wonderful! I first heard him late nights on KPFK in LA in the late 90s . I think they still play him on thursday nights if you're looking for that alan-over-the-radio-feel. Roy of Hollywood who played him for decades, passed a handful of years ago.
Does what he says ‚in a non-spookery way‘ or rather in a way that draws on our common experiences resonate with you? Do you share his views for example on the afterlife paralleling the time before you were born? Does this way of thinking comfort you?
@@kieranryan6148 When it comes to much of what Alan Watts has to say, thinking is the obstruction to understanding. My mind had long argued with much of what he says. Over time I found myself living more in the Tao and less in my head. As that happened Watts also started to happen. As for afterlife and rebirth. You can not puzzle that out with your mind. On occasion, in a meditative state past life memories may rise up. This has happened to me. People who have had an NDE also tend to see life as a passing, with a door in and out to the same place. I died in childbirth and watched the event from the top of the room. I got sucked into my screaming body after a red faced doctor finally wailed on my ass hard enough. I've never trusted doctors ever since. I speak with death every day after my morning meditation. I recall other lives and I am comfortable with passing from this one. If the decay of the body doesn't make death inviting then life on this planet can get to a point one would wish they could start over again. Aloha
@@kieranryan6148please don't turn out to be an alcoholic like him and choose to end your life also. He has so much potential but tree ot away in the end. It's weird how very few people talk about that part of his life. Even though even his son admits that he took his life and even Wikipedia talks about how he was an alcoholic and bad to his family. Sad
@@bradpnw1897 I didn't know Alan Watt's was an alcoholic! I've always thought he's quite wonderful and I've only just started listening to his thoughts. I guess he's just human, all be it a very intelligent one and it's a damn shame he has left more than just his genius behind. It's weird as your comment has slightly tainted who I thought he was. Alcohol destroys so many wonderful people who then in turn hurt and destroy the people they "love". I still want to listen to him as he makes so much sense to me. He's like a safe "drug" that makes you look at everything differently and changes your perception of everything. Thing's start to make sense. In hindsight what I've just learnt from you isn't that surprising. Thank you and sorry for the long reply.
Every time I remember this specific lecture, I transcend. I jump quickly, more quickly than other solution like medication or meditation- to happiness. Or at least: peace.
When I was about 12 thew 18 I was able to focus on this nothingness and this feeling scared me to the core that sometimes a wave of sadness and anxiety would make me lose focus and I would start crying because how alone it felt to this day idk how I was able to do this
Same for me, I feel like it still happens from time to time. I feel like I equate this to a form of ego death, I had a big cannabis phase when I was younger but that was about 3-4 years ago, a lot of the time when I would smoke I felt like this. Just recently I was invited to try some again, (I joked that I was peer pressured) but I felt the same wave of emotions but in a great intensity, perhaps it’s a way of the universe being itself and communicating to us in a frank way. Making us realize that up until that point we’ve lived through the ego, and the realization makes us feel stark naked, quite vulnerable, physically, and emotionally
You manifest your reality so always try to think positively,sports were good evidence that if you think you have no chance of winning you rarely do,and when you're all thinking positive and confident you rarely lose.
I use to do this when I was a kid as well. Maybe 6-12. I would try to imagine what would exist if there was no God. So I would close my eyes and picture nothingness. The first thing I would see is a black void. Then I would think "Black is a color so that's not right". I would then think deeper and get this overwhelming impossible feeling. It was very strange.
If only Alan's perspectives had been revealed to us children in Grammer School, some 70 years ago for me, I believe cutting to the chase of enlightenment coulda been so much earlier rather than Now, betta late than neva .
Thật là một suy nghĩ sâu sắc và sâu sắc! Đúng vậy-nếu quan điểm của Alan Watts về cuộc sống, âm dương và dòng chảy của sự tồn tại được giới thiệu sớm hơn trong cuộc sống, hành trình hướng đến sự giác ngộ có thể sẽ dễ dàng và tự nhiên hơn. Nhưng như bạn đã nói, "thà muộn còn hơn không!" Thời điểm của những nhận thức này, ngay cả bây giờ, vẫn mang lại sự hiểu biết sâu sắc và giá trị. Sự giác ngộ có nhịp điệu riêng của nó!
To Jacob, Children will due fine when helped with " how to think " Not What to Think. Illuminating a path for autodidactics is primary as ever quenching!
Please whenever possible, mention in the description the original title of the lecture/talk/audio. In this case it's: "NOTHINGNESS" ESSENTIAL LECTURES, PROGRAM 1 1972
27:25 have thought about, an uncle and a grandfather of mine passed away in such fashion. In both occasions, they felt tired, went to bed, and never woke up. I hope to go like that when my time comes.
