Alan Watts - Open Yourself To This Truth
In this video, Alan Watts discusses how we can integrate into our thinking the idea that nothing necessitates or implies everything, delving into conceptual and philosophical interpretations of this concept:
0:00 Just go along with it, dissolve
02:42 Time
04:23 Scared because it is an unknown
05:40 The Mystic
06:33 What is nothing?
13:12 Moksha
17:53 In the middle
22:10 It takes nothing to have something
26:12 The most real state is the state
of nothing
28:03 Consciousness is like a mirror
29:46 The fear of nothingness
32:26 This is the secret to the whole thing
35:20 Unknowing
37:27 Voidness
Music Featured:
Innuro - Andromeda Rover (Original Mix)
Inuuro - Mount San Jacinto (Original Mix)
Nare - All Or Nothing (Original Mix)
Zyphyr - Beyond feat. Taylormade (Original Mix)
David I - Everything Is So Alien (Original Mix)
Enzalla - Svalbard (Original Mix)
Michael FK - Nyx (Original Mix)
Venus Theory - That Moment In The Clearing (Original Mix)
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Alan Watts is one of the very few influential speakers that o wish I could’ve sat and listened to in person. What a gem of a human. He brings me such contentment always. But especially when I’m having a hard day. I hope you all are feeling blessed and grateful in every moment possible. Enjoy the ride. ♥️
I too wish I could have been present at this time to embrace such wisdom
Hi I like to endorse that I relate to each and every word you have written above . you could not have written it better. Thank you and may the univese bless you
@@watchdiscoverHe was a great man. But what if I told you, that he is indeed an extension of you. That I am. For we are all dreamers. I would have lived the exact same life you lived as you would have lived mine. We are all the same person just living in different times and places. Some of us have achieved a form of enlightenment such as Christ or Buddha, for they are titles which means that they have discovered the oneness that is interconnected amongst us all. The only thing that separates us from, God (our higher self) is in fact the ego, moreover, it is our attachments to the illusion that we are separate from the whole. Yet to get there we must unravel each attachment for the root of evil is the perception that we are not whole, that we are lacking and so we live our life with a purpose, with a quest to discover the truth. This truth is so obvious for those that are enlightened and such a mystery for those that are washed away by the false security many call life. We truly are one, and therefore if one were to be mad At another life form, it is really irrelevant because if and when that other life form becomes you, you would have made the same decisions. It is the oneness that we seek. Yet it seems so elusive, but only to the mindset, science, and understanding of incorrect logic. I wish you much strength did your journey. May you love yourself and overflow your cup, for we have to love ourselves, and to forgive all to be one.
If you listen carefully, your already there. 🙏😑
@@watchdiscover but you are present at this time
Wisdom is timeless, but occasionally we get a man like Watts to put the pieces together in ways that are so mesmerising.
Totally agree
Watts is not a "man" Reflect
He’s a bridge
Didn't he call himself a philosophical "entertainer" or something of the sort? Can't remember exactly how he put it, but it was something of that nature. And he certainly underestimated his impact on so many of us if that's all he thought he was. Not that he couldn't be entertaining. Still......
@@Mark-bw1wx Yes he notes something similar in one of his other talks (one of my favourites of his, 'you do not exist') - that he knows 'dam well' that the 'Alan Watts' role is more of a show of sorts, should he so choose to play other roles but this one better pays the bills haha. Modest humble and elegant self reflections
Believe it or not, the words of Alan Watts are perfectly palatable without having to put music in the background.
yes. what an unfortunate distraction it is for this fascinating talk.
😂😂😂
I like it. 😊
It's playing at a frequency which optimizes our ability to take in the information
I love it. Helps me relax and fall asleep
Alan watts always calms my mind ❤ 🙏
Yeah me too. Makes you realize that the psychotherapists that people go to thinking that they will help them with their problems are just very narrowly educated, superficial frauds. I have more respect for the guy who picks up my garbage. At least he's making an honest living. And psychiatrists with their lobotomy pills and electroshock therapy are even worse. Killers. Literally.
