Alan Watts: A Coincidence of Opposites - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 16 - Host: Mark Watts

Contemplating the coincidence of opposites within the ‘human game,’ Alan ponders the simple yet thought-provoking question: is existence serious?
This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.
Waves & Troughs // Coincidence of Opposites (0:00)
Learning the Human Game // Is Existence Serious? // Cause & Effect (11:08)
Existence is Spontaneous // Letting Go // The Playful Universe (24:08)
“Any experience we have through our senses-whether of sound, or of light, or of touch-is a vibration. And a vibration has two aspects: one called ‘on,’ and the other called ‘off.’ Vibration seems to be propagated in waves, and every wave system has crests and it has troughs. So life is a system of ‘now you see it, now you don’t.'” - Alan Watts
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  • @pedrovargas0838
    @pedrovargas0838 Жыл бұрын

    Life is just easier after finding Alan Watts

  • @SlapPa9

    @SlapPa9

    Жыл бұрын

    Find Terrence McKenna also. He too will give you permission to be you 👍

  • @elnino85fv

    @elnino85fv

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SlapPa9 Thank you! His first minutes sound great already!

  • @SlapPa9

    @SlapPa9

    Жыл бұрын

    @@elnino85fv 👍, be brave and nature will remove all obstacles.

  • @rickynoodles2816

    @rickynoodles2816

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@SlapPa9 omg plus ram Dass. That's a life changing trio

  • @The_Eternal_Now

    @The_Eternal_Now

    Жыл бұрын

    It was always easy, but you were deeply involved in the "hide" aspect of life. Welcome to the "seek."

  • @KonGrapsas-bq2br
    @KonGrapsas-bq2br9 ай бұрын

    Dearest Mark Watts ; Your love for your father is inspiring.😮😮😮

  • @empressonthethrone
    @empressonthethrone5 ай бұрын

    Listening to Alan Watts is ASMR for me. His words rings true even in this day and age.

  • @dennisw8166
    @dennisw8166 Жыл бұрын

    My son introduced me to Alan Watts. What a wonderful surprise it's been. God bless him and his influence

  • @mohammad4110

    @mohammad4110

    6 ай бұрын

    Be proud of your son

  • @zaydadon8472
    @zaydadon8472 Жыл бұрын

    He brings me the most peace

  • @ericphalen7109

    @ericphalen7109

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too wish he was still here

  • @jenmdawg

    @jenmdawg

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too. I’ll “tire” of his lectures (we have so much access) and then find myself restless/anxious even though I meditate, etc and return to these talks and it’s like coming home.

  • @TheSoulBlossom

    @TheSoulBlossom

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jenmdawg Beautifully said

  • @erawanpencil

    @erawanpencil

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jenmdawg Every 5 years or so I'll listen again and they get deeper and deeper. Imagine anyone else saying you don't have to survive, that you're already the whole world; only he can say it so simply and so decisively. There are so many people out there with serious philosophies and teachings and meditations, so much talk about finding callings and meaning and purpose... but he shows that it's all a game and in an instant all the anxiety vanishes.

  • @cjfredi

    @cjfredi

    Жыл бұрын

    Agree.

  • @romanovmarkelyon1021
    @romanovmarkelyon10219 ай бұрын

    It’s wild to think as much time has passed since this talk as the amount of time Alan Watts was in this world. I’m glad his words live on.

  • @ahmetdogan5685
    @ahmetdogan5685 Жыл бұрын

    Lullabies for the soul.

  • @paolagiunti2979
    @paolagiunti2979 Жыл бұрын

    Reading his teachings was a real help in my life.

  • @chasemorris8040

    @chasemorris8040

    10 ай бұрын

    L . M L😮😮

  • @chasemorris8040

    @chasemorris8040

    10 ай бұрын

    Tom Has M Mm The Yuan 8@?6ddj

  • @chasemorris8040

    @chasemorris8040

    10 ай бұрын

    8:21 /😢 mii 8:51 i Z

  • @chasemorris8040

    @chasemorris8040

    10 ай бұрын

    IThe ll 11:06

  • @mitchellanderson3068
    @mitchellanderson30688 ай бұрын

    The opening quote is probably my favorite Alan Watts quote of all time. It’s so beautiful

  • @shaungronda2759
    @shaungronda2759 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful mind and soul

  • @trainwreck682
    @trainwreck682 Жыл бұрын

    At first the noise in the background was distracting. Now I find it just as relaxing as the talk itself.

