The past is a distorted memory, the future is a concept. This moment is all there is, ever has been, ever will be. I wear a watch, it broke years ago, but I still wear it because it reminds me that it is always now 🙏

@michaelhull8078

2 ай бұрын

😊

@Ms.Tee65

2 ай бұрын

I love it❤

@tannhauser5399

2 ай бұрын

That is easy to say, much more difficult to apply without any background knowledge and experience. I slightly disagree with his saying "don't hold to memory". You have to. Because... it is also how you grow. How you look back at old memories, somethimes with a slight nostalgia, sometimes with a deep anger, sometimes with love - and then something inside you is slowly changing too. You slowly grow internaly too at all those points, simply by going back to your older memories. At the end, sure - you may let it all go, at some point of your internal development, abd then you may concentrate on "now", the "present", living the moment so to speak. But at some point: DO hold on to memories, because it is part of a growing process too, and at some point you may discover that is is also a road that actually helps you to understand that it is all about living "now".

@LawnBros25

2 ай бұрын

🔥

@1stabletour

2 ай бұрын

love the watch concept. Must try it with an old omega

Now more than fifty years after his death , Alan Watts is still one of the best teachers of the nature of reality.

@JC-du6sn

11 күн бұрын

Look up Within Heaven's Gates by Rebecca Springer 😇

Immediately reminds me of people shooting videos at rock concerts and experiencing the show through their screen instead of watching the stage

@GhostTruck67

2 ай бұрын

I think about this, too.

@antoniohinojos3808

Ай бұрын

Fireworks too, but I guess this applies to all aspects of life you're attempting to capture. Live in the moment.

@blackroan2276

Ай бұрын

100%

@cw1967

Ай бұрын

I'm sure glad someone recorded what he said.

@iamgodphotography

Ай бұрын

I know exactly what you mean, but sometimes they are recording it for the people that couldn’t be there to experience it

Alan Watts Was spot-on, on everything

@silveriver9

2 ай бұрын

☯️

"All places are the same place, and the only time you ever notice any difference is in the moment you transition" - Alan Watts

i remember after my daughter died, (when i was in process of getting a degree in digital media arts) i took my camera equipment to hawaii for an education break, and was sitting on this beach and saw this TRIPLE YES TRIPLE rainbow coming my way across the ocean, i felt i couldnt experience the beauty and joy of the moment just taking pictures, so i took 1 snapshot if this incoming rainbow phenomenon and laid my camera down on the sand, i stood up and walked towards the incoming rainbow and suddenly a tall blond man on my left and a tall blonde man on my right grasped my hands and lifted me up in the rainbow as it misted upon us all, right after that i quit my education real eyesing that i just wanted to experience life within the magical moments instead of trying to document the moments from outside of the actual moments experience, later as i looked at the images i had been taking, i saw my daughters face in the clouds of this magical rainbow, i proceeded to paint that image on a canvas knowing i got to EXPERIENCE the beauty of her essence within the moment itself, i will never forget that

@Hergreenman

Ай бұрын

Thankyou for sharing this ❤🎉

@leasaslav3149

18 күн бұрын

Thank you so much - beautiful

@UnleashthePhury

2 күн бұрын

I’m sorry about your daughter

@johanvanzyl4567

2 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Profound

I do not wish to be patronising to anyone reading this or stating the obvious at the same time to other readers, but I truly believe that to really understand and hear what AW is saying, takes many listens, many experiences and an open mind. It had taken me so long to really feel what he is saying.

@johnharrison7176

2 ай бұрын

Some people get it straight away some don't. But your spot on its not about just understanding but feeling. And by the way I say this quite often you feel it because you know it already. It's within all of us. 😊

@willoschroer

2 ай бұрын

I so enjoy listening to Alan Watts everyday and I do agree that I hear things differently when I listen to the same clip years later. I love that ❤

@cpringipas

2 ай бұрын

Waiting for the day❤❤❤

@jewel2022now

2 ай бұрын

It takes....to just do it now. No more listening ❤

@markpowell6062

2 ай бұрын

Perhaps to begin with , by regularly listening to Alan we can deepen our listening strength and open our minds!

