps and Alan on a bit of a higher level???? They’re great tho!
An a azing point if view, I will give you that, however JP managed to touch a very sensitive aspect: he encourage us to follow the Greek saying "know thyself" and as far I can tell, the only true form of so called improvement is self knowledge, I can argue so that there is no development as much as there is self discovery.
I was just thinking that right now like, wtf. They would have a sparring.
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Powerful!!!
Thanks for sharing.
Thks for uploading these videos.
Failing is ego perception, there is brilliance of the mind but if it cannot be achieved how our mind perceive it we will never be pleased with anything.. let go. Walking away is not giving up.
8:59: = "Watch"
Thanks...when I heard this video , I was a a bit terrified, maybe because it felt like his whole conclusion was it doesn't matter what steps I take I will end up in that same hell . A insecure incompetent boy stuck in a man's body..but after listening to this WATCH part . I guess he means that just take the steps you feel like taking and watch what is Happening. Just watch , not fir the sake of self improvement. Just watch where you are taking yourself
If I create 'good'', I, on this polar opposite plane, must create 'evil'
I think you can improve yourself out of spirituality, you cannot improve yourself out of vanity. To master chakras is self improvement. Yes you are perfect the way you are, but you should also constantly try to learn yourself, and you'll discover the aspects about yourself that you love and the parts you wish to change. I do not believe there is an end goal, so why not continuously better yourself
The intention of improvement is a difficult thing to police internally. If i am perceiving "improvement" happening, theres always a corresponding part of me that is taking some "vanity" of pleasure in feeling better than before. And theres no way of getting rid of that. And how can i know how much of that is vain especially when its damaging to the self image to think it might all be in vanity? I have an in built unconscious bias and need to view myself in the best possible light, so it makes it very difficult to know and accept my "darker" motives until it becomes ok that i always have them. The parts of me that i most want to change are usually the parts that i cant change and the ones most in need of accepting. Otherwise its an effort in delusion where i find myself pretending they dont exist or i am constantly minimizing them in order to protect my acceptable image of self.
It's a paradox however, there's enough help out there to grow.
Where?
Right, the do-gooders he refers to.....beware!
I try to be better. I am. Okay so now what. I try to be more better or I try to not care about being better. After either of them there’s still a “okay so what now.” It’s the infinite trap. A good bind. Something honest can happen there in the realization.
thank you
I felt so stuck when he said we can’t improve ourselves bc I have been such a bad person to others and I really wanted to change that, but I see another perspective... we can’t be better or worse than we already are. Just more honest and more aware?
But this is better, right?
you already are better for wanting to be better. you already acknowledged said mistakes and you’ve since improved because of it. you simply are better because you want to be better.
You can, but only with wisdom, which is experience
You already are eternally as honest and eternally as aware as eternity itself is, eternity can't change itself which is why eternity can't improve itself.
I believe he means, you can't change WHO you are - not what you choose to do.
There is no excuse for treating others badly so don't try and use this as justification. 😅
Don't complain, don't explain. Don't make excuses, don't give advice.
And if by a miracle Goku somehow found a way to surpass Superman,
WELL THEN GOKU WOULD HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO ASPIRE TOO!
Would you want that? I wouldn't.
So ultimately it comes down to understanding the difference between limits and purpose.
Remember that!
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Yeah that's true but sorry Goku is way stronger than Superman🤣
@@hakimadib8501 depends on where they fight really, like goku does all that space travel shit and superman's power comes from the earth's sun, so if he could make superman fight somewhere else goku would clown his ass up and down. i think on earth though superman would probably have the advantage and goku wouldnt go far enough in threatening the earth to force superman to leave, so i think theyd probably just chill and legalize weed or something instead
now vegeta absolutely would not be able to handle that shit and would 100% threaten to destroy the earth to get superman to fight him
this is incredible
Love this! Run from the upstanding do gooders
There's no one who nails hypocrisy like Alan Watts.
How so?
How not so.
You're missing his speech then. A master is not the one perfect, without stains, actually it's the one who keeps sailing his way in life.
You mean he’s a hypocrite or is the best at describing it?
Wisest guy I know of. Thanks Alan Watts.
So if self improvement is out the window and we are who we are...what differentiates a good person from a bad one. Are we born of a certain nature or is it how we were raised? On Star Trek, it is the point of the human race to continually improve ourselves
There is no good or bad only our mind tells lies to cause fear.
Salvia Divinorum
I think he meant to say don’t keep pushing for things which you can’t change (which are outside of your possibilities)
But the overall theory of labeling bettering sth as bad seems not sophisticated and pure provocative style..
There is no such thing as freedom of action. There is no way to change yourself. And it's not a paradox.
@@EnSabahNur-ir5mw but if i try i can make my abilities of playing piano better, and i can get better at a sport.
