Alan Watts - Don't Be A Saint

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  • @markselsor6048
    @markselsor6048 Місяць тому +67

    "We are hypnotized by our environment and don't know anything beyond the horizon of our experience." - Sri Yukteswar - Incarnation of Wisdom.

    • @karoakestream
      @karoakestream Місяць тому +1

      We know we don't know anything even ,what we may think.

    • @TheFreedomBay
      @TheFreedomBay Місяць тому

      "Its a common misconception of sentients to see reality as limited by their own senses"
      Macros the black (totally butchered it, its from Raymond Feist fantasy book series The riftwar cycle. Always stuck with me)

    • @ivok9846
      @ivok9846 Місяць тому

      @@TheFreedomBay can you rephrase? it's not obvious what are you saying

    • @TheFreedomBay
      @TheFreedomBay Місяць тому

      @@ivok9846"Its a common misconception of sentients to see reality as limited by their own senses"
      -Macros the black
      (Totally butchered it, its from Raymond Feist fantasy book series The riftwar cycle. Always stuck with me)
      Better? It basically means the same as the original comment

    • @ivok9846
      @ivok9846 Місяць тому

      @@TheFreedomBay better.
      quotation marks or hyphen to denote book title would be even better. and 's after author's name.
      the only remaining question is who butchered what? you're afraid you're misquoting (butchering) macros?
      thanks

  • @joeblack3878
    @joeblack3878 8 днів тому +31

    “To be awakened is to realize there’s nothing to be awakened to.”
    Just “be.” Live and let live, help others along the way if you want… And, don’t if you don’t. If you do, do it just because…

  • @soarer25gtt
    @soarer25gtt Місяць тому +94

    Oh Mr. Alan Watts, God has spoken most eloquently through you. May your words touch all individualized souls of all time and may we evolve as a collective consciousness of highly evolved beings.

    • @soarer25gtt
      @soarer25gtt Місяць тому +7

      @mrswomanfacelel Ah yes, you are completely right! I should have said "The expression of God through the individualized soul of Alan Watts"
      Thank you for catching that :)

    • @33rdStreet
      @33rdStreet Місяць тому +2

      @@soarer25gttbeautifully said

    • @MichaelMunn-sd3eb
      @MichaelMunn-sd3eb Місяць тому +3

      Precisely the case that in a way there is a problem but in a way there is none

    • @asor8037
      @asor8037 Місяць тому +2

      @@MichaelMunn-sd3eb maybe, maybe not. I would prefer to listen to people who walks the walk, not only talks the talk. Speaking of enlightenment is not the same as the experience of it

    • @Paul_Ioan99
      @Paul_Ioan99 Місяць тому +1

      I loved reading your comment. Thanks.

  • @brunocortese
    @brunocortese 11 днів тому +10

    The day I felt out of myself
    One day, I was doing an exercise of pretending to be someone else, like actors do when they’re preparing to interpret someone, because I had to write about a very controversial historical figure.
    I was on the third day of this exercise. I had to feel what he felt and therefore think as he did. But on this third day, I forgot to turn off my phone, and I received a very unpleasant message that I had to reply to immediately.
    However, I was so deeply immersed in the other person that I couldn’t return to myself right away, so something really, really weird happened: I left the character and did not return to my ‘regular’ self.
    In less than a blink of an eye, I saw the world and my own existence in a very different way, much clearer than a second before.
    An incredible sense of joy invaded my soul, and I remained in that state for three days. Meanwhile, I felt that many blocks that were the foundation of my blindness were dissolving; many of my small identities just vanished.
    I have never felt anything so powerful in my life. I had a glimpse of what the great masters say, and now I want to feel that again, as I want to remain in that state.

  • @victornilsson2816
    @victornilsson2816 Місяць тому +15

    I am nothing, appearing as something, now enjoying both.