I spent most of my families holidays, looking through the view finder, only to never look at the video footage again.

Forget about the past Forget about the future, there is only now . Made me feel when i was young

@STREETLEAGUESL

Ай бұрын

Hello my name is wilfred. I speak for the trees and Earth today, urging you to prioritize human safety.

@MrHawks-gh6xv

Ай бұрын

❤❤❤

Allan Watts is always someone you want to listen to. Everything he says is not one word wasted.

In my present moment I exist with parents that disowned me, my own children don’t speak to me, multiple failed relationships realisation of false friendships … I am alone. Like you reading this, a fan of Alan Watts and many like him… I have realised life, awoken to the truth of others behaviours… I have let go ….yet the echo remains.

@vallaeiasprings9870

2 күн бұрын

in my family of 5 children, i was the ONLY ONE who ever got disinherited 4 seperate times, i was the blacksheep, not accepted or liked, abused and misused and blamed for anything that seemed to go wrong, every relationship failed and i too had children who chose not to communicate with me, never understood why, i was kind obedient, compassionate tho independent and i learned thru my life that i was also valuable and i learned to love myself REGARDLESS of any one elses opinion of me, and now in my aged years, my parents accepted me and reinstated me before their death, my only living child accepts me and communicates with me regularly, sometimes we just have to take journies to cobtinue our growth that no one else thinks is important

@randomelvis3359

2 күн бұрын

@@vallaeiasprings9870 You sound strong and very valuable… I was just talking to a friend about that quote “Life gives you nothing but shows you everything” and to think there are many that gain nothing and misses all the lessons like you say we just keep on this journey of growth many don’t think is important… I feel valued and a kindred spirit in a very alike journey…. I will stay open to reconnecting because of your beautiful reminder 🙏🏻…thank you ✨

@mickzammit6794

Күн бұрын

The echo will remain forever. You can't avoid that. But you can build a better contented you. If you're listening to Watts you're already on the path to totality.

@randomelvis3359

23 сағат бұрын

@@mickzammit6794 Mate, I have listened to Alan and alike for over 10 years… I am content, it’s this world that exhausts me… everyone out there pretending and or under major subconscious influence…the echo remains, maybe the echo fades or gets replaced by newer subconscious purges, but there’s nothing I haven’t tried, so now i try no-thing 🤷🏼‍♂️🙏🏻✨

@mickzammit6794

23 сағат бұрын

@@randomelvis3359 I have a dark past and I'll never forget it but I'll always look to the light now and in the future. I like to be alone in quiet places so my home is on the road in a van. That way I can avoid a world I just don't fit into. All the best.

You can really do both, enjoy the moment and also take a few pictures. 20, 30 years down the road, the feeling, the memory will be diminished but digging up the old photos and looking at the people with you, that may be gone now, at the place you once enjoyed will bring a jolt to the good memories you had before, priceless.

@jeff_forsythe

7 күн бұрын

That is not a good thing, you want to prevent emotional attachment of any sort, Falun Dafa explains all of this.

@Kinesiology411

7 күн бұрын

I get that, and doing it here and there is lovely. Many get so focused on capturing moments they miss them as they happen. Just requires a little balance.

I am amazed at how true and existential are Alan’s insights are. You go ”aha” time after time as you listen to him.

whoever reads this I love you

@staytrue5307

18 күн бұрын

No you don't. Just desperate for likes 🙄

@glovesforsocks4603

18 күн бұрын

@@staytrue5307 go smoke a joint bro

@wildo326

17 күн бұрын

I love you too

@RandyTrimble-ge1mj

15 күн бұрын

Love is what we are here for.

@Find-Your-Bliss-

12 күн бұрын

Love is all there is- If you open to it! Love you right back.

I realized I was getting too attached to things that were not getting attached to me. That changed everything.

I am afraid of flying and when I do it, I listen to Alan Watts videos. It helps me so much to calm down during the flight… his voice has this calmness….

I have felt this so many times but haven't heard it explained so eloquently.