I can’t believe it took me until I was 30 to figure out there is value in philosophy. I had no idea…
@@WeThePeople11 😂😂
I’m 36, and it took me 36 years.
Better late than never
That is when an existential crisis hits you
I’m 57 and I don’t know how to do sums
The number of ads in this video should be illegal.
Please never delete this.
I intend to keep these uploaded for as long as can be, and eventually with even more content, thank you for your words
Been listening to Alan Watts for quite a few years now, thought I’d heard pretty much all of his lectures available here on KZhead, but little did I know that my favourite one was yet to be discovered! I’m completely blown away right now and already listened to it twice within the last two days. Going to listen to it many more times, pretty sure I’ll lose the count very soon too, cause this one just hit different, it was something else! Thank you, Alan! 🙏
Thank you kindly for tuning in and listening to his great, wise words
I agree with this comment! I also have one suggestion: as someone with a bit of hearing loss, I found the music made it difficult at times to focus on his words. I wonder if it's possible to also post it without the music? Thank you.
It does hot different , I listen this one everyday
Dude. Im having exactly the same experience right now, including having heard all of his lectures up to this one somehow surfacing up.
"Use your imagination for all it's worth"🙏
To the creator of this video, thank you so much. To everyone watching, thank you for also being part of this wild ride that is life. May we all shine on together. ❤❤❤
Yes 💯!
One of Watts’ best talks imo. So clear, so deep. “A finger pointing at the moon” maybe, but a damned pretty finger.
Pretty finger is no good, as it will just keep your attention on the finger instead of the moon
@maailmankatsomus 0:16 😊 0:05
@maailmankatsomus
Hahahahaha true
Finger banging our souls
I love listening to Alan watts...the topics and the way he presents them...truly insightful and inspiring. The sound of his voice and pattern of speech is also intuitive to capture the deeper states of the subconscious.
Thank you kindly for listening and being part of his seminar
This is the true beauty and importance of this wisdom and philosophy,it's being seen and shared by millions,soon billions etc.. Keep it safe. Love
Love what Alan Watts says, it blew my mind!🙏💡💡💡 … ‘ Lose Your Mind Find Your Soul ( The Voidness!) So much more ‘knowingness’ & ‘understanding’ I have received from listening to this! Thank You Alan Watts 🕊 And For Those involved in putting this video onto KZhead!🙏🙏🙏🥰💝☯️💡😇 ♾ ✨💥🔥⭐️🏆💥⭐️
Thank you kindly really very much appreciated 🙏✌️🫶🏼
This is sp good listen to on my way home from work after a hard night at work thank you 🙏💚
Can only hope one day to be as influentually verbose as this man. His words by his own admittance are just sounds, quickly gone, and recorded to echo over and over again, but being newly heard by new ears only once. And it only takes once to be profound. Usually at the cost of your own memory. We need to all be wise to eachother to remind us that we are One of Many Faces.
Well said
I really enjoy listening to Alan Watts lectures. When great video accompanies the words it makes this experience all the more delightful. Cheers!
Thank you ☺️🙏
@ 27 mins in I literally cried tears of joy because I've finally found the meaning of TRUTH...
Everything becomes nothing , whos playground is this life , scary to think about it. We are in our core , want to exist forever. Why the transition or transitions. Allan watts has given me a clearer understanding about reality vs our perception.
Great video man! The music really adds another dimension! Keep up the great work
Thank you so much 🤜🙏
35 years and I never knew the value of philosophy until this last year. However I have always had a feeling somewhere deep inside my heart and mind that knew we as humans are so much more special then we were led to believe. I have always felt different or that I did not know where or how to fit in. Never knowing or being taught that that was unimportant or how to deal with the emotional aspect of it. I have always been the most optimistic person I know. I started meditating in the last year and reading, so far at 36 books this year. quit a 20 year opiate addiction 2.5 months ago. people like alan watts, neville goddard, manly p hall, jim rohn, john proctor, socrates, plato, lao tzu, Epictetus, zhangzi and many others have been a huge help. Thank you for reading this far :)
Top 3 recs from what you’ve read so far? They can be for whatever reason you wish.
