“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly - it’s the best advice ever given me…to throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…” - Aldous Huxley, Island Man i love this, i love you all
As someone who is aggressively addicted to making sense of everything, this statement just unraveled my mind. In the same way that we think about the north and south poles of the Earth - a man could drive himself crazy in the literal pursuit of finding them. In reality, they are only concepts which enable us to delineate up from down.
Like saying dont feel so much, close the valve for feelings little like that is something to be controled and submitted, i must walk quietly and dont ever be so happy so i dont be so sad....
@@Lollylove922 on the contrary, feeling is an essential part of the human experience... if you don't consciously let yourself experience your emotions, you'll still subconsciously experience them and they'll control you without you noticing, because you never gave yourself the time to acknowledge that they're even there
@@dcgreatman thats deep, usually walking on egg shells is description of abuse, must watch your step around people and adopt to them, lose myself....idk maybe i dont get it or something
I don’t think I can really put into words how much Alan Watts saved me at a really low point. At times I thought my life was all over, I’d listen to his lectures and it would really ground me. It would settle my fears and come to the realisation to keep going. Keep surprising yourself, life keeps throwing things right at you but you got to keep going.
I'd honestly love to meet everyone else that listens to Alan Watts and meet some beautifully like minded people to just talk for hours on end. Anyone that's in London 'spontaneously' wants to meet up, let me know
I need some backround music like this whenever I'm late to work Boss: "Why are you late again?" Me: "When you... seek.... to arrive on time to work, you are already late, therefore must one somehow... endeavour... to attain earliness without planning it" Boss: "... you're fired"
At worst point of time in my life, this talk saved me, Thanks to Alan Watts. Don't take life too seriously and remember everything has an end, therefore there is no reason to worry
@@AtlasNothingosho used to say "something that never dies". That scares me. Because some day my superficial me won't exist anymore but something will still exist. That triggers thoughts like "I will still exist but won't have a body. I'll be nothing. Maybe my mind will still exist". I keep having headaches and nightmares. Maybe it's all in my head and maybe death ends everything
@@SparcBR There's no point on be worried if there's anything more than death. We don't know and we will not know, we don't have the ability to know what's beyond life. But that's okay, it's alright, that means that we need to live our lives as we want and in a virtuous way, because wondering what's after death will not bring us anything in life, right now. That was said by Socrates, which I agree.
@SparcBR Tolle said: nothing which is true is ever lost. The mind is not that :) the love and power of you is, perhaps. In any case: this too shall pass
One of my important moments in life was the time l was at a crosswalk that had the pedestrian signals to tell you when to stop or go. Directly across from me was a young woman who appeared to have down syndrome. No cars were coming, so l started to cross the road, eventhough the signal showed to stop. The young woman said "you're not suppose to go...STUPID". That made me laugh. She was right for one thing, but l also saw it as her chance to call someone else "stupid" How many times has someone called her "stupid"? Never will forget.
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Every thing is just made up. I always use to think that as a child. Then I forgot about it and my life became miserable lol. It took me 6 years of "soul searching" to remember that.
Definitely an Interesting way of looking at it.. No One Gets Out Alive.... True Indeed. One of the many reasons I stopped Caring about Alot of Things etc.. It's Pointless & a waste of time and energy. We ALL will leave this Earth at some point,.
By watching this I am taking life too seriously because I’m afraid not clicking on this video will lead to me missing out on some important life advice that will drastically change my life…
Overthinking ‘the decision to click on the video’ in the first place. There is a reason you are thinking that, it is not a wrong thought. There is much worry in this comment, ironic to the video yes, but here’s my advice. Seek things you do in your life that currently fulfill you, wonder why, and hopefully by answering that question, it can tree out into things you ‘fill’ your life with that fulfill you. ‘Happiness’ and ‘motivation’ are words I try not to integrate. You can FEEL happy, but that’s a ‘byproduct’ of fulfillment.
D Herrera This video is enlightening!! The same energy he permeates is in all of us. I have been awaken to this degree which is none we all know. Subscribe to LIVIVID UA-cam channel we will discuss daily situations how to maintain the higher self
Too easy to think..but when you look at your mom crying.. getting sick.. stressed.. dealing with anxiety and depression...due to financial issues... looks like you have got to be serious!!! 💔
I have been revisiting this gem for 8 years without fail. It encompasses all. To keep me grounded. To keep me sane. To keep me present. There will come a time when our society will acknowledge the unequivocal contribution he has left behind, not only the far in people.
"Yesterday does not exist, and tomorrow never comes. there is only the eternal now." Enjoy every second, tell your family you love them and don't forget to love yourself.
There is no meaning bro, we're alive for a little while then we die, that's it. I guess all we can do is try and enjoy the time we do have here, do whatever the fuck you want, we're all gonna die anyway, yay!
I feel so much gratitude for his talks. I dont dwell on it but in this moment im reflecting on the fact that before you come to this realization you spend so much time fighting the very nature of existence. So much energy put towards fighting the duality that will always be there. You dont have to fight, both sides define the other. Without one there is no other. I feel like unless you've really thought deeply about it this seems like nonsense but to me it makes perfect sense and brings me peace.
I think I get what you mean and still disagree. I'd rather have a boring monotonous life over a bad life filled with minimal good or any variation. If I could exist not knowing what pleasure is and without knowing pain, I'd take that. Without life there is no death. I'd rather life not exist at all Edit: just wanted to clarify that this isn't me trying to change your mind. Just a conversation. Don't want a snarky comment when I'm being genuine.
One things i’ve always told myself since i was little is, “life could always be worse” and it’s such an interesting sentence; truly. Such a powerful one but most of us ‘overlook’ it and brush it off with not much value. But if you truly sit and think about the history of our species, what we have been through, what some people still go through to this day… and compare it to what you have been though/experienced; it should quickly put into perspective your struggles and (hopefully) give you some hope… No matter what you’ve been through or what you’re going through right now, someone has been through it or something similar and *HAS* made it out alive. They *HAVE* succeeded and continued with a life of happiness. I think in todays society a lot of us really take for granted the basic things in life. Once some of that is stripped away you start to realize how fragile we all truly are. Enjoy life. Slow down. *TAKE A LOOK AROUND* Life is beautiful, people are beautiful. I see so many hurt/broken souls. And it makes me think how weak we all have become honestly. Back in the day hope was the only thing that drove us through famine, disease, war, etc. *HOPE*
Your comment caries a lot of wisdom that I'm afraid many people dismiss. We are truly blessed to be in the point we are now... we have endless possibilities to pursue what we want, but we seem to be carried away by bullshit and fear. Gratitude is crucial, because in a way, it makes you stronger, you can't have your head held high without gratitude. I know there are problems in the horizon, and I know reality is different for many people on this Earth, but hey, we are watching a video about not taking life to seriously on youtube, we all must have some semblance of gratitude for even HAVING that possibility. You also need to take into account though, that for much of our history we were surviving, that is, focusing on whats on the outside. Now that we have the privilege to have FREE TIME on our hands, that is, time not trying to survive, we start to look within. In a way we turn against ourselves. Those who don't are still "surviving", how can they not without any self awareness? There is a reason that the highest good in our economy is now attention, its extremely powerful. Due to its power, when we turn attention against ourselves, the main enemy becomes exactly that, ourselves. We see the absurdity around us, and trying to merge our desires, with expectations, trauma, with a whole lot of other shit. We yearn to reach a point of self transcendence, individuation, however you put it, but nobody points towards the path unless we search for it ourselves. Its hard to be at peace and feel fulfilled in a society that is spiritually rotting, and completely out of touch with nature. This is VERY HARD for a lot of people since social institutions were built whilst we were still surviving, and everything we see now was built to keep something going, its not built for our benefit, to transcend our biology lets say (I think that self awareness allows you to do that, in a sense). Its no wonder there are lots of broken souls out there, I think your mistake is attributing it to weakness. We are simply in a completely new stage as a species and we need time to figure OURSELVES out, weed out the trauma, and actually start acting for our benefit as a whole and not stay dysfunctional. We can start by having some gratitude for those that came before us.
love your comment and i agree wholeheartedly! the systems we currently live in are outdated because they were created at a time of consciousness that we have transcended, our systems are based on survival, not on cooperation that considers the Whole and the potentials of expansive awareness applied to an ever changing society. grateful to see this comment and this put so clearly, screenshooting to share 🩷
Well, I was given a serious incurable illness by my doctor giving me the wrong medicine. (it's called FQAD if you want to look it up) Its a made up illness basically but so bad I will be killing myself. MS, Parkinsons, Chroronic Fatigue, Fibromialgia, the list of chronic diseases goes on and on. Most are modern illness. not seen at all or rarely in the past. Mental illness caused by modern society too, as well as many other things - not breatstfeeding, pesticides, fake food, pollution, lack of sunlight, chronic stress, chemicials, pharmacueticals. So if your mental health is good, your physical health is good and your finaces are good - and you don't have a sick child, child on drugs, etc. you can do OK. But in my opinion modern society has made things worse. Hunter gatherer societys have very little depression, suicide, etc. I was doing OK but it all went in a flash with, by my "doctor" messing up. And modern medicine messes up all the time, we just hear the success stories. I didn't even need the damn antiobitcs to begin with. So now I listen to Allen Watts to calm my fears of death which I hope comes soon.@@anabolicchicken4115
Life just is. We live on a floating rock blissfully un-aware of the many years that have passed and the many years that will pass. The mind can only comprehend the now, and it will continue that way forever. Love eachother, and the things you do.
