Why Letting Things Go Is True Wealth - Alan Watts On The Art of Letting Things Happen
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- Опубліковано 16 кві 2023
- An incredibly eye-opening speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts.
Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts - Taoism, Swimming Headless"
Video Produced and Edited by T&H Inspiration
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“Now, the best kind of heart is absence of heart”
Alan Watts
►Speaker: 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.
Before my health fell apart, I was always anxious about both the big and small decisions that I had to make in life on a daily basis. Having now spent almost 3 years of my life lying in bed each day, I can see, all that time I spent worrying, could have been time spent being grateful for all that I had in my life, for each and every pain free breath of air, for every sunny day and every wonderful person that I took for granted. What I would give for just one more day of good health.
Please don’t take your health for granted as I did. Your mental and physical health is everything, your mind and body are your vessel to travel this Sea of life 🙏
I wish you all the best, great memories, love and a fire inside you. Hugs from me to you.
I’m there now. I need to rise above my own prison before my body fails to cooperate with my mind. I’m drowning in my own mind. These talks are helping me o find air and push my own body to go outside and feel the sun on my face.
*update* I hit 60 days sober on the 19th of July 2023. Life is getting so much better every day. One foot in front of the other every day.
Best of luck, Dr Robert Morse.
@@Liquidgrin your mind can make your life a heaven or a hell ! . It’s very difficult to control
I hear you my friend. My illness and physical limitations are progressive and leave me in my bed and head more and more. I can only say that on my brave days when I can reflect through the suffering it has become a bridge to a better human being. Struggling for each breath gives me little time for my old resentments, petty dramas and superficial wants. I'm glad I still; have good days when I can get up and walk out into the sun and wish that for you as well. I will remember your words and try to be grateful and thankful for each and every day that I can interact and experience love and life. Peace my friend.
"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." -Alan Watts
"A person as a whole, can get in the way of his own existence by becoming too aware of himself"
Thinking and analysing almost killed me. The paradox with this subject matter is that it really can't be relayed and must be experienced when the time is right and with a level of openness and quiet. Doing is highly overrated from my view. Unfortunately coveted in her society. One love. 🪷
Somebody needs to make a movie about this man's life.
Absolutely I agree 😊
I could listen all day and night....love Alan
But you’re already listening to it. May Peace be with you.
Maybe I could make it.
For sure. Or at least a good long documentary anyway.
In a time when mental health issues such as anxiety and depression are so widespread, and supposedly are rising constantly, it's videos like this that should be in the education system. Bonkers how the crud of the internet goes viral so fast, when wholesome stuff like this goes almost unnoticed in comparison.
"And Lao Tsu said: Sir, regard the universe." I love that part!
Yes I so agree. The Universe w/in Self.
Mr Watts was & stil is touching the very souls of this entangled selfish dense world of Magnificence. TU for your Post. Namaste my friend & traveler back to home base. ❤😊
Men and gurus share only male quotes…… for some obvious reasons or several reason, but many women enjoy and share the quotes as well. :)
What is the title of the background music?
Every time I desire to feel better, it is Alan watts that guides me.
This man has helped me to change my entire perspective on life, death, suffering, pains and many more things. And sometimes I feel like he’s still with us because he’s like a good friend, almost a father figure in my everyday life. What a blessing for humanity he was. Thank you very much, Mr Watts!
Edit: Actually he’s also changed my, or rather confirmed my view upon modern society. Not in a positive way tho. Well, I guess there’s the outside for that inside again.
Indeed🌷
Alan Watts helped me shake off the last bits of Christian indoctrination and has opened my mind to so much.
@@zandrokos may I ask how so?
@@ladybugblu60 I'll answer for him.
Alan Watts has shown us that all religions are concepts.
There are no concepts in reality.
The idea of a deity is about as real as an individuals Ego-
It does not exist.
🤍🖤
awesome.!!!
Whenever i doubt myself and don't know what i want, because i have everything i can wish for - i come back to him. There is enough wisdom in his words for a lifetime long. Unaging spoken truth.
''We think of letting go as something you need to do to relax: a return to a state of flow and calm. Yet, letting go is actually vital to life. Philosopher and writer Alan Watts says so much of life happens all the time in the space of letting go. When we let go, we sleep, we relax, and we allow life to happen. In fact, we enter into the flow of the entire universe.''
I love my daughter. Things havent worked out. Ive died twice before she was born. You MAKE ME
SMILE SIR. My mam died 2021 august aged 52. Im the eldest.
