Worry is like a rocking chair You go back and forth to end up Nowhere.

@ioodyssey3740

Ай бұрын

and i'ts comforting??

@SexyMEFFER

Ай бұрын

@@ioodyssey3740Whatever happens is going to happen, regardless of your worry. That is comfort.

@dianeward5405

Ай бұрын

Very true.. life is merely a rocking chair

Lying down, eyes closed, listening to Alan watts. Life is wonderful

@oggyoggy1299

Ай бұрын

Well, eyes open and typing, presumably.

Whenever I feel overwhelmed by life, and I’m feeling anxious, depressed, or even hopeless, I listen to Alan and it makes me feel better and feel that things are going to be alright. It’s a priceless thing to have when feeling this way.

@rickduque5799

2 ай бұрын

He really was something else. His choice of words, his tone .... just so reassuring.

1 million spiritual talkers on KZread and. Watts remains the best.

@battousai7899

10 ай бұрын

Always he has a way of explaining the complicated in such a simplified manner and never comes off as “woke” and try Harding for likes

@carolgiangreco6548

9 ай бұрын

Definitely one of the best, but please take a chance and listen to Mooji and/or Eckhart Tolle as well.

@dinocardamone-sg1ph

9 ай бұрын

Both are ok, but Al and I go way back, met his son Mark when I was 10, in my own back yard !! before I knew anything about zen or Allen...now that was the sign of God. Ah men. :)

@MrYusha

9 ай бұрын

Sheikh Babikir Ahmed Babikir and Habib Ali Al Jifri...

@carolgiangreco6548

9 ай бұрын

@@dinocardamone-sg1ph I loved learning about Alan's youth, his growing up in London where his mother ran a boarding school for children of Chinese missionaries; his unquenchable curiosity and intelligence. Wow!

I get more out of Alan Watts than I ever did with organized religion.

@ioodyssey3740

Ай бұрын

If you seek out others of buddhism or zen, you are conducting organiized religion

"To relax completely under any situation of hardship…" I hear that!

I'm grateful for Alan. This keeps me grounded on my insane days.

@CO-oz1fk

8 ай бұрын

You & me both brother 💚

@thembiendumo3398

7 ай бұрын

Greatfull for allan watts I don't think I would have made this year❤

@SabinaBinche

7 ай бұрын

❤

@alanlashbrook6442

5 ай бұрын

He makes me insane on my grounded days.

@alanduff1054

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome lol

Thank you for this post, no music , just his voice, perfect!

i've been listening to alan since he used to be played every wednesday from six til seven on wfmu back in the nineteen seventies , his calm visionary style , his graceful eloquence as well as his warmth and sense of humor still set him apart from other philosophers , and the lack of any commercial aspect in his words is always noted and much appreciated , he made and continues to make an impact

@fine163

8 ай бұрын

Wonderful.

@extremeunction377

8 ай бұрын

He is timeless brother!!!

@wamiqfarooq7401

8 ай бұрын

Wonderful it is!

@chartydurrant744

6 ай бұрын

Bless you! He manages to show us gently our own utter fatuousness and how to rise out of the mud n mire. Likewise, I never tire of his truth-good strong medicine.

@marquisesmart1714

4 ай бұрын

I'm so excited to meet him one day

“And yet he said that.” Gets to the heart of the matter straightaway. Well done.

I always come back to Alan Watts. It's simply beautiful. 💚

Alan’s right. I’m addicted to being a student. I don’t know who I am without someone telling me what to think and what to do.

@user-us3pi4es5b

9 ай бұрын

So quit 🤟🤟

@MrSimonw58

9 ай бұрын

Really ?! ... it's a good strategy, carving your own path isn't easy

@helenfoster-holland6901

9 ай бұрын

Alan Watts teaches at a very high level. If you can hear his message only means you're not the message. Teachers are material and non material. All sources are required until you become the message.

@helenfoster-holland6901

9 ай бұрын

Addiction is just getting stuck

@j_fley6702

8 ай бұрын

Sounds like you had bad teachers, if that's what being a student means to you

Watts wrote his 1st book in 1951, since no other guru have come even close to his way with words.Will love to hear his take on this crazy relativistic world.

Watts has this incredible ability to delve into complex philosophical concepts and explain them in such a relatable and accessible manner. His words resonate deeply within, reminding us of the power of living in the present moment and embracing the essence of Zen. This video is a true gift for anyone seeking inner peace, tranquility, and a deeper understanding of life. I highly recommend it to all those who wish to embark on a spiritual journey and explore the depths of their own consciousness. Thank you for sharing this profound wisdom!

