Alan Watts - Individual and the World Pt 1 Full Lecture - Alan Watts Organization Official
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Don't forget to not take anything too seriously. Happy listening!
Some great Quotes from the works of Alan Watts:
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
I owe my solitude to other people.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
THANK YOU for not putting music behind this
I'm less than a minute in and on to find one with music so I can listen fully 😊 funny how brains work so differently. Without music I end up hearing the teacher from the peanuts 😂
I hate music behind his lectures
Same here
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Acceptance is a huge thing about Alan’s teachings….you sound like a Zen story character.😂😂😂😂😂
NO BACKGROUND MUSIC! thank you 👍👍👍 (yes, I've got three thumbs😊)
He's not just one of those old wise guys who speak little and tell you little. He's a funny and highly informed source of real wisdom.
I'm grateful Alan watts left us all this wisdom and knowledge. Also left it to humble us I believe.
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Simultaneously omnipotent and helpless. That hit it on the head for me.
Absolutely one of his most comprehensive talks and with masterful clarity
I’m grateful for Alan Watts ❤️
Such wisdom, makes me realize how much I still have to learn about myself and my place in the world.
What a load of old cobblers
@@johngilmore697 why did you reply to me? To be negative, to rain on someone's parade? It's a sad world we live in where people think spreading negativity is something worthwhile.
@@retrospectivelyspectacular2331 why label the world as sad? Every fruit of the world has its place and benefit. Every voice brings light and beauty, even the ones speaking in the 'negative'. How better to highlight the beauty of this message we have heard? 🥰🙏🏼 Peace and blessings to you, wonderful divine being that you are! 🌞🪷
Welcome back, Alan Watts anon.
Wish I could have met AW when he was in his physical body. A special man indeed.
haha... you have met him...
@@selmir369 that’s what he would have said.
Your meeting him now
Thank for giving this entire video subtitles.
Most fascinating indeed. Thanks. He never fails to amaze me deeply.
Allan Watt: a very liberated mind.
What a fucking intro.... this man is amazing
Beautiful & so relevant. Thank you 🙏🏻🌹♥️
Love his intelligence.
I have much gratitude to you for enabling a gathering of like minds. being with
Thanks for not playing music in the background
Unbelievable detail on life from an amazing spokesperson about life!!!!
Listen to Jordan Peterson's lectures
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We are the center. The earth is motionless
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Alan Watts quote highlights from this video: “What is your ultimate question? … I know many people would discover that they had no question to ask. The situation would be altogether too overwhelming. But many people to whom I've put this problem say that the question that they would ask is, ‘Who am I?’ And that is something we know very little about. Because whatever it is that we call ‘I’ is too close for inspection. It's like trying to bite your own teeth or touch the tip of your finger with the tip of the same finger.” “The nature of what is that we call ‘I’ is extremely puzzling because there is some confusion as to how much of us is ‘I.’” “Most of us seem to feel that whatever it is, that ‘I’ is, it is located in the head. Somewhere behind the eyes and between the ears is the center. And the rest of us is an appendage, a vehicle, which carries the self around.” “Popular speech also reflects the sensation. That ‘I’ am very different from what we call the ‘other’. Other people, other things. Anything that we can become aware of is sort of ‘other’. There is an opposition apparently between the knower and the known.” “We talk about coming into this world, as if somehow we didn't belong.” “The only way that I can see of our effectively changing direction is through a transformation of the feeling that we have of our own existence and of what we mean by ‘I.’” “What we think of as ‘I’ is much more a symbol than it is a reality. The living organism, the whole mind-body, is much more than anything we mean by ‘I’. ‘I’ largely stands for your personality, your role in life. And the very word ‘person’, as you probably know, comes from the Latin ‘persona’-a word originally used for the mask worn by actors in Graeco-Roman drama.” “When you speak of being a ‘real person’, it really means being a genuine fake because the personality is only the front. What is behind it? Well of course the whole organism is behind it. And, we must be very careful not to confuse the organism with various symbols that we have for it because those symbols can be extremely misleading.” “What you really are as a body, as a living organism, is not some sort of separate existence coated by a skin which divides you from the rest of the world.” “You yourself actually are not so much an entity that moves around in an environment. You are much more like a whirlpool in a stream. And, as you know, the whirlpool is constant only in its doing, that is to say in its whirling. And you could recognize individual whirligigs in a stream. But the water is flowing through them all the time. They are never the same for a second. And