I adore everything everyone
Im sorry 😊
It takes a long time to realise how truly miserable you are and even longer to see that it doesn’t have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy.
We are all here to learn our own truth, experiencing life is the only way to learn.
One experience after another we see our truth.
Watts was truly a Master Jedi.
I once heard someone get asked "who are you" and that person struggled by listing all their interests and certain traits they had, but then I started to ask myself that very same question and boy did I struggle internally. I did all this 5 years ago before I found Alan Watts. I remember when I first stumbled onto Mr. Watts, and I could not understand him whatsoever until a couple of years ago. I'm about to be 43 and I and this man has played a big part in my healing.
It’s so interesting & wonderful how revisiting a transcendent sentiment that was once not understandable. With the revisit & a further unfolded sense of awareness, the ideas click & resonate. Keep going my friend even though we’re already there!
This is the essence of the saying: "when the student is ready, the teacher appears"
So how would you answer that question now? 😮
@@medicisounds1384 well my friend, I believe I'm in the process of finding out. What I do now is I am not my past and part of who I am is someone who has love and compassion to offer up for the 🌎
@@schamon13 thank you. I am at the point of starting over and it's so damn scary.
I have no clue how I keep finding lectures of his that I haven't heard before.
Let Go. Possibly the 2 most powerful words ever.
There is a Zen saying that reads "let go or be dragged." It is one of my favorite quotes.
Let Go of all fear & be happy living life without compromising freedoms & freewill. I am living my best life attitude 👍☺♥️
Much love, happiness and freedom to all of us.
I'd never heard of this man. He has a voice that draws your ear, and always leaves you feeling inspired. Why is it we only know about wonderful people, after they have left us.
Alan is part of what you are listening to now! The petal on the wind in front of you!
Because he LIVED as he spoke
Observing his surroundings
Not surroundings observing him 👀
@@alliemeade2409 Nice way of looking at things, thanks.😀☮️
@@alliemeade2409 There is no not!
Because people like him don't come along to often in life, you blink & you missed it or born to late maybe too early. The world is full of noise I'm just glad I discovered him & appreciate that other people have forward is wisdom on many media platforms so to share with everyone.
This man has brought me to tears time and time again. I wish I could have met him, he was here and gone like a wave, and made such a beautiful wake as a consequence.
You’ve met him, he’s you!
what would you say were in the tears?
Love your analogy. "Gone like a wave, but made such a beautiful wake"
@@gingerpeachy3044 You think crying is a problem? Perhaps you have the problem?
We all have sinned, and have broken God’s law (The Ten Commandments). Wrong doing deserves justice and must be punished (just like how a criminal has to pay for the crime they have committed) but God saved us from the eternal punishment of our sins by sending His Son Jesus Christ to pay the penalty for us, so that we may have everlasting life. Now for you to accept the free gift of grace, you must repent of your sins and put your faith in Jesus Christ and you will you be saved from eternal punishment, and be given everlasting life. By faith you will receive the Holy Spirit and He will transform your heart and clean you from the inside out. Turn away from sin, read Bible, pray for Jesus to reveal Himself to you and change you, seek to do what is right according to the Bible. Much love and God bless.
If there’s ever been a time in my life where I can use this guidance and advice… it’s definitely now.
Thank you Alan Watts. You died before I was born… but the way you spoke makes me feel like you’re an old friend.
Also, thank you T&H for this beautiful video post.
Embrace every season. Be presently focused. Enjoy The Process.
The more aware you are of yourself, the further away you are from functioning at your highest capabilities.
This is balm to the mind. So healing listening to him talk 🙏
When I was young I worried about so much. So much. Everything! And I worked all day long, 12-17 hours a day. And even when I wasn't working, I was working. Working and worrying. Working, worrying, stressing out. Yes, it's true, I made tens of millions of dollars a year. I paid more taxes in a quarter than most pay in their lifetime. Yes, this lead to a fancy home in the suburbs, a yacht down in the marina, and even a small Cessna that I flew from beautiful San Diego to LA every other weekend. But all that stress... it was a lot to handle. It was killing me every day, slowly. My health really suffered. Then one rainy and cold December morning I decided, just be. Don't stress so much. Just be! Things will come to me. I just have to trust and believe! Just be damn it! And now, four years later... wait, a manager here at this McDonald's is telling me I can't use their free WiFi anymore unless I buy something. I'll have to finish this speech when I walk to another fast food restaurant that offers free WiFi. Being homeless really sucks.
