The Whole Thing Is A Hoax - Alan Watts On The Human Society
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- An inspirational and profound speech on the human society by Alan Watts. Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts - Extended Seminars - Early Radio Talks - Man is a Hoax"
“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
"- 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.
T&H also films and releases original interviews with iconic people who have experienced successes, while also persevering through life's highs and lows. We look forward to sharing more of these perspectives and insights.
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.
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.”
― George Carlin
👍👍👍!
100%
Why they need us now they have AI. They never cared about us.
Not anymore brother, come come come come
Now they have the machines and AI. Soon they won’t need us.
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered "Man! Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
He also loves children to kick his tongue. Chi-mo, therefore obsolete & evil. Gandhi also liked them very young too. Mother Theresa was a beast. I'm a strong awake Christian.
And he's absolutely right 🎯🖒
The astonishing truth!
The gift is the present, or the conscious power of now/won !! Do more different things; and walk uncommon paths, learn by doing . . . . live
Regards all Legends
Is that soke quote from some space head?
When the bug hit in early 20, it put my business down, then a year later my sweetheart soulmate passed from an unexpected cancer (We didn't take the vaxx). As I was tasting the barrel of my side arm, in a moment of clarity I said F kit! it is now or never, I sold everything I could liquidate, and purchased 6 acres in the middle of the woods ( 10 miles to the store) in North Florida, I was 55 when this happened, now I have the best well water, I grow my own food, I'm back in shape, I have sharpened skillz I never knew I had and I unplugged from the system, I don't contribute to the scam any longer and I live a peaceful, wholesome life, I sit on the grass in the morning with a hot coffee and watch the sunrise and decide my plans for the day at hand, I live spontaneously but enjoying the moment and being present, I don't live for tomorrow any longer. You just need to realize, When you got Nothing, you got nothing to loose, now you are free.
By 20 Trump's BS had already destroyed my import-export business. I won't forgive 😢
Congrats, I'm happy for you that you made it to freedom and a wholesome life 🍀💕
First off -I'm sorry about the loss of your soulmate. Second - I'm very glad that you did'nt pull the trigger. I understand how you got to that point. You paint an awesome picture of a life worth living.
Are you stupid?@@richardscathouse
I’m sorry you lost your soul mate. I lost mine about 2 years ago. But thrilled you are thriving and loving your country life!! Sounds amazing!
We have 22 year old "children", who graduate college with ZERO sustenance skills, aside from getting a job. Parents are too busy working to teach. The children are too tired from "school" to learn.
Zombies... an entire lot of zombies, entirely submissive to the will of others.
Not entirely. People go along in what seems like a state of somnambulism but challenge them an iota and you'll see that they are not as docile as they appear to be. My thought is that while they are going along they are also always wondering (to themselves) if there is an alternative. People never miss a chance to let me know that there is something still roiling under that waxy facade. At the same time -many never miss a chance to let me know , in no uncertain terms , that they are fiercely loyal to the status quo. A person with his own mind, in this culture , as far as I can see , is viewed as a deranged anomaly. I was even called an anomaly by a Mensan , a person who belongs to a group of people who are considered anomalies in their own right. I think right now the weight of the corporate, technological , medical , media chain link is too heavy for most people to challenge. People don't know that there is something beyond all of it. My eyes were opened (a bit) upon reading Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Shadows on the wall . If you're conditioned to think that reality consists of shadows on the wall of a cave then it's VERY hard to believe that actual reality is outside the cave.
@@bellavia5 it's all about consciousness. If people are conscious of TRUE reality and live by moral principles they will not be fooled or led astray.
@@lonekiterrocky Yes
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.”
― George Carlin
No picture how they would be if they never even made it through High School?
Alan Watts is from a time when people retired and retired with wealth. His insights are just as true now, but our elderly live working and in poverty.
Yeah exactly. No one can 'afford' to retire anymore. The game is rigged and it isn't going to fix itself.
Do we not send our children to indoctrination centers, I mean school? How does a parent earn enough money to do this? Its a closed loop system for us common folk, and there is more abhorrent slavery today than there ever was in history. We are taught at a young age that slavery was everywhere back in the day, but thats just to manipulate us into thinking we aren't slaves anymore. The almighty dollar is our master. It feels like there's nothing we can do about it.
Agreed!
The "Social Security" is for me a kind of insurance. I can't retire, the social security is for me a "disability insurance".
@@ventura1957 I'm 47 and I'll be shocked if I see a cent.
Capitalism working as intended...
