Alan Watts For When You Need Inner Peace
A clarifying and powerful lecture from Alan Watts on Jesus and religion.
Original audio sourced from: Alan Watts, Extended Seminars, Early Radio Talks - Gateless Gate
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“The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing; it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep."
Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
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.
I'll always keep coming back here for Alan Watts
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And he'll keep coming back for you.
Truly one of the greatest🙏
Who is that I?
I see what you did there@@onreact
This man’s lectures got me through the hardest time of my life and kept me together on rock bottom. Now he is coming on my journey to the peak of the mountain
What a teacher, he has impacted life with his cosmic vibes of truth, he is an exception that will last forever. May we shine bright as he and remember the impact that he had on us. The universe applauds such a great effort and life well spent and I bow my head with honor to such a person.
"To live life well is an art of sailing, not rowing."
“The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.” ― Alan Watts
I’ve been listening to Alan watt about a year, and I find myself not being able to get through my day without listening to one of his lectures speeches. And with discovering him it has transformed my mind, and the way that I see what we are, which I had started my awakening 10 years ago but slowly but as soon as I found Alan Watts, it jumped started my awakening incredibly fast. And on days that I feel lost I turn him on and it completes me. ❤❤❤😊😊😊😊thank you Alan watts ❤
Similarly, I listen to at least a little of AW everyday. He’s always on my notifications. Can’t go wrong.
Sometimes I'll listen to Watts and not understand a thing, and then suddenly one sentence of even word hits me and it feels like a mini awakening. I think those mini awakenings are important. I also like using mindfulness exercises from the book called 30 Days to Reduce Stress by Harper Daniels to escape the conditioned mind for a few moments.
The level to which he was connected harmonically to what his words are saying, I believe, was completely, *entirely* consciously on purpose. The only way he could have possibly wanted to share it with others for so many years is that he loves human beings (and everything else). Strangers, friends, family; I bet he loved all of these in very much the same way. And, if so, that's a beautiful person and something I strive to be!
Hey, that was beautiful. Thank you for the upload and edit.
7:11 Be silent in the mind. Look at the world directly. You cannot put what is into words. This is the central point of Zen and Buddhism. Reality is beyond words. 🌻🌻🦋🦋🦋🦋🌷🌷 In the world of conceptions, everyone is convinced he is an ego. When we step out of the world with wide open eyes, what do we find? Thanks Alan. 9 November 2023.💖💖💖💖🦆🦆🦆🦆🌻🌻🌻🌻🌿🌿
Zen is spiritual ophthalmology. ~Alan Watts
do you remember what lecture or book this was from - I like it.
1:45 All understanding is not something obscure or far off. It is completely obvious in this immediate moment. The whole secret of life, all you desire, is yours at this moment. If you cannot lay hold on it now, you never will. 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌲🌲🌲🌲💖💖💖💖 You cannot talk about it. All talks and ideas are in relationship to reality itself, like a menu to dinner. You devour the menu instead of eating the dinner. 3:17 Point directly to the dinner. Thanks Alan. 9 November 2023.🦅🦅🦅🦅🦋🦋🦋🌷🌷🌷🌷🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
Infinite blessings upon all that exists. May all experience zen & thrive within it. Aho, this is truth, all Our Relations. Tat Twam Asi - You Are It.
Zen is being in harmony with yourself and the reality around me.
Soothing ❤🙏🏽🪷
That voice...😮
Alan Watts is my hero.
This has been a wonderful video. I love Alan and his wisdom. The music was a great choice and the timing was a perfect. Well done. Thank you!! I really enjoy this and look forward to experiencing this and more soon.
An incredible human being ❤ his voice carries such calm 🙏
As with Carl Sagan, I can listen to Alan Watts all day long. Such an engrossing voice and as always topics.
Thank you 🙏 Alan Watts was an amazing author-many books. ❤😊
Incredible!
This video is freeing my self a little more every time I listen to it.
