It's my birthday. I think about that and it's astonishing. Someone's been counting the lap I took. I'm going to die within 40 years. I'm looking forward to all of it, but eventually I will turn off. What an amazing concept to grasp in a world where power over now is everything.
im guessing this is a combination of scientific theory and reincarnation.
personally i dont think predicting what death is after life is appropriate, no man/woman should know it, and people simply fear it because its the "fear of the unknown"
Some how I feel better about only 10.000+ views because I feel somehow supperior to people who never seen this video or heard of Alan Watts but on the other hand... If every child grew up with philosophy of Alan Watts the world would be 100000 times better than it is today...
To the people who are say this is beautiful, if you were to listening to this without the visual or the music weighing down on you from the background.
I don't get the logic, how are we all the same being at the same time? I see the logic in how the big bang is a process we are all part of, which is continous event that haven't stopped yet.
But how are we all the same? Rather i would see it as we are becomming more and more distant from each other, material moving at the speed of light away from each other, material that will never get closer.
We are made of the same fabric, the same materials but not the same ones at the same time.
@ReDFootY think of it this way: We are all made of the materials that were made at the beginning of time. it's all recycled. We are part of the universe, and the universe is a thing? something like that. We are as insignificant in the universe as a spec of dust floating around somewhere in the space between galaxies. Whatever we do here is irrelevant to whoever may be looking at us as a star in the sky. just as how irrelevant they are to us.
Gah, I wish I had friends who thought like this. I often keep this level of articulate thinking to myself for the fear that I'll be judged oddly. I've met a few people suseptable to this sort of discussion, but unluckily for me, they're few in numbers.
@IrishTeddi I hear you. None of my friends get this AT ALL and they don't want to. Even those who are seemingly headed down this path are still too conditioned to believe that this could be the ultimate and/or final truth to what we are.
@DavidAMIs mmhhhm, I agree buddy. I think if a person was to use logical thinking and science to understand it, I don't think they'd get the answers to their questions. Strange and unethical as it sounds, I believe that science cannot answer everything in life, with science, you need evidence to conclude your investigations, this, on the other hand, is much harder to obtain such things. Intuition, whatever you want to call it, has a more acceptable place as a means of understanding.
@IrishTeddi I wholeheartedly agree with you! I have a friend who started reading a book by Watts and I tried to show him this video and he found it boring. I imagine he'll come to this at some point... but as you said it's not something you can read in a book. You really do have to intuit this.
@DavidAMIs I feel I was awakened to the reality of this reality a few years back, as cheesy as that sounds. The majority of society is so wrapped up in what the media portrays as "life", are blind to the actual reality of what is real, wallowing in this false premise, through materialism, egotism and the inherited need to want to gain as much luxuries and society will allow. I see it everywhere, and in turn, is shaping the sort of people I want to befriend. I hope that's a good thing! :)
@IrishTeddi I know what you mean.. It seems like people never think beyond ways to entertain the time away. Discussions with other people about topics like this are essential to the advancement of our species.
@TheNolandunn321 The reason why we're not accepting of more higher, spiritual understandings of the world, and what we're capable of, is due to the lack in a well exercised and informed conciousness. The media has us dumbed own with "mindfluff", irrelevant to every aspect of our being, however through the use of stealthy propaganda, society is lead to believe that these forms of entertainment ARE important, and should fill every magazine shelf. It makes me sad that people think this is life.
@IrishTeddi Sorry, that was meant to say "down"..not .."own".
I know there is more to life, but I'm afraid I don't know what it is, as I've no one to show me the way, let alone anyone to take me serious on such subject matter. Most people just tune out if I even start to make an effort to elaborate. We as a global consciousness just aren't ready to take a deeper leap into what we know we are. Whether that's just a lack of relevant knowledge in this area, or just being scared to do so.
@IrishTeddi your looking in the wrong places, my friend. also, is the internet not the best way to find and connect with like minds? your friends have not yet experience the necessary revolution of mind. maybe it is your job to help them... if you get judged, welcome to the club. it's well worth it, and your not alone.
I wish one day that I have the mental capacity to transcend my current state of mind. I have such a hard problem understanding what he says, hopefully one day i will be freed. I understand little from what he says, but still, everytime i fully understands it it completely blows my mind. I wish one day, one day, I will understand.