Now the elderly have impotence, false teeth, no energy and no money.
With all the contaminated waters, polluted air, tainted food and poisonous pharmaceuticals; that condition is affecting younger and younger victims.
I'm young and I have alot of health issues.
Only few can enjoy life.
This life is a scam!
Good job boomers! 👏
@@Yuri-nc9vl It sucks you are young and have health issues but at least you're wise to what this world is really about.
I’ve always felt this. This is the matrix that enslaves us if we let it.
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This is.
The Matrix that enslaves.
Us. If we let it.
I’ve been calling it the algorithm for over 20 years! 😊
You don't have to let it, others will 'Let it' and you will be swept along whether you let it or not.
@@GBPaddling Agreed. Most people are so entrenched in the system that they would rather kill you than accept they are slaves to it.
It is impossible to be in anything other than the present. - Alan Watts
Don't be enslaved in others' delusion: The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🌳
But you can forget that
I got scared and peed myself .@@dbank6107
True. But the ego-mind exists to keep you distracted, where the term "ego" means the idea of separation from the whole. When you are completely here now in the present moment, you have achieved a state of consciousness that transcends the body, the emotions and the ego-mind. It is simple, but not easy.
@@jivanvasant Yes it is simple but not easy 😂
The day you stop running is the day you win the race.
Or end up homeless unfortunately
Yes, I agree 💯...as a former teacher. We always lied about life
Ouch, an honest person.
Another grandiose statement. Maybe YOU lied, but it's an extreme stretch to claim we ALL lied.
If the entire education system is flawed as we know it all to be , built on lies , the text book system the standardized test system all of it , if you were half as intelligent to what it all is then you’d know yourself that you were only helping to spread the lies and continue the broken system itself , grades grades grades papers papers papers tests tests tests just to go clock in clock out ear sleep clock in clock out ear sleep clock in clock out , at least the guy who’s talking in this video has the balls and the love to spread a little truth to the world , obviously you didn’t create the system but if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem , clock in clock out eat sleep clock in clock out eat sleep clock in but hey get those state test scores up so your paycheck loooks better too , make sure you’re “teaching the “facts “ they want you brainwashing us with , we really have our kids spending there whole childhood on a flawed and broken education system that is doomed from the start , and Let’s be honest our system is detrimental to a healthy happy sustainable society and the work is shown that it proves itself to be just that.
@@robertbeaulieu460everyone’s lying and you’re lying to yourself if you think that isn’t true
I've been saying for some time now that I cant believe anything I read or see on internet. But that doesnt mean EVERYONE is lying. There are lies, and then there are mistaken beliefs.
I remember accidentally hearing Alan Watts lectures, broadcast over local late night FM radio here in Portland Oregon in the early 1970's while I was attending Art School at a local community college. Watts greatly influenced my creative world in the Arts and in the Sciences. I had just purchased my first Astronomy telescope as a young person then.
I was delighted to hear these being rereleased in recent years through the online world.
This particularly selected lecture should not be taken lightly, especially today by our younger generations.
Don't be enslaved in others' delusion: The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🌳
Yup.
You ‘hoax.
I say ‘scam.
I did everything right.
I broke the code.
The Universe is inside my head.
The END is near,
and judgment is here.
Everything is real.
I AM The Holy Spirit.
I’ve done my time.
I’m punching out.
So, will somebody
please come get me
off of this
f***ing planet.
Jesus Christ!
Please come out
of you sin.
I’m ready to GO!
1111
🇺🇸❤️😇🌏🔥 7:19
Cometh the day
Cometh the warrior ⚚⛯
Did you discover that the dome above is far as we are allowed to go up... Which then means a whole lot more deception needs to be uncovered still?
I live in pdx too and has been a great tragedy of life watching this once utopian city destroy itself in name of liberal
‘Progress’
I miss old pdx
One of Alan Watts best speeches. Needs to be heard by everyone.
It is in plain sight. You just have to look.
nothing new here.
Religion is the same way. Going to heaven is the ultimate promise, and the ultimate scam. All we really do is Reincarnate to do it all over again.
And then what? What’s the answer once everyone has watched or listened to it? There is no answer. Make your own way
This gives you the perspective
We live on a prison planet. You have to work for someone else and pay taxes before you get food. The only animal on earth who does this. For the rest food is free.
I get my food from the garbage for free. You just have to be smart and use the grocery stores trash at the right times. So you never have to pay for food ever again like me. You're free my friend, you're welcome ❤
Reptilians
I stumbled on rescue missions after a head injury in 2007.