So are you saying you changed everything in your life, but the change was no better?
Sometimes you need to let go to find the new breeze of life ❤ reborn 😊
❤
@@honeychildlor thank q 💗
He/this makes SO much sense. It is pure gold, and invaluable insight/perspective. It’s incredibly puzzling to me how and why he passed away so young… so prematurely, especially given just how much wisdom and insight he possessed The stories of his drinking and falling health confuse me because quite clearly he understood the concept, impact and power/consequence of man’s God given ability of ‘choice’. IOW, he had to have understood both the short AND long term ramifications of one’s personal choices, and yet he still chose a lifestyle that cut his life short…. Unduly short. Perhaps it was by design, and he genuinely knew or believed that he was headed somewhere ‘better’ so that ultimately, it didn’t make any difference. Or maybe it simply speaks to the insidious nature of alcoholism/addiction, and how hard it is to control. It IS a disease by the way, and the only one that tells you you don’t have it.🙃
One thing is for sure, this man opened the eyes of so many people to a new way of living/being, and a better way of interpreting life in all its beauty, wonder, splendor, intrigue, and joy….and similarly, in of all of its pain, suffering , sadness and tragedy.
He is STILL positively impacting the lives of countless people, and this little ditty is proof of same.
Thank you so much for creating and sharing such valuable, worthwhile content. This video is extremely well done - truly top shelf material, and I am very grateful for the time and effort you invested in creating and sharing it. Well done and many thanks! Andrew
Too good. Thanks so much!
Thank you . Really needed to hear this today . APPRECIATE 😊
Awesome ❤❤
'Perfect' timing to receive this. Thank you for compiling.
Ultimate wisdom I've ever heard ! Thank you so much
Thank you so much! xo
I love how informative and entertaining this video is at the same time. Keep up the great work!
this is wonderful- thank you for sharing
Love this guy ❤❤❤
That hit in so many different levels,
Our Overkill Awareness in ourselves holds us back down.
Brilliant ❤
Thank you!
what a beautiful message thank you so much
👀This is beautiful.
This one hit home
Thank you Alan for changing my life.
Sir Alan Watts...A man of pure soul...
Powerful as always from mR Allan watts
My mind is blown over this gentleman
Wonderful advice and ways to improve one's selfies ❤
Timeless wisdom.
I wish I could have been a part of his lectures
His aura, positivity, knowledge, everything seemed so incredibly human
There will never be another like this man, truly a one-of-a-kind
You wish? You are.
@@DavidLoveMore well in a way indeed
@@henrikschmidt2140 A very deep well.
@@DavidLoveMore 🤯🤯
We all have sinned, and have broken God’s law (The Ten Commandments). Wrong doing deserves justice and must be punished (just like how a criminal has to pay for the crime they have committed) but God saved us from the eternal punishment of our sins by sending His Son Jesus Christ to pay the penalty for us, so that we may have everlasting life. Now for you to accept the free gift of grace, you must repent of your sins and put your faith in Jesus Christ and you will you be saved from eternal punishment, and be given everlasting life. By faith you will receive the Holy Spirit and He will transform your heart and clean you from the inside out. Turn away from sin, read Bible, pray for Jesus to reveal Himself to you and change you, seek to do what is right according to the Bible. Much love and God bless.
Yes he was a Genuine and complete Guru!
Just to listening to his voice makes me feel in peace with my inner me. It's amazing!! I listen to him every morning in order to feel the magic!! Thanks 🙏😁
His thoughts are like art
On letting go we find our grip ✨
Wise words from a wise man, these lectures and theories are great.
I agree with you that letting go is true wealth. I tried many years to share and continue to share with my students and then everyone I have opportunity to "Forget and Forgive"! So easy to say and extremely hard to do!
its easy
This guys words are simply amazing 👏 Bravo good sir...
We need Alan watts more today than ever
Just let it go 😊 alan watts hero
😇💫Poetry of love. Beautiful .. Thank you.
Love Alan !
Thanks, my friend.
Lovely meditation on Lightness of Being, in Flow, sans resistance to whatever is being experienced... Presence...Heart
Thank You
Poetic. Thank you
Very true about the fact of being aware and the result of being anxious or terrified
Like trembling , as and kierkegaard says
Fear and tremble
It's so hard to let go, when all I was taught was to worry about everything.
we were brain washed it takes time to reprogram
Thanks!