Thanks for the list I’m looking for more 😄
This inspiring 🙏 I think this era prevents us from tapping into our true nature, that profound feeling you mention I think our current era does a very good job at keeping that caged, silenced.
@@zpalladino Manly P Hall, Neville Goddard, Eckhart Tolle would be 3 I recommend starting with.
@@michellehubbard3528 Echkart Tolle- The power of now, Claude Bristol- TNT, Florence Scoval Shinn- The game of life and how to play it, Vincent Normal Peale- The power of positive thinking, The Republic - Plato, Joe Espinoza- Becoming supernatural, Rami Swamacharaka- The Kybalion, Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception. Just to name a few :) Have fun!
Your trying to meditate on this, then there is an add every 5 minutes. Good deep stuff.❤
I wish I could stop youtube from imposing the ads..
@@watchdiscover you choose how many advertisers they are. Why lie?
@@watchdiscover you can remove the ads.
@@hillehai thanks for this, I should have looked into this further beforehand. I will adjust accordingly
@@anthonywilliams5070 Not necessarily, youtube's policies have changed, content that is owned by a third party choose to have ads displayed on their content that is distributed by others (in this case me). I could choose to monetise my channel, but even if I did, I still would not be able disable the ads due to the copyright claim. The short answer is that I cannot turn off ads for these specific videos. The best thing you can do is install an ad blocker.
man really does just start talking with the greatest way of speaking
Love and respect to Alan. Master game is the best
Thank you. I Really Really needed this!!!! ❤️🤗🌺
Most welcome, thank you for watching 🙏
Man! Right on time! Thank you !!
We are everything!! We are part of the creation and the goal is to see everyone as yourself. We are creative people and the product of the creator!! Only this is real! Death is a translation to another coexistence!! ❤
you've said nothing of substance there.
@@uselessgeneral1299 You are wasting your words! Useless person!
@@uselessgeneral1299Your comment is even worse my man. There is a point to what yaya says.
I'm still having a hard time seeing everybody as myself. I try but some of them just don't seem to get it. All lower chakras, ego, Netflix (don't even know if that's what people are still into)....and they all seem to think "the way" is the McDonald's drive-thru? 🍔🍟🥤😋? What's a deeper thinker to do? Retreat from the world and just spend more time listening to Alan? That's basically what I'm doing. Otherwise....🧠💥😵💫
@@uselessgeneral1299 your preoccupation with substance is interesting because it leads me to believe you missed the whole point of much of what Alan Watts is trying to say 🤔
I love that i keep finding new stuff by watts thanks to this channel and others. all of it is becoming so relevant to me right now
You are Alan watts
@@ThaSoloist Well technically yes. We are all part of the same consciousness.
Same here. When I got to the point at this relatively late stage in the game where life just finally presented itself to me as being so unnecessarily cruel and ridiculous that it couldn't possibly be "real", this man just saved my life basically. Because in a sense he made me realize that none of it really IS real. It's all just a game. And to treat it as anything else is a big mistake.
Absolutely amazing. I love listening to Alan Watts and do alot. I've not heard this lecture before. Thank you for putting this out
A pleasure ! Thank you for listening 🙏
❤ super nice message 👌
Everything is beautiful! Simplest as it is - no intellectual effort 💚..thank you for this amazing video!
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I have listened to Allan Watts for years and learn something new each time. About getting old and time passing more quickly - a physicists view. We all move through Space-time at the speed of light. When we're young, our speed component of this equation is larger because we move about more quickly and time passes more slowly and when we get old and slow down, the time component gets larger and seems faster.