I had no knowledge of where they existed.
they provided shelter, food, clothes and spiritual gatherings.
some offered more than others.
I realized a person never had to work or fly a cardboard sign for handouts.
the Grant money would keep the operation open.
it was an eye opener to see what the government would give you when you put the address of of the rescue mission as your residence.
I heard conversations from some folks that traveled the Country going from one rescue mission to the next
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@@stevefrazer6101Great advice! Until someone will play a joke on you and add some rat poison as a spice.
@@randyalbright7212 Free for grabs. Free in not paying dollars first. Don't be nitpicking on semantics.
The present moment is the only moment we've control over. The past is gone and the future is an illusion.
Actually, not even the present moment is under our control. We think we have the obligation to be in control and much of what we do on a daily basis is motivated by that insatiable need for control. But control will never truly be in our hands whatever we do. In fact, it is only if we learn how to let go of the need for control that we can start to be present, truly present in every moment. The irony is that giving up the mentality of chasing after control will be the closest we will ever come a situation of secure alignment with reality, as it unfolds continuously.
Understanding this will give us an understanding of what give rise and maintains our ego. Our illusory sense of self have built a whole universe around this principle of being in the need of security. Its whole existence depends and feeds of off the chase after potential threats and looming calamities. Our deceiving self like to be our watchdog promising us to always be on the lookout and one-step-ahead in order to prevent our destruction. It builds its whole reasons of existence around this task, for our sake no less! And here we are showing signs of unappreciative disloyalties talking trash about our own watchdog that have done so much for us up until this moment. How dare we be so reckless and ungrateful to even question the existence of our own self! Shame on us!
But there’s no need for real alarm. Our friend, the watchdog, will continue to be our only true and loyal companion as long as we think we need him and trust him more than our true nature and reality itself. Just like any dog our own watchdog will endure any amount of abuse as long as it feels its mission is still valid and appreciated. Only when we reach our true point of crisis will we understand that the moment of choosing between our watchdog and true reality have come and we will know that a final parting with our watchdog is the gateway to eternal peace that has been eluding us for an eternity. Only at that moment we will understand that it has always been our incessant search for security that have been holding us back from being at peace and in harmony with ourselves and the universe. Only at this moment we realise that it is our own sense of insecurity that have kept our watchdog barking up fears in our heart. With infinite love and compassion we can now liberate our old friend the watchdog from all its obligations and let it roam as freely as it wants without having to attend to our well-being as a stand-in for our guardian angle anymore. Our primordial wisdom have kindled in our heart and we are no longer in the need of a barking watchdog on our front porch. We now know that we are the universe itself and the ultimate protector of all living beings.
We have control over our future if we imagine it as if it has already happened, and if we then take steps to walk towards it.
@@saturdaysun10 Which takes living in the present moment to fathom. Either way the future is not set.
The present is always the present until it's not which is always after the present. So just be in the now as it is with you in the now.
There is no present. We literally live in the future, and every moment that comes by ,instantly becomes the past. We are nothing more than an observers, with the false illusion of control and possession, while in reality we can't even control our own bodies and senses, which constantly deceive us.
Things weren't allways like this, but everything we learn about life and history is made from people who run this place for far too long now, and it's all lies.
Just a friendly reminder: wherever your attention goes there you will flow. Resonating infinite love and peaceful vibrations to you all.
The mind is like a feather. Going in whatever direction the wind blows it.
Lovely, thanks!
Gee that will work wonders PolyAnna😂
Thanks from uk
that's why I visit the bathroom 4 or 5 times each night
This short video should be part of the regular mandatory curriculum in all high schools of the world.
They rather brainwash kids to be nonbinary and pro terror.
Teachers are mostly very mentally ill people nowadays
😢
Rite!!
i think you did not get it, there should not be any high schools as they do not educate but indoctrinate the children. Look at the Amish as an example, they learn to live in the present and they are highly skilled
No 12 year old can do what a 12 year old Amish can do
Hahaha never ever 😅
It should be, but the education systems don't generally approve of students or teachers for that matter, who think for themselves.
Always loved hearing from my math teacher "yeah no one knows why you need to know this but here you go🤷♀️"
Everything we learn is a foundation for the next thing we learn. What I'm getting now makes what's coming simpler.
You will hardly ever use the math they teach in high school . It’s a joke and shame on this country and administration.these poor kids are so stressed. To me from my view … schools create failures. How you ask. ??