Life's a joke because people lie and get angry when others do it to them what makes it even more funny is why be mad when you even lie to yourself irony
@@samusaran7317 all people are hypocrites im their own way, they dont know how to be responsible for their own hapiness but expect these self made enemies to be responsible for their misery
Death ends life. But death doesn't just end lives, it breaks hearts. I don't think we fear the end of life, I think we fear the end of love. Love is what really matters in life and we wonder if death puts an end to all love. That would be the tragedy of it.
Death is a Human construct because it's truly an illusion, even Quantum Physics have proven this. We're really energy operating a biological 'computer' body which does die off, but since we're energy; energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred.
Crows Descend I love to read well thought out comments like this. The existential writer and therapist Irvin Yalom said the same thing you said... death does not exist for you for as long as you live lol. You'll never really know death.
Well death is a construct of living beings, as all animals do fear it when they see death on their doorstep. What we do see is that collective evolution doesn't stop with death. That is why species develop adaptations through millions of lives and deaths. Be thankful you are a part of this process, because we are all still evolving!
I recently had my neighbor, who I didn't know quite well, only once saw them and said hi when they were entering their apartment as I was mine, suicide. Even though I barely knew her, I felt compassion and as if love for her spirit that I felt so sorry for her death. When you look at death from the point of view of others who live past your point of death in time, I don't think it is human for people to not feel connection and to let love be blank in such event. There's your answer.
I was very religious (christian) for a couple of years before I eventually rejected it and turned agnostic. I stumbled onto alan watts about a year ago and I can say that this man has done more for me in my life thus far than religion ever did or could do.
Same here! I think you will enjoy these lectures where he discusses the Christian religion : - Democracy in Heaven - Alan Watts: ua-cam.com/video/tobkNQKx-oc/v-deo.html - Jesus and his religion - Alan Watts: ua-cam.com/video/oYcy-Fr5Ckg/v-deo.html - Sex in the Church - Alan Watts: ua-cam.com/video/l4EsCRLqtoM/v-deo.html - God as Mother - Alan Watts: ua-cam.com/video/wJFNVYGRybo/v-deo.html Have a nice day!
how could you have been "very religious for a couple years?" what were you before? and gnosticism deals with what you know and agnosticism is something everyone should invest in because how descrates put it "I think therefore I am" Is the only thing you can be certain of. Theism or atheism deals with what you believe. Do you act or even consider that some deity is constantly watching you as you go about life or say are in the bathroom? What do you think? you're almost there my fellow mortal and it's not bad at all.
Џон Доу people are people, subscribing to a faith doesn't make you a good person, it doesn't make you a bad person. If it makes you happy to accept or reject a god or gods of any faith then do so but don't you dare suggest that you are better than any other human based upon what you believe to be better.
It's so natural to attribute what you don't know to a magic old man hiding in the "sky" not to accept him. The atheists that you know are humans with a lot of negative emotions and meds are known to cause more harm than good! Religion can turn people into insane haters and murderes like islam for example!
Appreciate your experience here, appreciate that you were able to come this way, appreciate the light that turned on for you that you would be able to live a life here and now.
How was it so simple all along? You do it suddenly, without warning, yes. You do it in every moment. You don’t reach enlightenment once, you reach it every moment for the rest of your life, by being in the moment. You don’t worry about the moments you won’t reach it, you just go back to it whenever you notice you’re not there. I’m home.
I have had this occur countless times, where I just happen to listen to his lecture on the exact theme of my day or a conversation I just had. Alan-depity.
Sarah Gammon What the hell, same. Literally, it all started with one day me finding this video on some crazy third eye stuff. Then, every now and then I'd go on UA-cam because Im bored, and a video on the first screen would catch my eye, I'd watch it, and it would strongly relate to my day.
dude had been dead for almost 30 years when I was born and still he manages to touch my life more than most real acquaintances. It's kinda funny how people like him or even imaginary characters can be more real to me than 99,99...% of the human population. Connected by human civilization, greater than the sum of its parts. I better try to get some sleep
@@dosomestuff1949 The topic of the video is about being mindful and being light hearted in your attitude towards life and its hardships. Stoicisms talks a lot about mindfulness and the original comment is saying that true strength comes from inside, not letting your mood affect how your perspective even if that is human nature. Up to you if it means anything but it correlates to the video.
I'm 33 and it still applies! Wise understanding brother! Never compare yourself to a fellow man, always compare yourself to who you were yesterday! Always show respect! Always demand respect! but also roll with the punches! Look up stoicism and different life philosophies. You'll hear the right words to keep you motivated and grounded in reality! "Always question the man in the mirror!"
I remember once listening to Alan watts and he said that death feels just like how you felt before you were born and that shit gave me so much peace.. been listening go this man for 8 years now.
DMT Infinity If it has psychedelic properties, then it qualifies as a psychedelic, however minor it may be. I've tripped balls on marijuana in my younger days before my body and mind built a tolerance to it.. of course this was no where nearly as powerful as any triptamines I've consumed, but no doubt.. sometime's I hallucinated and my senses were augmented
DMT Infinity Yep. It is possible. I've seen people bad trip, never bad tripped personally.. but I've definitely had a few 'minor' trips which were more than just being high
DMT Infinity It doesnt happen to everyone, that's for sure. Usually it's when people have never experienced it before and it rocks their perception of reality
Kidy Fiddler But life happens everyday...life is now, life is now, life is now. Life ends when you sleep from your perspective but life isn’t ever over, life is just life. Life.
0:50 when he talks about games , i recognize myself there . I played Dark Souls 3 a lot (I think it's noticeable) and everyone thought I was ridiculous for attaching so much importance to a game, but I played it for a good reason: I played it to prove to myself that I was capable of overcoming hardships that seemed "impossible" to me. today i am aware that nothing is impossible and i fight every day to achieve my dreams i put a lot of effort into what is important to me because this game taught me that i can do it.
@@Rolling2Much -essaye de parler dans une vraie langue on se comprendra peut être mieux -try to speak in a real language we may understand each other better -Versuchen Sie, in einer echten Sprache zu sprechen, vielleicht verstehen wir uns dann besser -حاول التحدث بلغة حقيقية قد نفهم بعضنا البعض بشكل أفضل -luka koloba na monoko ya solo tokoki kososolana malamu -προσπαθήστε να μιλήσετε σε μια πραγματική γλώσσα που μπορεί να καταλάβουμε ο ένας τον άλλον καλύτερα -尝试用真正的语言说话，我们可能会更好地理解彼此 -zama ukukhuluma ngolimi lwangempela singase siqondane kangcono
@@zopidoo4785 he means that he thinks the opinion is not good. Most would doubt its seriousness and expect it to be an attempt at ironic humour. It's counterintuitive to associate hardships thought impossible to overcome with a video game.
@@Wicker_ bruh you don't know me you don't know anything about me... lower your voice kid and come back to me when you've experienced the real difficulty of life by the way .. this game helped me not to end my life when I was homeless ... you should really think before you speak
Idk why people are giving you a hard time. People just don't understand and I think it's kind of stuck up to act like you're too good for video games or to make video games seem childish. It still takes mental fortitude, resilience ,and determination to beat dark souls, which are the traits needed to overcome real adversity. It doesn't matter if one is more "real", it's still the same mental strength needed for both.
I love that! Don’t take life too serious just be sincere with what you do! Don’t be too serious, just be sincere! Don’t loose sleep over something so minor or frivolous just because you took it too serious and it caused you to overthink so much you lost sleep over it! Just be sincere, go to sleep every night knowing YOU DID EVERYTHING that day to the BEST of YOUR possible ability and that was way more then good enough, and tomorrow will be another day to do it all over again and maybe even better. Just don’t kill yourself for a job that would replace you without a seconds thought or any hesitation at all. A business stops for no one and must continue on with or without you. Know and never forget in the work environment, no matter what field you work in, no matter how much experience, knowledge or degrees you have under your belt, that you are easily replaceable! But to your family and loved ones you are absolutely beyond irreplaceable!! So know your priorities, know the reality of it all outside the “bigger picture” and know you are worth much, much more to ANY of your loved ones, current, new or old then any job could ever possibly value your degrees, skills, ability and capability to do said job! In any and all work environments you yourself has a price value set on your head of your worth hence your set hourly/salary rate is what your worth to said job! Your loved ones couldn’t put a price on your skill, ability and capability to love them as they love you! So take life less serious, be more sincere about everything, know your worth! Get your priorities in order, set standards for yourself, live by morals that YOU cherish and uphold yourself to them to the highest standard and never slack on it! Remember to be humble to not only your loved ones, those around you in general but most importantly yourself! Humble yourself to be humble to yourself! Live Laugh Love Isn’t just some corny quote on every soccer moms wall in the living room above the sofa beside the family photos.. It’s something we should take very serious and live by!