This is exactly how it feels for me. I am only 30 now
Does trauma make time go faster ?
Wow he really hit the nail in the coffin - FULL POWER FULL LOVE ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for sharing this! Actually one I haven't heard. But belive me someone somewhere needs to hear this....
I know I for one! and then, the time came to impart his knowledge in the small way I can for others to come across, thank you kindly for tuning in 🙏
Thank you 😊❤💝
Most welcome! Thank you for listening
Thank You. 😍. The Hacienda Must Be Built. 💗💗💗💗💗💗. 💋
It is a pleasure, always 🙏
Brilliant
Awesome talk !
Serious WORDS OF WISDOM
So right when I began watching Stargate on some randon channel this immediately showed up on my feed....It's great when you realize that absolutely everything is connected in this Universe. As Alan would put is no error in anything. Life is so beutiful when you sit back and watch it happen while not judging anything because it is basically nothing.
Thank you Anthony. -Robert Franklin Collins IV from Ft Lauderdale, FL
All this is inspiring me, thank you for your support and participation in this journey
Yeah it’s amazing and his voice is spot on and his words are majestic and the music wraps it up into perfection. But we all know 99.9% of y’all commenting won’t put into play his teachings. Neither will I.
We are too easily pulled back into our default baseline mode so to speak . Unless …we keep the speeches on loop every single day to keep us in the euphoric mode 🤔😂 but yeah it takes much work and perseverance to change our brain behaviour, we may have the wisdom and insight but translating that into genuine actionable behaviour is a different ballgame . Im not there yet I know that much , testing situations continue to win XD
Wow another super revealing teaching ❤
Thank you , your taking part makes it all the more inspiring and rewarding to continue these projects 🙏
@anthonycollinsofficial thank you!! These videos have changed my life already since first discovering them a couple of weeks ago! You're the best!
@@aug.jam.1 This is amazing to hear, his teachings did much the same for me too
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Philosophy is love of knowledge. Nothingness is love of Mysticism, which is beyond the concepts of Man. 🙏🏻😊
Wow seriously my mind has been blown away everything he sayin I have stood by and believed for a long time
Replace the word nothing with the word everything, in which there is no thing. Physics is coming to see this. The middle illustrates the boundary conditions, which are necessary to existence.
Thank you for this pointer! This one needed more more thinking behind its description
I was 20 when a 3d circle bulged out of my living room wall. Inside of it an alien (not of this earth) symbol. They reminded me of crop circles, but it was some sort of alien writing. The symbol changed to a different one and made a thumping sound. Then another, and another, until they were changing so fast it was a blur and the thump was a loud vibrating hum. I tried to stand but I was paralyzed, could move my eyes only and see my car keys, etc. It stopped and I was able to stand up. Never happened before or after. I am 56.
Damn, was that some good mescaline or what?
@@SupernovaSteven Honestly, I wish I WAS on drugs because it would at least be an explanation. But I had never taken drugs and this was after a full night's sleep around 10am. I had not gone out or eaten anything.
This exactly what happened to me on some dirty Acid tho!..1996 did a single later that night started tripping and feeling anxious..decided to go outside get some air .First step out the door I collapsed like a sac of potato’s !!…just lying there on my side thinking I can’t get up I can’t feel my body and yep loud loud buzzing noise in my head..it didn’t last long only few seconds but long enough to experience then popped up right away and blew it off of course ..🤷🏻♂️
Sounds a lot like sleep paralysis.
Thanks for sharing ❤
Excellent. Thank you. Subscribed👍🌌
thank you so much, I appreciate this! Building on the A.W collection and then so much more to follow
Wow extremely deep and exactly what I needed to hear ❤
Thank you kindly for taking the time to listen to this
Great presentation!!! 👍🏼
Thank you
Cracking intellect.🌺❤️
Watts was ahead of his time. What he is speaking about today is more commonly accepted as common sense than it would have been in the 60s and 70s. Hence why I believe that we as humans once we all become awoken then this is when we will all experience what we call heaven and eternity where there will be no death and no time and we will all breath out a sigh of relief and where those who are already awoken will say ahhhhh there we are and they won’t get whiplash on the way to this new paradigm !
