Are You Living for the Future? | Alan Watts on Insecurity
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- We are accustomed to make our existence worthwhile by the belief that ‘something good is about to come soon’. We chase a bright and secure future in order to feel relieved in the present. Yet, if your happiness in the present depends on the security of your future, you are doomed to be unhappy for most of your life, for the future is all but certain. How many people think that they have their lives figured out only to face an existential crisis? How many believe that they have found a stable job, only to be laid off during a financial crisis? These thoughts may stir up your anxiety, but that’s doomed to happen eventually. According to the philosopher Alan Watts, our attempts to achieve security are futile, as they only lead to greater anxiety. Watts argues that insecurity is an inherent part of human experience. Perhaps, then, security isn’t what we should be looking for. The only sane alternative to looking for security, according to Watts, is to stop looking, for what we seek is found somewhere we cannot struggle toward: the present.
This video explores how living in the future in order to seek certainty and security makes us actually feel more anxious and insecure. It proposes that since we live in a universe that only exists because of its uncertainty, and that the present moment is all that ever exists, we are liberated from our obsession with security the moment we become aware that we are part of this continuous flow that always happens now. This video will help you deal with anxiety and insecurity by conveying the deep understanding that life happens now, that the future does not exist, and that by stopping to think and talk to yourself you become one with the ineffable reality of present experience.
“The future is a concept-it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”
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Alan Watts on The Eternal Now: • It Will Give You Goose...
0:00 Do You Live in an Illusion?
1:41 The Illusion of Time
6:03 The Illusion of Words
8:14 How To Grasp the Eternal Present
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Indeed, I agree!
What a treasure, much praise for your work!
Words cannot describe how helpful this has been.
Haha, no pun intended ;) Thank you 🙏
Nice vid got my subscription, everything about your channel from the visuals, topics pertaining to philosophical approaches to subconscious turbulence, aND that oh-so wickedly smooth tone of voice that almost seems to be monotonous but is far from it-
All of these things are on the exact same frequency as the channel @Academy of Ideas, so much to the point that I thought I just stumbled upon his second channel 😆
Nevertheless, its nice to have more than one person with a wickedly smooth tone of voice speaking on profound philosophical gold nuggets.
More please! 😌🖤
Thank you so much for your kind words! I will certainly keep more coming.
Indeed there are a few channels who use this style, like Academy of Ideas and Eternalised. I have tried to differentiate this channel with various visuals and style choices, but since I’m all alone (for now!) creating videos, the use of public domain paintings with a voice over remains the most affordable and efficient method to make new content. Nevertheless, I appreciate the idea that all philosophy/psychology/religion channels (and indeed all such scholars) are collaborators navigating the sea of life :)
Good to see you’re back! Great video.
Thank you, I'll keep them coming :)
Alan Watts was not a philosopher, but a teacher. he didn’t invent anything but taught.