When a child is unable to retain all this difficult math , coupled with pure pressures, parents high expectations of course we will see kids act out . I know exactly how these kids feel . I was one of them
. I’m speaking from
Experience. Education is good but it’s really a racket 🤬🤬most of the Bull you learn is never used or you could learn on the job of necessary.
@@debragillen255
Yes, without a doubt!
That's a classic refrain of people who are intellectually lazy. All forms of human endeavor have value, and for mathematics that is especially true. If you see no value in it, it's merely a reflection of your ignorance.
I am a computer programmer and I don't need complex math. The functions where I need complex math are created by people who love math and would not of needed a teacher to learn it. Let them make the physic engines. I call their functions to use in my programs I use their physic engines in my software, that's ok, they love it, but they can't do what I do... The very thing that makes me creative I never had to be taught it. We are all different tools. Learning basic math is all anyone needs to do and like I said if they have the passion to learn it, they just would anyway. Just like all the forefathers of math, it never existed until they came up with it, they were just into something.@@debragillen255
you uploaded this exactly when I needed it. We must live in the present.
“The Power of Now” is a great book.
There are not many who can captivate me like Alan Watts can and does.
I could listen to him endlessly. ❤
Many P Hall does it for me, also
I enjoy work and don't want to buy anything
I have always felt this way but never heard anyone else say it. I have always loved and lived for moments at hand. Never lived for the future. Because I know the future is not promised to anyone. The best thing in life is love. Nothing else comes close. And when your old and you don't have anything else to look forward to you will always have memories. If you're lucky like me you will have kids that love you. Family is all you have in the end, friends come and go but family will always be here for you.
"Making plans for the future is of use only to people who are capable of living completely in the present" 06:42
Alan Watts never fails on making me shed a tear of hope and understanding.
❤
No Now, no Future.
Blown away.....
Ideally, everyone would live in the present and making plans would be unnecessary (Garden of Eden). But we've created a world where that's impossible, and so you get the paradox Watts mentions. Running to stand still.
I have more or less done that all my 85 years. I always felt at home wherever I was and whatever I did but put seeds into the atmosphere where to go next. Sometimes it was chosen for me by circumstances and I accepted it with no regret
Now I have some health problems but trying to figure out what i can learn from it and send healthy thoughts to others.
Life makes so much more sense when u learn THE TRUTH...and its eye opening how many people just don't want to believe THE TRUTH and would rather live in misery. Live for the moment! Its the only time you are assured to have...life is so.much easier when you live in the NOW. Alan watts was/is a GIFT to humanity. 🙏💗😘🤗2all😇
So are you, all of you. 🥳🥳🥳When you are authentic you shine. Shine in whatever way you choose to serve humanity and you will be loved for it!! What would we all love you for?? 🤗🌟💥💫💃🕺
Religion is the same way. Going to heaven is the ultimate promise, and the ultimate scam. All we really do is Reincarnate to do it all over again.
@@EsotericBibleSecrets not so sure about that man, I think God likes surprises
Hardly anyone pays attention to him or any other wise person. They are more interested in Porn...Beer...Big Screen TVs...Big houses most can't afford...Who beat who senseless in the MMA phantasmagoria. The matrix has us. It's over.
Dream on sleeper
Probably the best 9.56 minutes ever on you tube ...
Man. Dont watch much do you?
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You probably don t ged it ... @@robertbeaulieu460
I was going to knock off a liquor store for money but stumbled on this lecture.
my life has changed.
I'm now a volunteer at the rescue mission
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This is very true. I already felt this truth from a young age and I don't tie my kids success to grades or achievements
One of the most brilliant orators in history. I find every word gripping, and yet I often listen to Alan Watts to fall asleep, as his voice is so sonorous and mellifluous.
Life is one long moment. Stay in the Now. It's all you ever have, is the Now ❤
When greed is your only motivator, you can expect things to get worse and worse as greed is refined over the years.
I always told my children to be happy with the choices in their own life and their own choices must be made to their own knowing that they are going to be happy with the roles picked because it is so important to them that they have a future that is free from pressure
Learning is one thing we do for as long as we live. Our attitude towards learning may be positive or negative. If positive, we feel happy and hopeful; if negative, we feel trapped and despair.
I love listening to Alan Watts. I wish I had met him, and had a conversation.
OMG!!! It’s like this guy dove deep into both my soul and my mind and took the words right out of my mouth!! This is by far the best video I have ever seen on the subject of truth and reality!! I have felt this way ever since is was about 17 years old looking at life as a whole… I’m now 40 years old.. the only part that he fails to mention is how the elites of the world, don’t live this way!