  • @trevhagios7582
    @trevhagios7582 Місяць тому +33

    When one discusses religion with people, they say they need a religion to hold on to, that is not the way to use a religion because if you use religion as something to hold onto, your religion is an expression of unfaith, faith is where you let go not hold on. When the cat falls off the tree, the cat relaxes. You see, soon the cat lands with a soft thud and doesn't get hurt, because she has faith

    • @lindboknifeandtool
      @lindboknifeandtool 2 дні тому

      The cat doesn’t relax, it does the exact opposite. It’s nerves don’t relax, they put the cat on it’s feet. Wouldn’t faith be just freefalling and letting go? If you describe what the cat does as relaxing then words don’t even have meaning anymore.
      A cat stuck in a tree…

  • @ryanrohn4561
    @ryanrohn4561 Місяць тому +25

    I like when the bells chime, and when I hear the giggling and coughing; sort of puts me in the room with them, in a sense... 50 some years ago when people interacted spontaneously because they were in the moment - no phone, buds, laptop, or I pad; just a room of life interacting with itself.

    • @StriveNot
      @StriveNot Місяць тому +3

      Are you sure they were in the moment? We romanticize the past due to our inability to be with what is🙏🏼 i would know..

    • @bunchofgrapesorafig
      @bunchofgrapesorafig Місяць тому +2

      ​​@@StriveNotOne day your comment will be considered to be in the past though, have you ever tried to be entirely present in an ever fluctuating Universe. You'd have to be completely mummified to be Still. Life is born out of silence ❤

    • @StriveNot
      @StriveNot Місяць тому

      @@bunchofgrapesorafigto sin means to miss the mark, it’s an archery term. And you my friend have missed my point🙏🏼 enough said.

    • @bunchofgrapesorafig
      @bunchofgrapesorafig Місяць тому +1

      @@StriveNot stop talking nonsense. Your comment has nothing to do with reality. As Alan Watts quite rightly stated, ' From the bath tub to the bath tub we utter stuff of nonsense' hahaha 🤣 archery and sin lol what are you bumbling on about

    • @zedekiahfisher6519
      @zedekiahfisher6519 Місяць тому +1

      I use to think the coughing was a sign that it all was live. Now

  • @seandougherty8613
    @seandougherty8613 Годину тому +1

    0:39 bless you!

  • @DedicatedSpirit8
    @DedicatedSpirit8 Місяць тому +2

    At times I find it a little difficult to follow Alan's logic, but when I do understand it just rips my mind to pieces.
    I know that if portions confuse me I am not ready to understand it yet.
    One day I will return and it will make sense.
    Thank the cosmos for Alan Watts

  • @edamameedamame1202
    @edamameedamame1202 Місяць тому +13

    This is his most important talk in my view. I have listened to it so many times it does not get old. You did a wonderful job for visuals. Thank you 🙏🏻

    • @DaQuote
      @DaQuote  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you, I'm glad you liked it and I greatly apprechiate the kind words! 😄🙏

    • @kostisv
      @kostisv Місяць тому +2

      The visuals so exceptional that distract me from listening to the lecture. English is not my native language

  • @omarsadiqYouTube
    @omarsadiqYouTube 5 днів тому

    I could listen to Mr Alan Watts all day every day

  • @kelleemerson9510
    @kelleemerson9510 Місяць тому

    Spiritual gold!

  • @jokevermeer3828
    @jokevermeer3828 Місяць тому +16

    Alan Watts is still alive ♥ Thank you for this an for the fact that there is no music in this video.

    • @soarer25gtt
      @soarer25gtt Місяць тому +1

      Death does not exist. Life is infinite.

    • @gordonely3591
      @gordonely3591 Місяць тому

      Yes I find music extremely distracting ❤

    • @felixstone3.14
      @felixstone3.14 3 дні тому

      We all have a billion atoms that where once in alan watts

  • @timothythegreat6294
    @timothythegreat6294 14 днів тому +1

    jokes aside
    i lovehow he is all over the place with info ❤
    it helps keep me focused aaaand opens doors like crazy 🎉 mr watts ❤❤❤

  • @timothythegreat6294
    @timothythegreat6294 14 днів тому

    great feeling to hear this ❤

  • @raulsimon2218
    @raulsimon2218 Місяць тому +2

    Nice talk, nice pictures (most of them).

