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@donaldyanson8144

7 ай бұрын

You should feel guilty. You've been given paradise. And you've turned it into hell.

"You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!"

@yarmus718

8 ай бұрын

Just Keep Playing!

@sammiejones5996

7 ай бұрын

Wow. Thanks all.

@innernouter

7 ай бұрын

Ive stopped playing and trying to find motivation to start again

@GAVIN-im5tz

7 ай бұрын

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@yhamez37

7 ай бұрын

@@innernouterme too. It’s paralyzing

David Bowie said that if you hear a mistake once, it is a mistake....if you hear it three times, it is an arrangement. I love that.

@nicolehabex8997

7 ай бұрын

David Bowie is not always right in his thinking just like every one else he made mistake

@KarmicAngel

6 ай бұрын

She never said David bowie was right about anything.. she simply stated something he said that she liked.. learn to read

@shawncormier52

6 ай бұрын

I think Jimmy Page said something similar about his guitar soloing.

My mother used to say that the 11th commandment is, "Thow shalt not "should" thyself."

Feeling guilty about feeling guilty! I needed to hear this

@AllThingsFilm1

6 ай бұрын

I can relate!

1:55 Guilt is destructive emotion. People take symbolic methods of expiation instead of taking practical steps. You lick your wounded ego. 5:31 Freedom is freedom to make mistakes, and be a fool! Then don't do it again, or do it less often! Thanks Alan. 25 September 2023.🦋🦋🦋🌻🌻🌻🌻🌹🌹🌹🌹

It is really important to make mistakes in Art. As an Art Teacher I was always rescuing screwed up art work and insisting it was kept. Later on when the student did work they were really proud of, I'd refer to their rejected work. If they hadn't made that 'mistake', they wouldn't have discovered this new work they were proud of. This was so obvious, kids stopped throwing work out. This is how we learn to have confidence in our own processes. Our work is individual to each, and that is where we must be brave.

I think people usually do their best from the level of consciousness they’re at and under their unique challenging often severely so circumstances. So we all make mistakes and act terribly at times and God/The Divine Loves us Unconditionally and forgives us completely because they understand us completely and why we did what we did. We must learn to Love and forgive ourselves and others in the same way.

I did the best I could at the moment. I acted the best I could based on my traumas and programming as I could at the time. No guilt as I acted as I did because I couldn't have acted any other way at that moment. Why? It's because it's how I acted. If you can pick up what I put down than guilt does not exist 🙏😇🤗🦋❤️❣️

Cheers to freedom 🥂 To learning from our mistakes.

Ohhhhhhh! I sure wish that someone had told me that 69 years ago . Thank you Alan. 😊

Guilt is ingrained in us through religion. Well, Catholic guilt at least!

@yhamez37

7 ай бұрын

Mine is just basic run of the mill Christianity, but yeah guilt is deeply engrained in me. It’s an involuntary reaction.

@eileenmalik5141

6 ай бұрын

Jewish guilt too

His laugh was so wholesome. And heart-warming

I love how his mind is able to articulate basic human behavior and actions in a way that closes the gap of the past and condenses it into just listening to him Absolutely beautiful

This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my KZread channel 8 months ago about self development. Now I have 778 subs and > 300 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.

freedom to make mistakes this is fucking amazing

Alan Watts gave me the courage to take my guilt ridden mind from my family’s Christianity indoctrination and tell them to shove it. Religion has to use guilt because it isn’t truth. When something isn’t true, it has to be forced or make its adherents live in fear. This is something I don’t want to be a part of.

I hope you never stop uploading these videos :)

@WiaraTV

7 ай бұрын

I'll try!

@suryaerngratlokuta6706

7 ай бұрын

Eventually death comes for all of us

@Impulze7

7 ай бұрын

@@suryaerngratlokuta6706 dumbest reply I've read all year

Some wrong notes make a beautiful sound. I wouldn’t change a single wrong note in my life, they all led to miracles

@neelroy2918

5 ай бұрын

I do this excercise sometimes. I did a mistake. A huge one. That led me here wherever this is. *This* by no standard is good. Mainly because of past one huge mistake mentioned earlier. So I think and wonder sometimes - if i could go back and not do that one mistake would I be okay even though it means i wouldnt be"here" even though it's not perfect "here" . So far for almost two decades answer always been no. Funny and excruciatingly annoying.