  • @K2blades2
    @K2blades2 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much! Nothing better in the world than listening to Alan Watts!!

  • @SignalFifty

    @SignalFifty

    11 ай бұрын

    Second only to listening to yourself.

  • @izgl

    @izgl

    10 ай бұрын

    I have to agree

  • @jaytyler7700
    @jaytyler7700 Жыл бұрын

    I love the that he's bringing a human element to those that might have mechanical view of the mind. Allowing them to evolve their practice into a meaningful art. He probably walked into that room with many ready to contradict anything he said in their own minds. To hear the majority of the room laughing with him...Alan watts was an amazing mind and a beautiful orator. I'm thankful to the series of events and hard work that lead him to share his gift.

  • @aaronananth
    @aaronananth Жыл бұрын

    MOST PROMINENT ...we as humans have Scattered mind .... which needs a way of CONCLUSIVE INTELLECT which takes us to Wisdom.💙🙏

  • @alexforrest4551
    @alexforrest455111 ай бұрын

    I felt lead to alan watts . Met someone who said this to me too ❤

  • @acesteals1706
    @acesteals1706 Жыл бұрын

    marvelous human being.

  • @bettyhaines2570
    @bettyhaines2570 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mark Watts 😊❤ for this beautiful video of You're Brother we love you to Mark Watts 😊 You have a good day 🙏

  • @codeybrown9508

    @codeybrown9508

    10 ай бұрын

    Mark is his son

  • @remusmuntean701
    @remusmuntean701 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mark 💜🌅🙏🏼

  • @sandralynnsparks3468
    @sandralynnsparks34688 ай бұрын

    I don't know why I passed his work by earlier on. Life would have been a whole lot easier. Perhaps I just needed to realize a lot of his ideas for myself, then finally, after years of feeling alone, find I had always had a home. Thank you for continuing to share his work.

  • @rtt1961
    @rtt1961 Жыл бұрын

    Great modern philosopher.

  • @mykelmongomery5109
    @mykelmongomery5109 Жыл бұрын

    I've starting to listen every night

  • @2951hawkeye
    @2951hawkeye3 ай бұрын

    Thanks for sharing your Father's work. I Love listening to his talks.

  • @shindig6361
    @shindig6361 Жыл бұрын

    Fabulous and funny!

  • @carol-annes5492
    @carol-annes5492 Жыл бұрын

    thank you Mark!!!

  • @DJMICA-bz3qz
    @DJMICA-bz3qz Жыл бұрын

    TO THE OWNER OF THIS CHANNEL: I’m filled with happiness to see Watts’s work have the real names of the lecturers attached to it. I assume he needed his son to do this. I want all the data from those morons who put his stuff up “with music” or ocean noises or something. These people don’t have the attention span to follow a full lecture so they chop him up. The tapes FROM watts by watts is the only way I want it in my library.

  • @aceinthehole3563

    @aceinthehole3563

    Жыл бұрын

    Watts is great chopped, diced, smothered, or covered...

  • @DJMICA-bz3qz

    @DJMICA-bz3qz

    Жыл бұрын

    @@aceinthehole3563 you have no idea what your talking w

  • @DJMICA-bz3qz

    @DJMICA-bz3qz

    Жыл бұрын

    @@aceinthehole3563 his tapes were not for peons with no attention span

  • @CameronQuin

    @CameronQuin

    Жыл бұрын

    You may need to listen to Watts again as it seems you may have missed the point.

  • @aceinthehole3563

    @aceinthehole3563

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DJMICA-bz3qz I have no idea what you are talking about...

  • @carenkurdjinian5413
    @carenkurdjinian5413 Жыл бұрын

    Just beautiful …..🌞

  • @janneaburgess911
    @janneaburgess9116 ай бұрын

    Thank You for sharing Your dad’s wisdom. It makes a huge difference in how I Live My Life. Thank You for teaching Me that Life is a Musical & that we’re supposed to sing, dance and play along the way. 🙏💚🎶✨

  • @tomato1040
    @tomato1040 Жыл бұрын

    Yah, like The Coincidence of Opposites: The Philosophy of Psychology or The Psychology of Philosophy in The ⚖️ Balance of refereeing Our🧘Selves in Divine Choiceless Awareness, transposing mere matter to Pure Energy in the Realms of The Gods of Super Consciousness.

