Don't Be Scared It's All Just A Game - Alan Watts On The Great Illusion

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A profound speech on the life's illusion by Alan Watts. Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts - Out Of Your Mind 04"
““This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.””
- Alan Watts. (1915 - 1973)
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Our hope with these videos is to push your thinking. As Alan Watts said “No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.” - Alan Watts.

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  • @dmackenzie3528
    @dmackenzie3528 Жыл бұрын

    “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” ― Alan Watts

  • @indi1st517

    @indi1st517

    Жыл бұрын

    Then if I am to survive, I am to become the joker. -Unknown origin.

  • @ernestcotton9324

    @ernestcotton9324

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes

  • @maximelagace
    @maximelagace Жыл бұрын

    "Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe." -Alan Watts

  • @MrJamesdryable
    @MrJamesdryable Жыл бұрын

    And in this intense struggle, we are unknowing poets. Alan Watts

  • @GUN_X
    @GUN_X7 ай бұрын

    Truly "all just a game!!1!1!1!1!!" moment

  • @Alec0124
    @Alec0124 Жыл бұрын

    this man is a legend.

  • @StrongBodyandMind33
    @StrongBodyandMind33 Жыл бұрын

    I’ve been saying this for years! I always posed the question to those who complained about the system ( which I don’t agree with as well), why don’t we all just stop going to work?? As simply as he put it, it’s because people are not ready and many do like the competition even if it means hating your life

  • @OnlyThisMoment
    @OnlyThisMoment Жыл бұрын

    I am never serious but I am always sincere 🙏

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    @VeganSemihCyprus33

    Жыл бұрын

    The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤

  • @rogerlin9602
    @rogerlin9602 Жыл бұрын

    To play the game and know it's a game is quite fascinating. He doesn't take it seriously, but he isn't shallow and frivolous either. All the roles are played by the joker. 😂😂😂😂 All positive and negative are paired. The positive is always in the process of overcoming the negative. Winner and loser must be paired. It's transactional. But if the negative always overcomes the positive, the game won't continue. It would be a tragedy! ⛩🐳🐘🍇🌝🐧🐞🍉🍭🐓🎯 Reality is invisible, but stripes are put on so people can see it like a zebra. God is invisible because of his self forgetfulness. The world is visible because it's a game. Therefore, we are all forgetful God playing on Earth like jokers.😇🤡😇🤡😇🤡 Thanks Alan. 13 June 2023.🎯⛩🦊🍇🐳🐞🍇🔬

  • @VeganSemihCyprus33

    @VeganSemihCyprus33

    Жыл бұрын

    The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤

  • @mnetzer6777

    @mnetzer6777

    Жыл бұрын

    Damn!! Well said my friend!!

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    @42BETWO

    Жыл бұрын

    More!!

  • @scorps192

    @scorps192

    Жыл бұрын

    🤡

  • @daluthandontontela5382
    @daluthandontontela5382 Жыл бұрын

    Love the way you make it understandable ❤

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    @vnnyCao Жыл бұрын

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    @lucyweilbel6681

    Жыл бұрын

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    @ashliesatwick5977

    Жыл бұрын

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    Жыл бұрын

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    @vnnyCao

    Жыл бұрын

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    @vnnyCao

    Жыл бұрын

    the handle

  • @goodbyebluesky5770
    @goodbyebluesky5770 Жыл бұрын

    We are in one gigantic experiment!

  • @youwatcherist

    @youwatcherist

    Жыл бұрын

    It's All A Game, a Thought Experiment, We're in the Matrix Erin Valenti

  • @andrearenee7845
    @andrearenee7845 Жыл бұрын

    I made a pac with myself that I would NEVER work for a company more then a few months. Being an actor, it was perfect. I worked in every field I could to learn as much as I can, and don't regret anything. I am not rich, far from it. But I am wealthy from the knowledge and graditude I gained from others.. So many. Including Mr. Watts..

  • @ladyspellbreaker1313
    @ladyspellbreaker131311 ай бұрын

    I love Alan Watts wisdom. This is beautiful. Happy dark side of the moon. It’s amazing the way we humans attach so much meaning and labels to everything forever creating duality. Thank you for all you do, share and are.