@Livingthedream333

5 ай бұрын

@@neelroy2918 I have thought about “what ifs”, everyone does. This isn’t a bad thing to reflect. I fell into a trap with it tho. I let it consume me with regret. It destroyed me twice. All those lessons are the measure of my life now. I have examined my life down to the very second, that things would have been different, I know in my heart the way things were supposed to go and were planned for me. All conditions have to be perfect for an angel to kiss an elf but those conditions can never stand the test of time. It just means that the Elf and the angel will always have that memory of that time, when all conditions were perfect.

@neelroy2918

5 ай бұрын

@@Livingthedream333 well put. And helpful.

I appreciate Alan Watts. Love his voice. Love his wisdom. I disagree with him that people are "absurd" for working for money. It is easy for someone of his caliber to say such a thing -- someone who rubbed elbows with affluent people all his life -- someone who was born with an extremely flexible intellect which allowed him to spend his life tickling the ears (hence loosening the purse strings) of upper class spiritual aspirants. Again, love Alan Watts. Really do. Just hate what he said there.

@boembo6627

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, must be nice to be able to follow your passion without becoming homeless and hungry. I like to think he meant the system that forces people to work for money to keep themselves and their families alive is absurd.

@michaelrainbow4203

7 ай бұрын

@@boembo6627 For sure, my friend. That would be nice. I've had to work my whole life. It's what I've known. Alan Watts means a great deal to me. He's helped so many people, even after and beyond his passing in the 1970s. Just hearing him speak has been a great comfort to me over the years. The comment he made in this lecture just rubbed me the wrong way. But... perhaps your interpretation is correct. Even if he did mean it the way I originally thought, he still was a good-hearted human with so much wisdom to share. I'm always grateful to him. Grateful to you, too, friend. Peace

@bengzonthebeats5011

7 ай бұрын

I think maybe it is to follow a passion that you know may bring an added value in people’s life but at the same time give you that everyday purpose that you want to get better because you are just so much passionate about it. I have always been amazed by speakers like him, tony robbins , Jordan Peterson etc who have managed to turn those lectures or small talks into big industry. But despite the money they have made you can always sense behind their voice their passion, their search of knowledge and above all the added value they have brought in many people life

@StopTheWarOnDrugs

7 ай бұрын

I don't think he meant it in a king of moralistic way. He wasn't trying to lay another guilt trip on you. I think everyone can see the absurd in working just for money. Yes, you need money to live but even if you don't follow your passion and can make a living out of it you can start to see work as play. So you don't wait all day for getting back home and never living in the present moment, the only moment.

@yhamez37

7 ай бұрын

@@StopTheWarOnDrugsyeah it sucks. I basically live so I can earn enough money to live so I can go to work. It’s a terrible trap.

My favourite advisor he is in his own!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤

"...or at least do it less often" - love that.

Animals don't commit sins. That's why many people love them.

@serpenteve

7 ай бұрын

That single statement has too many lessons in it. I am willing to know more about it. I need the mindset/thought that gave birth to that statement.

@bellavia5

7 ай бұрын

@@serpenteve Animals are pure beings. There is no evil in them. Don't over think it.

I remember one of the last statements my ex wife threw at me was. I don't want to work all my life I want to relax and live. Indicating that I am not able to provide enough for her to do so. Money sadly is power and respect to most.

@redtobertshateshandles

5 ай бұрын

You dodged a bullet. Move on. There's some great women out there who don't mind working.

Thank you Mr. Watts for this reminder! Very wise words that we All need to be reminded of, frequently, until it sticks!!! ⭐💖🙏

For me the biggest challange in regards to finding a vocation has been that if I experience that I get too good too fast at something, I almost immediately lose interest in it. I can definitely see though how learning to play and make mistakes and accepting those would benefit me greatly...

@joefunk76

6 ай бұрын

Here are some easy ones to get good at fast: musician, athlete, stand-up comedian, software engineer, surgeon.

@xO_oxDK

6 ай бұрын

@@joefunk76 I AM A Surgeon dr JoeFunk!! 😝

I'm here to expiate my guilt by listening to Alan instead of doing something about it :)

@innernouter

7 ай бұрын

You and me both

@bentnob

7 ай бұрын

You are the universe having a you experience

@Drew-ec1nd

7 ай бұрын

Put what he’s said to practicality, there’s your solution.

@DK-uh8nk

7 ай бұрын

No worries. No guilt here, not really. Eastern philosophies really made me more serene and accepting, of myself, others, situations and life in general. I'm not the same as i was 5-6 years ago. Alan Watts is partly responsible for that. Love him

thank you so much for reuploading this!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU TEACHER ❤😊

Great, please keep uploading all the old videos.