@@bvgatti I've always been surprised how many people who were religious through their lives lose it when they get old and realize there is no meaning and there is nothing after death. There are no gods. There is no heaven and there is no hell
I almost died today. A toyota innova suddenly backed on my motorcycle in an intersection. No signal, just suddenly backed bcoz he went past the left road and he wanted to go left, so they backed up. Driver had no license. And the lady boss accused me of the one bumping into their innova. Miraculously, i didn't have any injury bcoz the honda click front tire absorded all the impact. I called the police bcoz he was visible, and filed blotter in the police station, but all police know her so nothing happened, no impound of vehicle, even with no drivers license. I learned so many lessons today than my entire life, u can die anytime even though u are very careful and playing it safe, and most important lesson, never think or believe that those police officers are working for us taxpayers
@@layuponthedownlow and people like to have all their material things ie house car valuables money etc … to assure themselves a false sense of security, when they can cease to exist at any time
@@Havre_Chithra Aristotle said reality comes before ideas. Plato thought ideas are objectively real. People subconciously think like Plato and project their ideas onto the reality. Reality is objective, our perception is subjective. In order to understand the reality and each other more objectively, we need to lense it through as many subjective views as possible. Axioms let us assume. The rest is a theory. The existence of lies exponentially increases the difficulty of developing an objective worldview, as it forces you to assume both versions - that something is and isn't real. Stoicism is egocentric, it does not lead to development of objective reality, but merely concentrates on how a stoic is perceived and ought to react. The way human brains work is not passive - it actively acts to understand and learn the reality. While it does offer some good advice, as a whole system, it is a bloat.
Realism as a philosophy isn't popular because very few people understand what it is, I'm talking about it's historical context in the medieval problem of universals. Read peirce's review of the works of George Berkeley.
@@Noswiatel Lies don´t do such a thing imo. And there is NO chance for a human being to develop an objective worldview, for as long as that human being is alive, it is a human being - a subject, a subject of experiences. It is and always will be subjective, human experience for him/her, and has no chance of taking himself out of that experience and that way making it objective. We are human individuals, striving for some totally objective worldview is predestined for failure. Let´s find the deepest human Sofia. (somewhat taken from Nietzsche through essentialsalts ytb channel) BTW: From wikipedia i get that philosophical realism is an assumption or belief that the objective world exists independently on the subject, like me let´s say, or anyone else. Is that what you mean by it?
I was listening to this and found it rather a positive experience hearing watts talk about nothing ❤ truly a fulfilling experience I am great full for everything ❤the loss the pain and the pleasure and game ❤
The title of this video reminded me how I think about that sometimes, sometimes I think of things like everyone is watching already so if I want someone to know something I believe they are watching our life already and I’m watching my life already but I’m here right now so I must be here but believe that anything is already done meaning already solved to keep the life alive here regardless
A prayer said during childhood- now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I should die before I wake, I pary the Lord my soul to take.
Under no circumstances are you insane or weird or different, to the contrary you are totally Sane & on the right track. From Nothing did come Everything. This answer is believed by only those who have nothing, then they 'see' everything !! Then those who see everything have nothing. Outside these two paradigms is that Something. The two sided coin disappears...into Something.
@@SleepingThunder01 - you missed that exists in All 'material' things...but not Spiritual. That has only 2 sides, either you are with God's Word or you are Not. If you have 3 or more sides, God is out of your curriculum !!!
@@nh54guesthouse I agree that the labels and documentation came after, just like philosophy, doctrines, religions. The roots of your thoughts, comes from the brain. It came before all of these ideas. I think very pessimistically, critically, am overly analytical and rational because I have no positive emotions for example. We have cognitive differences. I see it in Nietsche, Shophenaur, Camus etc....If I was not fucked emotionally. I wouldn't be or think how I do. You are all making sense of layers and external things. The roots, foundation and real cause resides within our minds.
Just because then you can think without pressure, and when you have no pressure you can understand everything, so by getting clarity and by solving the problems, they try to lift weights from our mind so that we can think more clearly without any eed of alcohol, and trust me alcohol feels strong when you are into depression or despair, but when you have no problems at all, then alcohol doesnt work@@yournextdoorgamerwithgames2945
I used to have a recurring dream that came randomly sometimes with years apart. More of a nightmare because I woke up terrified and I needed to leave the house and sleep somewhere else if I was by myself. It was a dream about nothing.
I wish the guidelines for this comment section pertained to the masses of misguided folks in the country I love, call home, and have defended against terrorist, DOMESTIC & foreign in my short life of 34 years.
I also feel dead but it comforts me that nothing is permanent and because I once felt alive I will therefore somewhere in space and time feel alive again and be in a place that I belong and I will be glad and so will you 💖
I believe this and understand it completely but my opinion is... It would be all great as it is already without the pain and suffering at the end and beginning of each cycle of experience as being one of everything of one again.
It scares me that I'm begining to have a hard time knowing when it's AI and when it's not. For those that love Alan Watts and other personalities, please don't turn them into AI for you to make a buck. It corrupts the original works and mixes it with fake 'footage'. Btw, I'm not saying this is fake.
I began listening to it but when it talked about the "Michael Somali" experiment that disproved ether I got suspicious since it is called the "Michelson-Morley" experiment. The audio in this video sounds much more believable than most fakes though.