  • @Red23165
    @Red23165 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you ❤

  • @nicollegarty4222
    @nicollegarty4222 Жыл бұрын

    Outstanding!! 👏🏽👏🏽🧘🏽‍♀️🌹💐

  • @Kalyl690
    @Kalyl690 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks guru Mr.Allan Watz

  • @reeblesnarfle4519
    @reeblesnarfle4519 Жыл бұрын

    Tremendous. 😎👍🌹🙏

  • @SOURCE_ENLIGHTENMENT101
    @SOURCE_ENLIGHTENMENT101 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you....Namaste

  • @uy2526
    @uy2526 Жыл бұрын

    Why we keep complicating a gift that is so simple to enjoy is beyond me !!

  • @bas5984

    @bas5984

    Жыл бұрын

    For many people it is everything but simple to enjoy.

  • @dan32113

    @dan32113

    Жыл бұрын

    It's the Capitalist system. Greed of fellow Humans ie Landlords force pressure on you. As they want more & more. But the consumer part is an unnecessary construct, you need little to be happy.

  • @mnetzer6777

    @mnetzer6777

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dan32113 Do you know if a better system? Just curious

  • @dan32113

    @dan32113

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mnetzer6777 this is an interesting thought. Jeremy Corbyns policies were called loony left by UK media. But in fact are seen as moderate in Europe. A Capitalist system that is regulated could work, unfettered greed no. Remember it's socialism for the Rich, when the Banks failed the Tax payer bailed them out. Austerity was forced on everyone because of their reckless behaviour.

  • @MichaelSmith420fu

    @MichaelSmith420fu

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@mnetzer6777this isn't even a system. The only reason a society exist or works is directly due to the people who agree with each other. But I'n a system(s) like America democracy (or w/e), it literally and metaphorically is corrupted and compartmentalized. People do what people do. Unfortunately, parasites aren't always so easy to remove. That's the problem with our (non)"system". It's It's superficial, chaotically wrought, and poisonous.

  • @SIMxv
    @SIMxv Жыл бұрын

    Awesomeness for this video. Ase

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    @VeganSemihCyprus33

    Жыл бұрын

    The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤

  • @johnnysandiegoable
    @johnnysandiegoable Жыл бұрын

    “The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun… for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride.” -Bill Hicks

  • @MRMUZO-gx7yp
    @MRMUZO-gx7yp Жыл бұрын

    Thank u

  • @SiriusZiriux
    @SiriusZiriux11 ай бұрын

    THIS IS FAHKING AMAZING PLEASE MAKE MORE LIKE THIS!?!?!?!?!!!?!!??!

  • @Shallowworld9236
    @Shallowworld9236 Жыл бұрын

    Alan watt out there swallowed all red pill

  • @Primetime420
    @Primetime4204 ай бұрын

    Real talk

  • @WalkingInkPad
    @WalkingInkPad6 ай бұрын

    🙏🏽🗣️💯

  • @yourmother1211
    @yourmother12117 ай бұрын

    “It’s all just a game” - papyrus watts

  • @darren65ish
    @darren65ishАй бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @W1seWallyW1lson
    @W1seWallyW1lson Жыл бұрын

  • @graemegeorgeharrison2468
    @graemegeorgeharrison2468 Жыл бұрын

    Wish I knew of this man as a child

  • @rawfoodphilosophy7061

    @rawfoodphilosophy7061

    Жыл бұрын

    If he was a baby I'd craddle him in my arms and brush his teeth

  • @42BETWO
    @42BETWO Жыл бұрын

    It’s precarious, living within the tension of this polarity between chaos and order…losing and winning…good and evil. Random and chance has enough order to it to bet on it. Win some, lose some…never zero sum (over sharpen a blade, it blunts).

  • @troyselland6059
    @troyselland6059 Жыл бұрын

    This revealed truth reminds me of the Heyokas of the Lakota Oyate where I grew up. Heyoka vision is beautiful! The sacred role that they play is so enlightening. Vision. Play. Dream.

  • @OrgusDin

    @OrgusDin

    11 ай бұрын

    sip firewater, say woo woo, cope, receive welfare check

  • @michaela.norrissr.6510
    @michaela.norrissr.6510 Жыл бұрын

    And we Chose not too be... Period, For we know that is how we got here...

