The Lie We Believe - Alan Watts on the Illusion of Problems
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- The Lie We Believe - Alan Watts on the Illusion of Problems
A profound and thought-provoking speech by Alan Watts
Original Audio sourced from: The Tao of Philosophy - Do You Do It Or Does It Do You?
►“Your skin does not separate you from the world. It’s a bridge through which the external world flows into you. And you flow into it.”
- Alan Watts. (1915 - 1973)
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T&H Inspiration is on a mission to share inspiring wisdom. The goal is to have you pause, think, and reflect. Many of our videos revolve around the extraordinary teachings of Alan Watts that we produce with permission from the Alan Watts Electronic University.
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Our hope with these videos is to push your thinking. As Alan Watts said “No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.” - Alan Watts.
This is so beautifully done. Thank you. When your mind is still and you are simply perceiving everything simultaneously… it all collapses into knowing. The breeze on your face, cars rushing by, the tree in the distance, your feet on the ground… are all one. He expressed this deep truth so elegantly. 🦋
Beautiful words, you should consider writing yourself ❤
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We are indeed one 🎉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤
Existence ❤🎉🎉😢😮😅😂
I don't know how Alan Watts knew so much, but he did. And his wisdom was profound and timeless.
Psilocybin teaches we just have to listen
LSD.....
Humans have created a mess by their ego of separation 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤
He knew because he is, I feel sorry for you who think it was psychedelics, sure they may have allowed him to view his thoughts from a different perspective but the bigger question is why don’t you know this? It’s obvious, just look, reality is there and it’s you, you don’t need anything to see.
You know this all too! You have knew this all along whether you realize it or not. :)
0:04
There is no puzzle.
Don’t explain it.
The problem is that you try to control the thing you describe.
Explanation complicates things.
2:04
Our analysis cuts everything into pieces.
It’s vain knowledge.
You go on solving problems without end.
Constant stimulation of consciousness becomes unconscious.
5:04
Game of hide and seek.
You don’t know who you are.
You are the whole system now.
7:38
Life is a celebration of itself.
Look at the world without calling its name.
Life isn’t complicated.
Thanks Alan. 9 January 2024. 🏃💝🏃😇🏖🌹🛎
He might be gone a long time ago but his words still echo relevance in today's society, only if you care to listen.
Analysing distracts ourselves from the fact that many things are contradictory or nonsensical. We analyse, overanalyze and then we die
Humans have created a mess by their ego of separation 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤
Thank you
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 - in some cases the "Ego" is needed. This is something that in parts helped us to survive latest ice age, and cosmic catastrophe (plenty of scientific data about it too, what has happened). That constant brutal drive, attitude, competition, that agressivness - it is partly what helped us back then, as we simply didn't have any other choice.
But in a modern world this also means that everything is mostly driven by.... greed (and that is driven by the ego of course). Anything else is just a consequence of that action/approach, and the state of the planet would suggests that it is not going to change in the future. In fact, we are a species that probably at the end will kill themselves in the name of future profits and greed. But at least the shareholders will be happy for one more year... /s
As Alan Watts might say “ what’s new in the world of enlightenment? Absolutely nothing.” Timeless as always.
This man was an absolute genius!!
Life is simple it's us alone that makes life complicated.
Humans make life complicated for other humans.
Humans have created a mess by their ego of separation 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤
@DespaceMan - exactly.
Hence when Alan Watts mentioned: "Control of the world is not really what we want to do"... I have to disagree with it.
In general terms some people (corporations included) want exactly that. Nothing more. Total control. And they have money and means to do it, even at the planetary level (look at some projects that billionaires are doing, or what something like Nestle is doing, or even constant wars for natural resources or geopolitical gains in a given region; and long ago even Smedley Butler was vocal about it in his speech).
And it is applicable not only to billionaires, politicians, Wall Street guys and Hedge Fund managers, but also at the lower level > even at the work, job, office. From a low level management, middle management and up. Or even between team members. There is always some small or large level of trying to control something, even through the competition for that promissed new management role, position within organization.
And at the higher level? Yeah, some people want exactly that. A total control. Sad but true.
💚love and gratitude for these beautiful words 💚☮
I tend to think the great artist created a masterpiece, then thought, wouldn’t it be great to live within it.