@WiaraTV

7 ай бұрын

Thank you, I will

Thanks for Passing The Energy

Just pancaked a family of 6 with my Ford F150! Needed this, thanks.

Thank you Alan

I love you Colleen.

Really needed to hear this today cheers Al 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thank you.

@WiaraTV

7 ай бұрын

Welcome!

Thank you again for the reminder Mr. Watts 🙌🔥

Not easy with depression 😢

Love hearing him laugh.

i need to start taking notes on these videos because i have so much i want to write about

I have so much respect for Allen Watts and his philosophy. Thanks to him my insight is becoming deeper. Peace 🕉 and hope.8888

@crashbangwhallopwhatavideo

7 ай бұрын

So much respect that you can't spell his name correctly 🤣🤣🤣

@kennymos9007

7 ай бұрын

Well maybe he will correct that mistake, lol

@kennymos9007

7 ай бұрын

But thinking philosophy is the answer is the real mistake. I learned that from Osho.

@turnfrmsinorhell_jesus

7 ай бұрын

The only way to eternal life is through God's blameless son Jesus who died for our sins. Believe, repent turn away from sins and get baptised. Be not deceived by any other incorrect teachings or beliefs. Please read bible book Luke for full salvation details

@kennymos9007

7 ай бұрын

@turnfrmsinorhell_jesus lol, you just contradicted yourself so good.

I don’t feel guilty about anything and I don’t connect to guilty feeling empathetically

1:05 Purpose of making money, you're absurd. 2:04 Feeling guilty. 2:53 Walt always admired animals, because they do not lie awake at night and weep for their sins. 5:20 Freedom means, the freedom to make mistakes and damn fool. But, simply don't do it again.

If you learn and grow beyond your mistakes, and help others to grow beyond theirs as a result, you have turned the mistake into something decisively better, or to good, or totally remedied a situation. So healthy growth finally occurred, instead of a wilted wasteland of mistakes.

Grazie Mr. Watts. Ne avevo bisogno, proprio adesso..

I love what Alan says about guilt. But more than that I love his laughter ❤

Interestingly, this video popped up while I was pondering a "mistake" from many years ago, that I may have to face again soon. I need to ponder this, maybe learn.

Music in the background is beautiful ❤ Excellent choice!

Já se právě cítím strašně provinile! Nikdo mě nemá rád, mám malý péro a jsem tlustej :D Všechno je to moje chyba :D Půjdu se zabít .. musím vopatrně, už nás je jenom deset :D

I really don't know what to think about individuals who have never had to work hard for money to feed their family and themselves, and then make fun of those who do. Sometimes I think Allan Watts is just of one of those good and "sonorous" speakers who have read lots of books written by actually wise people. One thing is sure: I don't like his stiff sense of humour. "If you work for money, you salivate over bank notes, which makes you a Pavlov's dog salivating over the wrong bell hahaha!" I really thought this video was going to give me a hint about how not to feel guilty. It's quite the opposite.

@Mitchell-mo9up

7 ай бұрын

Your not working for money your working to feed your family that I believe is a big difference.

@AustinMoffatt-we2ep

7 ай бұрын

Here's the issue, though. Money is nothing more than a tool, like a hammer you use. Really think about it for a minute....Humanity at large is controlled by this small piece of paper. This small piece of paper dictates who has "everything they want" and who doesn't. We are conditioned to constantly chase this piece of paper in hopes that it will bring us something better or so we can feel better about ourselves. You don't need to read any books in order to understand this simple game.

@AustinMoffatt-we2ep

7 ай бұрын

Alan Watts is basically saying that if you are happy with yourself and what you are doing, the money will come. Similar to how so many people find the person who they spend the rest of their lives with without putting in much effort.

@danae-rain3019

7 ай бұрын

I agree. Watts is so effing snug! I can get spiritual advice from people who have more humility than him.

@nickmulcahy9199

6 ай бұрын

I agree with comments here that Alan Watts is smug -- especially with his comment that if you work for money you are "absurd". Privileged Brit. BUT his comments here about guilt are helpful. It is a state of mind that keeps you stuck.

Animals don’t choose good or evil, but humans make a conscious decision to choose good or evil and that’s the difference. So, when a person chooses evil over good then the conscience is wounded, it suffers.

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When you are conscious guilt is a detriment to your awakening and healing. When you are unconscious no guilt or remorse fuels the unconscious behaviour.