Alan Watts is the only guide I've ever needed and the only guide I'll ever need. No heaven. No pie in the sky. Just clear common sense. The outcome is up to me. I'm more than satisfied with that.

I find great comfort and wonder in Alan Watts’s lectures, what a master craftsman in articulating profound truths. Thank you T&H for posting this.

The older I get, the fewer pictures I take. Not intentionally, but just as a natural consequence of paying attention.

Isn’t it wonderful to look at old photos and feel the moment again and so many others as well… “And”. Live in the moment “and” enjoy the memories.

A photo can often water down a memory, especially these days with the access. We often look at the memories so much the nostalgia is removed.

The music was perfect this time. Wherever Alan Watts is, God bless him for solving one of my life's biggest sorrows, holding on to losing my mom and every pain that came with it I have carried it with me 15years now. Let it all go, you can do it I promise. Thank you T & H❤

I love my algorithm right now because it feeds me Alan Watts videos and i consume them like candy

@Epicgeezer

8 күн бұрын

Just type his name

The past: thoughts and words. The future: thoughts and words. All of which occurs in the present.

I love Alan and what he shared with us. I didn't have the patients to watch and listen to him until my life became so chaotic that I was driven to hear him out of necessity, and I am grateful, even if it hurt. It is like we have to be whipped into submission by our own desire to find out that we are really creating every single situation that comes to us. here now is my point of really living. Whoever is putting Alan Watts and other teachers on you tube. You are saving angles. Namaste'

Alan Watts, a sage like no other.

Memory creates the future as well as the past!

You can never capture the smells, energy, sounds, that are happening. My brain was focused on Edgar Winter, and others. Damn the phones. They should be left with your parents.

I have pictures that I know I will may never look at because it will be too sad to see the time that is long gone or if I do look at them it will be painful.

@totogogocc5526

13 күн бұрын

That's the Truth!!! me too intense luv it hate it know it want to but ,,,, it's ok, now is ...........

I love the great memories of my childhood with my family. It makes me very happy.😊

Absolutely beautiful 🙏🏻 loved the addition of the music 🎵 thank you for sharing this timeless wisdom of AW!

Thank you Alan, were ever you are

The Creator Is Within

I love the way Alan articulates. Makes me smile listening to this. He's one of my favorites! 🧘‍♂️

😭 perfect timing. Thank you 🙏

Eternal now❤

4:20 There is nothing but eternal now. Memory is in eternal now. Keep the balance like riding a bicycle. 9:47 The nature of being is constantly renewing itself, Therefore it is worth going on by eternally forgetting and getting rid of itself. Thanks Alan. 16 April 2024. 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

@pinkgus

2 ай бұрын

16.4.2024 ❤ thanks Watts

@jeff_forsythe

7 күн бұрын

Everyone who wants to grow spiritually needs a great teacher, Falun Dafa has that.

"Memory is an illusion; it's all gone, so everything you know about that makes an impression on you is no longer there."

@AlexTodd-60s

2 ай бұрын

Hello Joanne

@blackroan2276

Ай бұрын

No truer words were spoken. Memory IS an illusion. And sometimes when we look back at our "memories", we remember events a little differently than they really were when they originally happened. Nothing exists but the present moment.

Excellent 🖤

I don't want to come back. I want to ease on down the spiritual road to new realms with the ones I love.

@jeff_forsythe

7 күн бұрын

No spiritual practice that is worthwhile is easy but the best one is Falun Dafa

@Kinesiology411

7 күн бұрын

We don't come back. All the more reason to be fully present and appreciative now.

@jeff_forsythe

7 күн бұрын

@@Kinesiology411 if we live good lives we reincarnate here, if not, we fall to Hell......falun dafa..................

I find that my home office is now filled with memories that provide me with pleasant echos from the past. My walls have my degrees, accomplishments, and artwork from my daughter from a time she cares about art. My corner tables have my chess set from afghanistan, concrete from the Berlin Wall, a small metal statue of the Empire State Building, a glass hologram from the mosque in Istanbul, my dad’s 45 years of work paper weight. My shelves have my Army medals, jade monkeys from my parents, a family lineage book, a silver dollar from 1885 that I bought with the last of my Army money from my second deployment to war. They’re just “stuff,” but when I’m bored or stressed I look over and realize… Life’s pretty cool.