@brain0nfire I began listening to it but when it talked about the "Michael Somali" experiment that disproved ether I got suspicious since it is called the "Michelson-Morley" experiment. The audio in this video sounds much more believable than most fakes though.
@@Fnord1984 Alan Watts doesn't say "Michael Somali", the transcription on the screen is wrong. Listen to it again without being influenced by the words on the screen. I get why you're suspicious but this isn't an A.I. Alan Watts lecture. The A.I. ones I've come across are saying things that obviously didn't come from Alan Watts anyway. This is a real lecture. Maybe they cleaned up the audio a bit with A.I. though.
@@corneliusthecrowtamer1937 Yes you are right, I did notice after I wrote that comment that I was in the wrong here, had quite low audio on and just read the text while listening and misheard it. I noticed there was plenty of misspellings of words in the video. Im ok with them cleaning up audio that is fine. I am also ok with actual AI stuff but I dont like when it is not clearly stated that it is AI. There is a LOT of AI Alan Watts stuff going around and the bad part is that it is almost never stated when it is AI being used representing Alan Watts and that I do find very unfortunate.
See all in nothingness. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
Let's talk about "If I should die before I wake." If others die before we are also awoken by the death of those things which maintian the idea that we will lose our true selves we would never have existed in the first place. 🎉
He's speaking about the proverbial nothing, but nothing is not the same as an empty space. By definition, nothing cannot exist. I get and support the necessary existence of opposites, but nothing is not an opposite of something. Nothing is the absence of anything. But then again, Alan Watts is a famous cherished thinker and I am just an idiot...
Yes, solid requires nothingness. However, emptiness does not need solidness. It is our mind cannot perceive nothingness as that is not how our world exists.
If nothingness doesn't depend on its opposite, we wouldn't exist. Modern people are weirdly uncomfortable with the idea that our existence is a necessary consequence of something beyond us.
I just want to be self with no others. Others are the force that make me doubt myself. Opposition cannot be with no others. If I take my life will I finally be alone?
Everything is nothing. Form is the formless aspect of that which this labels as awareness. The formless aspect of consciousness reflected is form. Form is not. This is why I am aware of it, because I am aware that I am nothing. Form cannot explain this because form is nothing. But I am real. I am that I am. I am.
Apparently, contrary to the theory presented here, you can have commercials on a program you'd prefer to listen to uninterupted. I wonder if advertisers ever consider that some people don't appreciate this and the interuption puts their product(s) on the customers do not buy list. Same goes for your channel - get the message? No? Goodbye!!!!
Alan was brilliant but a man of his time. Our world is measurably level across its entire expanse. We do not know it's full extent or where we really are. He was a man of the fraudulent space age. I want people coming here to think again about this world.
I am pretty sick but whenever I try to face the emptiness my personality and ego go 911 on me and panic sets in. Alan seems to have managed his ego sense It takes a lot meditation or courage perhaps both to face the unknown.As I said I am not well but our police state will not provide me the means or circumstance to overcome my attachment to a truly painful life.I cannot acquire the meds to live life or leave it.Sometimes I think I can’t leave this life for some reason but that is probably ego talking.Any government that will not refrain from interfering with right to life/ death issues is facism.
Alan was but a man. He was addicted to vices like drinking to cope with the pain of life. He just understood life a bit better than the average joe, and that in itself was painful.
"Nothing is what a rock dreams if" - Aristotle. Nothing is less than nothing. Nothing is not a set full of 0s, its also not an empty set, nothing doesn't even have a set. Linguistics cant even talk about nothing. We say "there is nothing". "THERE". we cant even describe it without giving nothing a set.
Ever watched the dog you love die? They go so fast. Not enough years Your best friend is gone It seems like he never existed. Only pictures That’s the only thing that proves he existed. People are the same but a dog never had a bad thought about you. What is the point of life except to live now.
They dont go fast ....a dig can be alice for 12 years....we are getiing slower.....îs just time perception.....and we as humans invented time....time only exist to measure speed...so the slower we get (Boeing older) ....we perceive time going faster.....but its the same...
An observant man said man is a bad animal. Sadly, it can be argued that he was right. People seem incapable of living in peace. The Christ taught a good lesson which we struggle to live by. World peace is a hug away! Shame on the human animal...
@@lillith665 You need UA-cam premium if you don’t want ads. I wouldn’t watch UA-cam at all without paying for premium. I’m watching this video now and there are ZERO ads. I cannot stand ads either but if you want no ads then you need to pay. The choice is yours.
The channel needs to make monies for their time and supplying these videos. Majority of us can’t use the time to work for free daily. 🤷🏽♀️ I’ve found if I rewind it just a bit I get the flow back quickly. 😊
You mistake something for nothing. Nothing can't exists. Something can. For something to exists there must be a something to begin with. That means that something has always existed. That something must be capable of creating THINGS that mirror it. Creative attributes. Images of itself.. The universe came into existence as something. Created.
