Coincidence of Opposites

[abcbraveheart]

The Law of Opposites is basically duality. Everything has an opposite. Dark-light, poor-rich. I know the law of opposites. In Jan 2009 I intentioned into my existence the notion of a lot more money. No sooner had I made that bold declaration than I experienced the exact opposite. It was the worst financial year of my life, bills, unexpected, medical, dental, major car expenses you name it. I couldn't believe it. The following year things changed for the better. Be careful what you wish for!

[JackevAll]

is everyone else here who loves this a weed smoker and stoned right now?

[derman077]

This is the first time I have heard someone else speak what I think.

[hichaminou]

can you please write what the speeker is saying? i cant quiet undesrtund what he is saying. thank you

[libertylives2]

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[B7Scorpio]

low-flying, conceited babbling.

What a way to spoil nice music.

[drewski898]

@B7Scorpio i hear what you're saying. it doesn't really matter either way, but for every up is a down. what is now is. if you find that mundane then you're fullfilling your point.

[Nevyfling]

google Doe's Account.

[rawnourished]

ignorance - ignore ants

[gnosisoneness]

When we think, we differentiate hiding wholeness/unity in plain sight.

 When we forget that we are the world,

we think we need someone like us to make us and a world that fit together.

[herbalvegas]

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[subsonicway]

I have felt this daily for about 3 months now. it makes sense. to me. maybe not to others, but they are looking at it from the polar opposite : )

[levo75]

Terence always called it: Coincidentia oppositorum

[cosabio]

"Life is a system of now-you-see-it now-you-don't"

This is the best Watts rap I've heard so far.

Thanks again, Matt.

[fredeye47]

Watts would rather say "ignore-ance"

just as I would rather call it the "coinici-dance of opposites" . . .

great shtuff man

[zetetic0void]

"Watts would rather say "ignore-ance"

just as I would rather call it the "coinici-dance of opposites" . . ."

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Good one ... also 'coincidance' contains 'coin' ... as in both sides of the same coin but really one coin

[chrismighton]

Awesome stuff man. Thank you.

[jenni4jlss]

Thank you.

[boarderboy5899]

does this mean that if you notice it now you wont have it later when you are dead?

[ItsJustARide314]

no.

[damM3]

too bad the quality of the recording isn't that good

[ItsJustARide314]

precisely. difference focus makes it (one's reality) easier to understand. it is the job of the ego to make comprehension possible no matter the level of truthful content a rationalization holds. hence why the ego has so much to do with our delusion of difference, perpetuation of cultural, blood lines, even self marginalization made rational by assumptions involved with interpretations of reality, ect...

[RossCaleb]

Alan Watts and Sigur Ros together...ah, beautiful.

Thank you

[aikido7]

If everything is a hologram of the entire cosmos, if you cannot touch a flower without a distant shudder from a cosmic star, then we can say anything we want and propose any theory.

Everything will work out. It has already. It is NOW.

[gregorikk]

anyone have a transcript or subs for this ? :(

[evertonfc176]

I LOVE BARAKA

[8av8today]

Black won the Election 08. Does this mean we're fucked now?

[SlickCat57]

Yea that does sound bad in terms of race.

i hate how the ancestors of europeans named themselves "white" and those of african decent "black".

[damM3]

....  that's colors ...

[SlickCat57]

your right its just as simple as "colors"

=)

[shone1178]

what was the last phrase? i couldnt make it out.

[painandink37]

Everything exists WITH everything else, but we contrive not to notice that because what we notice is what is noteworthy.

[ratmoe]

Alan Watts was awesome.

[ladonnaschild]

I think the point was not that right and wrong are the same, but once was... we made right and wrong ourselves by a division using the middle term or uniting term (opinion.) And science can split everything down in a negative or curious or doubtful eye and place its own belief and found facts into your mind. You can choose not to and equally to believe in things you cannot see with belief that purely negative things don't even exist without the positive. This is fact of our own science.