I do take life too seriously sometimes, even though intellectually i know i shouldnt. Depression and grappling with other issues does that to you. I find it is easy for a person to give advice when you are in a good place in your life.
I always try my best not to take life too seriously, but I have to take the events unfolding around me seriously. If I can't manage to keep up with my surroundings the world will move without me. I don't feel a sense of togetherness nor belonging in my educational environment in life right now, but I just have to keep pushing forward as strong as I can, so I can sleep at night and wake up to face more challenges again.
Believe it or not when you graduate either if you were the popular kid or the outcast everyone in that class of yours will be alone. They will have moved far on with their lives many of the supposed friends will stop talking after graduation. Those who felt they had a community will realise that at the end of the day when stuff starts going peer shaped they really only have themselves to turn to, to rely on. Whenever you belong or not you are responsible for you. Yes it’s nice to have people but as life goes on you will meet freinds who will have shared the same experiences. It’s hard not belonging sometimes. But then again think if that feeling as a timeframe. To figure yourself out what you like who you are what do you want to do so that you don’t take life entirely seriously but still keep it together. Not taking life seriously for me is not doing a budget Not keeping to my to do lists and going on my own tandems is a starter. Hang in there you will be happy. School is such a short time in your life you might think you hate it but 5 years from now ironically you’ll find yourself reminiscing. Funny isn’t it?
@@crazybirdie6743 Yeah, it is pretty ironically funny that I will only look back at my education with fondness in the future, thanks for the talk, that is some really useful advice and information that I can keep in mind.
Wise understanding brother! You have to stay grounded in reality! Look into the different philosophies of life. I can see you already have yours. I believe, based on your comment, that stoicism will intrigue you! Stay free! Keep learning! It doesn't stop after government indoctrination...
That's exactly why this video is fuckking retardedd. I'm not a goofy ass person, so I work to succeed but life's a dumbb bitch. I'm always keeping it real
“One day we’re all gonna die and they’re won’t be people to remember…cleopatra, motzart.” -Hazel Grace Lancaster. I’m sorry if I got this quote wrong but I agree with it, I’m 14 and dealing with high school kids, but in the end, no one’s really gonna remember, whether that’s your embarrassing days or everyone’s legacy. So yes, don’t take life to seriously. 😉
Tears of relief off of this. I’ve made it through so much shit growing up and now I’m in the military and I feel at extreme peace. I’ve come far and these tears are of joy and gratitude to all my hardest struggles. This is so relieving. Life is beautiful and death is inevitable. Live freely, you only get one ticket.
When i got home from overseas I hit bottom. I went into the military with no family. No friends. I had nobody. I thought the military would be that family but I was wrong. I was alone even around my troops. But weakness is cut from the mind if we want to or not. It made me weak and these videos have helped me heal. I had a 30% chance of not walking again. I healed on my own, by my own. And these videos helped. Because boy lemme tell ya. Holding a gun to your head is a sobering experience despite how drunk I was .
Life is empty and meaningless. It is up to you to apply your own meaning to it. Make it fun, make it worth what you want. Never give up learning... about yourself.
His laugh. I love his laugh. It warms my soul. He knew and understood something so fundamental that he found it humorous, as I do decades after he spoke the words. That to me is beautiful. To understand a man, that died as he lived, and lived as he died, long before I was ever born.
The only thing the bothers me it’s the fact that we exist just to go to work and pay bills everyday until we 70 yo And after that people still make children like it’s such a fun thing to work your soul away just to pay rent to come back to work that everyone have to experience it…
brotha its not... workaholic culture is not normal just glamorized in the western world... no amount of school or salary is worth throwing away your life...
Even after we decide not to take life seriously, there are still times when we encounter people who take life too seriously, and their energy can rub off on us. Now, it is up to us to decide not to take those people too seriously.
This video is enlightening!! The same energy he permeates is in all of us. I have been awaken to this degree which is none we all know. Subscribe to LIVIVID UA-cam channel we will discuss daily situations how to maintain the higher self
hes so amazing, i hear his voice on some ego death meditation. truthfully it fits so well. there is no point to life, at least not out there. but you can take that as a blight on the world, as a loss of purpose. or you can see there being no one point, as an opportunity to make ur own points, the things your strive for, just because you want to. you are the artist, painting on the canvas of your life. your feelings, thoughts, actions, desires. they, are the paint with which you form the painting of ur life. some ups, some downs. some fast parts, some slow. you are beautiful and amazing, and the you your becoming, is the more gorgeous. be your true self, it helps.
"there comes a point when pain becomes ecstasy" sensation with no meaning.. explains how the buddhist monk sat so passively in a meditative state as he burned himself to death during the Vietnam war..
Nihal Nihal - At some point during painful experiences the mind stops registering it, taking it ‘seriously’ and it is no longer pain at that point, then the pain/experience ends.
" TO LIVE AND TO LOVE IS THE KEY TO ANY SUCCESSFUL LIFE AND TO NEVER LET THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS EVER KILL YOUR HEART FOR ALL YOU MUST DO IS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND LET EVERYTHING HAPPEN NATURALLY "
I had this exact same mental image once. I was driving on a desert highway at night, with the moon filling the sky ahead. As I drove the highway lifted up off the ground and extended up into the clouds, directly toward the moon.
Last time I listened to this I was 16-17 my english was not great, here I am listening to this again at 24, smarter, I can get more wisdom from this now.
I discovered this guy when I was 17 ,since than I've learned many things. I'm 19 now and still the best videos I've came across, not to mention his voice is relaxing.
It’s more likely to have been presented by the algorithm. Looking at it this way though, and then pointing it out to dismiss what some might take away from it, I don’t know what we could call that but I don’t think it would be wisdom.
I always had these feelings that life felt fake and I was in a dream I believe that life is a simulation and you have to play your cards right to make it in Life
@@Hanna-Sebbe : depersonalization (literally) is what this quest for 💡 is after. Its not a diagnosis imposed on an individual by some nutty psychologist and tell them you are to be corrected by all means to be useful member for society again. Variety of views on This (🌏) has to be supported and not beaten into submission by pseudo scientific approaches of puny minds .•°
@@farrider3339 I dont really understand your comment, my native language aint English so maybe thats why i have some troubble. But im quite certain i got dp/dr, had it constant for several years and its nothing i would want my worst enemy to get, it has ruined alot of things for me. Hopefully in the future it will get sorted.
13:06 everyone needs to live by this, dont get stuck in the past because the past is no longer existant, the only thing that exists is the 'here and now'
I started watching this video and my cat climbed up on my shoulder and sat there for just about 30 minutes. I still feel confused/concerned/and scared a lot of the time but that 30 minutes was the best feeling I have felt in a long time. I hope everyone out there is doing okay.
Alan Watts lectures, interspersed with that occasional free laughter with a nasal twang, has that quality that takes one beyond time and gives you that feeling of being the observer as well as the observed simultaneously.
Have always loved Alan, the guidance of a father. Allows you to decompress, find answers aswell as pull the wool from our eyes. "we are all fighting to be right, but some how we're all wrong"
I had a near death experience as a child and saw a timeless glimpse in the realm beyond, it has taken me 30+ years to be able to put words behind this amazing experience, but Alan does it very natural and truthful. To put it into simple words "life is a mirror, all your thoughts will reflect back upon yourself" allowing us to see our own karma. There is no good, there is no bad, everything just is. When I first started my search to understand things that nobody seemed to have answers for I was lead toward a few sources that met my desire. I will share them with you as you all are already moving toward the right direction by finding Alan Watts works. They are "Science of the Mind" Ernest Holmes, Teachings of a Immortal. Edgar Cayce's One life many vessels, We are all Doing Time, The Four Agreements, Proof of Heaven -Eben Alexander, anything Alan Watt says are all lessons learned in my timeless experience and I am glad to see others sharing in the same universal truth that I believe everyone should accept in their lives. Love peace and prosperity to you all.