so it is also with us … It is exactly the same with you. You flow. You are a process.” “You as a living organism and all that is going on in your environment constitute a single process.” “You think you decide things, but you don't know how you do it.” “How are you an ego? Well, you don't know because the springs of being conscious, of being an ego, are outside the surveillance of consciousness.” “What is ‘I’ is something very much deeper than the superficial consciousness. And, what you call ‘I’ in the sense of the voluntary willing center, ego, has very little to do with it. You are just a watchman on top of the mast or a radar on a ship that is scanning the environment by conscious attention looking out for trouble or looking for food. The real you is much too complicated to think about.” “The separations between things are abstract. They are concepts.” “Nature does not consist of separate things which you can just pull out like parts from an engine.” “We always have a funny idea that to get a verb, that is to say to get action, you have to have an agent. Now this is the most ridiculous idea conceivable. How can a noun start a verb? How can a thing start an event? Because there's no action in a thing. Action can only come from action.” “If we go through everything that I've been saying, we find, first of all, that the thing that we thought was ‘I’ is nothing more than a social institution … To mistake it, to reify it as Whitehead would say, is the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. It's strictly a hallucination. And, any certain amount of psychological self-exploration shows this to be the case.” “What we are is the organism. And, the organism is a transactional interchange between the organism and the environment.” “You do it, and it does you. But that's a clumsy way of talking about it: it's all one process, a unified process.” “How on earth are we going to arrange a transformation of man's consciousness so that he'll know it? Not just in theory, but something he feels in the same way as you feel what you take to be ‘I’ at the present moment, confronting an external world. How will you transform that sensation? Because if you don't transform that sensation, you’ll not ever be fit to use technology. We shall continue to use our technology in a hostile spirit towards the external world, and we shall wreck the external world. We're busy doing it now. There is no necessity to abandon technology. We can’t abandon it. But, we can certainly use it in a different spirit.” “If you really felt with your whole organism, instead of just with that part of it called conscious attention, you would become aware of this flowing fact. And you would get a very strange feeling which at first might frighten you. It is possible of course to have this feeling. And the feeling is like this: You would not be quite sure how to interpret it. You might feel that you yourself were doing everything else that's happening. That would be one way of feeling it. The other way of feeling it would be that you are doing nothing at all but that everything else is doing you. And you would feel completely passive like a puppet on the end of strings. Although on the other hand, if you got the feeling that you were doing it all, you would feel like God Almighty. It is very easy for our consciousness to slip into this state of sensation … One has to be very careful about this feeling because it's enormously easy to misinterpret it-either as being omnipotent, being God in the personal literal sense, or as being helpless and merely driven. Now, what should be understood is that both these ways of feeling are right, only they must both be taken together. To be simultaneously omnipotent and helpless. These are two poles, opposite poles of one and the same state. Because the message that is coming through-and that we find difficulty in understanding because it's contrary to our common sense, contrary to our whole history and conditioning-is: you as a living organism, and all that is going on in your environment, constitute a single process.”
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If God had a name what would it be? And would you call it to his face? If you were faced with him in all his glory What would you ask if you had just one question? Did One of Us by Joan Osborne pop into your head too when you first heard this?
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Yes
"What makes you happy?" That's my question for God.
I feel anxious... Constantly... all the time.. Constantly... for absolutely no reason???
Thank you for not putting music behind this
If "god" created everything and we are all connected as far as God is in all of us. Then just ask yourself the question and your doing the same thing.. or ask a tree, an ant.. anything. It's all connected, it's all from the same source. Learn to listen to yourself. The answers will come.
Research eric dubay if you want to expand your consciousness please and thankyou and know the wise never dismisses anything of great significance bedore doing his due diligence to decide if its truly falsifiable!❤
18:42 ive been at this for ages for now, hopefully he gives some further insight in good words.
Just started, but I would like to point out that most people don't care about 'who am I'. Most people only care about how can I be happy or maximise pleasure and avoid pain. Because they believe they know who they are.