Thank you. 🙏☯️♥️
I have read a lot of spiritual type books. The ones I finally came to like the best were Zen and Tao.
The Zen you find in books is not the true Zen. The Tao that is written about is not the Tao.
Yeah, It's in a whole other level. @@onreact
You find it inbetween the words@@onreact
Amazing stuff
This man has the unique ability to get me to stop thinking about everything and just go WOAH I get it now.
Thank you 🙏
6:27 is exactly why I'll rather listen to Alan watts talk than read his books 💫
Another flawless production. Many thanks !!!
Everything we do is based on the arising of a thought in our mind, and a corresponding feeling in our bodies. Look at your own mind: thoughts arise without being chosen. Feelings in your body that accompany emotions (the tension of anxiety or the icky dread of fear) - they just arise too. Even when you're thinking logically, the thoughts just appear. Your feelings about those thoughts arise with them - and they appear as sensations in the body until new ones arise in the next moment. You can't choose a thought without simply thinking of it first. You can't choose to have a feeling. You can't will yourself to love someone. You can't will yourself to believe something. You either love, or you don't (in that moment). You either believe or you don't (in that moment). You're not in charge of how you feel. You're not in charge of what you think. You can learn, yes. For example, you can take a class. But during the class you don't rearrange your neurons to now have 'gotten it.' Rather learning happens. And that feeling inside - the feeling of resolve that you had in the first place to take the class and to learn... you didn't choose to have that feeling. It occurred inside you. Your conscience - it's always there. Sorry. You may learn to feel differently about something over time, but you can't choose to. And either way, you'll always feel something about each moment, good or bad. Life in this moment will always mean something to you. You can't escape your conscience. You can't escape meaning. "You don't choose your thoughts. You don't choose your feelings." ~ Alan Watts I'm walking you along to see: there's no such thing as choice. It's hard to admit at first, but once you see that any moment is actually your thoughts and feelings about that moment, and you don't choose those... then basically you see you're not driving - not the conscious you, at least. There's no such thing as choice. Ever. About anything. Yes, there are always options. And there are always consequences. And again, your conscience is always there and thus morality will always exist. But you don't choose. Nothing does. Things act and learn based on the consequences to those actions and the belief system of that consciousness. But consciousness doesn't choose. Watts says it plainly to Elliott Mintz (interview on KZhead): "Neither fate nor free will." It's not determinism (because who knows where our thoughts come from, and there's randomness in the universe), but it's not free will either - not in the sense of being the chooser. You're not the chooser. You're the experience of the choice. You may have free will, but it's not under your control either. Admit this and you can both forgive yourself for the mistakes you've made, while also admitting they were mistakes. The ego is the protective feeling we get by feeling we have to justify our choices (because we think we're the chooser). It's why we lie to ourselves and others when we make mistakes. We know they were mistakes, but we can't figure out how to reconcile that with the idea of us as the chooser. Why would we choose to do that thing, to think that thought? We feel guilt. When we see were both not in control, and yet that our conscience is always there, we can surrender. There's no way out. It's faith. You're not in control and you never were - and you got this far. You will always feel the impact of your choices (and some degree of guilt), but watch the you that you become when you let go... when you stop over protecting your sense of self. It's gonna be there until it's not. You can't choose to not feel the ego anymore. But seeing that you can't choose - that's the beginning. And finally - learn to feel your body. You can't choose to have any other feeling than the one you're having until it changes on its own. But you can learn to feel it. It's our unwillingness to feel the sensations of anxiety and fear and guilt that make us lash out at the world. We feel bad about lashing out and then it's a vicious cycle. Try something totally different. Feel your anxiety. Immediately. In every moment you remember to. Focus your mind on it, whether it's in your face or your stomach or your neck or your heart or your legs. Feel it. Dare yourself. Imagine becoming a person willing to feel nearly any internal sensation. That's it's own type of courage. Fear is what we hate. Learn to feel it. Watch who you become when you feel fear instead of lashing out (or masking the fear with drugs and pleasure).
