Alan Watts - "I"

I dont claim rights to any part of this video, but I could only find this bit in a longer compilation of this same type of Alan Watts speech over Stone/Parker animation. I wanted to link it to some people without telling to go to (X:XX) of that other video, so I ripped it out and uploaded it.

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• Watts
• Stone
• Parker
• Zen
• Self
• South
• Park
• Buddhism
• Ego
• Body

[manimalqb]

I once was somewhat depressed by Watts but once your perspective changes and you listen to him more it makes absolute sense. I love some Alan Watts Philosophy. Buy his audio lectures online, Very very good

[coogiez]

Brilliant, and so true :)

[mozart116]

"A world that doesn't give a damn about us" well dogs are domesticated to have affections for humans. We also have families. But I get the core of what he's saying

[natasadragisic]

hahahahaha this is great

[ncripzx]

@HylianSpirit aaah its so easy once you know that thought actually takes place in the present!

[HylianSpirit]

@ncripzx Just so! Life has no center. Behind it all, a big potential space. The present moment. No future, only thought of future in the present. No past, only thoughts of it in the present. No self, only thought of self in present. An ever flowing wave of experience with no experiencer; since you, yourself, were conceived as transitory experience. Thoughts happen to themselves, and your perception sees life entirely. Other lives see you too.

We're life living itself.

[ncripzx]

@HylianSpirit there's just an emptiness, but even that could be a thought. It almost feels like there is no experiencer, just experience and I am the pure potentiality of that experience. If that makes sense

[HylianSpirit]

@ncripzx Seems like you've seen it!

That thing between your ears is "observable" (or at least think-able). It can be stood away from and seen. IF that were you, that would be like a finger pointing at itself. It's impossible.

So what is observing the observation? What is experience happening to, outside the experience itself. Where is the center to life to which these things occur?

What stands behind the camera of perception? I can't find a thing, other than a thought of a thing.

[ncripzx]

@HylianSpirit wow, dude this is hitting me HARD. All these years of suffering for me... and I simply exist AS the senses!... I've always seen myself as this thing between my ears who is separate from the body. Appreciate your reply, today has been the biggest transformation ever. It kind of replicates my mdma experience where nothing seems so solid anymore... everything seems see through when i look around like i am it and ive been around for infinity. Thanks man

[HylianSpirit]

@ncripzx You exist, of course. Just not in the format you might've imagined.

Reality isn't You + Everything else. You were fundamentally woven in to the very fabric of reality, down to the most microcosmic instance. You can't be apart from reality.

There can't be a singular entity to say "I am This." while rejecting every single other thing as "Not me."

You aren't sitting back watching this movie. You're IN the movie. The movie is in the movie. There can't be an audience.

[ncripzx]

@HylianSpirit ok, you just really really really scared me for a couple seconds there. I didnt exist. dude, wtf.

[anatalija19]

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