I forgot to mention a book written by Dr. Doughlas Cottrell named The law of One. All of these books depending on who you are, have great knowledge that will give great strength if you decide to believe in them. As we do live in a universe where we see what we believe, instead of seeing is believing. Since everyone is infinitely connected to the infinite at all times, everything remains relative from our subjective view point. Everyone can climb the same mountain regardless of the name they give the mountain,or choose different paths up this same mountain, yet we are all climbing the same mountain from our desired view point of reflection. My own Meditation exercise to center ones self mind , body and soul. I have developed my own form of meditation that works for me, and I will share it with you now in hopes it brings understanding as all answers are within. Rather then teaching you what to think, I will teach you how to think for yourself using meditation as a tool. Once you blank your mind, you can shut your eyes and lose sense of time, and enjoy the gentle stillness and peace it brings. Once all surface thoughts have subdued. You push even deeper (think of it as a ocean, on the surface waves are roaring, but deep within there is always a calmness) this is where you plan to be, mentally and spiritually. Once you have this selflessness and emptyness achieved, focus on yourself with no particular goal or motive, just that you exist within this blackhole of selflessness. Once there surround yourself with 6 Mirrors making a hexagon around you, each being a part of yourself that makes the combined reflection of who you are. It can be anything from a feeling you desire, a person you love, a item that brings happiness, each is something that helps you to be you. Once you move from one to the next and can see each for what it is you will wake up from this selflessness meditation, however the memory of the reflection in the mirror will remain in your conscious mind. This is your subconscious soul mind giving you clues and you can then apply your conscious thought toward why you selected them. Reflect on it, and ask the question why you selected them and the importance they play in your life and if you see yourself as incomplete without them. This has helped me to achieve great happiness as it allows my higher mind to show me first hand what it is that I seek, when sometimes I have no clue myself where I am headed nor any control for what the future may hold, only how I react to it. It brings great clarity in knowing that nothing is meaningless and has helped me to achieve happiness despite my surroundings or obstacles in life. I hope this helps anyone who wishes to center themselves. I developed this using my experience of my near death in combination with many years of meditation and self reflection. Prayers held within the heart are normally what surfaces in my own experience but that is the beauty of this exercise, that each will be as unique as the individual using it.
I believe religion to be personal between you and God. What I experienced only proved to me that no human mind could nor can understand how vast God is or our own souls really are. No label or religion can define the infinite. Man has often created God in his own image if you study history and the evolution of God. You will find that our evolution and God's are almost one in the same. On a spiritual stand point I think humankind is still a young teenager with much to learn. I myself do agree with many religions, especially the ones centered around love and sympathy for all, because after all, we are all one. I am doing a interview via youtube about my entire experience I will post here around November 6th or around so you can hear it for yourself. I hope you find it of use in what you seek. Love, peace and prosperity to all, Can email me at Joshwl1981@hotmail.com
Don't take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive.
@Green Giant Spread good energy while we can
Except 5-10 generation from now when the illness of aging has been eliminated
@Green Giant pl k
No. Nin M m
@@wile123456 i dont think wed have to wait that long
*scooter intensifies*
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly - it’s the best advice ever given me…to throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…”
- Aldous Huxley, Island
Man i love this, i love you all
We love you too bae
As someone who is aggressively addicted to making sense of everything, this statement just unraveled my mind.
In the same way that we think about the north and south poles of the Earth - a man could drive himself crazy in the literal pursuit of finding them. In reality, they are only concepts which enable us to delineate up from down.
Like saying dont feel so much, close the valve for feelings little like that is something to be controled and submitted, i must walk quietly and dont ever be so happy so i dont be so sad....
@@Lollylove922 on the contrary, feeling is an essential part of the human experience... if you don't consciously let yourself experience your emotions, you'll still subconsciously experience them and they'll control you without you noticing, because you never gave yourself the time to acknowledge that they're even there
@@dcgreatman thats deep, usually walking on egg shells is description of abuse, must watch your step around people and adopt to them, lose myself....idk maybe i dont get it or something
I don’t think I can really put into words how much Alan Watts saved me at a really low point. At times I thought my life was all over, I’d listen to his lectures and it would really ground me. It would settle my fears and come to the realisation to keep going. Keep surprising yourself, life keeps throwing things right at you but you got to keep going.
Me too brother 🙏🏼
You saved you .
Woah. That’s really impressive
Yeah he is awesome. I want to be like Alan Watts. He gives you that "Everything is ok" feel. But when you think about it, everything is OK. 😁
Nah
Your life really IS over
Stop the charade. just give up
Life is like a box of matches. To take it too seriously is ridiculous. To take it not seriously enough is dangerous.
© Ryunosuke Akutagava
In other words balance ⚖️
Meh. Even death isn't a big deal. If it was it wouldn't happen to everyone.
@@rickywilson5563 Ok mr nihilist, have fun being dead im sure its very fun
@@rickywilson5563 sure, but being stuck in a really bad situation and having to suffer through it without actually dying? Torture.
Life is like my penis, it’s short and can’t please women.
I'd honestly love to meet everyone else that listens to Alan Watts and meet some beautifully like minded people to just talk for hours on end. Anyone that's in London 'spontaneously' wants to meet up, let me know
+ram singh serial killers don't listen to this
That's exactly what a serial killer would say!
I am but I don't talk. I despise talks.
I wish I could, sadly I"m in another continent.
We can try to arrange an "Alan Watts" Get together sometime, somewhere :)
Greetings from Norway :)
I need some backround music like this whenever I'm late to work
Boss: "Why are you late again?"
Me: "When you... seek.... to arrive on time to work, you are already late, therefore must one somehow... endeavour... to attain earliness without planning it"
Boss: "... you're fired"
🤣love it!
lol this is the best thing i saw all day!
Nice drop of humour old chap.
I love this 🙌😂😂😂😂😂
daily giggle accomplished
At worst point of time in my life, this talk
saved me, Thanks to Alan Watts.
Don't take life too seriously and remember everything has an end, therefore there is no reason to worry
Or rather, there is no end. That’s why it goes on forever.
@@AtlasNothingosho used to say "something that never dies". That scares me. Because some day my superficial me won't exist anymore but something will still exist. That triggers thoughts like "I will still exist but won't have a body. I'll be nothing. Maybe my mind will still exist". I keep having headaches and nightmares. Maybe it's all in my head and maybe death ends everything
@@SparcBR There's no point on be worried if there's anything more than death. We don't know and we will not know, we don't have the ability to know what's beyond life. But that's okay, it's alright, that means that we need to live our lives as we want and in a virtuous way, because wondering what's after death will not bring us anything in life, right now. That was said by Socrates, which I agree.
@SparcBR Tolle said: nothing which is true is ever lost. The mind is not that :) the love and power of you is, perhaps. In any case: this too shall pass
Relatable
One of my important moments in life was the time l was at a crosswalk that had the pedestrian signals to tell you when to stop or go. Directly across from me was a young woman who appeared to have down syndrome. No cars were coming, so l started to cross the road, eventhough the signal showed to stop. The young woman said "you're not suppose to go...STUPID".
That made me laugh. She was right for one thing, but l also saw it as her chance to call someone else "stupid"
How many times has someone called her "stupid"? Never will forget.
This is beautiful.
i would have said "only retards follow the rules.. STUPID"
“Lex Fridman is dangerous” 18 min inspirational video on UA-cam ends w the poem “if” by R Kipling Which is best, Law abiding citizen, Forest gump, Green mile 51st dates hancock click or stepbrothers
wow
Damn that’s deep
Every thing is just made up. I always use to think that as a child. Then I forgot about it and my life became miserable lol. It took me 6 years of "soul searching" to remember that.
infinite perspectives for you to choose, my friend
imagine that lol
I think we all know this at birth but diminishes over time by the worldly entertainment
Anything that can happen has already happened.
Bless
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
lol true
mynamebestname
life is really complicated but we insist on making it simple
also true lol
Simplicity takes a difficult approach
We dont realize the simplicity and only can appreciate it after dealing with and being binded by complicated rules and requirements
“Don’t take life so seriously, no one gets out alive!”
Arrive alone,
Leave the same...
EVERYONE IS THE
SAME...
Some will have to do it, shame for all...
I love a happy ending!
You only can't get out alive when you can't get out of a cliché.
@@peacesound1101if you can get out alive please share.
Definitely an Interesting way of looking at it.. No One Gets Out Alive.... True Indeed. One of the many reasons I stopped Caring about Alot of Things etc.. It's Pointless & a waste of time and energy. We ALL will leave this Earth at some point,.
By watching this I am taking life too seriously because I’m afraid not clicking on this video will lead to me missing out on some important life advice that will drastically change my life…
Overthinking ‘the decision to click on the video’ in the first place. There is a reason you are thinking that, it is not a wrong thought. There is much worry in this comment, ironic to the video yes, but here’s my advice. Seek things you do in your life that currently fulfill you, wonder why, and hopefully by answering that question, it can tree out into things you ‘fill’ your life with that fulfill you. ‘Happiness’ and ‘motivation’ are words I try not to integrate. You can FEEL happy, but that’s a ‘byproduct’ of fulfillment.
This was me. I am forcing myself to watch this
@@justuraveragecunt9005 same
Haha, and that is okay. Don't take your way of taking life seriously, too seriously.
Well u clicked, now continue on with your life my friend
this speaks to me on so many levels. as I struggle in this darkness of depression and anxiety, Alan Watts is the voice that calms my soul.
same here !!!! are we in tha know? lol
I feel you, how are you doing? :)
Same
D Herrera This video is enlightening!! The same energy he permeates is in all of us. I have been awaken to this degree which is none we all know. Subscribe to LIVIVID UA-cam channel we will discuss daily situations how to maintain the higher self
Try also eating healthy :)
The title says dont take life seriously. Meanwhile the comments are the exact opposite
yes because the people who clicked on the video take life too seriously and want to learn how not to!