  • @TheEcono
    @TheEcono Місяць тому

    Sweet 😔☯️🙏

  • @jamesfrearson9630
    @jamesfrearson9630 16 днів тому

    such beautiful photography , thanks for the upload.

    • @DaQuote
      @DaQuote  16 днів тому

      I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

  • @ProfArnoldEhret
    @ProfArnoldEhret 3 дні тому +1

    He spoke from Jiddu krishnamurti. Also very interesting Man.

  • @jokevermeer3828
    @jokevermeer3828 Місяць тому +2

    Pinksteren. Uitstorting van de heilige geest.
    Deze preek gaat over: "Wees geen heilige."
    (met magische prachtige beelden van de wereld) ♥
    Je bent geen leraar als er geen student is...

  • @VenusLover17
    @VenusLover17 Місяць тому +1

    ❤❤

  • @gordonely3591
    @gordonely3591 Місяць тому +3

    Monica Furlong wrote a deep searching biography of Alan Watts .
    It's called Zen Effects .
    It's worth buying . ❤

  • @NadineGardner-ws2tw
    @NadineGardner-ws2tw Місяць тому +4

    Nothing can harm a pure soul .

  • @walkie-talkie7
    @walkie-talkie7 Місяць тому

    Buddhism is finding peace and happiness.. this is what we seek the most in life!! Every religion has its own unique benefits..!

  • @joannaufnal9309
    @joannaufnal9309 23 дні тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @RonnieLeeJones
    @RonnieLeeJones Місяць тому

    My response to somebody that asks me if I am saved is, yes I am, and thank you for your concern about my soul.

    • @cyberpunkfalangist2899
      @cyberpunkfalangist2899 22 дні тому +1

      I would caution you against such notions pride is the most insidious of sins and can worm it's way into our hearts

  • @d1o2c3t4o5r
    @d1o2c3t4o5r 4 дні тому

    There is a difference between being "holier than thou," and avoiding taking stupid risks with your soul.

  • @sketchingtophat9661
    @sketchingtophat9661 2 дні тому

    Yes.

  • @BrotherJerry
    @BrotherJerry Місяць тому +3

    I'm a new subscriber 🙏

    • @DaQuote
      @DaQuote  Місяць тому +1

      That's awesome Brother Jerry! Thank you 🙏

  • @ZBielski
    @ZBielski 17 годин тому +1

    Man talks for an hour to come to the conclusion "I am God" 😂😂😂😂 wow so profound

  • @phk2000
    @phk2000 Місяць тому +3

    All is ONE! Know this, FEEL this, BE this. The rest is just chatter for the mind (which is also the ONE appearing as chatter of course!)

  • @williamwightman8409
    @williamwightman8409 Місяць тому +4

    I'm listening to Jesus right now, but he is trying to convince me that he does not exist.

    • @juliarotunno
      @juliarotunno 14 днів тому

      How do you know it wasn’t just YOUR mind (thought) claiming that it is Jesus? From the Biblical scripture I have read, Jesus identified as the one essence or Holy Spirit, not a body/ temple or its thoughts.

    • @lindhorstellie
      @lindhorstellie 6 днів тому

      ua-cam.com/video/x3xueXaG2rI/v-deo.htmlsi=HCEUrRvKJcqYNw87

    • @lindboknifeandtool
      @lindboknifeandtool 2 дні тому

      @@juliarotunnoaccording to 99.99999% of Christians, he was a person. You can feel his presence I guess? But you’re guessing what that may feel like.
      Nobody has the answers and if they say they do be very skeptical and search for their motive.