Quote there isn't any fixed good or bad and quote close. Brilliant! Let this resonate alone with you....
Thanks
Best ever 🎉
Alan Watts❤
I needed this, my superior at work has been taking her anger out on everyone
It's easy to see how profound an influence Alan Watts was on Bruce Lee.
This is the real Top G
Amazing❤Taoism❤
GREAT JOB ALL...THANX 4 MAKING Tee with LIONS NAMED LEO the music worldwide.
LOVE YOU ALL...!!!
The wind blows my mind !
This is a nice video, keep inspiring
Awesome....
This is what the AI researchers are missing. The ability to ascribe meaning to life, to be subjective and to have a feeling of self does not mean reducing wrong ideas and introducing awareness of even more aspects of life. The subjective self that can ascribe meaning to life emerges from the ability to filter out, letting go and to nurture the smallest experiences of life.
NOn-CHOSING! THIS REALLY RESONATES!
Unfurling hidden sails to the wind! Full wattage ahead ⛵
Amazing - full talk please!
It’s weird this guys keeps saying things on Facebook that I have been constantly thinking about and now this. Ever since I stopped resisting, my life has been great other than my social life is much smaller but healthy. I’m eating better and saving more money. Best thing of all, 0 effort. And then I watched an episode of Rick and morty called analyze piss and it really hit home for me.
I agree 💯
❤
Sometimes we see so much of ourselves even after we thought we have seen it all. But then there is more
What a message for today's habit of being hyper-aware of one's own artificial identity.
I like this :)
One love Deep Divers, keep the vibes high and remember to do something today that you can thank yourself for tomorrow!!!!
Great video..
"Your attempt to eliminate self is a positive manifestation of selfishness...
... In other words, try to live in a way where nothing is either an advantage or a disadvantage."
Letting go is like solo dancing. You dance with no one while dancing with everyone.
BEEN MY MANTRA FOR THE LAST 6 YEARS. JUST LET IT GO MAN. AINT NO SENSE IN GETTING FREAKED OUT ABOUT IT. AND THERES BEEN SO FREAKY TIMES.
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the weight of holding on and carrying on is a burden i intend to carry on and on for Kirk and Sako and Jeff and More - Because what was chosen for me Me ❤
Perhaps the most meaningful 8:40 seconds I can remember.
🙌🙌🙌
Wow.
No matter where you live on earth, what color your skin is or what your religious beliefs are, we are all the same immortal, spiritual, cosmic beings of light, vibration and frequency, who love and cherish each other beyond scope and measure when we’re back home together. Most of you, except a very tiny percentage of the population, have forgotten who you really are and where you’re actually from and that we are from one collective source (the creator of all) of energy in the cosmos. Some believers will call this reality or realm ‘Heaven’ or ‘the other side’, but whatever name you do choose to call it, the bottom line, it’s been our true spiritual home since time immemorial. Don’t fear death, there’s nothing to be afraid of because you are going back home to your countless love ones you’ve made over eons of time and space.
It’s all the same to me but some people find comfort with labels and there’s nothing wrong with that I suppose. I do believe though, the word ‘Heaven’ has gotten a bit misused over time, because to me it’s not a place you can go to but a feeling of belonging and acceptance and love beyond your wildest imaginations and dreams and desires for the one, known only as, ‘I AM’. Your consciousnesses and your soul are one in the same. Earth is not your real home. The place your consciousnesses goes when you pass away, is all the same thing and again it’s where our spiritual home really is. When you do cross over, It’s simply a matter of closing your eyes here and immediately reopening your eyes there, It happens instantaneously.
Actually it happens so fast that most people that have NDE’s (near death experiences) say that at first they didn’t even realize they were dead for a while. Even the ones that died on the operating table in the hospital, for example, have said that as they were out of their bodies temporarily and floating up near the ceiling, they were wondering who was on the table below in the room because they just felt that there wasn’t any way that person could be them. Only when they don’t get a response from someone in the room or suddenly walk through a wall is when they realize something happened to them.
With this message, I’m hoping to give someone hope that needs it. If someone has lost a family member or a close friend it can be comforting to know the truth we’re there love ones are going and even where we’re really from. Plus, with this evil war that Putin started, it would be a good time to give some comfort to those in need, maybe a soldier in the field perhaps, or a mother that lost a child from a bomb that came through their bedroom window during the night.