Don't take it seriously but take it with sincerity
@@whizz8871 yeah
but you dont 'just learn how to not to take life too seriously'
you do it or you dont
it is simple as that
🤔
Stop watching Alan Watts, you're taking life missing awesome things
Too easy to think..but when you look at your mom crying.. getting sick.. stressed.. dealing with anxiety and depression...due to financial issues... looks like you have got to be serious!!! 💔
because it is the love between you that is the most magnificent.
You should love yourself. Otherwise you can't give love to other's ..
Even then, just take it as it goes. Don’t stress too much or worry like frazy and crack ur skull over EEVRYTBJNG
I'm 70 years old sitting in a campsite west of Phoenix Arizona I think about my mother she's been gone for years and I still choke up and cry
@@Liebuster24 oh dear. Ee should stay in present so we can live happily....
I have been revisiting this gem for 8 years without fail. It encompasses all. To keep me grounded. To keep me sane. To keep me present. There will come a time when our society will acknowledge the unequivocal contribution he has left behind, not only the far in people.
Took the words out of my mouth.
"Yesterday does not exist, and tomorrow never comes. there is only the eternal now." Enjoy every second, tell your family you love them and don't forget to love yourself.
In addition to the second part of your comment, remind yourself of how mortal everything and everyone is.
And if nobody has ever told you that just know I love you & this goes for anybody who just happens to find my comment ! I LOVE YOU & YOU ARE WORTHY 💓
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.......Exactly!😆✌🏻
Nah, because if you fuck up yesterday tomorrow can catch up to you.
I’m more afraid of living a life with no meaning then I am afraid of death
Good luck in the quest .•°
You said a mouthful there, my friend. To which I add, FACTS!
Life never has any meaning, this is the absurdity of human existence. We keep chasing a meaning although there cannot even be one
There is no meaning bro, we're alive for a little while then we die, that's it. I guess all we can do is try and enjoy the time we do have here, do whatever the fuck you want, we're all gonna die anyway, yay!
The only meaning that exists is your personal meaning ,own your truth .so if u gonna play the game play it by your own rules.
I feel so much gratitude for his talks. I dont dwell on it but in this moment im reflecting on the fact that before you come to this realization you spend so much time fighting the very nature of existence. So much energy put towards fighting the duality that will always be there. You dont have to fight, both sides define the other. Without one there is no other. I feel like unless you've really thought deeply about it this seems like nonsense but to me it makes perfect sense and brings me peace.
This is very nicely said
I think I get what you mean and still disagree. I'd rather have a boring monotonous life over a bad life filled with minimal good or any variation. If I could exist not knowing what pleasure is and without knowing pain, I'd take that. Without life there is no death. I'd rather life not exist at all
Edit: just wanted to clarify that this isn't me trying to change your mind. Just a conversation. Don't want a snarky comment when I'm being genuine.
"YOU" are the "OTHER." There is no duality.
Can you dumb this down please?
One things i’ve always told myself since i was little is, “life could always be worse” and it’s such an interesting sentence; truly. Such a powerful one but most of us ‘overlook’ it and brush it off with not much value.
But if you truly sit and think about the history of our species, what we have been through, what some people still go through to this day… and compare it to what you have been though/experienced; it should quickly put into perspective your struggles and (hopefully) give you some hope…
No matter what you’ve been through or what you’re going through right now, someone has been through it or something similar and *HAS* made it out alive. They *HAVE* succeeded and continued with a life of happiness.
I think in todays society a lot of us really take for granted the basic things in life. Once some of that is stripped away you start to realize how fragile we all truly are. Enjoy life. Slow down. *TAKE A LOOK AROUND*
Life is beautiful, people are beautiful. I see so many hurt/broken souls. And it makes me think how weak we all have become honestly. Back in the day hope was the only thing that drove us through famine, disease, war, etc.
*HOPE*
Your comment caries a lot of wisdom that I'm afraid many people dismiss. We are truly blessed to be in the point we are now... we have endless possibilities to pursue what we want, but we seem to be carried away by bullshit and fear. Gratitude is crucial, because in a way, it makes you stronger, you can't have your head held high without gratitude. I know there are problems in the horizon, and I know reality is different for many people on this Earth, but hey, we are watching a video about not taking life to seriously on youtube, we all must have some semblance of gratitude for even HAVING that possibility.
You also need to take into account though, that for much of our history we were surviving, that is, focusing on whats on the outside. Now that we have the privilege to have FREE TIME on our hands, that is, time not trying to survive, we start to look within. In a way we turn against ourselves. Those who don't are still "surviving", how can they not without any self awareness? There is a reason that the highest good in our economy is now attention, its extremely powerful. Due to its power, when we turn attention against ourselves, the main enemy becomes exactly that, ourselves. We see the absurdity around us, and trying to merge our desires, with expectations, trauma, with a whole lot of other shit. We yearn to reach a point of self transcendence, individuation, however you put it, but nobody points towards the path unless we search for it ourselves. Its hard to be at peace and feel fulfilled in a society that is spiritually rotting, and completely out of touch with nature. This is VERY HARD for a lot of people since social institutions were built whilst we were still surviving, and everything we see now was built to keep something going, its not built for our benefit, to transcend our biology lets say (I think that self awareness allows you to do that, in a sense). Its no wonder there are lots of broken souls out there, I think your mistake is attributing it to weakness. We are simply in a completely new stage as a species and we need time to figure OURSELVES out, weed out the trauma, and actually start acting for our benefit as a whole and not stay dysfunctional. We can start by having some gratitude for those that came before us.
love your comment and i agree wholeheartedly! the systems we currently live in are outdated because they were created at a time of consciousness that we have transcended, our systems are based on survival, not on cooperation that considers the Whole and the potentials of expansive awareness applied to an ever changing society. grateful to see this comment and this put so clearly, screenshooting to share 🩷
Well, I was given a serious incurable illness by my doctor giving me the wrong medicine. (it's called FQAD if you want to look it up) Its a made up illness basically but so bad I will be killing myself.
MS, Parkinsons, Chroronic Fatigue, Fibromialgia, the list of chronic diseases goes on and on. Most are modern illness. not seen at all or rarely in the past. Mental illness caused by modern society too, as well as many other things - not breatstfeeding, pesticides, fake food, pollution, lack of sunlight, chronic stress, chemicials, pharmacueticals. So if your mental health is good, your physical health is good and your finaces are good - and you don't have a sick child, child on drugs, etc. you can do OK. But in my opinion modern society has made things worse. Hunter gatherer societys have very little depression, suicide, etc. I was doing OK but it all went in a flash with, by my "doctor" messing up. And modern medicine messes up all the time, we just hear the success stories. I didn't even need the damn antiobitcs to begin with.
So now I listen to Allen Watts to calm my fears of death which I hope comes soon.@@anabolicchicken4115
Don't read the comments. Listen instead. You might miss something important. Scroll up and start again dude
thx m8
Heard so many times and read comments too many time now what?
stress free cooking umm you missed the point; listen one more time.🤷🏼♂️
Life is on Auto-Pilot. All you gotta do is see it AS IT IS to be fulfilled by it. Check out The Present on globaltruthproject.com
dw man, i paused the video =)
Life just is. We live on a floating rock blissfully un-aware of the many years that have passed and the many years that will pass.
The mind can only comprehend the now, and it will continue that way forever. Love eachother, and the things you do.
Well said!
I love the quote "what happens after you die?, well a lot of things happen they just don't involve YOU! ;D
that is an excellent quote, my i use that?
+King Leonidas That's much nicer than being told to come back with your shield or on it...times have changed, man! ;)
King Leonidas I always think I about what I am going to say and what things might happen (butterfly effect) but now I just don’t give a fuck
Life's a joke because people lie and get angry when others do it to them what makes it even more funny is why be mad when you even lie to yourself irony
Yep. So many projecting hypocrites out there
how inspiring/s
@@samusaran7317 all people are hypocrites im their own way, they dont know how to be responsible for their own hapiness but expect these self made enemies to be responsible for their misery
@@unknown9zz0 that got me
@@chickenstripsp4222 hehe
I don't, but life is taking ME seriously.
Not really. It's just in your head and what you believe in it.
😂
Damn. 😌
@@RedianRed 😢
😂
Death ends life. But death doesn't just end lives, it breaks hearts. I don't think we fear the end of life, I think we fear the end of love. Love is what really matters in life and we wonder if death puts an end to all love. That would be the tragedy of it.
Reasonable Doubt be skeptical then
Death is a Human construct because it's truly an illusion, even Quantum Physics have proven this. We're really energy operating a biological 'computer' body which does die off, but since we're energy; energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred.