@@sunkintree you just ruined your your argument when you said SOMETHING CREATED GOD...THAT MAKES NO SENSE..WHAT ON EARTH COULD CREATE GOD..answer is nothing..
something is a concept. There's no such thing as things. a thing is a property that our mind does to label things for the benefit of our understanding. Therefore, everything that we can see is nothing (not a thing). to be a thing, there has to be a percever to label it. nothing is a concept, but it's more grounded to reality because there was never a thing to begin with. for this reason, in order for the universe to be infinite, it has to be nothing because if it didn't, it would be finite and limited. so it is nothing. There's nothing to keep it limited, so it gives freedom to be anything.
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I was blessed I listen to him regularly on Krabi radio in the 60's I'm 70 now
Wow that's truly a blessing! Must've been a marvelous experience.
Wow you must have learned so much. I could only imagine.
wonderful! I first heard him late nights on KPFK in LA in the late 90s . I think they still play him on thursday nights if you're looking for that alan-over-the-radio-feel. Roy of Hollywood who played him for decades, passed a handful of years ago.
You were lucky then 🥲
lucky guy
Wow one of the best thinkers ever, I can listen to him all day
I grew up listening to Alan Watts. One day I realized he had become a part of me. Thank you Mr Watts.
I just discovered Mr. Watts about 8 years ago. Been in love with his wisdom ever since.
Does what he says ‚in a non-spookery way‘ or rather in a way that draws on our common experiences resonate with you? Do you share his views for example on the afterlife paralleling the time before you were born? Does this way of thinking comfort you?
@@kieranryan6148 When it comes to much of what Alan Watts has to say, thinking is the obstruction to understanding. My mind had long argued with much of what he says. Over time I found myself living more in the Tao and less in my head. As that happened Watts also started to happen. As for afterlife and rebirth. You can not puzzle that out with your mind. On occasion, in a meditative state past life memories may rise up. This has happened to me. People who have had an NDE also tend to see life as a passing, with a door in and out to the same place. I died in childbirth and watched the event from the top of the room. I got sucked into my screaming body after a red faced doctor finally wailed on my ass hard enough. I've never trusted doctors ever since. I speak with death every day after my morning meditation. I recall other lives and I am comfortable with passing from this one. If the decay of the body doesn't make death inviting then life on this planet can get to a point one would wish they could start over again. Aloha
@@kieranryan6148please don't turn out to be an alcoholic like him and choose to end your life also. He has so much potential but tree ot away in the end. It's weird how very few people talk about that part of his life. Even though even his son admits that he took his life and even Wikipedia talks about how he was an alcoholic and bad to his family. Sad
@@bradpnw1897 I didn't know Alan Watt's was an alcoholic! I've always thought he's quite wonderful and I've only just started listening to his thoughts. I guess he's just human, all be it a very intelligent one and it's a damn shame he has left more than just his genius behind.
It's weird as your comment has slightly tainted who I thought he was. Alcohol destroys so many wonderful people who then in turn hurt and destroy the people they "love".
I still want to listen to him as he makes so much sense to me.
He's like a safe "drug" that makes you look at everything differently and changes your perception of everything. Thing's start to make sense. In hindsight what I've just learnt from you isn't that surprising.
Thank you and sorry for the long reply.
I thank the universe for this person.
It did good
I thank this man for the universe.
It's AI bro
I...
Who are you? Are you me?
Way to pat ourselves on the shoulder, bud :D
Every time I remember this specific lecture, I transcend. I jump quickly, more quickly than other solution like medication or meditation- to happiness. Or at least: peace.
This genuinely just changed me
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Beautifully made with the subtitles, thank you!
When I was about 12 thew 18 I was able to focus on this nothingness and this feeling scared me to the core that sometimes a wave of sadness and anxiety would make me lose focus and I would start crying because how alone it felt to this day idk how I was able to do this
Same for me, I feel like it still happens from time to time. I feel like I equate this to a form of ego death, I had a big cannabis phase when I was younger but that was about 3-4 years ago, a lot of the time when I would smoke I felt like this. Just recently I was invited to try some again, (I joked that I was peer pressured) but I felt the same wave of emotions but in a great intensity, perhaps it’s a way of the universe being itself and communicating to us in a frank way. Making us realize that up until that point we’ve lived through the ego, and the realization makes us feel stark naked, quite vulnerable, physically, and emotionally
You manifest your reality so always try to think positively,sports were good evidence that if you think you have no chance of winning you rarely do,and when you're all thinking positive and confident you rarely lose.
I use to do this when I was a kid as well. Maybe 6-12. I would try to imagine what would exist if there was no God. So I would close my eyes and picture nothingness. The first thing I would see is a black void. Then I would think "Black is a color so that's not right". I would then think deeper and get this overwhelming impossible feeling. It was very strange.
If only Alan's perspectives had been revealed to us children in Grammer School, some 70 years ago for me, I believe cutting to the chase of enlightenment coulda been so much earlier rather than Now, betta late than neva .