Every being on Earth comes from different realms of existence and has been around since the beginning of time. You have all lived many, many lifetimes through reincarnation, quite possibly thousands of times, perhaps more. More than likely, you have been every race, gender, ethnicity, color, even every species throughout all the billions of galaxies and the cosmos and lived from every time period going all the way back to the very first inhabitants of every planet that contains life.
Again, you are immortal and have died so many times throughout the cosmic spectrum of time. Every time your soul comes back to a new being, you and your soul guardian, or as some people like to call them, their guardian angels, will pick your life’s blueprint of what you’re going to do and accomplish. You’re not meant to remember this most times, but there will be some instances where the source creator will let you retain your memories from your full existence and you’ll get to remember them during your journey throughout that particular lifetime’s span, for reasons the source sees fit.
If your memories are removed for a particular lifecycle, the creator wants you to discover this throughout that lifetime and on your own, learning lessons from it. If everyone was just told what they had to accomplish or learn every time, they wouldn’t be able to properly get what was needed out of each life. The core learning for each soul and every life time is the ability to love one another and show compassion for each other. For some beings this takes a bit longer and they may want or need to keep coming back until it’s accomplished.
For most beings though, I’ve heard they want to finish the lessons and be done with it for good, stating that life on primitive planets such as Earth, is just to hard and they want it to be over with. I would have to agree with that sentiment, life is hard on Earth unless you were born into a family that has everything and everything is done for you and on top of that, you were blessed with wonderful looks or talents that leave you never wanting for anything at all. It’s a fairly low percentage rate of beings this happens to but we’ve probably all experienced it at one time or another throughout the cosmic spectrum of time.
Please stop the wars and fighting amongst each other and start to love one another, as it should be. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience, not physical beings having a spiritual experience. Jesus said on the cross: “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing”. Maybe we will be able to do the same one day, forgive our enemies. I will get some comments sometimes saying, “some don’t deserve it”, but that will be between, them and the creator.
If you want any other perspective or guidance on this information, watch the programs called: (The Ghost inside my Child), and NDE’s, (Near Death Experience) testimonials. Most of these are on UA-cam. There are many different channels on UA-cam with different hosts, so try if you can to eventually watch them all. No two experiences are ever the same and all have different information that others won’t have. The more you watch and learn, the better of an understanding you will have of everything I have mentioned in here.
Please watch as many of these videos/episodes as you can, because you will get a broader, more detailed understanding of what it’s all about and what’s to come. I promise you, this will completely change your life for the better and you will never fear death again. Some of you have said, “it’s the fear of pain” that you associate with death that you fear mostly and I get that as well believe me. Nobody wants to die of a painful or agonizing illness or disease, especially something as terrible as cancer for example that can go on for years sometimes. It will also give you a complete sense of peace and perspective for all things in your life.
You will become exponentially more compassionate towards people and even animals once you learn the truth about it all. You will learn to love yourself first and foremost and that in return, will help you learn to love others better as well. I completely understand if you can’t and/or won’t initially except some of what I’m telling you. But I do hope and pray that you will try to expand your mind from what you’ve been taught. Trying to get rid of what you were taught since birth and accept something completely new and what some have called, ‘fantastical’ isn’t the easiest thing to do, especially if you like the way things are in your life and don’t except change that easy.
I myself have been accused by my family and friends for being what they have called ‘Pig Headed’. I’m not that way anymore, I have completely changed since learning the truth. I’ve had some ask me about the situation with babies or young children and cancer or illness, disease and ‘why god takes them at such a young age’. Saying, ‘how’s that fair, they didn’t do anything to deserve that’ or ‘why would they pick a life just to turn around and die’. I initially had issues with all that as well, but over time and learning, it became clear that sometimes the life blueprint that’s picked, is not always about you, but those you choose to be born unto.
A mother or father may need to experience or learn humility or sacrifice and yes, sadly the suffering for the loss of a child. I know it sounds cruel but for whatever reason, it was ultimately necessary and the creators plan. We’re not meant to know or understand everything, that’s essentially in the creators hands. I was a nonbeliever and hardcore sceptic when I first heard about this information but the more knowledge one learns and acquires, the more you will realize it all to be true and not just a ‘nice story’, as one guy responded back to me recently.
Please don’t ignore this, it has everything to do with why you’re here. Some things are true whether you believe them or not. I would like to say though, that I’m not in any way an expert on the subject or claim to know everything, not even close. I encourage you to do your own research and come to your own conclusions, have a blessed day.