  • @tristanfunk1417
    @tristanfunk1417 7 днів тому

    every time

  • @jiqian
    @jiqian Місяць тому

    I need something like the Twitter filter words thing but for UA-cam so I can filter specifically and basically exclusively "Alan Watts".

  • @jerrycurtin5770
    @jerrycurtin5770 Місяць тому +30

    if you have an opinion..you still don’t get it. And to those who do get it-it’s funny. What’s the point? All “points” are imaginary perspectives..which is debatable at every level. The point is there are no points :)

    • @MichaelMunn-sd3eb
      @MichaelMunn-sd3eb Місяць тому +3

      That's your point is it? Don't worry I can easily concede that in a way there is no reality and I definitely find the word consensus funny

    • @tankjones513
      @tankjones513 Місяць тому +3

      Yup. If you get it, you get it. The key is to not try to grasp it, its not able to be understood by finite mind.

    • @NickBatinaComposer
      @NickBatinaComposer Місяць тому +1

      yall my folks in Alabama sent me a coffee that I used to drink in college before moving up north, it’s really good stuff. Great processing too, it’s called Lucky Goat, based in Tallahassee.

    • @dnbjedi
      @dnbjedi Місяць тому +1

      I think some points are in a superpositional state like a hyperdimensional crystal of unfoldingness

    • @dnbjedi
      @dnbjedi Місяць тому

      Such as love, heat, pressure, surrender, …

  • @OldRogue9
    @OldRogue9 Місяць тому +1

    I got Nothing ❤

  • @MrMcflanigengaming
    @MrMcflanigengaming Місяць тому +1

    Why not exist and try to be good to people who are you. Simply existing is pointless. Hell even

  • @numbers419
    @numbers419 Місяць тому +4

    Church is a place for people to gather and help people who are lost spiritually find there way back to society

    • @marika64able
      @marika64able Місяць тому +2

      Church did the opposite for me. It's when I left the church where I found my personal relationship with The Christ.

    • @kelleemerson9510
      @kelleemerson9510 Місяць тому

      If only.😔

    • @TheFreedomBay
      @TheFreedomBay Місяць тому +1

      Potentially.
      But as most things its a two edged sword.
      Then again as usual we humans tend to have a hard time understanding anything but absolutes so we end up discussing of something is bad or good endlessly never realizing both sides are both right and wrong in most all cases.
      This is possible because its always relative.
      In this case its relative to the intentions of the induviduals going to church.

    • @user-gy8in7ui2c
      @user-gy8in7ui2c Місяць тому

      nope

    • @ACharmedEarthling
      @ACharmedEarthling Місяць тому

      I think it's a place where people who are lost spiritually get fleeced.

  • @tristanfunk1417
    @tristanfunk1417 7 днів тому

    lmaooooo

  • @cyberpunkfalangist2899
    @cyberpunkfalangist2899 22 дні тому +1

    What an evil way at looking at the world

  • @brianrono9629
    @brianrono9629 Місяць тому +1

    13:24

  • @a.j.garrett9639
    @a.j.garrett9639 15 годин тому

    Yetzer Hara

  • @leerutledge9099
    @leerutledge9099 Місяць тому +1

    Alan Watts has been dead for a long time. This is nice to see.

  • @Honorcodefor-1life
    @Honorcodefor-1life Місяць тому

    Rastafari
    Way
    Words
    Curse
    Or
    Make
    The Day. Why time unfolds, enfolds, history -His-story, ~whose story?...is~