@@stevenotte3447 totally agree I try to get my adult kids to understand... better late than never so true.
Thật là một suy nghĩ sâu sắc và sâu sắc! Đúng vậy-nếu quan điểm của Alan Watts về cuộc sống, âm dương và dòng chảy của sự tồn tại được giới thiệu sớm hơn trong cuộc sống, hành trình hướng đến sự giác ngộ có thể sẽ dễ dàng và tự nhiên hơn. Nhưng như bạn đã nói, "thà muộn còn hơn không!" Thời điểm của những nhận thức này, ngay cả bây giờ, vẫn mang lại sự hiểu biết sâu sắc và giá trị. Sự giác ngộ có nhịp điệu riêng của nó!
Then many folks wouldn't follow bad leaders, go to war, work in factories, vote to destroy nature, etc, never too late though.
@@stevenotte3447 yep. But we teach them lgbtq. Shows us what the government wants
To Jacob, Children will due fine when helped with " how to think " Not What to Think. Illuminating a path for autodidactics is primary as ever quenching!
Thank you so much for such a clean recording of the old sage. I felt as though he was sitting at my dining room table!
this is way deeper than nodejs modules
There are no ads in my reality ❤
I ain't financially stable like dat I got advertisements everywhere all I think about is propaganda😇
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I ignore them
Like annoying thoughts
♥️🙏🌹
@@mandybaker3689 I got one, I’m grateful for the contrast 😂🤝🏾
@mandybaker3689 just get Adblock extension on your browser or Revanced for your phone. No more ads.
Not even for things you enjoy?
My "handle" is a direct reference from his speech. (The Ultimate Ground of Being)
Please whenever possible, mention in the description the original title of the lecture/talk/audio.
In this case it's:
"NOTHINGNESS"
ESSENTIAL LECTURES, PROGRAM 1
1972
27:25 have thought about, an uncle and a grandfather of mine passed away in such fashion. In both occasions, they felt tired, went to bed, and never woke up. I hope to go like that when my time comes.
One of the main goals to Eastern meditation. Nothingness or emptiness.
As an atheist i never thought a religion would affect me,
But mr watts and buddhism changed me a LOT recently.
Luckily for you, Buddhism isn't a religion. It's a way of being.
Atheism is just a stage in development.
its very scientific you just dont understand ,nothing to do with religion
@@bvgatti I've always been surprised how many people who were religious through their lives lose it when they get old and realize there is no meaning and there is nothing after death. There are no gods. There is no heaven and there is no hell
@@_siegemcsheen_9401 hey, I want to follow this path, you know what is the first thing to study about? What do I search to beggin my buddhism jurney
I almost died today. A toyota innova suddenly backed on my motorcycle in an intersection. No signal, just suddenly backed bcoz he went past the left road and he wanted to go left, so they backed up.
Driver had no license. And the lady boss accused me of the one bumping into their innova.
Miraculously, i didn't have any injury bcoz the honda click front tire absorded all the impact.
I called the police bcoz he was visible, and filed blotter in the police station, but all police know her so nothing happened, no impound of vehicle, even with no drivers license. I learned so many lessons today than my entire life, u can die anytime even though u are very careful and playing it safe, and most important lesson, never think or believe that those police officers are working for us taxpayers
Glad you are alright !
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@@layuponthedownlow 3 classes, owners management and everybody else...
@@layuponthedownlow and people like to have all their material things ie house car valuables money etc … to assure themselves a false sense of security, when they can cease to exist at any time
@@layuponthedownlow that's your profound thought bro? Your NDE made you think about cops and taxes 😂
Realism as a philosophy isn't popular because it requires honesty. People are liars, they cant be realists.
@@Noswiatel Say more.
@@Havre_Chithra Aristotle said reality comes before ideas. Plato thought ideas are objectively real. People subconciously think like Plato and project their ideas onto the reality.
Reality is objective, our perception is subjective. In order to understand the reality and each other more objectively, we need to lense it through as many subjective views as possible.
Axioms let us assume. The rest is a theory.
The existence of lies exponentially increases the difficulty of developing an objective worldview, as it forces you to assume both versions - that something is and isn't real.
Stoicism is egocentric, it does not lead to development of objective reality, but merely concentrates on how a stoic is perceived and ought to react. The way human brains work is not passive - it actively acts to understand and learn the reality.
While it does offer some good advice, as a whole system, it is a bloat.
Realism as a philosophy isn't popular because very few people understand what it is, I'm talking about it's historical context in the medieval problem of universals. Read peirce's review of the works of George Berkeley.
@@Noswiatel Lies don´t do such a thing imo. And there is NO chance for a human being to develop an objective worldview, for as long as that human being is alive, it is a human being - a subject, a subject of experiences. It is and always will be subjective, human experience for him/her, and has no chance of taking himself out of that experience and that way making it objective. We are human individuals, striving for some totally objective worldview is predestined for failure. Let´s find the deepest human Sofia.