Many people don't feel guilty. Only because they are deficient of true compassion and only true compassion will know if your guilty. Ah, but when your dead, that is a different story. Suddenly all your guilt and Regret, will gang up on you. This is your true nature and can not be avoided, ever.

"Just don't do it again, or at least do it less often"

Love the video but I have to work for money to pay the bills. I never had Alan's talent to have a vocation. P. S. I once had a girlfriend who loved rolling about naked on £10 notes. She was the best teacher I ever met for saving money. The days of being young on winter nights in front of the fire with hearthrug pie as a nightcap. 😊

@felixmoyoedonmi

8 ай бұрын

We all have to work for money. Alan Watts inclusive. The secret is to realize that everything one does is a play.

@martynrawlins8050

8 ай бұрын

​@@felixmoyoedonmi English isn't my main language so I don't understand when you say in present tense that even Alan has to work because as I understand it, he's been dead for several decades assuming several means 3 or 4. Have you developed the technology to make the dead work in your country? How do you stop them rotting. I have so many questions to ask you. My real name is Borislav

@felixmoyoedonmi

8 ай бұрын

@martynrawlins8050 please understand, mate, that there is no past or future. Everything is incorporated into an eternal now. Every action is a play of the mind. One's birth or death, success or failure, laughter or cry, pleasure or pain. All actions are a play of the mind in an everlasting NOW. It is EXISTENCE/CONSCIOUSNESS playing these beautiful games. It is all a play.

@martynrawlins8050

8 ай бұрын

@@felixmoyoedonmi Yes, I fully understand that the deepest spiritual level is a oneness in timelessness or eternal now but we come to Earth plane existence to gain experience where time comes into being, necessitating a language of past present and future. These are the inescapable conditions of this material planet and many others like it. As a further consequence here we can not just communicate in the now. True enough now is the only reality. But to speak it constantly would probably result in a diagnosis of dementia which would inevitably result further in loss of freedom and under constant observation. This in turn would be detrimental to existence on this Earth plane of existence. I thank my friend for allowing me to use his phone to gain further knowledge of English.

@AnatolieLupacescu

7 ай бұрын

​@@martynrawlins8050wow, you have such a humble ego! you must be the only one who truly gets what Alan is teaching! also very mature humor, I'm interested

Non man not facing mistakes

We do not agree because guilt teaches us when we are wrong, it teaches us what is good and what is not, what is sin and what is virtue. To never feel guilty is to ignore the morality of life and the consequences born from one's own actions. To never feel guilty means to never question one's wrongdoings and prevents one to become a better person towards other living things. To never feel guilty leads to evermore sin and wrongdoings (with evermore negative consequences to others), to evermore corruption of the spirit in the mind and evermore suppression of the soul within the heart. This does not mean that one should let one's guilt dominate one's life because that ALSO leads to negative consequences to one's own self (and others), but guilt leads to repentance and subsequently to a change and betterment of one's wrongs and sins. It's not for nothing that ancient texts and beliefs have spoke of this for ten thousand years. If we lose our morals, we relinquish our soul and we damn our spirit throughout the remainder of our evolution. The fact we have the ability to feel guilty in the first place should NEVER be ignored but realized as a necessity of life, just like feeling virtue, joy and happiness. No dear ppl, one should practice BALANCE between guilt and overcoming it. Because guilt is there to have us "overcome" our own wrongs and sins. To turn our back to guilt is to turn our backs to God and what He gave us to struggle through the fields of life (AND death).

@cheryllthomas6058

7 ай бұрын

That was wonderfully well said. Thank you 🙏 ❤

When you act according to society. You will be controlled and manipulated by others. When you finally have enough. You stop caring and beginning to see how they do things. Because society has corrupted the mind to think that their way is the only way and therefore it is easier to control the masses. Never feel guilty and let others reveal what they are to because they do not see what you see. I feel sorry for those people still believing blindly. I can see the truth.

Animals also do jobs for survival, unpleasant things that they just have to do. Money is simply an abstraction of energy that can be exchanged for concrete expressions or manifestations of energy in the form of goods and services. The more money you have, the more power you have to choose from the goods and services everything you desire. So excitement over money is simply positive anticipation and that makes perfect sense regardless of whether the money was acquired through labour or ingenuity or heartfelt service. The idea that we have a vocation comes from religion and that's also where we get the saying that money is the root of evil, which is nonsense. Money isn't an entity. It's an abstraction.