  • @ShimrraShai
    @ShimrraShai 13 годин тому

    Don't "be a saint" (you can't, really) i.e some ludicrous standard of perfection (that is also often idiosyncratically crafted by some authority - think e.g. sexual prude morals that are also and esp. patriarchally loaded) often "backed up" by some form of punitive attitude (esp. toward oneself), but don't disregard the well-being of others in how you act. Unfortunately, many of us are too focused on "what's in it for us" more than we are on whether we a) should really have or really need to have whatever is in it for us and b) the consequences that obtaining what is in it for us and especially by whatever method are on others (which isn't just other humans, but other life on Earth and maybe even elsewhere in the universe when the thinking gets really long-term). And I don't mean just intellectual focus but much more importantly _visceral_ focus, i.e. that we may see something wrong but be unable to override the urge. It's not about meeting some dumb perfection standard as it is shifting the mind and the modes by which actions come to be so as to thoroughly integrate the interests of others as well as "oneself" in true equality ... and when you get really far down that road you start to see it sounds like the dissolution of separation-consciousness itself; I would suggest thus that also conversely, if one is still acting in a way that would not be justified when one has such a cognition, that one hasn't, in fact, dissolved the separation-consciousness entirely at that point, even if one thinks one has.
    (And that in turn gets us to Buddha again because Buddha's plan in many ways involves seeking out enlightenment _through_ mindful, ethical conduct and he even defines many spiritual attainments _by_ ethical attainments ... thus what I just describe about how the separation-consciousness dissolves as one pursues ethical conduct in a more essential and less "rules-bound" way.)
    (Also I find "Buddhism was Hinduism stripped for export" something puzzling enough I'd want to know where that came from. Because Buddha famously _contended_ with the proto-Hindus [Vedic Brahmins] of his time.)

    • @DaQuote
      @DaQuote  13 годин тому

      Do you need it?

  • @Truthseed313
    @Truthseed313 Місяць тому +1

    Fallen angel knowledge. Distraction and separation from Christ.

    • @bluesteelthunder
      @bluesteelthunder 29 днів тому +3

      Then perhaps it strengths your faith of knowing so. Not a slam on your perspective at all. May your faith continue to be strengthened and you by it. 🕊️

    • @Truthseed313
      @Truthseed313 29 днів тому

      @bluesteelthunder plenty of good information. Alot of people know alot of good things but it is not what Christ showed us. I've been saved by Yeshua so I personally have to stay aligned with that.

  • @balajib785
    @balajib785 Місяць тому

    I am the whole religion ❤

  • @KyngKyro
    @KyngKyro Місяць тому

    I know right? Good thing I’m not!

  • @SapereAude562
    @SapereAude562 Місяць тому +2

    I enjoy very much listening to Alan Watts. But there are always these snippets of inherited religious dogma lurking around haha
    There is a profound plot twist in all Religions, Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism included etc...
    You are looking up to someone or something or some deity to give you the answers. They cannot.
    You are the full Answer, You always have been. We are all One, timelessly just experiencing itself.
    No need to go through all the fruitless nonsense and ego driven (here including that spiritual ego as well).
    If you are willing to really dive deep inside yourself and find out who you are and surrender, you will understand what all the Masters and Religions really mean...
    Terence McKenna once quoted a beautiful Van Morrison's song that talks about this:
    "No guru, no method, no teacher,
    Just you and I and Nature"

  • @TheMatheushorta
    @TheMatheushorta Місяць тому

    Wish he had bothered reading the catechism befored crossing the ocean to study foreign religions.

  • @f1KING
    @f1KING Місяць тому +7

    what do u mean don't be a saint?

    • @DaQuote
      @DaQuote  Місяць тому +28

      There was plenty of sun today! 🌤

    • @raul4848
      @raul4848 Місяць тому +3

      Black Madonna

    • @LifeLongLearner-om8jx
      @LifeLongLearner-om8jx Місяць тому +11

      Listen to the talk… its self explanatory

    • @UriyahRecords
      @UriyahRecords Місяць тому +8

      Try listening to the video, it makes perfect sense

    • @Drdssikes
      @Drdssikes Місяць тому +6

      I had a smoothie for breakfast

  • @Lumalnatti11
    @Lumalnatti11 Місяць тому +5

    I'm not a saint, a devil, a god, king or queen, a Buddha, a Shiva or anything, just an individual loser in the sea of sour milk. Everyone is under the same casino dome, perks or not. there's a heavy price to pay for any good or enjoyable "life" under the dome.