Crows Descend I love to read well thought out comments like this. The existential writer and therapist Irvin Yalom said the same thing you said... death does not exist for you for as long as you live lol. You'll never really know death.
Well death is a construct of living beings, as all animals do fear it when they see death on their doorstep. What we do see is that collective evolution doesn't stop with death. That is why species develop adaptations through millions of lives and deaths. Be thankful you are a part of this process, because we are all still evolving!
I recently had my neighbor, who I didn't know quite well, only once saw them and said hi when they were entering their apartment as I was mine, suicide. Even though I barely knew her, I felt compassion and as if love for her spirit that I felt so sorry for her death. When you look at death from the point of view of others who live past your point of death in time, I don't think it is human for people to not feel connection and to let love be blank in such event. There's your answer.
I was very religious (christian) for a couple of years before I eventually rejected it and turned agnostic. I stumbled onto alan watts about a year ago and I can say that this man has done more for me in my life thus far than religion ever did or could do.
Same here! I think you will enjoy these lectures where he discusses the Christian religion :
- Democracy in Heaven - Alan Watts: ua-cam.com/video/tobkNQKx-oc/v-deo.html
- Jesus and his religion - Alan Watts: ua-cam.com/video/oYcy-Fr5Ckg/v-deo.html
- Sex in the Church - Alan Watts: ua-cam.com/video/l4EsCRLqtoM/v-deo.html
- God as Mother - Alan Watts: ua-cam.com/video/wJFNVYGRybo/v-deo.html
Have a nice day!
Thank you! And also thank you for posting all of the videos! Its a blessing really
how could you have been "very religious for a couple years?" what were you before? and gnosticism deals with what you know and agnosticism is something everyone should invest in because how descrates put it "I think therefore I am" Is the only thing you can be certain of. Theism or atheism deals with what you believe. Do you act or even consider that some deity is constantly watching you as you go about life or say are in the bathroom? What do you think? you're almost there my fellow mortal and it's not bad at all.
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people are people, subscribing to a faith doesn't make you a good person, it doesn't make you a bad person.
If it makes you happy to accept or reject a god or gods of any faith then do so but don't you dare suggest that you are better than any other human based upon what you believe to be better.
It's so natural to attribute what you don't know to a magic old man hiding in the "sky" not to accept him. The atheists that you know are humans with a lot of negative emotions and meds are known to cause more harm than good! Religion can turn people into insane haters and murderes like islam for example!
Appreciate your experience here, appreciate that you were able to come this way, appreciate the light that turned on for you that you would be able to live a life here and now.
How was it so simple all along?
You do it suddenly, without warning, yes. You do it in every moment. You don’t reach enlightenment once, you reach it every moment for the rest of your life, by being in the moment. You don’t worry about the moments you won’t reach it, you just go back to it whenever you notice you’re not there.
I’m home.
Wise words brother! Do you read up on "stoic" philosophy? You will find it intriguing, I believe, based off your comment.
this is so weird. He adresses my thoughts of the day 100% and I didn't even look for it, but it popped up in my sidebar
I have had this occur countless times, where I just happen to listen to his lecture on the exact theme of my day or a conversation I just had. Alan-depity.
Mace Windu The master arrives when the student is ready.
Sarah Gammon What the hell, same. Literally, it all started with one day me finding this video on some crazy third eye stuff.
Then, every now and then I'd go on UA-cam because Im bored, and a video on the first screen would catch my eye, I'd watch it, and it would strongly relate to my day.
thats because google is monitoring your browser searches and hitting you up on things you might like. its just key-words, not exactly spying... i hope
That's not weird that's just reality.
dude had been dead for almost 30 years when I was born and still he manages to touch my life more than most real acquaintances. It's kinda funny how people like him or even imaginary characters can be more real to me than 99,99...% of the human population. Connected by human civilization, greater than the sum of its parts. I better try to get some sleep
How is he or your imaginary friends any less real?
@@interstellar_student yes aren't we all imaginary really? Our "personalities and life stories" were all made up
Beware of wisdom if you didn’t *earn* it
There is very little makers these days everyone has become followers so that is why you are no longer inflicted by today's stupidity.
Because true love can connect us all but sadly only connects a few of us
The meaning of strength is that having a mind that doesn't change with your mood's -- stoic
What does this have to do with the video
@@dosomestuff1949 cause these all things are destruction wake up
@@dhyan.1 what?
@@dosomestuff1949 The topic of the video is about being mindful and being light hearted in your attitude towards life and its hardships. Stoicisms talks a lot about mindfulness and the original comment is saying that true strength comes from inside, not letting your mood affect how your perspective even if that is human nature.
Up to you if it means anything but it correlates to the video.
I’m 18 listening to this helps me stay composed and analytical in stressful work situations and high power contrast’s/ disputes
I'm 33 and it still applies! Wise understanding brother! Never compare yourself to a fellow man, always compare yourself to who you were yesterday! Always show respect! Always demand respect! but also roll with the punches! Look up stoicism and different life philosophies. You'll hear the right words to keep you motivated and grounded in reality!
"Always question the man in the mirror!"
Putting an add, mid-video, in a video like this really messed up my meditation. I felt someone else has encountered this problem.
The Alan Watts quoting business is booming.
right after I finished reading this comment an ad popped up..
jarring
adblocker is a game changer
@@stayjaya7674 yeah, i use UA-cam vanced. Lol
Hearing Watts laugh is always an absolute joy.
I didn’t know Alan Watts before, but this lecture reminds me of Nitzsche’s philosophie. To live is to surrender to our passion.
I remember once listening to Alan watts and he said that death feels just like how you felt before you were born and that shit gave me so much peace.. been listening go this man for 8 years now.
1. press pause.
2. load bong.
3. smoke bong.
4. press play.
Maybe not compared to DMT.. but yes you can trip. It is a psychedelic
DMT Infinity If it has psychedelic properties, then it qualifies as a psychedelic, however minor it may be.
I've tripped balls on marijuana in my younger days before my body and mind built a tolerance to it.. of course this was no where nearly as powerful as any triptamines I've consumed, but no doubt.. sometime's I hallucinated and my senses were augmented
DMT Infinity I guess you'll have to define 'trip'?
DMT Infinity Yep. It is possible. I've seen people bad trip, never bad tripped personally.. but I've definitely had a few 'minor' trips which were more than just being high
DMT Infinity It doesnt happen to everyone, that's for sure. Usually it's when people have never experienced it before and it rocks their perception of reality
"Something that happens only once doesn't happen at all."
-Alan Watts
Life only happens once tho
Kidy Fiddler But life happens everyday...life is now, life is now, life is now.
Life ends when you sleep from your perspective but life isn’t ever over, life is just life. Life.
Um could i get ur contact by any chance never seen a girl that watches alan watts..i would love to talk to u for a bit.
@@omarlives wtf hahaha
@@someoneyoumightknow2795 she's hot :)
“Our anxiety cannot permit the existence of people who don’t belong.” WOW.
0:50 when he talks about games , i recognize myself there . I played Dark Souls 3 a lot (I think it's noticeable) and everyone thought I was ridiculous for attaching so much importance to a game, but I played it for a good reason: I played it to prove to myself that I was capable of overcoming hardships that seemed "impossible" to me. today i am aware that nothing is impossible and i fight every day to achieve my dreams i put a lot of effort into what is important to me because this game taught me that i can do it.
L Take + ratio bobo
@@Rolling2Much -essaye de parler dans une vraie langue on se comprendra peut être mieux
-try to speak in a real language we may understand each other better
-Versuchen Sie, in einer echten Sprache zu sprechen, vielleicht verstehen wir uns dann besser
-حاول التحدث بلغة حقيقية قد نفهم بعضنا البعض بشكل أفضل
-luka koloba na monoko ya solo tokoki kososolana malamu
-προσπαθήστε να μιλήσετε σε μια πραγματική γλώσσα που μπορεί να καταλάβουμε ο ένας τον άλλον καλύτερα
-尝试用真正的语言说话，我们可能会更好地理解彼此
-zama ukukhuluma ngolimi lwangempela singase siqondane kangcono
@@zopidoo4785 he means that he thinks the opinion is not good. Most would doubt its seriousness and expect it to be an attempt at ironic humour. It's counterintuitive to associate hardships thought impossible to overcome with a video game.
@@Wicker_ bruh you don't know me you don't know anything about me... lower your voice kid and come back to me when you've experienced the real difficulty of life
by the way .. this game helped me not to end my life when I was homeless ...
you should really think before you speak
Idk why people are giving you a hard time. People just don't understand and I think it's kind of stuck up to act like you're too good for video games or to make video games seem childish. It still takes mental fortitude, resilience ,and determination to beat dark souls, which are the traits needed to overcome real adversity. It doesn't matter if one is more "real", it's still the same mental strength needed for both.
I love that!
Don’t take life too serious just be sincere with what you do!
Don’t be too serious, just be sincere!