  • @carenkurdjinian5413
    @carenkurdjinian5413 Жыл бұрын

    Appreciation for making be heard this is an amazing lecture …..a human being -Must learn to see the spot light and around and back more in movement being aware of the environment ( where the tremendous energy is hidden so kind of out the “concentration “…..)….🌞

  • @ShivAusar
    @ShivAusar Жыл бұрын

    thanks for sharing your wisdom

  • @prometheus1111111
    @prometheus1111111 Жыл бұрын

    Watts does excellent analysis and breaking down the pathology of the ego without ever pointing out to who or what has orchestrated the pathology of the ego. He never Asks qui bono. His idea in following certain Eastern lines of thought was to destroy the ego, suppress it overcome it all together, and enter into this nothingness then you arrive to get the point of life and can dance freely. Why shouldn't he ask why have the ego in the first place? The ego is extremely necessary but it is only that it never had the chance to develop naturally. that is, to be informed by the essence and to be the subjugate rather than the master. This leads to what Carlos Castaneda called foreign installation which is really none other than anything that the elites or the dark forces that rule wish to program life with. Nothingness like infinity is one of their favorite fallacies they use to diminish humans by a cognitive strategy.

  • @adrianahuls4983
    @adrianahuls49836 ай бұрын

    Wonderful movie..

  • @jakecarlo9950
    @jakecarlo99509 ай бұрын

    This is peak! If you’ve been laboring over Derrida or Heidegger, good news! Just sit back and enjoy the essence of the matter right here! Whew good stuff.

  • @kieranjubb3040
    @kieranjubb3040 Жыл бұрын

    💙💙💙

  • @questionMark4443
    @questionMark44436 ай бұрын

    Don’t worry about it what ever it is you are trying to control. Control yourself for your inner condition affects your perception or the way you perceive it. How you feel is the key. For me it’s so good to be alive. Put on some music and dance. 🕺

  • @pattern18
    @pattern18 Жыл бұрын

    "Hey there, trape-tastic viewers! So, here I am, diving into the deep philosophical pool of Alan Watts' wisdom. It's like trying to balance on a tightrope while juggling existential questions. Just remember, if you fall off the trapeze of enlightenment, just laugh it off and embrace the cosmic circus of life. Let's keep soaring together, folks!"

  • @rjac001
    @rjac001 Жыл бұрын

    Some good interesting thoughts but a lot of semantics too

  • @thiuniverse
    @thiuniverse Жыл бұрын

    ❤️

  • @emojiking8580
    @emojiking8580 Жыл бұрын

    ✨️

  • @VcottntailW
    @VcottntailW10 ай бұрын

    He speaks poetically

  • @salm8990
    @salm89908 ай бұрын

    These word. Thank you for them. When I was in an car accident I saw something I couldn’t explain. This man Alan Watts helped me understand what I saw. I cant explain what i saw. But I saw was all of it , all at once. Everything… it’s was beautiful. I’m happy to be alive now, everyday.

  • @karlinguk
    @karlinguk Жыл бұрын

    I ADMIT...I do like listening to the recorded talks of the late Alan Watts.. But find I can absorb/tolerate only small amounts of him at a a time. It strikes me that like a great whale, one who may first playfuly capsize you from the safety of your boat then takes hold of you. ..he will first take you for a ride as you willing hold on before submerging below the surface and it is then you will need to hold your breath while you taken deeper n deeper, this way n that way and shown all manner of sights that from the surface you were oblivious to. What I find amazing but frustrating at the same time too, is the way he seems to impromtuly navigate his way around, seamlessly and without a pause going from direction/place (topic) to the next and having not followed a plan/scirlpt... Its as if he just grabs your attention, goes in a direction that soon goes off course into many other directions, and all whilst below the depths, were oxygen is absent and were only his voice, thoughts and bizarre sights alone exist. Sadly, or forturnately... I can only hold my breath a short time before I feel a need to rush back to the suface... Hopefully though a little more enlightened/enriched for the places Alan took me to. Certainly a intetesting, unique, charismatic, deep yet bitter sweet being when here before as Alan Watts the man.