(somewhat taken from Nietzsche through essentialsalts ytb channel)
BTW: From wikipedia i get that philosophical realism is an assumption or belief that the objective world exists independently on the subject, like me let´s say, or anyone else. Is that what you mean by it?
@@Noswiatel people aren't necessarily "liars" per say, most just choose to live in a make-believe world
Very nice discourse of Alan Watts. So meaningful and relatable 🙏🙏❤
I was listening to this and found it rather a positive experience hearing watts talk about nothing ❤ truly a fulfilling experience I am great full for everything ❤the loss the pain and the pleasure and game ❤
Experiences are lies, gives fake sense of relief, you should be thrilled by it, feels opposite
This is what I need it to complete my puzzle
The title of this video reminded me how I think about that sometimes, sometimes I think of things like everyone is watching already so if I want someone to know something I believe they are watching our life already and I’m watching my life already but I’m here right now so I must be here but believe that anything is already done meaning already solved to keep the life alive here regardless
It seems that you are a new channel and I just want to say, I hope you will keep on going. I found this video really good.
My grandmother used to say variety is the spice of life. I've always been called weird. Nice to hear weird and a good light ❤
damn your comment made me tear up lol i have always been weird and it hurts me so much when people say it to me, even now in my thirties.
@@BigGnomeTCG I will bet you I am a lot weirder than Alan or you combined!🙃
Life changing
A prayer said during childhood- now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I should die before I wake, I pary the Lord my soul to take.
Best Alan Watts lecture!!! Thank you!!!
Under no circumstances are you insane or weird or different, to the contrary you are totally Sane & on the right track. From Nothing did come Everything. This answer is believed by only those who have nothing, then they 'see' everything !!
Then those who see everything have nothing. Outside these two paradigms is that Something. The two sided coin disappears...into Something.
All things are both left and right and middle. A coin has 3 sides. We forget we live on the very edge.
@@SleepingThunder01 - you missed that exists in All 'material' things...but not Spiritual. That has only 2 sides, either you are with God's Word or you are Not. If you have 3 or more sides, God is out of your curriculum !!!
Psychology begs to differ.
@@SethVII7 - your phycology came after that Something made Everything not Before It, Keep thinking....
@@nh54guesthouse I agree that the labels and documentation came after, just like philosophy, doctrines, religions. The roots of your thoughts, comes from the brain. It came before all of these ideas. I think very pessimistically, critically, am overly analytical and rational because I have no positive emotions for example. We have cognitive differences. I see it in Nietsche, Shophenaur, Camus etc....If I was not fucked emotionally. I wouldn't be or think how I do. You are all making sense of layers and external things. The roots, foundation and real cause resides within our minds.
Nothing is, as a bird eliminated seed, not needed becomes !
That which is (Life), that is nothing in particular (actual), is by definition everything in general (potential).
I think I Understand alanwatts better when am High.
That's How you correlate with This Realm!
Yeah deffo. Mushrooms open it up like a can opener.
@@Oltieki drugs have always had a strong spiritual element.
The goal is to get there without being high.
i concur!
Just because then you can think without pressure, and when you have no pressure you can understand everything, so by getting clarity and by solving the problems, they try to lift weights from our mind so that we can think more clearly without any eed of alcohol, and trust me alcohol feels strong when you are into depression or despair, but when you have no problems at all, then alcohol doesnt work@@yournextdoorgamerwithgames2945
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Appreciate you David❤🙏
I used to have a recurring dream that came randomly sometimes with years apart. More of a nightmare because I woke up terrified and I needed to leave the house and sleep somewhere else if I was by myself. It was a dream about nothing.
@@PinkLloyd88 so u had no dream no nightmare?..
@Jacobwhogaf nothing is something
@@PinkLloyd88 there is no nothing without something
@@PinkLloyd88Sounds like you were dreaming about seperation from "God". True nothingness.
I wish the guidelines for this comment section pertained to the masses of misguided folks in the country I love, call home, and have defended against terrorist, DOMESTIC & foreign in my short life of 34 years.
Brilliant wisdom as always, from the great Alan Watts!
I feel dead so... maybe things are looking up
@@Axemvision 😆
Been dead for years now. Welcome to the club…. I can show you around 😂😂😂
You are alive bc you can still "feel" LOL. Both are one!
@@Axemvision awesome 😎
I also feel dead but it comforts me that nothing is permanent and because I once felt alive I will therefore somewhere in space and time feel alive again and be in a place that I belong and I will be glad and so will you 💖
To be and not to be. There is no question.
There's is an old Sanskrit Sloka
ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पुर्णमुदच्यते
पूर्णश्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥
Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam Puurnnaat-Purnnam-Udacyate
Puurnnashya Puurnnam-Aadaaya Puurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate ||
Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||
I believe this and understand it completely but my opinion is... It would be all great as it is already without the pain and suffering at the end and beginning of each cycle of experience as being one of everything of one again.
It is an illusion that we are different.