Beautiful video with beautiful voice with beautiful background music 🤗🤗🤗♥️✌️🕊️💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺😎👍
let's grow together my beautiful strangers ❤
I love that “beautiful strangers” ❤
I need a hug 😢
Don't be enslaved in others' delusion: The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🌳
@@anthonysantellan1861 A lot of us do. I hope you get that hug you need soon buddy.
@@anthonysantellan1861Can I hug you spiritually? 🫂 ❤ If so, then this Hug is for you and for me too ❤
Alan watts keeps me sane.
The discovery of Alan Watts 10 years ago completely opened my eyes. Discovering Alan Watts led me to the discovery of Sam Harris, which has been another eye opener with his waking up app
Harris is an IDIOT!!!
@@wayne9080why?
@@ladybooksmith3347 when I heard Sam Harris bashing RFK Jr, I immediately deleted the Waking Up app.
The wisest statement I've ever heard was from Comic Book Guy, a character on "The Simpsons."
He walks out of his comic book shop, and sees that the world is about to end. Literally. He says (paraphrased):
'The world is about to end, and I just realized that I've spent my entire life doing nothing but reading comic books. Now, there is only time to say... LIFE WELL SPENT!'
Screw how anyone else defines happiness and/or "success," or what they say is a waste of time. It's your life, and it's going to end... soon. So, lead your best life, even if that means that whatever makes you happy, everyone else says is stupid or foolish.
No one else is going to regret the life you could have had. So, ultimately, who cares about anyone else's opinion.
I was a journalist. When I figured out that the common ideas about how one should lead his/her life was complete bull***t; I quit my job and began drifting the country. If always dreamt of having an adventure. Now, I'm "homeless," or so I've been told.
But, the fact is, Even with all the hardships and poverty, I've been having an honest to goodness, proper adventure for the last 6 years, working on 7.
If I died today, my last thought would be, "LIFE WELL SPENT!"
Be like Comic Book Guy. I bet my life, that you won't regret it. But, if you don't, I bet my life you will regret that.
Be the change you want to see. Praise God for the opportunity.
Awesome, well done, IMHO!
“Can’t buy me love,everybody tells me so!”
Ahhh there’s a song about everything….
“The sense of ego of being one’s self is simultaneously the sense of frustration.”
Good one!
I had many experiences in my lifetime, not all were good, but I always felt that the main reason I was expected to plan for a furure, was so that I could please others. Then when I became an adult, I realize it is so I could support myself. So here i am now, supporting myself, I have supported a family as well, but I gave up trying to please others. The high achievers in my family, can't understand, that I just want to be self sufficient, and human. It would be nice to be appreciated for not having to borrow from them, even if i don't have any prestigious things. I know people that wreck themselves trying to make a house payment, and car payments. The idea of retirement is such a joke. In the end you can't take it with you. Love is the only thing worthwhile. Enjoy it while you can, don't wait until your brain becomes a fog.
So true...so real...save your Grand-children...tell them this truth...free them.
Although I have experienced Hell on earth, I have also had many complete moments ( superlative experiences) were I did say to myself I could happily die.
This I am truly grateful.
Same here.
Being yourself is the most important thing in life.
We're trained to be slaves, from cradle to grave, were professional slaves
Find what makes you happy. Find what makes you tick. You wont ever regret going after what you feel is best for you and your personality. Ive seen so many people live the life that others wanted for them and they died very unhappy people.
Very true!
We should teach our children to not become another brick in the wall.
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No stone shall not fall, to be overturned and removed
I retired at 49, people play keeping up with the Joneses. Not me, i live life and enjoy each day.
Our spirituality and our children are the only reason why most of us still put up with this total enslavement of our good humans..❤
You're not good if you're allowing yourself to be shit on.
Religion is the same way. Going to heaven is the ultimate promise, and the ultimate scam. All we really do is Reincarnate to do it over again.
True, that!
That didn't stop the Greatest Generation OR the founding fathers who risked literally everything to revolt. We no longer have the guts
Thanks for telling me why I never played along. Was always insisting on doing my own thing. Win or Loose was less important than remaining free.
This is simply one of the greatest and most profound things I've ever heard. When I was younger I saved my money and planned or the future fairly well. A catastrophic event happened to me which completely changed how I think, and now I live in the moment everyday every hour. Very little do I make concrete decisions for the future and I even run my own business now and work fulltime, and raise my 2 yr old son. I have the best life! . I love this speech!