One of his best speeches. I put it in top 3. The background music was at a good level and appropriate, but could be left out.
Anyone reading this, it’s where you’re supposed to be right now!
Amen 🙏 if you know.. you know 💯
When I was a kid, probably 8-11 or so, I recall thinking about the Isn’t, it was a very odd feeling, it didn’t bother me at all though. I haven’t since been able to realise that thought, or have anyone else describe it or sympathize with me.
Thanks for the everything that’s nothing that’s everything that’s 🙏
that which is everything is nothing, I cordially thank you for both 😆
I literally experienced death and i tried to explain it to people nearly exactly like that video......just amazing to hear it from Alan Watts as i highly respect him.❤❤❤❤
No you literally didn't or you wouldn't have written this comment. Also you can't experience nothingness. You can't experience a lack.
You have obviously never tried psychedelics.
Beauty
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We're all gonna kick the bucket. How do you feel about that little sooner than expected maybe
Absolutely amazing! I can't get enough of his teachings, had to hear this onc twice. A real inspiration he is, a Blessing to have had his life's presence. I will argue only we INFJs really go to his level, experience *that feeling our* inner being has, palpitations, knowing, its influence on *us*, steers us to be better, serve God, serve humanity, serve our planet.. without INFJs, we would be doomed AF. 💫☯️🙏 -INFJ Heyoka 🃏
Omg I know the world would be SO doomed without you… thank you SO much for existing 🤣😏
do you realize saying things like that shows you entirely miss the point of his general message? nothing says losing your ego like telling everyone you've lost your ego and how good your personality type is.
Can’t agree more
😂😂😂🤦🏽♂️
What an absolute tool you are
He exhibits a wide range of references, leading to the realization that his ideas often span diverse topics. Throughout his monologue, he frequently introduces new subjects and strives to interconnect them by the conclusion. This approach, while ambitious, occasionally results in an overwhelming amount of information, diverting attention from the primary focus. Stay on the TOPIC
I think he dances with words, not really an argument. The man is congruent, he knows he doesn’t know and that frees you .What it doesn’t do is make you right, but I don’t think he was aiming to being right rather, to make you feel.
.... must be why I feel 😢 forever lost
It’s wild someone created this
Emptiness seems like the best dream of all, infinite blackness and the only pain around is enduring yourself.
Holy shit thank you. What is that background music? It’s the sound I’ve been hearing in my head for a couple years. It’s amazing.
Thank you 👌A great many more tracks like this can be found on the Insight Music label. All tracks here are within the description for follow up
Most of it i was dealing with my previous life. Took me i think 3 and a bit years to took a new form
There is an interesting comparitive I see here, for before I was born there was and when I was born I saw and it was me and those things I became familular with but in the space and time to that point I could speak and say what I mean the distance of who I was and those who I thought were close to me was were not near me at all. They did not understand my delemma, they were only searching for themselves the answers there were hoping to find leaving me to understand through these trials and errors that all along it was my responsibility, my effort, my energy that would carry me along and lead me from nothing to something and the furtherence of my being on remembering all that was nothing in the beginning and something toward the end.
nothing after death... just as before birth....enjoyed your video!
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Hard to believe this stuff was said when I was just 8 or 9😅😂😢
And 25 years before I was born. 🤣
And for many many years in many different ways 🌀💓🌀
And even when he is saying that, it was being said long before that 😂🫠
Why?
It’s being said right now. 😉
Good video, World Ego Awareness Day is on May 11th. Less ego, more awareness.
Why does listening to this make me feel like i understand but at the same time its like im listening to nothing. Im feeling pretty depressed right now.