Really no one wants to know your verbose ideas.
Great edit
It was a very useful time.❤
What im looking for im looking with
Thank you for ending the talk with a question, that question.
To find the answers one will need to practice stillness To see that around us is everywhere one need not chase stars or trees To be with those who have seen one must be shorn Yet it is my name Not Sean But Shaun Me Great job sir ❤ 🦎👣👁🦋🙌🏼
I feel like Alan watts is the only person who truly knows me. And tbh I’m fine with that.
so is everyone else.
Your label is wrong good sire - 'A clarifying and powerful lecture from Alan Watts on Jesus and religion.' It's on zen corporate old bean! :)
2:35 ❤
The sing song 8:03 We all long for Peace ❤ For the Ego it was long Ago When men were men And kings lived with along side of them
I once made a ring while travelling through the stars with but a clover A marriage to me The universe you see ❤ 6:55
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That's true we should look at the reality of the living.The buffet is arranged at the table for us to select the menu,but we are still sitting and waiting for the waiter to come to serve US with their menu selections.🤔🤷🏾♀️..Blind?🕵️
Anyone know where to find the full lecture?
I like Ken Wilber’s basic distillation. The map is not the terrain nor is the pointing finger the moon . My interpretation which is still futile .
What's the song?
stop searching only by finding that which is already within
Is it not true that our whole of being, our own self worth, is based strictly from our own egos?
It's not about Jesus and religion, it's about Zen
This is the Great Awakening. What a lovely time to be alive. Donald Trump is Jesus Christ. We, the people, are protected. All lies are being revealed. The evil is being done away with. Father God loves you all.
💚💚🤟🏻🕉✌🏻☯️🙏🏻💚💚
This channel’s humans did a great job of putting together great clips of Alan Watts, BUT the background music is so annoying and distracting. Turning it all into inspirational content is a mistake, in my opinion, but I guess it helps practice allowing and other techniques of acceptance. I’d really love to find the same content without the music, or have the option of turning the music off.
Does anyone know what the answer is? What do we find?? 🤔
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust
Yes. You have to stop searching to find first.
I simply wish I could stop these thoughts I have …. I’m tired of trying and trying and the more I try the more thoughts keep floating in… these thoughts are from a wide range of subjects…. I just would like to understand how to be more mindful and have these thoughts not effect me so much :(
Meditate my man
@@youngdave3283 thanks…. Even while meditation they keep popping in :( …..
Thoughts are fine. Just notice them and let them pass. They are not yours. They are not your enemy either. They are like traffic on a busy street you watch.
@@onreact yes! exactly. love that analogy
You're wishing to stop thoughts, that is the problem. Can you dare to leave them alone to do their thing? No friction no civil war. That division in yourself is the problem. What if you let the thoughts be? However, sad, angry, afraid or loud they maybe.
2:20 the whole secret Play the music do not talk about the music
The menu readers lol
Spiritual ideas may help you feel better; however, listening or reading spiritual material will help you momentarily; unfortunately, you will go back to old patterns of behavior that keeps you in a passive comfortable state of being. You must be involved in a serious study and work group to change your basic character, from an ego mindset to an awakened intelligent spiritual being.
What heppend to his voice i don't think its alan watts
His voice sounds weird in this video! Is it A.I? 😏
He is like a narcotic
Please remove 23 videos 1 page. Beginners stuff. ( Meditator - 52 years - Heartfulness).
Zen is awesome because it has no doctrines but you need to believe that you are not there and you don’t exist lol okay zen
Alan Watts doesn't know
Isn't that beautiful!!
@@ForesterOchieng it's all too beautiful
in the dictionary next to the word piece of sh*t you will see Benjamin Netanyahu
I think this guy takes a hit of acid and just talks to himself out loud...
Would be much improved without the cheesy music, Alan Watts does not need decorating like a Christmas tree 😊
It's all a bit silly and pretentious.