Alan Watts indeed has a way of grounding us back to what truly matters, a philosophy that I often explore on my channel through various lenses, including the business world. This video is a goldmine of wisdom, encouraging us to live a life unbounded by societal pressures, a message that is more important now than ever. Thank you for sharing this beacon of wisdom and light. 🌟

This particular speech by Watts finally opened the essence of his teachings for me. But wait there is no me! I love it

Listening to Watts on and off for 4 years. He provides some golden nuggets of info or points you in a direction to do more research. Applying what I’ve learned over the years makes me almost immune to having a bad day or getting angry over other people’s actions. I also have found peace within rather than chasing external vices.

This lecture hits my core.

I just realized that the Fight club is about Zen. 19:06 it's almost the exact description of the chapter when they wait in front of the house to be accepted in.

Zen = dancing with life

Beautiful Reminders .

Thank you for not overlaying music over Alan! Subscribed and turned on all notifications.👍

@Hologhoul

4 ай бұрын

Agreed. It is overly irritating when spirituality channels do that!

I appreciate you!! You are really good! I am thankful to hear you!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Conversations, lectures such as this, stirs up to understand more and better, as well as realize how much we do not know and may never hear again, or maybe never hear. Only being here fully in the moment without leaping ahead or forming a question which interrupts attention and learning from the one who shares their POV and experiences.

One of the best Alan watts lecture!

❤ Alan

His recordings for us are the greatest gift he could of given future minds... such a blessing.

The price we pay for being self conscious is still anxiety and guilt. Nothing changes with all these brilliant lectures From Alan Watts and Ram Dass. It is what it is. Detach.

Thank you for posting this 🙏🏽 I have heard this lecture before, but today the truths in it opened into an inner knowing.

After hearing this lecture I realize I’ve always been very Zen. I used to think there was something wrong with me because I felt like I wasn’t like everyone else but I’ve come to accept things. Thank you 🙏🏼

@CristinaNeedsaHug

5 ай бұрын

Then you are one of the lucky ones

@AndBusinessIsGood

5 ай бұрын

@@CristinaNeedsaHug let me give you a hug Cristina 🫂

@CristinaNeedsaHug

5 ай бұрын

@@AndBusinessIsGood :) 🫂

@libragal1750

4 ай бұрын

Same for myself ❤

Buddhism is a way of LIFE✌🏿✌🏿 I love you Allen, you have said it many times. BUDDHISM It's NOT A RELIGION 🙏🏿🙏🏿 NO ONE CAN MASTER A RELIGION 👊🏿👊🏿

He Understood Society & Other People So Well & How To Share His Knowledge With Others That Could Benefit From It

I just absolutely love listening to him so much.. my 3 teenagers roll there eys but it will live on and happy one day thay may listen and there children roll there eyes 😊😊 all his wonderful talks just bring such peace in my life always Thank you for sharing 😊

At 16:00 mins exactly he described my current situation in Japan. I, to the best of my ability try to be comfortable in the present, but this causes great stress in my Japanese wife who feels I must consistently be concerned about what will happen in the future.

@macandrewes

6 ай бұрын

That's a tough situation... I'm not a teacher or any authority on anything, but I wonder if your role isn't to just help her to see the freedom you have found in the wisdom of the present moment. She is probably very stuck in worry and doubt. Is she open to exploring some of these great teachings? In any case all you can do is shine your light and live your life... Best wishes from Canada ❤

@CarlYota

6 ай бұрын

Sounds like she is high conscientious and you are not. It’s a personality trait.

love this

I Needed This ✨️✨️✨️🖤

Ooo my Goddess....ALAN You re a genius

So much wisdom, calming, and enlightening ! His taught me a lot I just get him. His the therapist you would never find with a degree ❤

6:37 so good!!

Each time I listen to Alan talk I strip myself into a different space of time that are nothingness until I hear him talking about giving no meaning to that which is meaningless which even if I want it to blow my mind it doesn't since I lose it to the ever morphing and dispersing dissolving and fading away from the meaningful to meanigless. Best meditation practice which I've stopped doing while driving 😊

@caterinabonadiooconnor9982

5 ай бұрын

😂❤✨

@chellygarcia6529

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

A master called nazim, the one in my photo used to sit in silence for a whole day when he was prompt to do a talk. Then, people would ask questions the following day, and he spoke out of the effect of people requiring and answer. He knew deep down that there was ultimately nothing to actually answer, but our egos desire what they are too familiar with.

Awesome!!