What a man he was special

It’s like missing the awe of fireworks to take smeared, unimpressive pictures you’ll never look at again.

What a spectacular recording!! What a phenomenal moment i just had !!! What a spectacular way all this just "works"!!!🥰🥰🥰

Could listen to Alan all day

Photography has been something that has brought me more into the present. Macro photography showed me a world that I didn't know about. You can suddenly zoom in to the eyes of insects, the fuzzy bodies of bees, the mouthparts of butterflies. Marvelous thing that you would never have any way of knowing about without the lens. But I used to dislike bugs. Now, I love being around (most of) them, because I met them with this tool of attachment. I can now enjoy nature more in every moment.

Live in the moment, have those times when you recall the moment and fcuk your mobile phones, laptops and the t.v off as much as possible.

Beautiful, as always

The Gift Of The Present

@AlexTodd-60s

2 ай бұрын

Hello zo

If you have a good memory the past is not distorted......it is a gift

Thnak u🙏🙏 T&H

Rest in peace grandpa. I will never forget. Thanks Allan Watts.

One of those rare occasions where the music and video worked very well with Alan Watts.

My thinking is annoying me so much right now lol. Alan's beautiful voice brings me to the present a little ❤️👍✌️🇳🇿

this is soooooo good.

It's sorta funny, that this plays over a montage of photos and videos.

What I do when I'm out in the world enjoying a very nice day, I take one photo only. The photo is to jog my memory of my beautiful day.

I really feel sommetimes for applaus for whome who have made this arrangement of systole and diastole. They are genius. Thank you for sharing, he always make me smile at myself and at life 😊.

About the Camera Analogy: I've noticed from personal experience that the lower (Poor's or so) use the Camera because the Top always wants a piece of everyone on the Lower's Actions and Experiences. The Higher (Wealthy or so) don't need a Camera as they have lots of money to have their own Actions and Experiences. Just something I've noticed. Just wanted this entered as so for Future Reference(s).

I think warm positive memories are a positive thing & encourages gratitude, which brings peace in the now. The future then is a positive anticipation

I don't usually take any pictures when on vacation, or at events. I prefer to be fully present. I've got my memories. Odd that I married a photographer, lol.

Nothing wrong with taking a few photos. You are not missing out on anything. Great to have those memories. Live your life and do what makes you happy, not what others believe what will make you happy. Tomorrow is not promise. Tomorrow does not exist. Now is all we have. In the end nothing matters. We are all winging it and we are all on the same sinking boat that inevitably ends in tragedy. When the brain dies consciousness dies and we will cease to exist and eventually be forgotten. Drop the ego and character that you are playing and live. You only got one shot at. Don’t waste it. Smile, your alive

@blackroan2276

Ай бұрын

I find myself taking photos less and less. "Memories" are overrated. Better to focus on the here and now and enjoy the present moments. Looking back at "memories" is living in the past.

I am constantly torn between the two schools of thought he describes, the answer must lay somewhere in between. Remember your life, but don't let past experiences limit those yet to come. Remember you're alive, take with it the good and bad, it's through polarity that we can truly understand and appreciate the most beautiful experiences life has to offer.

Mercifull

I drive a 4Runner. I love 4Runners!! I hope that next time around I get to drive a 4Runner.

@tracynonumbers

5 күн бұрын

such an excellent truck and you can stretch out in the back for camping

Yeah , life is a kaleidoscope all the colours intertwine. The experience is the experience.

My memories are my past which is important because my memories and past help to mold my future, and I can relive my past through my memories, which brings me joy and happiness from a time when all my loved ones were still here with me.

@michelecaretto5771

8 күн бұрын

That was perfect

Epic

Yes letting go is key. Holding on keeps you stuck in a loop. That isn't living.

Truth

Nice...we r attached 2 dreaming up thoughts...feelings...emotions...sensations...call it live or whatever...I call it creating.