[Thundralight]

According to this theory there is no difference between right and wrong or good and evil- its all the same thing. This goes against my logic.

[cannabishead4420]

Holy shit what a wonderful wonderful video!

[illuminatedmorons]

i did mushrooms last night. it was the most beutiful experience. we were all having shared hallucinations. wed all notice it took us an hour to cross a parking lot. we went for a walk in the woods and it was the most beautiful thing ive ever seen. the plants glowed. and i could not tell the seperation of plants. it was like the forest was a covered in a glowing spiderweb. and it felt made. like built there like that for me to see it like that. weird. and beutiful. i wished things glowed normally

[ErosTheGreat]

good music choice

[Babettefairy]

thanks for all the cool updates. your vary sweet...

[atree3]

love hearing his voice again. Really takes me back, out.

[ChromeLocust]

6:10 - does that mean a person with a.d.d. is the least ignorant?

[HiAdrian]

people with A.D.D. have a strongly wandering scope of attention, not necessarily a wide one.

[ChromeLocust]

good point

[AmishChildren]

"The price which we pay for specialization in conscious attention.. is ignorance.. of everything outside [this field of concentration.].. Everything exists with everything else." Let us expand now the focus of our attention so as to include also that our peripheral vision.

[SpiritualTalk]

There is truth in this video. With this understanding we can better understand our reality. We should not; however, ignore the fact that there is a "darkness" that needs to be addressed. This "darkness" is indeed part of a greater "one" but is having a negative impact that really should not be ignored. It is our duty to make "the one" beautiful.

Peace,

Kevin

[venakew]

I got to ask what do you mean by a Darkness which is a part of greater one? It sounds kind of interesting.

[grendelee]

im not him, but would say...the opposite of what we like, of what we think of as good. we think of life as love and the living, but things can be horrible,bad, and dead. but thats part of the greater whole. its just a part of everything, like your arm is a part of you. its not the opposite of you.

[SpiritualTalk]

I tried to reply to your question, venakew but my response ended up above and not here where I wanted it to go. I hope you get to see it.

Peace,

Kevin

[SpiritualTalk]

The human spirit can be viewed as a single thing. Within that one there are individuals. The darkness I refer to is the part of the human spirit that is capable of extreme greed and hungers for power. This part of the human spirit has been doing things that are impacting the whole. This is somewhat unnatural. This darkness has gone "out of bounds". It is now up to us, as part of the whole human spirit to stand up and do something about this.

Thanks grendelee, you explained it very well!

[HotSauce147]

It goes to show that our perception of everything is really only a comparative contrast to everything else. To examine one singular thing without any knowledge of the rest of our world, it would be impossible to describe.

[venakew]

But there has to be a point where your only experiencing through your senses without anything to compare it to, except I suppose yourself.

[bludolf]

Excellent.

[ravisinghbeats]

good stuff. interesting.

[tetragramgoddess11]

this helps answer a question....first time alan watts has moved out of my peripheral vision & closer to center stage, good 'hearing' him for the first time...gratitude (o:

[MSlapik]

[Great stuff. (Horrible stuff)]

[AECSRQ]

in a succulent synchronicity, i just put down the book 'Being and Vibration' by Joseph Rael, and i chance upon this passage by one of my favorite philosophers!  i love the infinite games.

[VreeFisions]

I was suprised to hear Sigur Ros. I have lived on it for months.

[talkinghead22]

Way to go Matt! This one's awesome!!!

[LilysApple]

great video, really gives you something to think about.

[SFwizardoakland]

bosh like chris?

[jogayot]

stuck on a note?

[loneskeptic]

Sigur Ros!!!

[Anathema2]

I was thinking about this not 2 yrs ago. Good vid.

[1adeyinka]

nice

[kevneese]

You should listen to Steven R Smith and his various musical projects, including Hala Strana.