When I listen to Alan, I hear the universe. I hear some of my thoughts as a child. By his own description, we're creating each other
The masterpiece IS within. ❤
“All constant stimulations of consciousness become unconscious.” I’ve been a fan of Alan Watts for years now, and he still sometimes startles me with the clarity and incisiveness of his language. And nice video work to go along with that moment. And the whole video.
For real, he always makes me feel understood and delighted.
Sometimes I write down some quotes, this video felt so great that made me write 3:
"What makes things complicated is explaining"
"All constant stimulations of conscious become unconscious"
"When you solve a whole set of problems, people find new ones to worry about"
everything is your mind..you!
Alan Watts is a genius, but you have to follow your own path. It's always the truth.
Definitely a great point to take time to enjoy the present, but I gotta get paid and no one wants to pay me for admiring the universe as it is. Also, It feels good to complete challenges and achieve accomplishments.
Hi goon. Right on! Art, philosophy, and poetry are nice places to have a little holiday, but at the end of the day we all need a warm home and a hot meal. Cheers, P.R.
Thank you
"It's not that complicated" Watts at his best here 👍
Alan Watts was rich! He didn’t live like the common man.
Humans have created a mess by their ego of separation 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤
Beautiful.
That’s the game plan: to keep us mired in thinking, describing, and rationalizing.
What a man and what help in today's modern world ❤
So beautiful and so true! Alan Watts was a gift to humanity 🙏🏻 love the accompanying music, too ❤ thank you for posting this.
Thank you!!!
I needed this.
Thank you.
Wow i love all your videos thank you❤
Favourite one !
Thanks 🙏
I will try but it is easier said than done.
Train the brain to be still.
Humans have created a mess by their ego of separation 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤
Awesome point of view. Thank you.
Is there a full audio of this?
Wonderful 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
God bless him
Excellent piece. I saw Dallas for a moment.
I really like Alan Watts and most of the time his lectures and points of view resonate a lot. Unfortunately, I will disagree with this one.
Richard Feynman had a great point about the beauty of a flower and how science and thinking adds to the beauty of nature, as partial as our understanding may currently and probably always be.
Here it goes, for the patient comment reader:
I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.
Maybe it’s because I’m the eyes of an artist and layperson, the flower is viewed as a mystery. And in the eyes of the scientist, the flower loses its wonder. Just guessing.
I understand what you are saying. However, I think what Alan is pointing towards in this video is the fact that when your mind isn’t conceptually labeling everything “flower”, etc… in that silence of mind you realize directly, you ARE the “flower”. The labels are convenient, but they also veil what I would argue is the DEEPEST mystery or secret in existence… the inherent oneness of all things. Everything is radiant life and you can’t see that when you are looking through the veil of concepts.
Hi andreasbaros. I wouldn't take your friend's comment too seriously. I think it was more about bolstering art and artists, rather than putting down science and scientists. After doing scientific research (psychology) around the Tate Modern and Dali galleries, I'm convinced artists secretly feel inferior. Your friend was in "ego compensation" mode. Underneath all the art-snobbery artists know that anyone with a paint-box and canvas, (or a hammer and chisel), can call themselves "an artist". All you need to "make it" in the art world is enough friends to swear that your work is a priceless masterpiece. Several crates of cheap whisky and a regular party venue gets any artist well started. Arrange a phony sale of the work at an exorbitant price (nudge nudge, wink wink) and they've set the price for the next art-snob to pay.
Science on the other hand has more stringent requirements. The ability to hold a beaker without dropping it. (This applies to artists too.). How to fill a test-tube with deadly liquids and not get any on your lab-coat; how to arrange coiled glass condensation tubes to look really, well, "artistic", and how plug in the apparatus without short-circuiting the entire building or electrocuting yourself. This is all PhD stuff of course, and takes years of study, but for you my friend, I have a quick way to silence your friend. We must fight fire with fire.
Make yourself a "black box" (literal) with flashing lights, a large meter on top, and a rheostat that deflects the needle. Plug it into the wall-socket and ask your artistic friend to hold onto its two metal electrodes while you "adjust" the rheostat. If the black box can be made to hum and vibrate, so much the better. Keep reminding him he can back out any time, and use the words "you'll feel a slight tingle" and "you don't mind being a guinea-pig do you? Let me know how you get on, this is right at the interface of art and science, and too important to be treated as a joke. Cheers, P.R.