@@eze4426 because those are technical things, not moral
The one who needs to be improved is the one who is doing the improvement
This is not the case
You don't exist. Who are you? When you work out there is suffering but no one who suffers
You will not improve yourself. You will get out of your own way and let the true nature of what is within shine through you as much as it can
Possibly. But perhaps I'm better than I know. Can't I improve upon my knowledge?
If we were going to hell fast when this was recorded, ca. late '60s/early '70s, we are pretty close to hell now 50 to 55 years later.
So if people were more aware of their true self and live more in the present we would have Hogwards? I'm down.
Reality is... **CLAP**
That happy girl dancing and running around is a huge distraction!
"Oh, spare the din your chloroform refrain
Pack away those old euphoria grenades
Look at all of them, reaching
Look at all of those hands:
Pulling, grabbing, pushing, in the interest
Of an understanding wasteland!
Winslow! Oh, Win slow...
DON'T LOOK AWAY, NOW!" Rishloo - Winslow
I'm just listening. Easy.
Are you trying to improve yourself by paying more attention? ;)
when I heard this video , I was a a bit terrified, maybe because it felt like his whole conclusion was it doesn't matter what steps I take I will end up in that same hell . A insecure incompetent boy stuck in a man's body..but after listening to this WATCH part . I guess he means that just take the steps you feel like taking and watch what is Happening. Just watch , not fir the sake of self improvement. Just watch where you are taking yourself . Maybe I still didn't get the real essence here , I still feel a bit unease , I hope someone will read it and help me
So I can't become a better athlete, a better student, a better lover, or a better cook?
I think he means you can't change "who" you are - not what you choose to do.
spot on
The reason we can never be better past a certain point is because we have limitations, and limitations are important because they keep the structure of things in balance.
For example
Goku vs. Superman!
Goku has very clear limits and must overcome those limits to solve the task at hand!(that's the whole point)
On the other hand Superman's story isn't about getting better, but facing the challenge of home verses heritage.
And after accepting his Kryptonian side he has reached his maximum potential.
In short Superman is as strong as he will ever need to be.
So what happens when you pit a man with the power to break any limits against another who has no limits in the 1st place?
When only 1 has limits to give it all!
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"The reason you want to be better is the reason why you aren't"
It have been 4 months since I first hear this but I still really don't understand what he meant
Your trying to understand is why you don`t understand. There is nothing to understand or attain in this life. When you give up looking for it, you will get it.
@@rd-dg5ep lol... Wishful new age bullshit. Thats not what he meant at all when he said that.
@@YangYoSeobb how do you know its not true?
Improvement is a concept. Concepts are put upon nature by the observer. They are not a reality. The urge to improve keeps you unimproved because the moment you improve the urge is destroyed and the mind will not let that happen for fear of losing its continuity.
This is also true for any continuous story we tell ourselves.
@@rd-dg5ep thinking that here is nothing to attain in life makes life worthless and thinking you cant improve on anything also makes life worthless because you gain no reward if u dont improve so thinking that u cant improve yourself is a stupid way of thinking and a great way to limit urself
Where his argument breaks down is that rational selfishness alone won't get the job done. We all live in organized societies and must sacrifice a part of ourselves for the benefit of all for the whole system to work.
Can you really take the attitude that I'm going to pursue my own immediate interests and Passions and forget about the rest of the world?
Imagine a police officer thinking "Gee, I can't improve society, ergo, might as well let crime run free. What's the use, no way mankind can improve".
Imagine if everyone were left to pursue their own interests and instincts without restraint or care ? What would be the outcome ? Hobbes explains :
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
"To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
"No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
How in the world could you possibly maintain a civilized society unless it was framed under the notion that it was constantly improving and moving forward? Imagine taking the attitude that people and society at large cannot be improved, therefore just let it run wild as the wind. That's not going to fly my friend.
Alan Watts makes me think but -
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.”
- Henry Kissinger
Matthew When you're dead let me know how your improvement went, you can believe in improvement till hell freezes over just as long as you can always compare it to non improvement which means you have never left point and place.
@@theuniques1199 well I'm glad you rebutted to my argument here. Perhaps we truly can't improve ourselves, but how can one go with the argument "all striving is in vain" , Especially in a modern developed world such as ours ?
Ponder on this quote by Taleb for a while. Let me know what you think.
"My dear Socrates … you know why they are putting you to death? It is because you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions. You may be occasionally right. But you may confuse them about things they’ve been doing just fine without getting in trouble. You are destroying people’s illusions about themselves. You are taking the joy of ignorance out of the things we don’t understand. And you have no answer; you have no answer to offer them."
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
Dude I totally agree imagine if Martin luther King was to say what I'm doing is pointless people will never change so I mines well not try to stand for justice but because he put effort in did everything he could do he sparked change i think Alan watts is intelligent but I think he takes things to far sometimes
I think what he's trynna say is say if you wasnt born with the comprehensive level to understand math at a high level but all your friends are mathematician dont place ya worth and your happiness on trynna be better at something you was not naturally born to understand just because your friends are genius at math accept who you are and your limits
@@coreyhenley2507 Martin Luther King Jr. is dead so what's going to change about him, black and white still argue while still not realizing you can't have one color without the other because contrast never changes itself, what happens once always happens once because Alan Watts knew that we are all the repeating Universe always first believing we exist, now repeat first belief.