Don’t loose sleep over something so minor or frivolous just because you took it too serious and it caused you to overthink so much you lost sleep over it! Just be sincere, go to sleep every night knowing YOU DID EVERYTHING that day to the BEST of YOUR possible ability and that was way more then good enough, and tomorrow will be another day to do it all over again and maybe even better. Just don’t kill yourself for a job that would replace you without a seconds thought or any hesitation at all. A business stops for no one and must continue on with or without you. Know and never forget in the work environment, no matter what field you work in, no matter how much experience, knowledge or degrees you have under your belt, that you are easily replaceable!
But to your family and loved ones you are absolutely beyond irreplaceable!! So know your priorities, know the reality of it all outside the “bigger picture” and know you are worth much, much more to ANY of your loved ones, current, new or old then any job could ever possibly value your degrees, skills, ability and capability to do said job! In any and all work environments you yourself has a price value set on your head of your worth hence your set hourly/salary rate is what your worth to said job! Your loved ones couldn’t put a price on your skill, ability and capability to love them as they love you! So take life less serious, be more sincere about everything, know your worth! Get your priorities in order, set standards for yourself, live by morals that YOU cherish and uphold yourself to them to the highest standard and never slack on it! Remember to be humble to not only your loved ones, those around you in general but most importantly yourself! Humble yourself to be humble to yourself!
Live
Laugh
Love
Isn’t just some corny quote on every soccer moms wall in the living room above the sofa beside the family photos..
It’s something we should take very serious and live by!
Beautiful
❤️ Thank You
Beautifully said ❤️
I do take life too seriously sometimes, even though intellectually i know i shouldnt. Depression and grappling with other issues does that to you. I find it is easy for a person to give advice when you are in a good place in your life.
How are you doing now man
I take advice better when im in a bad place
I always try my best not to take life too seriously, but I have to take the events unfolding around me seriously. If I can't manage to keep up with my surroundings the world will move without me. I don't feel a sense of togetherness nor belonging in my educational environment in life right now, but I just have to keep pushing forward as strong as I can, so I can sleep at night and wake up to face more challenges again.
Believe it or not when you graduate either if you were the popular kid or the outcast everyone in that class of yours will be alone. They will have moved far on with their lives many of the supposed friends will stop talking after graduation. Those who felt they had a community will realise that at the end of the day when stuff starts going peer shaped they really only have themselves to turn to, to rely on. Whenever you belong or not you are responsible for you. Yes it’s nice to have people but as life goes on you will meet freinds who will have shared the same experiences.
It’s hard not belonging sometimes. But then again think if that feeling as a timeframe. To figure yourself out what you like who you are what do you want to do so that you don’t take life entirely seriously but still keep it together.
Not taking life seriously for me is not doing a budget
Not keeping to my to do lists and going on my own tandems is a starter.
Hang in there you will be happy. School is such a short time in your life you might think you hate it but 5 years from now ironically you’ll find yourself reminiscing.
Funny isn’t it?
@@crazybirdie6743 Yeah, it is pretty ironically funny that I will only look back at my education with fondness in the future, thanks for the talk, that is some really useful advice and information that I can keep in mind.
Wise understanding brother! You have to stay grounded in reality! Look into the different philosophies of life. I can see you already have yours. I believe, based on your comment, that stoicism will intrigue you! Stay free! Keep learning! It doesn't stop after government indoctrination...
That's exactly why this video is fuckking retardedd. I'm not a goofy ass person, so I work to succeed but life's a dumbb bitch. I'm always keeping it real
Pushing to live is taking life seriously
This seems pretty important regarding my life.
I’ll see it some other time. Thank you for making this.
This video once helped steer me out of a super dark mushroom trip and the rest of my trip was absolute bliss. 🙏 thank you
Normally I don't like music under Watts lectures. Tends to make both lamer. But this isn't too intrusive or cheesy
because it's ambient
dnplk lmao, yes, imagine the trumpets starting. XD
should have put dubstep in background or trap rap
I tend to return to Alan watts when I'm feeling particularly anxious about my future. This stuff is so calming
Same here!
He can't have been that calm, he was a chain smoker who died of alcoholism!
@@timjonesvideos addiction doesnt mean he wasnt calm
No but implies he wasn't particularly happy.
@@timjonesvideos when you are addicted its really hard to resist the urge to do that thing, watts was probably happy but just addicted
“One day we’re all gonna die and they’re won’t be people to remember…cleopatra, motzart.” -Hazel Grace Lancaster. I’m sorry if I got this quote wrong but I agree with it, I’m 14 and dealing with high school kids, but in the end, no one’s really gonna remember, whether that’s your embarrassing days or everyone’s legacy. So yes, don’t take life to seriously. 😉
I really love the background music you chose. Interestingly it makes it much easier for me to follow the talk.
Thanks for the upload!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds very much like the soundtrack for the game LIMBO. If not, check that one out as well! (Menu theme) Very similar
@Thulani Mason ITS GARBAGE AND DESTROYS THE MESSAGE
@Thulani Mason Benn Jordan - Looking into the Past
Tears of relief off of this. I’ve made it through so much shit growing up and now I’m in the military and I feel at extreme peace. I’ve come far and these tears are of joy and gratitude to all my hardest struggles. This is so relieving. Life is beautiful and death is inevitable. Live freely, you only get one ticket.
When i got home from overseas I hit bottom. I went into the military with no family. No friends. I had nobody. I thought the military would be that family but I was wrong. I was alone even around my troops. But weakness is cut from the mind if we want to or not.
It made me weak and these videos have helped me heal. I had a 30% chance of not walking again. I healed on my own, by my own. And these videos helped. Because boy lemme tell ya. Holding a gun to your head is a sobering experience despite how drunk I was .
Share the videos with a battle buddy. You'd be surprised and in a weird way relieved to know how big of an impact it makes if they'll listen
Life Must be lived As play --PLATO
Playto*
Play doh
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Not only is the lecture profound and life changing, the music choice is superb! Perfect accompaniment ❤
So many experiences that this Guru makes me have without leaving home
+MrMattgood14 Alan Watts is not a guru
a guru can also be an influential teacher or popular expert, so indeed he can be called a guru.
Remember to smile and dance today
Life is empty and meaningless. It is up to you to apply your own meaning to it. Make it fun, make it worth what you want. Never give up learning... about yourself.
That itself is a judgement.
That indeed. Romanticize life as they say
@@Tattlebotall of it is. That's the beauty of it
@@Tama-zephyrwindlass you'll go mad judging it.
I always come back to this one. SO calming. Thank you for putting this out there--and existing.
His laugh. I love his laugh. It warms my soul. He knew and understood something so fundamental that he found it humorous, as I do decades after he spoke the words.
That to me is beautiful. To understand a man, that died as he lived, and lived as he died, long before I was ever born.
" Those who have come here... are now here... I am now present and will continue to be "
The only thing the bothers me it’s the fact that we exist just to go to work and pay bills everyday until we 70 yo
And after that people still make children like
it’s such a fun thing to work your soul away just to pay rent to come back to work that everyone have to experience it…
brotha its not... workaholic culture is not normal just glamorized in the western world... no amount of school or salary is worth throwing away your life...
They played us, we was supposed to make art and gain wealth with it, we are all artists, work is like must it even sound like racist word
500 years ago people had to work to get food everyday.
If your job is boring, so will find a best
@@Lollylove922FIND THAT ARTIST IN YOU. ✨️🙌
Even after we decide not to take life seriously, there are still times when we encounter people who take life too seriously, and their energy can rub off on us. Now, it is up to us to decide not to take those people too seriously.
On the comedown of a acid trip listening to this
420 here... my cat chillin beside, hearing intently ^-^
This video is enlightening!! The same energy he permeates is in all of us. I have been awaken to this degree which is none we all know. Subscribe to LIVIVID UA-cam channel we will discuss daily situations how to maintain the higher self
I like the come down the best
Clef whaaaaaaaat me tooooooooooo!!!
This was probably great
I've watched this maybe 10 times and it's still full of meaning every time I watch it
I've heard this many times, today it made me feel like a ticking bomb. That's knows it will blow up but not when. Yet that's a beautiful feeling.
Be a thunder robot at life fuck the haters
Don't back down
I already know my time is coming soon too many things going against me or just not working
Hearing the ticking and knowing it’s there is a good thing. You just have to remember to forget about it.😊
Just finished first time watching. Going to watch again asap.
“Love is receptive intelligence” - Kal Ray
"There's nothing left to you but to have a good laugh"
Listening to this in public at my college, in the sun, with a huge smile on my face because I keep forgetting the game
hes so amazing, i hear his voice on some ego death meditation. truthfully it fits so well.
there is no point to life, at least not out there.
but you can take that as a blight on the world, as a loss of purpose.
or
you can see there being no one point, as an opportunity to make ur own points, the things your strive for, just because you want to.
you are the artist, painting on the canvas of your life. your feelings, thoughts, actions, desires. they, are the paint with which you form the painting of ur life.
some ups, some downs. some fast parts, some slow.
you are beautiful and amazing, and the you your becoming, is the more gorgeous.
be your true self, it helps.