@Guitarprowannabe Psychedelics will not help. If you're watching this video than you've already begun your journey to understanding, knowing, and feeling this truth. If you stay on this path you will be rewarded but the journey is never easy and you should never expect "enlightenment" or "AHA!" moments. It's the "slow cook" that will transform your mind allowing you to dissect this message and learn to Be what Is.
@DavidAMIs Yes, i guess you are right. I just want to become enlightened, i want to understand it. For example, i still think i have my ego. But there are moments in my life where i only AM, i don't think, i don't do anything. I don't even think about thinking. Those moments are worth gold, and it leaves me wondering, if I, who is new to this can feel so great, i wonder how the truly enlightened men feel. I want to be able to be free, and this looks like the only way to experience true freedom.
@Guitarprowannabe There is a lot of "I" in your words. Who is this "I" you speak of? Understand that even this "I" is a thought and like all thoughts it is passing. Stop doing and seeking. The longer you seek, the further you stray you from truth. Understand that you can not rid yourself of this concept called "ego". Anytime a thought is present in your head it arises as "I", thus ego is once again present. And you can not stop thinking. You can only anchor yourself in the eternal truth.
@Guitarprowannabe Let go of the thought of what you think this life is or should be. It is nothing. Freedom is nothing. Everything just IS as it should be. There is nothing to practice and no books to read. Spirituality is intuition. Intuition is felt in your core. You can not escape the thought process and the identity that you've created for yourself. You can only keep yourself anchored in the truth so that when you stray you remember who you are and you come back to that place.
@IHighLikePlane yes my brother/sister, we are all one and more and more people wake up to this fact now and and are coming together, and together will we get our mother earth back on its feet again i know it! =)
@geogeo3749 Yeah. I'm increasingly feeling at one with the universe during my waking moments. There is nothing to fear, or be worried about because everything is you. I have also lost most of my ego.
This video definitely kicked my spiritual awakening up a level, since I started meditating about a year and a half ago.
Wow. Enough said...
TheLastPariah 1 day ago
That's a scary thought. Everything is us and us is everything.
animelovingfreak 1 day ago
It's my birthday. I think about that and it's astonishing. Someone's been counting the lap I took. I'm going to die within 40 years. I'm looking forward to all of it, but eventually I will turn off. What an amazing concept to grasp in a world where power over now is everything.
wojovox 1 week ago
who would dislike alan watts?
evenflow113 1 week ago
@evenflow113 apparantly 6 very unhappy people .... i suppose they didn't even bother to listen . pity , it might have cheered them up .
jimvortex 1 week ago
Fucking YES!!!!!!!!!! PHILOSOPHY!!!!!!!!!!!
MrBennett1234 2 weeks ago
im guessing this is a combination of scientific theory and reincarnation.
personally i dont think predicting what death is after life is appropriate, no man/woman should know it, and people simply fear it because its the "fear of the unknown"
HiImHavoc 3 weeks ago
maybe people should stop thinking about whats going on in the fringes of the univervse and start to think about whats going on right in front of you
Shaunson1000 3 weeks ago 3
This is a beautiful video...brings tears to my eyes and i feel it through out my being. This is the truth.. So lovely
tarawilleman 3 weeks ago
Well, need to start planning out my world.
ZeroDantemL 1 month ago
Lovely. Where'd you get this footage?
silentslip 1 month ago
well we have also to say!!that ther is a lot of blackness!in the universe also.....you are it!!!!!!!!
kachetil 2 months ago
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whey80 2 months ago
Some how I feel better about only 10.000+ views because I feel somehow supperior to people who never seen this video or heard of Alan Watts but on the other hand... If every child grew up with philosophy of Alan Watts the world would be 100000 times better than it is today...
XxzippoxX 2 months ago 2
Probably the most profound video that I have ever seen. I keep coming back to it over and over.
ikozulovic 2 months ago
@muulisha This is beautiful, The video speaks for itself. His words have helped me through the darkest times of my life.
maximusTLP 2 months ago
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To the people who are say this is beautiful, if you were to listening to this without the visual or the music weighing down on you from the background.
What would you truly get from this speech?
robejoa1 3 months ago
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robejoa1 3 months ago
this is beautiful! blessings.