Thank you brother for sharing this wisdom. Complete gold nuggets to me. I have been applying a vast % of this practice already not knowing all this so i absolutely will be practicing & applying these workings with much more intention. I believe 100% ... Thank you again... Nate

Great Talk As Always 😁👍

5:39 Meditation is sitting quietly & freeing your mind of thought, not thinking about something - that would be contemplation, which is to deeply consider something.

@abytebit

9 ай бұрын

Actually, mediation is happening every moment 😊

@willywagtails7984

9 ай бұрын

Meditation is being aware of awareness..... not doing...nothing ...being

@Listen2BAware

6 ай бұрын

Words are just sounds we attach meaning to... just do whatever is peaceful to you and Be 😊.

@agnidas5816

2 күн бұрын

who told you that ? meditation is quiet literally contemplation. Buddha never taught meditation. and Alan never once speaks on any of Buddhas instructions on practice - because he never saw it ... made up a bunch of shit and sold it to feed hit alcohol habit. check out maha patta sutta ...

I swear he's walking in water during this talk. Listen and you can hear the water.

@cecilcharlesofficial

26 күн бұрын

Lots of his lectures were given and recorded on his docked sailboat in Sausalito, CA.

Plato thought the self is an immortal soul and existed before we were born. He believed all knowledge is remembered from our prior existence. A teacher(Zen master) can set forth a line of questioning that draws the knowledge from your subconscious memories of past existence which contains all knowledge you've ever retained in your collective subconscious. You don't have to fear being alone after death there is one true self, but with minions of egos experiences, knowledge.

brilliant

Explanations of this kind are very entertaining. They are just explanations, what really counts is having the experience of the meaning of these explanations. Without experience, explanations are merely entertaining, and practically they are worth nothing.

@AcornEmbrio

9 ай бұрын

Yes. I had this at one point. But I personally come back so as not to forget. Getting too caught up can be easy. For me. I wish for everyone to experience what he's describing indescribably.

@MrTetsukobu

9 ай бұрын

@@AcornEmbrio ¨I haven't the slightest idea. Let's give it a try.¨ I used a magnifying glass to look at your picture, and in your eyes, I saw the reflection of our Original Face. Hello, somebody home? I asked .... 71 years later I am still waiting for a reply.

@kevinromig9477

9 ай бұрын

the explanation is the seed of the experience being planted .

@MrTetsukobu

9 ай бұрын

@@kevinromig9477 I see the explanation as the water, and the seed the longing to see the tree. Too much water and the seed is lost in the torrent of well-intentioned debris.

@smol

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your explanation ;)

Alan watts praised Adi Da, saying that he was IT. Please listen to Adi Da

@SupSucka

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the hookup! Bet!

If you're not worried, you're not paying attention. We should all be concerned about the state of the world and rightfully so.

This says about my philosophy. "Damned if you do and damned if you don't".

@CarlYota

6 ай бұрын

The point is that there is no YOU to do or not do. Nothing is damned here.

@upmytech

2 ай бұрын

@@CarlYota Wouldn't 'not-damning' inversely be just another form of damning? 🤔

Dear Madam I think your own beautiful spoken voice is much more lovely than the AI 🦋

22:23 - 23:23 To question is to be phony. Now we are one up on ourselves.

Wow

41:31 right, right right

Alan watts is my Jesus

@SexyMEFFER

Ай бұрын

AWW

That's why

Play on 2x speed

A part reminded me of when i was a child a asked what i want for Christmas and can't make up my mind or remember what i wanted, like i forget it because its a list of unattainable to our mind and now we have to prioritize the importance of things we haven't experienced and have only thought of owning so our brian kind of shorts out.,..for me at least...ALAN WATTS WOOOOOO!!

You can't not worry - not out of some personal will at least. Firstly, you don't control your will. You don't choose what you want - that would just be expressing more 'want.' We don't choose our thoughts. We don't choose what we feel inside. Yes, those things can change, and we can learn habits, but worry never goes away. And you're not in control of it. Because 'to be in control' is a fallacy, since while perhaps we have free will, we still don't choose what that will is. Again, that would just be more 'expression of will.' And so you can, in a very deep way, let go - only because you know it's entirely not up to you. And so you also won't let go, often. And that not letting go is anxiety. And being forced to feel anxiety - your willingness to do it - it's the only thing to do in the moment. Teach yourself to be willing to feel it. And watch the anxiety transmute as it's being felt. "The mind that clings to nothing, rejects nothing" - that's you right now. Not because there's no clinging. There is - you're anxious. You're clenched inside. We all are. The statement is true because there's no mind. There's clinging, there's just not you.

Watts knows the way #444 #222 #555

Does anyone see the face in the leaves?