Great video 📹
As a biologist I find impossible this approach. After all he’s advising against my actions as scientist.
I suppose he is not saying you shouldn't it's a spiritual approach, most scientists aren't particularly spiritual.
I think ultimately, there's always more questions presented by science.
So if you love biology, do it without doubt, not with the expectation of figuring the universe out, nobody ever will. Just enjoy the moment, enjoy your work, enjoy answering questions and creating more, that's how to live your life ❤
"A dog tied up on a leash bound to a strong post or pillar would just keep running and revolving around that same post or pillar. So too, the uninstructed worldling just keeps running and revolving around form, around feeling, around perception, around volitional formations, around consciousness."
Hi pguilan. Yes indeed. The dog is stuck because it doesn't think about or analyze its problem, and can't take control by unwinding or unleashing itself. The mental habits Watts says are detrimental, are actually beneficial. Cheers, P.R.
I'm starting to believe that there is no end to the physical universe whether we talk about minuteness like observing the atom or being gigantic like observing the galaxies because just when humans think they saw it all, there is always something new beyond it that has yet to be discovered. To live is just to experience the things around us. To investigate and label them all creates a big problem
Fractals. Forever inward and outward.
Existence is unlimited no end or beginning just ISNESS thats is the whole deal
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Our brains are so adept at creating its own problems and imaginary threats; it's nothing to be ashamed about, it's just what it's been programmed to do for so long. Mindfulness and meditation are great for calming it down. The workbook called 30 Days to Reduce Stress by Harper Daniels, and the Tao Te Ching have helped. The brain can't calm itself down.
I'm making my own philosophy for me to live in
It's a majestic Alan Watts teaching and the music is wonderful. Could I know who play it? Thanks alot 🙏
Yes... be a happy Simpleton. Just like my favorite dog or best buddy😅
“One day you’ll realise
- there’s nothing to realise!
It’s all here.
Then what you gonna do? Haha!”
God is good and people are crazy.
How can you say that?
Who created us like this?
Dosent make sense.
Ego has been dismantled
Man, that was brilliant! Sorry for stating the obvious! Lol!
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This explains the mess humans have created so well 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤
only me listening for this man to be able to sleep quickly 😂
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I find the human obsession with labeling things and trying to describe things exhausting. Put it in a box, keep its options limited, and name it.
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This guy is a genius. But I still believe in Jesus and that he’s the answer. Even though I’ve been being a menace again.🤣 I know I’m going to make my mistakes. But everyone does. This guy’s voice is perfect to go to sleep to though. Very intelligent. I can’t Descrive why I like to listen to this guy talk. But listening to this guy is perfect.
You’re not wrong to believe in the Christ. I believe that the Christ would actually agree with Watts. The world saw Him and His actions as problems to be solved too, and yet His message was astonishingly simple in not scrutinizing what’s wrong in your neighbor but to love him as yourself.
But if we don't find any reason we won't find any reason to not reason
RIP Alan so sad you were never able to figure out your own alcoholism..
My only God is the universe, I don't need to know anything else.
After listening to this guy I understand he himself is quite confused about the purpose of life
Ditch the irritating background noise - could only take a few seconds
Hlu❤😅
Don't think too much? This from a man who drank himself to death.
Thats exactly why he did, you clearly dont get what hes sayin 🧐😂🤷🏻
The vehicle of words is a very clumsy one,what is complicated is trying to put them into words? Surely that is what you are doing yourself to make this video???
Allen, did you realize who you were? You distracted yrslf from reality w/heavy smoking & drinking. Maybe despite all your "wisdom", you preferred an illusion?
He was 'in' the world, yet not 'of' it. ❤
Or, and hear me out, he just loved smoking and drinking and didn't want to dissect it ;)
Yep. There’s what you SAY and there’s how you LIVE
Technically speaking all of physical manifestation is an illusion. He was a rare human being who saw through the illusion… like the Buddha and Jesus. He was partaking in the illusion as he liked… which is our birth right as humans. He didn’t harm anyone and he shared his direct experience of reality, which helps all of humanity. His sharing of his realization, along with others, will ultimately save our species from ourselves. You cannot harm another person, when you understand directly, that at the deepest level, they are you.
“I have over come the world” John 16:33 -Jesus Christ
Alan watts should definitely lay off the crack for a bit
Who knows talks not. Who talks doesnt know.
Thank you