Getdamoneyng0 3 months ago
I get lost in lifes distractions that I forget all this until I slow down. lol
Zanins 3 months ago
I don't get the logic, how are we all the same being at the same time? I see the logic in how the big bang is a process we are all part of, which is continous event that haven't stopped yet.
But how are we all the same? Rather i would see it as we are becomming more and more distant from each other, material moving at the speed of light away from each other, material that will never get closer.
We are made of the same fabric, the same materials but not the same ones at the same time.
ReDFootY 3 months ago
@ReDFootY think of it this way: We are all made of the materials that were made at the beginning of time. it's all recycled. We are part of the universe, and the universe is a thing? something like that. We are as insignificant in the universe as a spec of dust floating around somewhere in the space between galaxies. Whatever we do here is irrelevant to whoever may be looking at us as a star in the sky. just as how irrelevant they are to us.
SandedFaceless666 3 months ago
Gah, I wish I had friends who thought like this. I often keep this level of articulate thinking to myself for the fear that I'll be judged oddly. I've met a few people suseptable to this sort of discussion, but unluckily for me, they're few in numbers.
IrishTeddi 3 months ago 56
@IrishTeddi I hear you. None of my friends get this AT ALL and they don't want to. Even those who are seemingly headed down this path are still too conditioned to believe that this could be the ultimate and/or final truth to what we are.
DavidAMIs 3 months ago
@DavidAMIs mmhhhm, I agree buddy. I think if a person was to use logical thinking and science to understand it, I don't think they'd get the answers to their questions. Strange and unethical as it sounds, I believe that science cannot answer everything in life, with science, you need evidence to conclude your investigations, this, on the other hand, is much harder to obtain such things. Intuition, whatever you want to call it, has a more acceptable place as a means of understanding.
IrishTeddi 1 month ago
@IrishTeddi I wholeheartedly agree with you! I have a friend who started reading a book by Watts and I tried to show him this video and he found it boring. I imagine he'll come to this at some point... but as you said it's not something you can read in a book. You really do have to intuit this.
DavidAMIs 1 month ago
@DavidAMIs I feel I was awakened to the reality of this reality a few years back, as cheesy as that sounds. The majority of society is so wrapped up in what the media portrays as "life", are blind to the actual reality of what is real, wallowing in this false premise, through materialism, egotism and the inherited need to want to gain as much luxuries and society will allow. I see it everywhere, and in turn, is shaping the sort of people I want to befriend. I hope that's a good thing! :)
IrishTeddi 1 month ago
@IrishTeddi *That society will allow*...damn fingers!
IrishTeddi 1 month ago
@IrishTeddi you're not alone! haha
juliandude1 2 months ago
@IrishTeddi you are not alone.
I too am. I am a regular man, who is not afraid to ask the big questions.
And of course, i am always available for discussion and the expanding of my mind.
Love,
FreeBeDrug
FreeBeDrug 1 month ago
@IrishTeddi keep trying :)
Hotdishband 1 month ago
@IrishTeddi i would get along with you then
buddha15235 1 month ago
@IrishTeddi I know what you mean.. It seems like people never think beyond ways to entertain the time away. Discussions with other people about topics like this are essential to the advancement of our species.
TheNolandunn321 1 month ago
@TheNolandunn321 The reason why we're not accepting of more higher, spiritual understandings of the world, and what we're capable of, is due to the lack in a well exercised and informed conciousness. The media has us dumbed own with "mindfluff", irrelevant to every aspect of our being, however through the use of stealthy propaganda, society is lead to believe that these forms of entertainment ARE important, and should fill every magazine shelf. It makes me sad that people think this is life.
IrishTeddi 1 month ago
@IrishTeddi Sorry, that was meant to say "down"..not .."own".
I know there is more to life, but I'm afraid I don't know what it is, as I've no one to show me the way, let alone anyone to take me serious on such subject matter. Most people just tune out if I even start to make an effort to elaborate. We as a global consciousness just aren't ready to take a deeper leap into what we know we are. Whether that's just a lack of relevant knowledge in this area, or just being scared to do so.