My 14 year old is so smart that he knows this. He's figured it out. It's hard making sure he never has to "fall in line" I look through such a different lens having a child
My 14 year old is asking me questions that I wish I had the nerve to ask when I was 40. I'm happy.
@@nauticdixons Good job! Sounds like a bright mind ✨️ 😌
He's going to school I take it. If so he's in line.
@lynnfisher3037 lynnn please don't get me started Also, do not think that you can make a judgment just based on the fact that he's physically in school plenty of people physically go to school and their mind give them plenty of chance to know the difference. I'm so sorry if that didn't happen to you or somebody that you love. But don't comment on Anything that you don't know about first-hand with my situation. Thank you
Even though I've always thought like this and lived like this (I quit my job and travel as much as I can, started when I was 24, I'm 32 now) this video still brings a tear to my eyes because I know most people will never truly understand and are so far into the system that they will never experience what life truly has to offer and imo what life is meant to be about - freedom.
I want to go deeper, and ask what do you get from travelling? Are you escaping something? Im just wondering, why people don't get the enjoyment in their home landscapes
@@turdeemi IMHO I'm 'escaping the Matrix' I'm aware that I can never get fully out of the system but I can use it to my benefit. I come back when I need to earn money but as soon as I've saved enough or had enough of being a corporate slave, I quit my job and travel again. I'm single, no kids and never married so that makes my decision easier to just up and leave. We were not put on this planet to just work 9-5, 5/6 days a week, pay taxes for 50 years and then retire and die. Life is for living, so go make the most of it.
What you call freedom is spirit. It's free by default and cannot be tamed, which is what makes civilization a contradictory concept to say the least.
There is no freedom. with respect my friend you are still part of the system, just a different narrative.
How do you afford to travel if you quit your job? Are you walking and camping? But even that requires money. Are you receiving some kind of welfare assistance from the government, leaching off other people’s work? Panhandling? I hope my tone isn’t coming across as completely snarky; I am genuinely curious how you do it.
I threw off these chains in senior school ... Never conformed to society rules, always made sure others have enough information to question everything ❤
My mission is a sweet one ❤
I encourage my grandchildren to think critically, think for themselves and think outside the box and that they can do absolutely anything if they have good ideas, work hard, look at things in a different way than the crowd and be brave, calm and determined. I want them to change the world.
🎉❤Thank you for sharing this ❤🎉
Don't be enslaved in others' delusion: The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🌳
Thank you Alan for what you gave the people. The on-site of what has come and what is to be. I wish you the best in your next life.
It's amazing how Alan's words, heard again after many years, have acquired a depth of meaning previously unperceived in my youth. I am left to wonder what depths of meaning I am not perceiving in them presently.
Live in the moment ❤
Be the moment.
I always wanted to learn how to grow my own food. Thats the ultimate power to me. Idk why I'm holding back. I'm start writing blueprints and seeing what seeds would be good 👍
I'm interested in too many different kinds of food 😅
It's not the growing of the food that troubles you. It's wondering what growing your own food will lead you to.
You need to start improving your soil two years in advance. Organic amendments. ✌️
To grow all your own food that needs to be all you do; THAT becomes your job and it’s an incredibly hard one with lots of loss and disappointment along the way. Read Little House on the Prairie and if that’s the life you’re ready to live then go for it. But, supplementing your food supply with some home grown produce is fun and if you can keep laying hens they can be really fun and rewarding too. Collecting eggs is a great way to start every morning.
Have fun 😊
Plants need space, and some plants grow well together.
Microbes as well balance of nutrients are key to bountiful return.
And life keeps going on and on. Life is just another game. Many people call it plans.
My daughter was a teacher for 3 years and she gave it up because she said the school system is broken and she said if she would teach them the right way they would fire her, so she said she was extremely exhausted and she quit.
If they made it all up why does it feel so real and why have so many died in The Game. God bless 🙏🏼👼🏼🙏🏼
You've never been an employee right? Shit feel repititive it feel like you are going around in a circle
So how do we change it people? I'm pretty sure 300 million Americans coming together and not spending money. Collectively. Would be a huge dent in their plan
Thank the All mighty one True God. Waking up is beautiful. I am Alan watts and Alan watts is me.
We are all one.
God moves 🙏🏾
Religion is the same way. Going to heaven is the ultimate promise, and the ultimate scam. All we really do is Reincarnate to do it all over again.
Rip mr A WATTS BRILLIANT MIND God bless you always
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. It gives me something interesting to ponder.
