Hi T&H family, this lecture from Alan Watts is always a favorite. His ideas on work, money, and life are so profound. We love reading your comments below. If you could be paid for playing, what would you do? And if you already are paid for doing something you love, share what you've learned with our community.

@catcampion

2 жыл бұрын

I've made a living as an actress most of my life. I literally get PAID to PLAY! I'm, "working," today, and I cannot wait! Do what gives you joy and the money will follow. If it doesn't...do it anyway! And get a day job that isn't soul-sucking.

@hudakhelef5677

2 жыл бұрын

What’s the title of the music piece ??

@SageStudiesGunnarFooth

2 жыл бұрын

I get paid - not very much, mind you, but that’s okay - to play out my dream: teaching college students. It is great fun, and I can’t imagine myself doing anything else that would leave me happy and fulfilled.

@jasonblack6142

2 жыл бұрын

I build kitchen granite countertops out of granite out of the Earth I love polishing and grind in and cutting it is playing kind of

@moose8354

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been in many job roles such as software engineer, project manager, consultant. Now I’m independently a life coach. I realized that my wide-eye curiosity in asking the big daring questions is the play I get paid for. 💗🙏🏼

Can't believe it's been nearly 50 years since Alan Watts passed but he is still sharing so much today.

@reeblesnarfle4519

2 жыл бұрын

Believe...

“The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.” - Alan Watts

@bethanienaylor

2 жыл бұрын

Love this

@melioristicone333

2 жыл бұрын

The real quandary is how to get the majority of the population on this planet to understand or at least just take it as truth. I believe we need more faith in our species, unfortunately all of that is reserved for the many gods we have chosen

@ethericboy

2 жыл бұрын

True but in 3 dimensional reality we"re all playing the same agreed upon linear time game with"before and after" and it works as long as everybody follow the rules of the game,so if I say "I"ll meet you tomrrow at 4PM at the same location we met today" its a very handy refference despite that its basically utterly meaningless.

@willpower9117

2 жыл бұрын

I’m sure my bank manager will be totally sympathetic when I explain that this is the reason why my 12 month loan agreement has not been repaid 🤑😂😂😂

@bethanienaylor

2 жыл бұрын

@@willpower9117 two different worlds, the world of measured time and money and the world of love and nature aka unmeasurable existence

I just don't know everytime I hear Allan watts I get very enormous sense of empathy in my heart,I feel like life is simple but we made it complex.

@iliaadamanthark8336

2 жыл бұрын

@@spiritseeker2831 Well, you can live your life in the jungle tbh, detached from any civilization, no one will stop you, but then you cannot reap what this "greedy" corporation produce.

@reeblesnarfle4519

2 жыл бұрын

BINGO!

@reeblesnarfle4519

2 жыл бұрын

@@iliaadamanthark8336 I don't WANT what this greedy corporation produces!

@iliaadamanthark8336

2 жыл бұрын

@@reeblesnarfle4519 Then why you still on the internet..

Timeless. You can hardly believe that Watts died in 1973. That's the difference between formal science and wisdom.

@bogusmcbogus2637

2 жыл бұрын

Though I love him, we can go a step beyond Watts and the formalists. A systems theory is not far down the road.

@ahmedandalous2878

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤩😍😂🤗

@ahmedandalous2878

2 жыл бұрын

*_^(@@bogusmcbogus2637 *🤣😂🤭🤩🦁🐺🥋 Marry_Biemond😹/7/_🎲_O_/7/)^😎21^_*

@reeblesnarfle4519

2 жыл бұрын

Loved him since the mid 60's.

*"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." - Swami Sivananda*

@justinklenk

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that great and abiding quotation, of one of the most directly self-evident truisms - which bears endless repetition throughout a life, and is worthy of regular consideration... ✅🙂🙂!

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, impossible

@tanikanakeyalewis4202

2 жыл бұрын

Right: When You Know Which Perspective is your Perspective of Gratification: Thought, Desire, Willingness, Initiation, Progress, Evolution, and/or Completion, Achievement, and Attainment. 😶.