People 'believing they know who they are' is absolutely caring about 'who am I.'
@@josephpercy1558 doesn't make any sense to me. By me saying they don't care about who they are is, that they don't go around asking that question.
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45:16 Alan watts started the dharma initiative 😆
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He could have given the environmentalism talk today with the same effect.
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24 7 AW channel has snuck music in. just an observation
How do I continue to listen to his lectures. I need more. The next one and all the ones after.
Go to the channel Intellectual Wave
It not a lecture. This is him all the time.
@@SeanLKearns I mean, he did do literal lectures (and this was one of them)
i am the alan.. you are the watts… the channel is universe… the lefture is an illusion..
All his lectures are on audible bro❤ 13hour book
My question: “why?”
Why why ?
God : "just because why"
Feel.
Why not?
Mine same. One word. One question. Why?
Where is part 2?
I would ask why? Why have you manifested as what "I" am and what "I" perceive the Universe to be? Or is it as it is because, well that is just how it is? How you are? And where did you, God, originate? Or have you always been? And how?
Thats the human experience, you do not need to sound neurotic. Ring a bell, thats the answer.
@@mjolninja9358 Yeah, I guess asking questions as to how and why the "human experience" actually came to be is a little neurotic in this day and age. Such philosophical and metaphysical musings are not in style. My humble apologies. Namaste 🙏
If I had 1 question, What is next week's winning lottery numbers
Eat without a spoon
@ArminTamzarian It most certainly does, parties always end up the kitchen
There is no spoon, bend your mind xD
Not for a leprechaun?
@ArminTamzarian no it's not, but it'll solve shit loads of problem that cause unhappiness
Rock a bye baby....
What am I to do?
My question for god would be “Who is your god?”.
Lmfao
My question is... How do i help us.
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Part 2?
My question would be: WHY? Why all this?
Everyone looks in the mirror and sees "I".
In a strictly literal sense only concrete is concrete. 😄
Does anyone know what the part 2 of this would be
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where is part 2...?
Alan Watts is teaching natural law... the same thing that Christ Jesus and Buddha taught.
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'God' can't be somewhere if he's everywhere. ' He' is manifested in all creation 🤯where wound the interview take place🤔maybe in your mind . wake up everthing happens in the mind
Ask why
What's your favorite color, God?
You are not always in the same phase or aspect.
Why?
All you need to do is look inside of you. No mirrors needed, if anything he only wants to tell you what you already know or what they've tried to make you forget, the very clever at such things but when you know, it only makes you break twice as hard, how far have we come two how many steps back 😢 rule by fear my dear and so they doe 😎 want needs a tumour in his humour these days
I would ask God, What did You/God come from ?
Exactly, I would ask who are you?
GOD sir can you pleas make Adam , Eve and the devil stop fighting ?
YOU make them stop. 😊
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A genuine fake. Helpless and merely driven ???? BRAVISSIMO PROFF BRAVISSIMO
Why am i here?
God... why are you?
If I had the chance to ask God a question, I would ask that if I exist, for what purpose. Or in more common speech terms for what I am here.
I wonder if he wouldn't ask you back that same question hahahaha
For nothing lol
So ask yourself that bloody question omg:p
Your asking a question like it would be a problem to exist. But it really is not. But just don't identify with the self. The one that gets created by old culture or experiences. Just experience and be a observer. Try to see things as they are. Without problem solving mind. But see that the discription is never the dicriped. And you will be free. And then you dont need a purpose because the purpose of life could only be life.
@@alex_poly1147 To have your purpose as "life" you must understand what "life" is. A purpose is a reason. A purpose cannot be something you do not understand. You must learn what "life" really is to make it your purpose.
I know, I just don't care
The answer 2 every conceivable question would B, " There's no such thing as Death " ....... " Live this life & U shall C " I 4 1 am definitely paying attention, plans his plans The 1 ABOVE.....
There is no question
Where is part 2?
Unfortunately, part 2 is not yet available for free KZhead streaming, but this is the album the series is from: alanwatts.com/products/the-universe-seminar-series?_pos=2&_sid=e2234440f&_ss=r