  • @coryschlegel5705
    @coryschlegel5705 Жыл бұрын

    I choose not to play the game. Especially if it involves other people. I had a dream about "an end". In a live raft with others struggling to have rational thoughts. I saw a dog trapped along the river banks before we were about to go over a waterfall. Instead of wasting time trying to communicate to the others all in hysteria to bail. I just jumped to go for the dog an left the people behind. I choose to play the game of life. Not the game of drama...

  • @3rdScribe155
    @3rdScribe155 Жыл бұрын

    a game with dire consequences! .

  • @CAS-2021
    @CAS-2021 Жыл бұрын

    Listening to Alan watts I've realized depresses me.. in a way.. because the truth fu☆☆ing rips deep.

  • @pinkifloyd7867

    @pinkifloyd7867

    9 ай бұрын

    The Truth does set you free. But first it's gonna hurt a little .. Trust the proces ❤💥❤

  • @MichaelSmith420fu
    @MichaelSmith420fu Жыл бұрын

    So.... I had premonitions about the majority of the more intense aspects of my life long before they happened. I thought they were just weird dreams caused by my subconscious mind. They were that and more. I wish I could tell someone about the true extent of my premonitions and clairvoyance. It's haunted menall my life until I finally gave up on trying to make sense of it. what I can say is that consciousness and SpaceTime have a different relationship than we seem to understand it's not straight up causal in one direction.

  • @sinky187
    @sinky187 Жыл бұрын

    Can someone please explain the actual meaning here, I have it to a degree but if some one could put it in a nutshell?? Thanks

  • @rawfoodphilosophy7061
    @rawfoodphilosophy7061 Жыл бұрын

    "you must join..........and then freedom dissapears"

  • @illusion1361
    @illusion13612 ай бұрын

    It’s all a game how you play it and who you play it with determines where you get to

  • @victorysoul8408
    @victorysoul8408 Жыл бұрын

    Song: recognize by Grant Borland

  • @MrJoker-
    @MrJoker- Жыл бұрын

    Laugh and carry on.

  • @taxationistheft1789
    @taxationistheft178911 ай бұрын

    I think he was a genius

  • @michaela.norrissr.6510
    @michaela.norrissr.6510 Жыл бұрын

    True that shit... Poor folk usually can't afford to Play Rich Mans Games... Then there are some of us That Choose not too... Those few, We are not them...

  • @Eyeballman24
    @Eyeballman24 Жыл бұрын

    I have a tendency to take things too seriously, because I wish to not see others suffer needlessly. I get agitated at the idea of the powerful inflicting suffering on the powerless and it makes me want to fight. After all, you can not know peace, without conflict.

  • @FrisbeeGirl
    @FrisbeeGirl Жыл бұрын

    Ha! With a thumbnail like that: no, it's not a game and be very scared because it's a flipping nightmare.

  • @takeuchi5760

    @takeuchi5760

    Жыл бұрын

    I mean the thumbnail was literally the Joker, the archetype whose defining characteristic is not taking things too seriously. I don't see the problem.

  • @FrisbeeGirl

    @FrisbeeGirl

    Жыл бұрын

    @@takeuchi5760 Interesting! I saw/see Pennywise, which is a whole different ball of noodles. Not sure what this says about the shadow work I need to do!

  • @samreich7042
    @samreich7042 Жыл бұрын

    WHY ARE THE SCRIPTURES AN ABSOLUTE IN THEIR UNIVERSAL TEACHINGS?🎉🎉🎉

  • @atthefeetofthemaster
    @atthefeetofthemaster Жыл бұрын

    No man can stand outside the game theorem of all of life. that is absurd. those "outsiders" are indeed very key players. Expansion of the individual guiding from spirit first, then to the mind and onwards to matter opens up to a greater synthesis of the "rules" if you will. the game breaks down when you see that the construct of games themselves is an order served to us by what we perceive as a "game". There is not enough subtlety for games within the bounds of the layers of infinity x

  • @eriklee1794
    @eriklee1794 Жыл бұрын

    "Be careful of the word GAME"

  • @thunzie
    @thunzie Жыл бұрын

    Yellow?