I just can't live by such philosophy. It is too depressing. It makes me fail even more in life than I already am. Although, I would say, that this way of thinking can give more insights to life. You may at first think, that you are doing good thing, lets say trying to start working out and, of course, you might feel better at times so you say, that it is working out which made you feel better. But wait. Maybe it is not working out which made you feel better, maybe you lets say, did something completely different thing that day, seen something that made you feel good, like (as absurd as it can be) a girl smiled at you certain way, it is summer with a lot of sun, which makes you feel better or, else, something completely unrelated thing for you. Also, dont you think that you did your exercises in wrong form and just made your joints worse? Is your body really made for such type of sports? There are people in Japan who live 100 years and haven't done sports in their whole life time. Did you took into account the time you spend doing sports and not doing other, more important things, which may be way better to you? Body is very complicated. Even a potato has different effect on two individuals, on their blood sugar levels. And look at other nutritionists, they will say, that it is very hard to know which food is good for that individual. So, he is trying to say, that there are so many things that you have to take into account (and not only in body health, but in all aspects of life) that it is impossible to tell what is good for you or what is bad. That is why you cannot improve yourself. And you still struggle to do so. Which causes you many problems. Not only for you, but also for others. And enlightenment, which what he wants you to experience, comes from just letting go of everything, somehow deciding, that there is nothing to struggle for, there is only that ..... You cant describe it by words, nor with images in your head and even trying to not think about is the same as trying to think about that .... (enlightenment). But you should stop worrying about that negative statement that you cannot improve yourself. If you decide to stop improving yourself, lets say, stop jogging, because you now know that you are too ignorant to understand whether jogging is actually good for you, you start doing the same thing - you are trying to improve yourself by trying to achieve enlightenment. So, you see, this philosophy is just about that .... which nobody knows how to get. And maybe, just maybe, when you stop trying to achieve it, you instantly will get it. Just go and do you stuff as you want to do it.
When "improving yourself" means to "become more unnatural", then I agree with Alan Watts, but when it's the opposite, then I disagree. But, there's a dilemma in that too: isn't everything natural? Monkeys using sticks and stones to fight, beavers building dams, ants building nests... they are using tools. But can one say that's unnatural?
And why I can see a point in this claim of Alan Watts: it is said that for every happening, there's a counter-happening. For every good deed, a bad deed will follow, and vice versa. Good thought bad thought, etc. If this is really so, which it may be, I suppose Alan is right.
However, Alan Watts may not have been aware of the densities as they're called, different modes or levels of reality. And I feel that this message from Alan Watts is wrong, because it implies that there's no need to strive to improve your and others' life conditions and lives. One who only knows how to submit, will not improve the world.
what??
If democracy is not good, a dictatorship is? Mao China, Soviet Union , North Korea ... etc?
Democracy is good, the people in it are "not"
Democracy is government of the people, by the people, for the people, but the people are retarded.
Democracy is bad, but people haven't found anything better yet. I heard that somewhere.
He actually says that the best governments are those who do not change anything or barely change. Because there is no change which is not causing the trouble. The path to hell is paved with good intentions.
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I get confused. If you want to get better at playing piano you need to imrpove no?
If playing the piano is part of your true essential self, you will play the piano because you want to play the piano, for no other reason, and in doing so, you will improve. But improvement is the by-product, not the reason you are playing the piano.
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Acceptance of self does not imply knowing oneself just accepting whatever. In the moment we examine and listen and play and discover we grow. We can of course meanwhile and at all times improve ourselves. Tons of outdated material here. Who needs to hear someone’s statements about “you cannot” if this person does not understand or try the next steps after acceptance.
You cannot improve yourself but you can make yourself worse. That what we are doing in different ways, even when we try improve ourself.
Wrong. You can not make yourself worse. You can not do anything to yourself. Because you ARE yourself.
Its true enoughhhhh
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it would improve MY LIFE greatly if I could find the delicious girl in the video and she was my sincere faithful lifelong lover
Why are you yaking away Alan? Why talk at all?
Im like the birds singing on the tree, there is no good reason whatsoever about why Im talking. Alan Watts
Why not? Why do you ask? Where do these questions come from?❤
You know what's weird? When I listen to this and then someone else ardent like Jordan Peterson, I feel like I'm getting closer to something...
Watts, Peterson, Joseph Campbell, and Eckhart Tolle, and sometimes Teal Swan.
some good and some absurd statements here he's merely stating obviously POSSIBLE contradictions
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In other words, you're stuck where you are and it doesn't get better.
In other words, stop getting in your own way of things BEING better