Aa q😅❤🎉
I really need to read this thankyou🙏
I can’t believe this has been on UA-cam for 8 years and I’m just hearing it for the first time now 😆
"there comes a point when pain becomes ecstasy" sensation with no meaning.. explains how the buddhist monk sat so passively in a meditative state as he burned himself to death during the Vietnam war..
Wait what does he mean when saying pain turns to ecstasy?
Nihal Nihal - At some point during painful experiences the mind stops registering it, taking it ‘seriously’ and it is no longer pain at that point, then the pain/experience ends.
I want this played at my funeral.
This is my favourite lecture from Alan. The music is incredible. Whenever life gets too much, this one always does the trick. I love it
Don't take too seriously is easy to say but hard to practice It's all about self-confidence/self-reliance to achieve this state
Song - Benn Jorden - Looking into the Past - Album: Pale Blue Dot, Tribute to Carl Sagan.
ok
Thanks !
" TO LIVE AND TO LOVE IS THE KEY TO ANY SUCCESSFUL LIFE AND TO NEVER LET THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS EVER KILL YOUR HEART FOR ALL YOU MUST DO IS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND LET EVERYTHING HAPPEN NATURALLY "
I like how this audio isn't overwhelming
Watts transmits on high. When you hear him, the body starts tingling and you start vibrating on a different frequency. Healing.
I just love how this man translates and interpreted this powerful information. Well received. Thank you for posting. Enlightened.
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Just hearing this man's voice fills me with inner peace.
Thank you, Mr. Watts.
Only Love, mate. Only Love~
I had this exact same mental image once. I was driving on a desert highway at night, with the moon filling the sky ahead. As I drove the highway lifted up off the ground and extended up into the clouds, directly toward the moon.
Last time I listened to this I was 16-17 my english was not great, here I am listening to this again at 24, smarter, I can get more wisdom from this now.
Never listened to this guy before but I think this just got me through the day
I discovered this guy when I was 17 ,since than I've learned many things. I'm 19 now and still the best videos I've came across, not to mention his voice is relaxing.
The irony is that choosing to watch this video in search of some enlightening life changing advice is in itself, taking life very seriously.
It’s more likely to have been presented by the algorithm. Looking at it this way though, and then pointing it out to dismiss what some might take away from it, I don’t know what we could call that but I don’t think it would be wisdom.
@@Whooopsnobodybusinessactually I’m not dismissing anyone or what they might reap from this. I think your reading comprehension skills failed you.
@@GB2G right
Ty Alan, you are a true gift to society
I always had these feelings that life felt fake and I was in a dream I believe that life is a simulation and you have to play your cards right to make it in Life
Sounds like Depersonalization, google it.
blodyclan96 what’s it called when you feel like you don’t exist or you don’t know who you are because I think I had that
@@Hanna-Sebbe : depersonalization (literally) is what this quest for 💡 is after.
Its not a diagnosis imposed on an individual by some nutty psychologist and tell them you are to be corrected by all means to be useful member for society again.
Variety of views on This (🌏) has to be supported and not beaten into submission by pseudo scientific approaches of puny minds .•°
@@cheerlads9684 Could be Depersonalization as well or Derealisation or something simillar.
@@farrider3339 I dont really understand your comment, my native language aint English so maybe thats why i have some troubble. But im quite certain i got dp/dr, had it constant for several years and its nothing i would want my worst enemy to get, it has ruined alot of things for me. Hopefully in the future it will get sorted.
13:06 everyone needs to live by this, dont get stuck in the past because the past is no longer existant, the only thing that exists is the 'here and now'
How cool it must’ve been to sit in on his lectures or just hang out with Watts! What a fun fellow! I just love his laugh!
Depression has taken over my mind, keeping suicide locked in my thoughts, yet I'm here looking for the right door.
Right there with you 💙
Stay strong
I’m right there with you bro ! Remember Jesus Christ said « I am the way the truth and the light », He loves you so much bro ! ❤️❤️
You will get through it in time. Keep strong. God bless
The right door is the one that you need to open and only you will know which one
Why is this so relaxing to me?
I’m nearly falling asleep. His voice is so relaxing
when i'm listening alan watts i feel some kind of holy feeling inside
This came out the year i graduated 2016 now 8 years later almost 26. Life is going very fast just trying to make each day count before im old 2/8/24
I started watching this video and my cat climbed up on my shoulder and sat there for just about 30 minutes. I still feel confused/concerned/and scared a lot of the time but that 30 minutes was the best feeling I have felt in a long time. I hope everyone out there is doing okay.
it's all afternoon that i'm stuck on the couch and can't stop listening to Alan Watts.
Incredible. How i learned to stop fearing and love the life
Alan Watts lectures, interspersed with that occasional free laughter with a nasal twang, has that quality that takes one beyond time and gives you that feeling of being the observer as well as the observed simultaneously.
Have always loved Alan, the guidance of a father. Allows you to decompress, find answers aswell as pull the wool from our eyes. "we are all fighting to be right, but some how we're all wrong"
Alan, you beautiful human, I can listen to this all day
I had a near death experience as a child and saw a timeless glimpse in the realm beyond, it has taken me 30+ years to be able to put words behind this amazing experience, but Alan does it very natural and truthful. To put it into simple words "life is a mirror, all your thoughts will reflect back upon yourself" allowing us to see our own karma. There is no good, there is no bad, everything just is.
When I first started my search to understand things that nobody seemed to have answers for I was lead toward a few sources that met my desire. I will share them with you as you all are already moving toward the right direction by finding Alan Watts works.
They are "Science of the Mind" Ernest Holmes, Teachings of a Immortal. Edgar Cayce's One life many vessels, We are all Doing Time, The Four Agreements, Proof of Heaven -Eben Alexander, anything Alan Watt says are all lessons learned in my timeless experience and I am glad to see others sharing in the same universal truth that I believe everyone should accept in their lives. Love peace and prosperity to you all.
Glad you're here my friend. Words were powerful.
Great job buddy
I forgot to mention a book written by Dr. Doughlas Cottrell named The law of One.
All of these books depending on who you are, have great knowledge that will give great strength if you decide to believe in them. As we do live in a universe where we see what we believe, instead of seeing is believing. Since everyone is infinitely connected to the infinite at all times, everything remains relative from our subjective view point. Everyone can climb the same mountain regardless of the name they give the mountain,or choose different paths up this same mountain, yet we are all climbing the same mountain from our desired view point of reflection.
My own Meditation exercise to center ones self mind , body and soul.
I have developed my own form of meditation that works for me, and I will share it with you now in hopes it brings understanding as all answers are within. Rather then teaching you what to think, I will teach you how to think for yourself using meditation as a tool.
Once you blank your mind, you can shut your eyes and lose sense of time, and enjoy the gentle stillness and peace it brings. Once all surface thoughts have subdued. You push even deeper (think of it as a ocean, on the surface waves are roaring, but deep within there is always a calmness) this is where you plan to be, mentally and spiritually. Once you have this selflessness and emptyness achieved, focus on yourself with no particular goal or motive, just that you exist within this blackhole of selflessness. Once there surround yourself with 6 Mirrors making a hexagon around you, each being a part of yourself that makes the combined reflection of who you are. It can be anything from a feeling you desire, a person you love, a item that brings happiness, each is something that helps you to be you. Once you move from one to the next and can see each for what it is you will wake up from this selflessness meditation, however the memory of the reflection in the mirror will remain in your conscious mind. This is your subconscious soul mind giving you clues and you can then apply your conscious thought toward why you selected them. Reflect on it, and ask the question why you selected them and the importance they play in your life and if you see yourself as incomplete without them. This has helped me to achieve great happiness as it allows my higher mind to show me first hand what it is that I seek, when sometimes I have no clue myself where I am headed nor any control for what the future may hold, only how I react to it. It brings great clarity in knowing that nothing is meaningless and has helped me to achieve happiness despite my surroundings or obstacles in life.
I hope this helps anyone who wishes to center themselves. I developed this using my experience of my near death in combination with many years of meditation and self reflection. Prayers held within the heart are normally what surfaces in my own experience but that is the beauty of this exercise, that each will be as unique as the individual using it.
I liked what you said until "proof of heaven". Leave the religious bs out of this type of thing, please.
I believe religion to be personal between you and God. What I experienced only proved to me that no human mind could nor can understand how vast God is or our own souls really are. No label or religion can define the infinite. Man has often created God in his own image if you study history and the evolution of God. You will find that our evolution and God's are almost one in the same. On a spiritual stand point I think humankind is still a young teenager with much to learn. I myself do agree with many religions, especially the ones centered around love and sympathy for all, because after all, we are all one.
I am doing a interview via youtube about my entire experience I will post here around November 6th or around so you can hear it for yourself. I hope you find it of use in what you seek.
Love, peace and prosperity to all,
Can email me at Joshwl1981@hotmail.com
There’s something about this man that connects me to the soul. All material disappears and I feel free to