33:00 listen 👂

I understand that . I don't understand how

I'm not afraid to die. I'm afraid of living like a di have lots of work to do Until then, some people just must wait to see where it goes since they won't do anything themselves

I want to ask a question to all the psychotherapist and helping professionals, how can we integrate this in counseling. Please let me know !

Allin what’s is dope

I hate the feeling is it right to do so, or not doing so, and no one unswers

💯👍🤺

I think I have the great siberian itch, but can you tell me what are my symptoms?

@fumarate1

7 ай бұрын

probably being fustrated desiring not to desire.

19:18 “anyone who goes to a Psychiatrists ought to have their head examined “ 😂

I’m trying to use philosophy to deal with coworkers smh it’s very difficult

@patrickd6989

8 ай бұрын

Maybe you are trying to hard and just need to let it flow however it goes, there is no difficulty that we do not create ourselves

@mrsvm6221

7 ай бұрын

Hey, me too.

@mrsvm6221

7 ай бұрын

@@patrickd6989listening to philosophy has helped me tremendously in dealing with my co workers. My nature is my nature and theirs is theirs. Philosophy has made it easier to understand this. You are absolutely correct in your statement.

@barbaraperez8785

7 ай бұрын

​​@@patrickd6989It's stressful and painful when you feel others negativity viscerally, as in, what this lecture wants to help relieve, that being anxiety disorders. What helps me to decompress from hostile or passive aggressive interactions based on reflections I immediately work on mentally, is to revisit all the right assertions I had and remembering the nonverbal cues I also gave to deescalate the tension, and most importantly assure myself that their lack of empathy or healthy management of their emotions is due to something I am ignorant about and also NOT my fault, as in, it's their problem, which I will not let affect my self-esteem.

@Listen2BAware

6 ай бұрын

We are never stuck. Free thyself.

10:35

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise

"Those who know do not say and those who say do not know"

@jasonblack6142

5 ай бұрын

That's not true

There’s no way to stop the background noises it’s rough using earbuds

@kanekanekaneable

9 ай бұрын

Rough with the smooth colleque

@freddytait7726

7 ай бұрын

It’s crap sound tec

Badly recorded sound on video..please fix and re post

That's why I need a master I mean someone to a teacher not I don't like Master a teacher

That's why you feel like you're being laughed at

Why in the world would I want to live without worry and fear? These are mental magnifying glasses, which can be misused, but when they are not, are laden with good purpose.

There are people who don't have the attention span & are not capable of picking up on & understanding the message

@libragal1750

4 ай бұрын

Because were too busy thinking 😂

@libragal1750

4 ай бұрын

You stopped to post your comment which tells me your attention span is short also lol.

If we are all the same organism, doesn’t that lead to resentment? Why would my right hand slap me in the face??

Is smoking and drinking the answer?

@thebeesqueen2831

2 ай бұрын

It's a choice, not an answer.

would love to enjoy your content but KZread has blocked me

The guy in the audience hacking during this speech ruined my Zen

We need school fees to attend the study or to get in the educational classes. Almost likely with the explanation. 👍🏾🎯👏🏾👏🏾🔥

Could we get to the point of title of this video .....10 minutes into video and we are still defining zen when the topic is fear and worry...Im just sayin ..this is KZread ..I know he gets to it eventually..but still . 😮...it goes on and on

The fool that persists in his folly may well become wise, but at what price?

No I don't thinks things out . When Ido it becomes a disaster

So this video won't make you live without worry & fear. Aha

“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise”53:35

JAJAJA el ministro de Justicia no puede mandar presos gente , necesita que un JUEZ los mande presos .

If one believes he can fool another by using made up directions like east, west and south when there is only one true direction...magnetic north! They are not in reality

Ok sorry to break it down to you but not only Japanese culture is very ritualistic. Every single ancient culture is heavily ritualistic. Our ancestors traditions and superstitions we long made fun of are based on rituals. We just don’t understand them. Muslims pray five times a day in a special sequence. There are things you do before and after the prayer, depending on the time of day. There are sleep rituals to purify your body and soule before sleep, others when you wake up. What you say and how you handle cooking, things you do and say before eating and after. Islamic culture is one of the most ritualistic cultures if not the most nowadays. Maybe because it’s still a young religion, hopefully upcoming generations will keep up these rituals.

This man talks nonsensical BS but I love it when I’m high af.

If only Alan knew that the Earth is actually FLAT: Nontheless this was a wonderful lecture.

He is describing a world in which there are no predators, no accidents, no “evils”. Lucky him. Perhaps arrogant and foolish him.

@highlandyankee8277

3 ай бұрын

It's a point that can't be ignored

Fk is up with all these bots in the comments? Some CIA project?

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