@theresefournier3269

2 жыл бұрын

Colossians 3: 23, told ME just THAT! 🔥❤️

@bigbowbz

2 жыл бұрын

U are awake!!

This man was generations ahead,

To know when to stop is crucial. When you have enough, you have to start helping people. Either financially or spiritually or in any way possible.

@reeblesnarfle4519

2 жыл бұрын

(If they will let you.)

I’ve run a business for 22 years. It’s getting harder. Now I’m doing art. I’ll be on my knees before I work at a corporation.

I get paid for sharing my wisdom, knowledge and experiences as a business and personal development coach. As a life-long learner I’m always learning more to share with my clients. Alan Watts has been an inspiration and thank you for sharing this!!

🙏 *5 Things to Never Do in Rush:* *1) Giving away your trust* *2) Making big desicions* *3) Judging someone's character* *4) Falling in love* *5) Eating your food*

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

You can't choose how to fall in love silly

@peggydorais5756

2 жыл бұрын

@@doomer2539 I think you are lost Traveler of the YOUnivers.

@tamelashafer8852

2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense to me… thank you 🙏🏼

@thomasbarton1050

2 жыл бұрын

Eh kinda of a odd thing to say on a Alan Watts video, his philosophy would say that all those things on that list are things we spontaneously do or spontaneously choose to do because we are our feelings and our thoughts

@ranxceroxcallixte9262

2 жыл бұрын

@@peggydorais5756 You fail @3.

“School is a place you send your child to be brought up by other children!!” 💥BOOM💥 A Truth Bomb Dropped Right There!! 🤯🤯 That’s My A-HA Moment Of The Day. Thank You For This Wonderfull Channel. ❣️💯%❣️🙏

@cookie5335

2 жыл бұрын

I hate the ah ha moment thingo. I just think of oprdh.

@lynking4141

2 жыл бұрын

Mine was: " ... The RECORD of what you do is more important than what you DO. Write it down, and then it's real." HOOO-LEEEE 💩😲🙀!! ** Mind blown 💣 **

@cookie5335

2 жыл бұрын

@@lynking4141 Its just phrase ah ha moment I don't like.

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

School is very important the problem is that sometimes the entire educational process can be broken.

@leeturner3750

2 жыл бұрын

@@doomer2539 Sometimes?!? The ‘education ‘ system has always been about indoctrination and obedience and to squash individuality and curiosity...

7:14 - Its a very simple life. I have got enough. Thats so much meaning in one little sentence. It takes a lifetime to understand how much is enough for us :)

@theotherguy5516

Жыл бұрын

There's a line Watts appends to that -- perhaps in a different lecture -- that makes even better: "And enough is as good as a feast." When I heard that, so much changed for me.

"Write it down and than its real"- Alan Watts

@reeblesnarfle4519

2 жыл бұрын

then...

I always love listening to Alan Watts, one of my favorite thinkers!

"Schools are places where you send your child to be brought up by other children" fascinating perspective 👏

@theresefournier3269

2 жыл бұрын

It's part of "the deliberate dumbing down of america"! which was initiated in 1948.

@dairehalfpenny979

2 жыл бұрын

@@theresefournier3269 indeed rockerfeller funded education system. "I don't want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers"

@theresefournier3269

2 жыл бұрын

@@dairehalfpenny979 and Bill Gate's parents, funded the pre-natal programs😔

@reeblesnarfle4519

2 жыл бұрын

Reality....

I'm fascinated by Alan Watts wisdom. I still have been looking for the way that I could be selfemployed and be finally free from any fake mechanism program work as robot.

Forwarded this to my daughter and she said wow thank you mom. I said thank you for listening. You are a true inspiration to someone that really wants to start there own business. Everything you say here is true. I love listening to you. Thank you.

Wow awesome lecture....hard to believe this was from the 60s....imagine now everyone has a camera... a social media... And are bombarded with stuff to pay attention to... Probably the hardest time in humanity to even comprehend thyself...

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

I pay attention only to what i want. I can't comprehend your comment...

Beautiful Speech !!!👍 Causes you to press the pause button in yr life n contemplate on the narratives. Came away with one answer; " IN GOD WE TRUST " try to act as though you really meant it !!!