  • @codeybrown9508

    @codeybrown9508

    10 ай бұрын

    The amazing part is when you find out there was no need to hold your breath in the first place and when you see that the only thing left to do is have a cosmic laugh the kind that hurts your cheeks

  • @DennisNieves-fm4sl
    @DennisNieves-fm4sl4 ай бұрын

    Cause and effect are two different stages of the same event. It's the difference between a wave cresting and a wave crashing on the shore. Cause and effect is as real as time. Which many scientists would disagree about time. But what do they know!? After all, it takes time to explain weather or not time exists. And the purpose of time is to keep everything from happening all at once. In fact, nothing can happen at all if it wasn't for time; for time is a fundamental reality of existence.

  • @DJMICA-bz3qz
    @DJMICA-bz3qz Жыл бұрын

    I heard a really bad ass watts song of him doing the laughing meditation tho

  • @DJMICA-bz3qz

    @DJMICA-bz3qz

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Biomassmission “bibio zen drums” on a KZread channel called “warp records”

  • @konradmalilwe
    @konradmalilwe Жыл бұрын

    Binary code 1s and 0s

  • @VenusLover17
    @VenusLover178 ай бұрын

    ❤❤

  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 Жыл бұрын

    🦋

  • @starfish3108
    @starfish3108 Жыл бұрын

    I’m my own dance partner

  • @Unfamous_Buddha

    @Unfamous_Buddha

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha, you gotta forget!

  • @lobintool
    @lobintool Жыл бұрын

    BTW: what's the difference between a psycologist and a psychiatrist?

  • @danielmyers5897

    @danielmyers5897

    Жыл бұрын

    Basically-A psychiatrist is an md. Full medical school. Can write prescriptions. Psychologist may have an ms or a phd but not an md.

  • @trishthompson1533

    @trishthompson1533

    Жыл бұрын

    Writing scripts.

  • @justinbarnes5095
    @justinbarnes509511 ай бұрын

    I did not go to school watch tv or anything and I just heard of "the man Alan" and I understand every word and I talk just like him when I speak.. point is how do I know and talk about something I was never taught or anything it is easy, u can't no u no something's if u don't no u no it and that should show u that we r all one of a infinite number of 1 and to come from that one u in turn r the one meaning all information that comes and goes thru one in turns goes thru all , quit looking up to people as models or whatever else the more u fail and it's because u falsify Ur reality of Ur being here with the purpose of someone else's being here. It is the part of letting go and u will only please u or displease u in the end or the beginning and if the end is the beginning u will see that the only point worth making is now cause the point of right now is the point of both beginning and end. Sorry this probably don't make since thanks

  • @lobintool
    @lobintool Жыл бұрын

    Anyway. all this stuff is all well and good..how does it pay my mortgage or any other bills for that matter?

  • @orionmyth

    @orionmyth

    Жыл бұрын

    Transactional nature

  • @johngumz4133

    @johngumz4133

    Жыл бұрын

    There not real

  • @arvindchahal7009

    @arvindchahal7009

    Жыл бұрын

    They will be taken care of by the cosmos. You don't have to worry

  • @PompousPicard1

    @PompousPicard1

    Жыл бұрын

    No, and thank fucking god it doesn’t. There’s so much more to life than just paying bills, and if that’s all you’re concerned with, why bother going on living at all?

  • @titussteenhuisen8864

    @titussteenhuisen8864

    Жыл бұрын

    Watts doesn’t emphasise enough life is continuous transformation meditate on everything is transformation; life death life etc. - no end - hope that helps with your mortgage

  • @jasond.5723
    @jasond.57234 ай бұрын

    33:28 does anybody know what he was talking about here?

  • @daviddossenback4095
    @daviddossenback40959 ай бұрын

    What happened to all the other Allen Watts channels.

  • @mohammad4110

    @mohammad4110

    6 ай бұрын

    I guess Matrix don't want Alan to enlighten many people

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii7941 Жыл бұрын

    Mo Jo

  • @mrs.joeschmoe5681
    @mrs.joeschmoe5681 Жыл бұрын

    I am seeking a dance partner 😏

  • @PAKallman

    @PAKallman

    Жыл бұрын

    🕺🏽🎊🖤

  • @matthewheffernan6729

    @matthewheffernan6729

    Жыл бұрын

    The destination is the dance😁 yes we breathe in and well,ve arrived. And such is life. Breathe out. LoL

  • @agentdelphi8295

    @agentdelphi8295

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too

  • @DnB_Purist.