  • @juliem2713
    @juliem2713 Жыл бұрын

    Why why why the music?

  • @ignatiusakai.g4374
    @ignatiusakai.g4374 Жыл бұрын

    I figured it out, I'm not playing Time will tell, don't listen to a word I say... the game must go on, I have no reason and don't want to continue much longer... remember and laugh in memory, don't miss me... The game played out this way, you should play along in joy Don't follow to know the end...

  • @_zproxy
    @_zproxy5 ай бұрын

    00:05:07 ♪ ZEBRA¹

  • @steal4526
    @steal4526 Жыл бұрын

    I remember....when I go to sleep I wake back up. I meant that is two way.....going to sleep and waking back up and at death.

  • @steal4526

    @steal4526

    Жыл бұрын

    One big circle but different life's.

  • @nickegglington356
    @nickegglington3563 ай бұрын

    Correct. And we get to play infinite roles for an infinite amount of time! It's the greatest fun park of all time. Our ancestors created it long ago. Given how quickly our technology has evolved in just a few years....do you really think it didnt evolve until 100,000s of years into our evolution? No...we a far more advance than what it appears. What exists outside the game. Outside the construct is far beyond anything you can imagine. ;-)

  • @VeganSemihCyprus33
    @VeganSemihCyprus33 Жыл бұрын

    The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤

  • @y.u.208
    @y.u.208 Жыл бұрын

    🙏🕯️🌌💮💐💮🌌🕯️🙏

  • @MichaelSmith420fu
    @MichaelSmith420fu Жыл бұрын

    Im tired of playing joker. Now im Batman

  • @user-ji8dp6vr6z
    @user-ji8dp6vr6z Жыл бұрын

    would be so much better without the background noise

  • @patrickjensen7682
    @patrickjensen7682 Жыл бұрын

    the background music is so distracting and too dramatic

  • @cturdo
    @cturdo Жыл бұрын

    This is all well and good until you decide not to play the game with the landlord or the tax man, then your game changes pretty quickly!

  • @steveotatooed

    @steveotatooed

    Жыл бұрын

    Yah then you play the homeless game 😂

  • @tilmanreiss
    @tilmanreiss Жыл бұрын

    So, in short: a philosopher is someone very good at pretending to be smart.

  • @ryandrum10
    @ryandrum1028 күн бұрын

    As far as I can tell, there is only one God and it's me. I'm not certain of this, but it sure seems likely. I'm the greatest trickster that ever lived...

  • @yourchris8332
    @yourchris833210 ай бұрын

    ALL JUT A GAEM!!!!!!

  • @RiggedVedist
    @RiggedVedist11 ай бұрын

    I see 90,% tragedy

  • @wonkyfug
    @wonkyfug Жыл бұрын

    Get it over with.

  • @CONNELL19511216
    @CONNELL19511216 Жыл бұрын

    For buffoons as well as baboons

  • @sherry19601
    @sherry19601 Жыл бұрын

    The music ruined it ,

  • @mnetzer6777
    @mnetzer6777 Жыл бұрын

    This is a great compilation, but that music sucks

  • @joedavis4150
    @joedavis4150 Жыл бұрын

    ... We could certainly do without that damn background music...

  • @alterecho8261

    @alterecho8261

    Жыл бұрын

    Instead of the music, try listening to what was being said. It's a completely different experience.

  • @triplethegrowth

    @triplethegrowth

    Жыл бұрын

    *You could certainly do without that damn background music. Personally, I could care less.

  • @PrincessMargaretJoacquim1111

    @PrincessMargaretJoacquim1111

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@alterecho8261 it's all about Focus n getting distracted 😅

  • @PrincessMargaretJoacquim1111

    @PrincessMargaretJoacquim1111

    Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful 😍🤗🤗🤗❤️✌️🕊️🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃😎👍

  • @DayDayBear14

    @DayDayBear14

    Жыл бұрын

    You can find these recordings of his speeches without music. The music is fine. It’s you’re listening that is the problem.

  • @dexterlee569
    @dexterlee569 Жыл бұрын

    Please be more selective with music. We hear an Alan watts speech. Not a marvel movie

  • @moosaleene7superserious
    @moosaleene7superserious Жыл бұрын