People think I’m weird but that’s because I am - Morrissey
Wow he figured that one out did he???
Everything is everything and something except nothing
It scares me that I'm begining to have a hard time knowing when it's AI and when it's not. For those that love Alan Watts and other personalities, please don't turn them into AI for you to make a buck. It corrupts the original works and mixes it with fake 'footage'.
Btw, I'm not saying this is fake.
I began listening to it but when it talked about the "Michael Somali" experiment that disproved ether I got suspicious since it is called the "Michelson-Morley" experiment. The audio in this video sounds much more believable than most fakes though.
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I began listening to it but when it talked about the "Michael Somali" experiment that disproved ether I got suspicious since it is called the "Michelson-Morley" experiment. The audio in this video sounds much more believable than most fakes though.
@@Fnord1984 timestamp?
@@Fnord1984 Alan Watts doesn't say "Michael Somali", the transcription on the screen is wrong. Listen to it again without being influenced by the words on the screen. I get why you're suspicious but this isn't an A.I. Alan Watts lecture. The A.I. ones I've come across are saying things that obviously didn't come from Alan Watts anyway. This is a real lecture. Maybe they cleaned up the audio a bit with A.I. though.
@@corneliusthecrowtamer1937 Yes you are right, I did notice after I wrote that comment that I was in the wrong here, had quite low audio on and just read the text while listening and misheard it. I noticed there was plenty of misspellings of words in the video. Im ok with them cleaning up audio that is fine. I am also ok with actual AI stuff but I dont like when it is not clearly stated that it is AI. There is a LOT of AI Alan Watts stuff going around and the bad part is that it is almost never stated when it is AI being used representing Alan Watts and that I do find very unfortunate.
See all in nothingness.
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"Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
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--Diamond Dragons (series)
Let's talk about "If I should die before I wake."
If others die before we are also awoken by the death of those things which maintian the idea that we will lose our true selves we would never have existed in the first place. 🎉
People go mad because we have The " Internet ", its too much to process.
Internet in quotes here is hilarious 😂....or deep?! 🤔🤨
even the i without attributes is SEEN
He's speaking about the proverbial nothing, but nothing is not the same as an empty space. By definition, nothing cannot exist. I get and support the necessary existence of opposites, but nothing is not an opposite of something. Nothing is the absence of anything. But then again, Alan Watts is a famous cherished thinker and I am just an idiot...
He said everything is the opposite of nothing. And something is what lies between.
All you have to do is close your eyes.
Thanks Alan - I’m gonna go and get a 9-5 job now…
Bro demonstrating the higher and lower note has me wondering if anyone has ever songify'd Alan Watts... 😂
@@ldouma4059 check out AkiraTheDon!
Yes, solid requires nothingness. However, emptiness does not need solidness. It is our mind cannot perceive nothingness as that is not how our world exists.
@@WendyAgnes our mind can perceive nothingness, but not in this physical world
@@yungdkay1008 Unfortunately we exist in this physical world 😄
@@WendyAgnes when we die we would exist in the non-physical world and get a grasp of what nothingness is
If nothingness doesn't depend on its opposite, we wouldn't exist. Modern people are weirdly uncomfortable with the idea that our existence is a necessary consequence of something beyond us.
. I’m from Vallejo and I love boats and ferry to San Francisco my whole life now I’m a San Franciscan
I just want to be self with no others. Others are the force that make me doubt myself. Opposition cannot be with no others. If I take my life will I finally be alone?
What is the original name of this talk, please?
Everything is nothing. Form is the formless aspect of that which this labels as awareness. The formless aspect of consciousness reflected is form. Form is not. This is why I am aware of it, because I am aware that I am nothing. Form cannot explain this because form is nothing. But I am real. I am that I am. I am.
Profound. Inspiring
the malice of inanimate things is interesting 😊
Oh my goodness, this is insane hahahaha
We’re all gonna go nuts trying to figure this place out!
What is the source of this lecture?
In the beginning the World worked without human hands, and in the end the World will work again, alone.
To produce humans, as it did the last time
''The best prediction of future behavior, is relevant past behavior '' - Dr.Phill
Variety is the spice of life
Apparently, contrary to the theory presented here, you can have commercials on a program you'd prefer to listen to uninterupted. I wonder if advertisers ever consider that some people don't appreciate this and the interuption puts their product(s) on the customers do not buy list. Same goes for your channel - get the message? No? Goodbye!!!!
Alan was brilliant but a man of his time. Our world is measurably level across its entire expanse. We do not know it's full extent or where we really are. He was a man of the fraudulent space age. I want people coming here to think again about this world.
What year did he give this talk?
I don’t know
Killed my ego for guidance.
I am pretty sick but whenever I try to face the emptiness my personality and ego go 911 on me and panic sets in. Alan seems to have managed his ego sense It takes a lot meditation or courage perhaps both to face the unknown.As I said I am not well but our police state will not provide me the means or circumstance to overcome my attachment to a truly painful life.I cannot acquire the meds to live life or leave it.Sometimes I think I can’t leave this life for some reason but that is probably ego talking.Any government that will not refrain from interfering with right to life/ death issues is facism.