IrishTeddi 1 month ago
@IrishTeddi It is inside of us all but you have you have the will to find it.
first2belast 3 weeks ago in playlist misc
@IrishTeddi Maybe your friends think the same and keep it to theirselves too for fear of being judged!
ianrkav 5 days ago
@IrishTeddi your looking in the wrong places, my friend. also, is the internet not the best way to find and connect with like minds? your friends have not yet experience the necessary revolution of mind. maybe it is your job to help them... if you get judged, welcome to the club. it's well worth it, and your not alone.
tryptaminddd 4 days ago
Makes me tear :)
Neoxym 3 months ago
I wish one day that I have the mental capacity to transcend my current state of mind. I have such a hard problem understanding what he says, hopefully one day i will be freed. I understand little from what he says, but still, everytime i fully understands it it completely blows my mind. I wish one day, one day, I will understand.
Guitarprowannabe 4 months ago
@Guitarprowannabe
psychedelics help.. with moderation of course ;)
WhateverWasLeft 3 months ago
@Guitarprowannabe Psychedelics will not help. If you're watching this video than you've already begun your journey to understanding, knowing, and feeling this truth. If you stay on this path you will be rewarded but the journey is never easy and you should never expect "enlightenment" or "AHA!" moments. It's the "slow cook" that will transform your mind allowing you to dissect this message and learn to Be what Is.
DavidAMIs 3 months ago
@DavidAMIs Yes, i guess you are right. I just want to become enlightened, i want to understand it. For example, i still think i have my ego. But there are moments in my life where i only AM, i don't think, i don't do anything. I don't even think about thinking. Those moments are worth gold, and it leaves me wondering, if I, who is new to this can feel so great, i wonder how the truly enlightened men feel. I want to be able to be free, and this looks like the only way to experience true freedom.
Guitarprowannabe 3 months ago
@Guitarprowannabe There is a lot of "I" in your words. Who is this "I" you speak of? Understand that even this "I" is a thought and like all thoughts it is passing. Stop doing and seeking. The longer you seek, the further you stray you from truth. Understand that you can not rid yourself of this concept called "ego". Anytime a thought is present in your head it arises as "I", thus ego is once again present. And you can not stop thinking. You can only anchor yourself in the eternal truth.
DavidAMIs 3 months ago
@Guitarprowannabe Let go of the thought of what you think this life is or should be. It is nothing. Freedom is nothing. Everything just IS as it should be. There is nothing to practice and no books to read. Spirituality is intuition. Intuition is felt in your core. You can not escape the thought process and the identity that you've created for yourself. You can only keep yourself anchored in the truth so that when you stray you remember who you are and you come back to that place.
DavidAMIs 3 months ago
thank you so much for that friend, that was really well done :)
dantesilv 4 months ago
Is there any way you could put the audio file of this on mediafire or something? I would love to have it.
KevimusPrime 4 months ago
Oh wow.. When he said, "Imagine what it would be like to awake from never having gone to sleep." My mind was blown.
hazelXin223 4 months ago
This is so beautiful it brings me to tears every time I watch it.
We are the universe, all is one. I finally can feel it, instead of just knowing it. =)
IHighLikePlane 4 months ago in playlist IHighLikePlane's favorites 31
@IHighLikePlane yes my brother/sister, we are all one and more and more people wake up to this fact now and and are coming together, and together will we get our mother earth back on its feet again i know it! =)
muulisha 4 months ago 23
@IHighLikePlane feels good doesn't it?
geogeo3749 2 months ago
@geogeo3749 Yeah. I'm increasingly feeling at one with the universe during my waking moments. There is nothing to fear, or be worried about because everything is you. I have also lost most of my ego.
This video definitely kicked my spiritual awakening up a level, since I started meditating about a year and a half ago.
IHighLikePlane 2 months ago
@IHighLikePlane
:) YAY!
hoshway31 1 month ago
amazing video
gnanes 4 months ago in playlist Psychology / Spirituality / Philosophy
Which one of his lectures is this from?
JarethGT 4 months ago
i believe im all that is...
xjoe1988x 5 months ago
Splendid thoughts! great philosopher!!! which is the song in this video? Thank you very much!
MrDiegolucero 5 months ago
Well made Internet shit.
PaintSlinger99 5 months ago
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Vaultbuachaill 6 months ago
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Vaultbuachaill 6 months ago
What is the name of the song?
onlymassiss 6 months ago
this is wonderful. an insomniac night; i had forgotten watts. thanks. laughing...
cuppalentilsoop 7 months ago
this is beautiful and.... is
cryptokeyblade 7 months ago
5*! Beautiful!
szmako 8 months ago
really great video!
dFalcStudios 9 months ago