Ur beautiful Allen Watts

Exellence

❤

Thank you for not using an AI image likeness of AW like many other channels. 🙏🏻

Read the power of now!!

"The eternal now" how profound

The past is not a distorted memory to me the past is beautiful to me

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Thats what I miss about drinking. Had to quit due to various issues. It forced me to live in the moment. Didnt feel compelled to take pictures. Didn't worry about the future. I'm sure that's the main appeal of drugs... Aside from the chemically addictive aspect.

Spot on. / P.s. Like - we do not exist vithout photos + videos + pictures ...

@blackroan2276

Ай бұрын

People are WAY too obsessed with photos and videos these days. Think of all the millions of people who existed before they were invented. And they were just fine.

Nothing wrong with keeping memories .just don't dwell in past . But always remember loved ones you have no choice. It sounds good to say love in moment but are memories are part of us

Let it lead

Ive met so many "famous people" in my work at an airport and not once have i ever asked for a photograph or an autograph. I simply cherish the actual moment and dont need any record of it at all. The funniest was meeting Charles Barkley and putting him in a cab as his limo driver stood him up. He expected to be asked and as he sat in the cab, i fist bumped him and said have a good ride lol

@jameschesterton

2 ай бұрын

That's cool.

people focus on the past because the present is too painful for them.

I explain it as God's dream. Each character experiences their own existence with choses of right and wrong. But what God brings into existence can never be destroyed. But we have choices of what realm we go to.

🙏🙏🙏

Fuck I’m here now 🇬🇧⚒️ don’t give fuck who remembers me, it’s called in living memory and when no one remembers you it’s history

If you live in the past you Rob your future😊

Letting go is like riding an airplane. And you only get tickets to ride when grief and trauma hit. Letting go is like being a wishful passenger on an airplane, yet entirely out of your control.

Pain and suffering in this world outweighs peace and feeling good, in my experience. Is this really a beautiful arrangement, especially with the memory wipe in between lives? To do this over and over again, pain and suffering with tiny specks of joy here or there, no thanks, I'll pass.

@jennifervaughn2466

2 ай бұрын

I get it, but if this is what we decide to give in to, we will lose all hope.

@teassea

2 ай бұрын

@@jennifervaughn2466 you can have all the hope you want. I'm not asking anything of anyone, I am simply expressing my thoughts on Mr. Watts's opinion that what we are all experiencing here is, in his words "a beautiful arrangement."

@Hergreenman

Ай бұрын

Hope is limited and conceptual and so is the fundamental belief that the body is seperate to its environment. Nobody choosing this. Why not meditate on this beautiful arrangement and see that 'you' have never suffered, because - how can there be a you? Never then, always now.

@dronesandothertones8902

Ай бұрын

@@HergreenmanThat might work for you, but try and tell people who suffer from chronic physical pain on the daily that they don't actually suffer. Maybe on some higher level of consciousness this could be the case, but i dont know because i have never experienced that, and i do not have beliefs. Belief is a waste of time and energy, either I know or I don't know.

@Hergreenman

Ай бұрын

@@dronesandothertones8902You make a good point. I would be less inclined to talk about no self to a person that is suffering physically, but as far as hope and beliefs go, they are just thoughts. This life can been seen as beautiful because its the base reality that this life belongs to no individual being. It's obviously co-existing with the cosmos.

There is a good saying: Who 4gets own his- story= doomed 2 repeat it again...I call it Samsara= a unconscious re- creation. I rather like 2 dream clear...more allert.

I am, therefore, I think 😁

Creation is creation

Time is a construct

This says much on biblical prophecy or predictions in general. Whether ego generated or misdirected intentions. Humanity shouldn't be warned of future events that haven't occurred. Otherwise, one will build bunkers, storing food and items of an event that may never occur. Spending so much time in the future, preparing for something that most likely will never happen, takes away from the moment one is actually living. ' But Ma, just let me finish listening to this song.' -'One of these nights,' by the Eagles.

Naw. I wish I had more photos to jog my memory of day to day things I did with family members.

🥂

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