I do not speak english perfectly, so i would like to know, If it is possible for me to have a transcription, to translate into my language (Portuguese). The little I understood opened my mind. Thanks guys
Could you not put subtitles on?
Been awhile.🎉
I was never scared of death because I never believed Inn god or the devil I believe in another world with full of energy 💯 this dude videos is spot on I watch a video about him talking about God nd juses and it's spot on what he says about them
I often wonder what Alan Watts would say about Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis
please reupload it without any music for those who just want to listen to him talking! i‘d really appreciate it. thanks!
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True
Wow Wei 👳🏿♂️❤️....
to all those who are tired of looking, I hope you found your peace
YIN & YANG!
❤❤❤🙏👍👍👍
This would of been perfect if the dam music volume wasnt so loud!! please reduce the music, because the quality of the voice great
is there a version of this without the background distraction?
The scariest thing about death to me is forgetting who i am inside and all the people iv come across in my life if there is nothing I wont even know it so i guess thats whats scary
Like the starving children in Africa don't know how miserable they are. I can relate. Someone had to help me learn how much I had suffered. Like Cinderella. Once I learned what it felt like to be loved I learned to control my emotions. I found what I want to feel. I understand now how I created the misery to excell.
He is powerful for for doing dmt listening to his voice lol brilliant 🎧💥🔥
Alan Watts is a giant Gift for this world. But those ads in this Video are highly disrespectfull😂 try to meditate and every 5 Minutes some machinegun sound Starts to play or a Movie Trailer…
I agree and I personally loath ads, and believe me if I had the power to remove them I would
To think, this "man" is now part of the "nothing" and has transcended the brink he's teaching about in this talk... and when we listen to it over and over he is part of the "something" and the now. 🤯
the scariest part of death is that, apparenty, there's nothing like it here in our daily life we all can experience that we could compare it to. Or there is?
Unless one experiences ‘psychological’ death or the sheer giving up of will to live
You’ve just discovered the point of meditation my friend. It’s the way to introduce a bit of “nothing” into our lives.
The only reason you are scared of death, is because you actually believe that you are real, and that you can die. Because you are identified with the Body, you think that when the body dies then you also too die, wishful thinking, how nice that would be to one day drift off into non-existent state of vibrant nothingness, and return to the unmamifested. We must die in this life, so that when death comes, there is no one to find.
Well, even scientifically, for 13.7 billion years of time passed you did not exist, before you were born, did they not? And that was alright wasn't it, what is there for us to be scared of, if we have been there before.
@@Tatwamasi_Om your thought leads to various other questions. For example, if I am not to identify with my body (including brain) then what am I to identify myself with?
Whats with the background music...
It takes nothing to have something because to have something is to have nothing one does not exist with the other...it doesn't matter if you're up or down because it takes either one to define the other.
👍 🌻☮️
What are the songs in background? Anyone know?
All songs can be found in the desc: Innuro - Andromeda Rover (Original Mix) Inuuro - Mount San Jacinto (Original Mix) Nare - All Or Nothing (Original Mix) Zyphyr - Beyond feat. Taylormade (Original Mix) David I - Everything Is So Alien (Original Mix) Enzalla - Svalbard (Original Mix) Michael FK - Nyx (Original Mix) Venus Theory - That Moment In The Clearing (Original Mix)
You can hear in his laugh that he was a heavy smoker. He was also an alcoholic. It seems he constantly distracted himself, & escaped from reality, this way. Despite his lectures, & status as a teacher, he had serious depression in his later years.
And yet everything he's saying seems rational and connectable
I’m sorry to say but the background music is a bit louder than could be favorable. Thank you.
Neither motion nor rest - balance - key to all things... thus perfect irrationality (Robert Grant).
The wonderful twist is you are all things, and there is no nothingness. So when you become nothing you become everything !
Wow - I've watched Christopher Hitchens, the super atheist, mention Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. I'll have to check it out.