I've lived all of my life not striving to be happy, but being happy. I get what I want, if I can afford it or not. Why wait? The pursuit of happiness doesn't cut it for me. Happiness is now, right now. This universe isn't real anyway. It is just a projection we ourselves create. So, I choose to create exactly the experience I want and so far that works for me. Once I learned there was a matrix, I exited stage left immediately and haven't looked back!
Your comment is worth more than his video. Bravo.
Interesting. More ?
Awesome, big congrats!
Until people stop ruling other people your life on earth will be misserble.
Indeed! You're the girl Donny Osmond sang about?
Jus love how you guys having Alan watts n background music man it's soothing way to learn wisdom
Alan Watts is and was a great Teacher and Philosopher. I cherish him even though he is gone. I'm thankful to hear and listen to his teachings. May his voice live forever through the ages.
I started my owen business at 17 concrete and retaining walls with out a highschool Diploma I would have never bin able to start let alone run a Successful company I have more them enough money to retire I love to work I love the look on people's face when they see my work I work 8 to 10 hours with the crew and then I work till 8or9 at night 6 days giving bids for new jobs I love my life everything about it I have 6 sons all grown 3 grandchildren my sons are my greatest Achievement to date they have Enriched my life in ways that some people will never understand they made me a better father husband and all around better human being they are my life and I wouldn't change one thing about are lives now college and office work ya no good but to just sit on your a** and do nothing is not any kinda life I want
People exist blaming, comparing, arguing, fighting, and demanding unrealistic things from each other. It's a mad world. Mindfulness is so important for escaping the rat race and the madness. Workbooks like 30 Days to Reduce Anxiety by Harper Daniels and any of Watts books are great, as is The Power of Now by Tolle.
Alan Watts is my favorite speaker. Hands down.
Alan is so enlightened. I really align with his perspectives.
Life is not a journey…. It is a dance!!!
And to a select few of us who were made to sit in the hall for speaking and interacting find that an embarrassment. How quaint.
Magnificent ❤ absolutely words of Wisdom for our Energyfield/Souls .. ... thanks for his legacy
If you chase after happiness, you will never catch it. Just be happy.
Learning is much more important than knowing, because knowing is the end. If you stop learning then you cease to grow, and without growth, you can't live.
Let go of reaching the goal, but striving for the goal is the happiness. This is taught in the Bible.
Love that. Another way of saying....it's the journey, not the destination that's important!
@@ianstuart5660 almost exactly the meaning. Because, even being still sometimes is important too. 6 days effort, 1 day rest. It all serves to better us. Some people learn late in life. But in almost all things we can choose for ourselves. That skill is lost in this day and age of "hurry up and die."
The band Alabama has a song about that.
Very interesting.
Thank you for your insights.
Flow is all that matters.
For anyone who has experienced a moment or two of true presence and clarity those words ring so true. You could die quite peacefully knowing that if that was it, it was still worth this whole ride. I've been bless to have had such a moment before and I look to find it again every day but if that was it, it was still worth it.
Enjoyed every single second of this speech : it should be read by ( or to) every single child on this planet !! 🔥😉
On the isle of Skye the locals nicknamed some guys anchored yacht the 'Olympic Torch' coz it never went out.
Always ever fresh what Alan Watts has to say.
Having money,a home,TV and fridge full of food,beats living in the desert in a mud hut with nothing.Even if the whole thing is without meaning.
@Sharky14 Yeah, but if you need money and don't work, you automatically live in poverty.
@Sharky14 Some poor people in 3rd world countries live in deserts inside of mud huts.
I haven't had a TV (or should I say "propaganda box"?) for years, thank goodness.
AND: a mud hut is a home, too 😉
@@Sharky14the most important comment, too many people are focused on the hardship overseas to care about the citizens of their own country and the actual hardship that will one day hit them if they make one bad move and fall behind the momentum of the societal system. Case in point, Biden telling coal miners to learn how to code. The system just told you to get some skills or be left behind. You do not matter to us.
Edit: coal miners are a major reason why this society even exists. People who worked in the past paved the future and today's society has turned their back on them as if they destroyed the world, but they never think about the fact they may never have been born if those guys didn't mine that coal, or oil, or fight in those wars. Think about society turning their back on you one day, because you did what was the right thing at the time, 40 plus years ago...
I’m not convinced.
I taught my two sons one important lesson about life. It was "there is always more than one way into a room". Meaning, don't just look at the solution that society gives, look for one that is different, be different.