  • @konkowjosephson1607
    @konkowjosephson1607 28 днів тому +1

    It is not a good thing too be "Awakened" In this time period. It makes for more sadness for our world,but it is still better than being illusioned and being content.
    "Everyone is a philosopher", we need more doers

  • @benrawlings5439
    @benrawlings5439 Місяць тому +1

    Hmmm, there’s not being a saint and there’s being an ass hole.
    Zen master should be getting themselves up in the morning for one, getting rage full at the perceived mistakes of others only to realise it’s your own mistake but not own that mistake or apologise for being rage fully wrong. Sounds a lot like something else, pathological narcissism.
    Nothing to teach sounds about right….

    • @sheetpost69
      @sheetpost69 Місяць тому +4

      There is something inside you that you should let go. May you find peace.

    • @bigpictureguys8415
      @bigpictureguys8415 Місяць тому

      lol wut?

    • @TheDeathboy900
      @TheDeathboy900 Місяць тому

      I don't remember Watts EVER saying that he was trying to 'teach' anything. For that matter Buddah his self said: "these are only my opinions and you have your own. Don't follow me".

    • @bluesteelthunder
      @bluesteelthunder 29 днів тому

      But why would you even listen to Watts in the first place?

    • @charlestaylor8624
      @charlestaylor8624 16 днів тому

      What is the mistake you memtion? Without telling us, your critique is empty.

  • @dota2mas7er84
    @dota2mas7er84 Місяць тому +7

    blah blah blah

    • @tylerbennett2219
      @tylerbennett2219 Місяць тому +1

      Hahaha exactly.. does what he's saying really matter lol

  • @fuhjk502
    @fuhjk502 26 днів тому

    Alan blew it at the end. The Zen Master doesn't know shit.

  • @yarlkymcfirblatherington9879
    @yarlkymcfirblatherington9879 13 днів тому +4

    I'm fully enlightened. I don't care if others can't see this. I act correctly and think correctly. I'm an intelligent, thinking, compassionate person, who has empathy for his fellow humans. I practice kindness. I am nothing and completely anonymous. Bliss.

    • @metafish2428
      @metafish2428 9 днів тому +2

      That's a contradiction. One who is nothing cannot be enlightened, for something that is nothing cannot be anything but nothing, including being enlightened. One who is enlightened is nothing but the Self, and there is nothing, but the Self. To lose oneself in anonymity is to find nothing within oneself, but is to also lose touch with the Self within.

    • @ClamMan1989
      @ClamMan1989 6 днів тому +1

      You sound like the "saints" Watts described.

    • @felixstone3.14
      @felixstone3.14 3 дні тому

      That's not what a person who's enlightened would say. I know I know nothing and all that.

    • @AlastairCroxton-fd6tv
      @AlastairCroxton-fd6tv 3 дні тому

      Enlightenment is losing or letting go of the self so they are right, there is really nothing left.

    • @lindboknifeandtool
      @lindboknifeandtool 2 дні тому

      @@felixstone3.14that’s the point dingus. Only ones self can know.

  • @dawndid5972
    @dawndid5972 Місяць тому

    Thanks for the watt 💡 age.
    🩵💛💚💛🩵
    The dot age
    🐟🐳🐋🐬🦈🦭🐧
    The crevice and the cracks
    The scurrying ants
    The plants
    The nudity in the sun 🏜️
    Lions from Ireland 🍀
    We don't speak about flora and fauna
    Mice helium 🍄 are list
    N
    Eng
    Cheng 🔴
    Summer head toe head toe head
    Tow 🛶 boat oar kayak
    H.our lakeside howl 🐺🦉and hoot
    👢In cowgirl boots
    🐦🐝🐦🐝🐦🐝🐦🐝🐦🐝🐦🐝🐦