    @DnB_Purist.

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely 🥺

  • @christinawilson7312

    @christinawilson7312

    Жыл бұрын

    “MEEEEEE ✝️☯️💓💥🌟💋🫵💧☔️TOOOOO🔥‼️

  • @VitaFlare
    @VitaFlare Жыл бұрын

    First 😵‍💫

  • @apkeeney

    @apkeeney

    Жыл бұрын

    Is the worst 😛

  • @leonlee8524

    @leonlee8524

    Жыл бұрын

    "That which is explicitly two, can be implicitly one" As the second, I'm also 1st, so ha!

  • @VitaFlare

    @VitaFlare

    Жыл бұрын

    @@leonlee8524 Thanks Leon for making me laugh with your comment!

  • @whiteashpiperwhiteashpiper5447
    @whiteashpiperwhiteashpiper5447 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder what Alan's favorite pipe tobacco was?

  • @justinbarnes5095

    @justinbarnes5095

    11 ай бұрын

    Pot

  • @whiteashpiperwhiteashpiper5447

    @whiteashpiperwhiteashpiper5447

    11 ай бұрын

    @@justinbarnes5095 funny, that's not tobacco.

  • @codeybrown9508

    @codeybrown9508

    10 ай бұрын

    He so ahead of his time he bought that weed legally from a dispensary the day after tomorrow to smoke in 1971 😂

  • @joanallisonkica739
    @joanallisonkica7397 ай бұрын

    Is it Sirius?

  • @mohammad4110

    @mohammad4110

    6 ай бұрын

    No it's Severus

  • @randompointlessness2766
    @randompointlessness2766 Жыл бұрын

    He is presents a chance that we might miss it all, and life will pass us by if we aint present, thats a bit pesimistic.. we were there, we did the things and reacted in way we did and that was it, our life.. so no need to put a sad face on it, nevermind how much you absorbed.

  • @roynadav5686

    @roynadav5686

    Жыл бұрын

    yes , like black and white opposite ,as apart of the whole , so watts point of being a ware of being a ware ....

  • @shawnpalmer6715
    @shawnpalmer6715 Жыл бұрын

    a winner in a match needs a loser

  • @gotonethatcansee
    @gotonethatcansee3 ай бұрын

    00:21:24 ♪ GRIFFIN⁴

  • @santaclase3410
    @santaclase341010 ай бұрын

    EyE,m forist gump🕉🕉🕉

  • @lobintool
    @lobintool Жыл бұрын

    And the point is what?

  • @ceciliamalinski2607

    @ceciliamalinski2607

    Жыл бұрын

    There is no point. Everything just is. Enjoy the illusion....while paying the mortgage.

  • @rtt1961

    @rtt1961

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ceciliamalinski2607 Yes!

  • @interdimensionalsailboat
    @interdimensionalsailboat3 ай бұрын

    Idk i find the argument sort of against evolution as a view on the world a little bit of a strawman. I dont presume it was said that there is this nebulous "survival drive", Its just that life exists in a way which propagates itself through its behaviour and then the ones that do so succesfully are ones that you see more of. Types of life which didnt do that because of whatever circumstances are no longer here, naturally. Sometimes i really do feel like he adds things to arguments that probably never existed? But perhaps that was how things were talked about back then. Similarly, when he talks about a mosquito or whatever feeling like its human. I mean, we have no good guess on whether there is anybody home. And at least nowadays with some worm, we modeled the neurons digitally and basically get the same behaviour as the animal itself. I know that alan views consiousness as stretching beyond the skin and while i do respect the natural world and all its beings, I kind of just cannot imagine dropping stuff like that as if it is a statement of fact.

  • @tomato1040
    @tomato1040 Жыл бұрын

    IT IS REALLY THE SUBCONSCIOUS ALAN IS REFERRING 2. PURE=mc2,❤️‍🔥 LUST BRINGS🧬LIFE=mc2, YET IT IS STILL🧘CONSCIOUS. "UNCONSCIOUSNESS" IS CLOSER TO DEATH. LUSTING 4 SPIRITUAL UNION IS "THE WORD MADE FLESH" IN THE G👁️D🔯G👁️DDESS💋!

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