Profound....Thank You and Bless You I See A lot More Now and intend to Just Enjoy my Life in the Present❤️🔥🙏✨
Thank you 😊❤🙏💝
Most people I know do not retire because they don’t have enough money to do so.
I wish I knew this when I was growing up '' The whole secret of existence is to have no fear...
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one, only the moment you reject all help...are you Freed''😇🙌
I am a Witness. How it's supposed to be, how it can be, how it was for me, seemingly long gone.
Simply, I was raised by old school parents, my dad was my hero, mother was a Saint, I only knew Love and Safety.
Good stuff!! Fábio/Portugal✨
Great video, cheers
Great short ! Thanks for sharing !
I love you Alan. Thank you for the guidance. ❤
This is a great video
Couldn't have put it better myself respect
When I’m feeling s**t and someone asks why I’m so friggin depressed just play them Alan and he explains it all for me.
Such a pleasant voice
Calming also powerful 😌
I started primary school at the age of 5yr I was a sickly boy but the younger lady teacher's would hit me with a thick leather belt most days of the week this went on throughout my primary school life Alec from Scotland
And how are you now? How is life in Scotland.? Just reading about William Wallace.
@@bellavia5 William Wallace the outlaw King I have visited his monument is Stirling my life has turned out just fine it took years for my health to get better I'm retired now worked for fifty years 39yr as a joiner and 11yr engineer it will be my wedding anniversary next month 50yr I have two married daughters and grandsons you didn't mention what country you're from best wishes from Scotland 🏴
@@alexblue6991 I'm from the US. More and more , as I see this country falling into conflict and absurdity (and a BIG ticket price to live in) I wonder if I should consider moving away.
@@bellavia5 believe me it's much worse in Britain England has a migrant prime minister who the people never voted for Scotland has a migrant first minster who the people never voted for he gave a racist hate speech against the people of Scotland after he was made first minster illegal immigrants get hotels and meals and spending money for free while we already have a homeless problem with our own people sleeping rough gas and electricity bills are up 120% food prices have double the illegal immigrants are starting to turn against the English people stabbing is a daily basis now acid attacks rapist don't get sent to prison anymore if you're home gets broken into the police don't bother turning up the police don't bother about shoplifters anymore it's left to the shopkeeper to protect their shop and if a woman gets her drink spiked they tell her don't bother reporting it I could go on in Britain we aren't allowed weapons to defend ourselves but the criminal has nothing to lose the police have turned against their own people friends and neighbours in support of Hamas Palestine protesters and illegal immigrants they have lost all respect and trust in the police
Falling from the top floor your lungs
Fill like parachutes
Windows go rushing by.
People inside,
Dressed for the funeral in black and white.
These ties strangle our necks, hanging in the closet,
Found in the cubicle;
Without a name, just numbes on the resume, stored in the mainframe, marked for delete.
Please take these hands
Throw them in the river,
Wash away the things they never held
Please take these hands,
Throw me in the river,
Don't let me drown before the workday ends.
9 to 5! 9 to 5!
And we're up to our necks,
Drowning in the seconds,
Ingesting the morning commute
Lost in a dead subway sleep
Now we lie wide awake in our parents beds,
Tossing and turning.
Tomorrow we'll get up
Drive to work,
Single file
With everyday
It's like the last.
Waiting for the life to start, is it always just ahead of the curve?
Please take these hands
Throw them in the river,
Wash away the things they never held
Please take these hands,
Throw me in the river,
Don't let me drown before the workday ends.
Just keep making copies
Of copies
Of copies
When will it end?
It'll never end,
'til it gets so bad
That the ink fills in our fingerprints
And the silhouette of your own face becomes the black cloud of war
And even in our dreams we're so afraid the weight will offset who we are
All those breaths that you took have now been canceled in your lungs.
Last night my teeth fell out like ivory typewriter keys
And all the monuments and skyscrapers burned down and filled the sea.
Save our ship
The anchor is part of the desk
We can't cut free,
The water is flooding the decks
The memo's sent through the currents
Computers spark like flares
I can see them.
They don't touch me,
Touch me.
Please someone,
Teach me how to swim.
Please, don't let me drown,
Please, don't let me drown.
Song: For the Workforce Drowning
By: THURSDAY
That is awesome. To swim? No my son -you must float. STOP struggling. STEP back from your life . Look around. Take a breather. And turn OFF that bloody TV.!!!
As always…. Alan is perfection.
After a terrible first 65 years of life, I've arrived at a place where I know myself (and like her). I live a modest life of gratitude, and in the present. Now 76, healthy and content.