Sometimes you have to take work purely for the money to pay the bills and feed and cloth yourself, you don’t have to like what you do, just do it properly to earn your pay, not everyone is lucky enough to have a vocation

Guilt is a destructive emotion, and that’s all that it is. It doesn’t remind you of “what to do” and it doesn’t show you “what to do,” all it is able to do is degrade and degenerate. It is a blackhole and it’s unequivocally unnecessary and destructive.

A dangerous message really so even if we wrong someone no guilt? Irresponsible and no accountability. Sure we can learn and grow from it but also guilt towards a wrong we did is part of being a decent human being isnt it?

Om

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Honor your mistake as a hidden intention Brian Eno

Is using words like "should" in itself subscribing to the guilt as well?

@WiaraTV

8 ай бұрын

In what way?

@tamasrozsa1298

8 ай бұрын

Not necessarily.

@katashley1031

7 ай бұрын

Yes. Most of the time should is an expression of judgment and guilt.

At about 1:20, I don't know a single normal, average person that works with the end goal of money. Maybe the extreme wealthy or others close to that do. But the average, normal person working a job may appear at a superficial level to have an end goal of money, but in reality the goal is actually much deeper. But it requires you to look deeper that the superficial level. Now there are greedy people out there, whose sole purpose maybe is to have lots of money, but I have rarely encountered such people, and rarely among the average man/woman. And those that profess their goal to be money, are often just inarticulate about what their real goals are.

Evil is the root of all evil. Money is just a bartering tool. Money can buy happiness and it can also be amazing.

@anthonymichaeldurkin6244

7 ай бұрын

fact....

@klyvemurray

7 ай бұрын

"I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love" ☮♥

@punitawasthi3138

7 ай бұрын

It's for people who have gone beyond money. After having too much money they realised it can't buy you happiness 😊

Same with learning how to speak a new language. We are afraid of being laughed at. Oh well!! Just keep on making a fool of yourself lol😅😅😅

Til i'm absurd

I play all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order.

So, in other words. Do whatever you feel like regardless of whether it's good or bad or who you hurt in the process because guilt is just a destructive, egotistical emotion anyway...

@justinbakerking

6 ай бұрын

People who act that way are usually the ones who already don’t feel any guilt. I think this message is for people with a good conscience who are more likely to be hung up on guilt

....well...apparently~ #45 has mastered this idea ....

@katashley1031

7 ай бұрын

All politicians are sociopaths. Stop buying into the 2 party theater.

😂 Wow you all like Alan Watts good luck 😂❤️✌️

Adverts on KZread are out of hand! Can't even block on phone anymore! This platform is near extinction

If you have no guilt or shame you’ll just end up losing the same game.

In the right context, these words could have a positive meaning, but in general it is justifying nonchalant attitude towards self growth and imperviousness to accountability

The only counselling I would take from an alcoholic like Watts would be to give up drinking. He really was in no position to dispense advice on anything else.

@DonTheMoron716

4 ай бұрын

I’m sure that you are perfect, Herbert.

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I haven't watched the video yet but I thought guilt/shame is a useful tool for change and learning

Sickening the things ppl come up with to let themselves off the hook for being unGodly.

You have to pay the bills. That's why most of the time people work an unpleasant job.

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The more bum notes you make now the less bum notes you make later.

Depends on what you've done, surely?

Guilt only profits the church.

I don’t at all. ✌️

I have only recently heard of Alan Watts and starting listening to what he has to say. I have come to the conclusion that I am not interested.

You should probably feel guilty in certain circumstances, like if you cause someone harm, or do something you know is wrong.

Because I do nothing wrongs! Didn't l ?

Dude laughs like a maniac

He need must should be guilty then correct.withput guilt are beast creature non humans

there is no dirty work, only dirty minds.... and people with vocations still do dirty work ...they split it up, so that no one person has a full time dirty job....this is an innacurate description of society... and nobody should not want to do dirty work.... if they see any kind of work as lowly, beneath them and see themselves to be superior to it, they have psychological problems.....

I dont love money i dont think but i dam sure deserve money if im going to hell for eternity

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Hehe, it was just a mistake. 😂

You all guilty skippers

The crappy eerie music ruins it.

@veritas_13

7 ай бұрын

It´s like being in a shopping mall and get pestered with background noise. Alan Watts himself never had this nuisance running in the bakcground during his lectures / seminars. Imagin, Eckhart Tolle, Mooji, Adyashanthi giving lectures with such obnoxious stuff. Anyone may use a device, if noise is needed.

This was not as helpful as I'd hoped. What if you make a deadly mistake? The guilt is not easy to get over like playing a wrong note on a piano. 🙄😟