Alan was but a man. He was addicted to vices like drinking to cope with the pain of life. He just understood life a bit better than the average joe, and that in itself was painful.
"Nothing is what a rock dreams if" - Aristotle.
Nothing is less than nothing.
Nothing is not a set full of 0s, its also not an empty set, nothing doesn't even have a set.
Linguistics cant even talk about nothing.
We say "there is nothing".
"THERE".
we cant even describe it without giving nothing a set.
but there is a notion of not having existed at some point and now we do exist. either there is non-existence or we must have lived forever
When I can afford it I'm doing a thank you for this video
Ever watched the dog you love die?
They go so fast.
Not enough years
Your best friend is gone
It seems like he never existed. Only pictures
That’s the only thing that proves he existed.
People are the same but a dog never had a bad thought about you.
What is the point of life except to live now.
They dont go fast ....a dig can be alice for 12 years....we are getiing slower.....îs just time perception.....and we as humans invented time....time only exist to measure speed...so the slower we get (Boeing older) ....we perceive time going faster.....but its the same...
Can't believe people are saying this is AI😂
We need more weird people. Keep it weird 🎉
My wife acts like she's dead whenever we're in bed together - she's the ultimate stoic
An observant man said man is a bad animal. Sadly, it can be argued that he was right. People seem incapable of living in peace. The Christ taught a good lesson which we struggle to live by. World peace is a hug away! Shame on the human animal...
The added text is just wrong sometimes. Varit instead of Variety... etc
Indeed, he is right. Nothingness into allness.
I use the bathroom, on average, approximately 25 times a day.
Is this a real audio or AI?
Pretty sure it's real.. Just enhanced to remove the background noises
Ai, I was listened to another one where he was talking about smartphones...
@@mateuszrydzik7666 don’t think ai breathes like this video? Could be wrong
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A bit disappointed that there are *so many* ads. It interrupts the content to the point of disruption of continuity.
@@lillith665 You need UA-cam premium if you don’t want ads. I wouldn’t watch UA-cam at all without paying for premium. I’m watching this video now and there are ZERO ads. I cannot stand ads either but if you want no ads then you need to pay. The choice is yours.
The channel needs to make monies for their time and supplying these videos. Majority of us can’t use the time to work for free daily. 🤷🏽♀️
I’ve found if I rewind it just a bit I get the flow back quickly. 😊
@@lillith665 yess.. that's why I bought yt premium..... It's pure gold...... ♥️♥️♥️♥️
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Spinoza talked about substance. Watts echoes that philosophical tradition wonderfully.
Ogbe Oyeku in Ifa Divination
Reality is we just can't understand the mind of God
I really wish you wouldn't use A.I to create new images of Alan.
He had so much to offer, seriously too bad that he succumb to alcoholism and chose to end his life. Very sad for such potential
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@@minnesotanice369 So deep wow
NO EXACTLY OPPOSITE, ALAN MY CHILD !
I am alive like anything and I DO NOT 'ACT'
You mistake something for nothing. Nothing can't exists. Something can. For something to exists there must be a something to begin with. That means that something has always existed. That something must be capable of creating THINGS that mirror it. Creative attributes. Images of itself..
The universe came into existence as something. Created.
Something came from nothing. That's the fact although it's hard to believe
@@yungdkay1008 god is always something..the universe came from it..therrfore something
its not necessary to have something. Something came from nothing. That is the fact. Its the nature of something, that it will come from nothing.
@@sunkintree you just ruined your your argument when you said SOMETHING CREATED GOD...THAT MAKES NO SENSE..WHAT ON EARTH COULD CREATE GOD..answer is nothing..
something is a concept. There's no such thing as things. a thing is a property that our mind does to label things for the benefit of our understanding. Therefore, everything that we can see is nothing (not a thing). to be a thing, there has to be a percever to label it. nothing is a concept, but it's more grounded to reality because there was never a thing to begin with. for this reason, in order for the universe to be infinite, it has to be nothing because if it didn't, it would be finite and limited. so it is nothing. There's nothing to keep it limited, so it gives freedom to be anything.
52:08 Bro just casually dropped "Lebensraum" and just called it a German word LMAO
@@IchHalteDichInDerDunkelheit ethnic spaces are Ethnic Human Rights.
@@fanaticist would that be for example, ‘Arab Street’ in Berlin?
@@darrenscott1111 how about my finger in your ear?
Alan...woman wont mind when i explain to them...
He was a comedian as well 😂
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Speak.
easy
How to disappear completely
Alan Watts is buddhism if it was a 17 year old white kid in america
There is no NOTHING in the universe. What looks like empty space is full of stuff we just can't detect.
Yes, particle pair theory has shown to create pair of particle-anti particle into existence. Only need energy. 😊
agree
We don’t know, and likely we cannot understand this.
@@goa93 nothing is everything
Nothing is everything