Love Alan Watts!

One thing I love about other people's consumption, is that I get to listen to videos entitled, best of Supercar sounds. They Delight me unceasingly, and they are great to play guitar to.

Another set of profound ideas from Alan Watts. With every lecture, and every week, I have much to reflect on. Great video!

If this was played in the assembly at school in the mornings the world would be a better place I wish he was my teacher

TOTALMENTE DESARROLLO DE LA CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA, NO ESTAMOS SOLOS, EL UNIVERSO ES VIDA INTELIGENTE MILLONES DE AÑOS DE EVOLUCIÓN , TODO DEPENDE DE NOSOTROS MISMOS DE NUESTRO ESFUERZO Y SACRIFICIO 💪 Y LO IMPOSIBLE Y DESCONOCIDO, SERÁ TODO UN PASADO, Y LA VERDAD RENASERA EN EL ALMA Y ESPÍRITU Y TODO SERÁ POSIBLE DIOS ES LUZ Y EL CREADOR DE TODO EL UNIVERSO, EXCELENTE VIDEO GRACIAS PEDRO X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX DESDE MIAMI 🗽

People can see it, but people feel helpless to do anything.

@gay_spiritual

2 жыл бұрын

Especially in a society that is militarized and Imperialized

He is so right! Whenever I do the same job of something repetitively, I get bored of it because the mechanism is different from the organism. That's why I can't imagine working for someone else.

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile me who had done 12 different jobs and now jobless

@theresefournier3269

2 жыл бұрын

@@doomer2539 The answers are within🔥❤️😘

@3MOCEAN

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve come a conclusion in my own life, I’ve submitted myself for the past nearly 5 years to one company, I’ve done almost everything there is to do at said company rather than be a manager. The fact of the matter is, that nobody there including those in charge seem to be that happy, they seem to be struggling in their own ways outside of work, ways that seem as though tethered through our environment, that tie together the job, and the goals you’re entertaining If we conform, we fail. That is why we must indulge in the highest form of education. Experience. We must gracefully move forward through each experience. Each job is a different experience that will open you to new pathways in your brain, allowing you to grow, unfortunately it’s when we’ve found comfort in what we do that we find ourselves geared towards the most painful experience. It’s when you’ve gotten so used to the habits, that they drive you mad.

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

@@3MOCEAN working at the same place for years can be frustrating or pleasing (depends on the person) but i assure you that changing jobs like clothes is way worst. You have to learn everything from the start, you must confront with peoole you don't know and you don't have the certainly they will keep you

@reeblesnarfle4519

2 жыл бұрын

Yep.

Great video. Thank you. Alan Watts is such a legend. That video sums up the ongoing journey of my life. The battle between survival in a sick and broken system and of thriving as a human. Going right back to school.... Which I hated and saw it as pointless but I still excelled... Then to work.... Sometimes I hated it.... Sometimes it was good.... Again was good at every career I've had..... Still saw so much of it as pointless.... Have worked for myself numerous times.... Loved the freedom and flexibility. Now I'm a blend of technical, creative, entrepreneurial and human and can understand all types. I've been told that's pretty unusual. I guess I'm a creative at heart but still need money..... So the battle continues!

@vectorequilibrium4493

2 жыл бұрын

Soldier on and keep on creating your reality. 😁☮️❤️🙏🏻

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck stranger

@reeblesnarfle4519

2 жыл бұрын

Seek and ye shall find.

After watching this video, I have come realize that everything I have ever wanted up until this point has been based on the perception of others. In school I wanted things because all the other kids wanted those things. I have always aspired to have a job that provides a lot of money, not because it was what I wanted to do. Now I am starting to critically think about what I personally want rather than what others think I should have. Glad I found this video.

@shaydenwestbrook8131

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaGanttPhotography I am 18

@leeturner3750

2 жыл бұрын

@@shaydenwestbrook8131 good understanding 👍🏼

There is a huge difference between an organism and an organisation. The human body works because the cells work collaboratively in a community for the greater good and so you thrive. 🙏

Don’t stop what you are doing. Your gut and intuition is pulling you one way. What people think of you and peoples opinions are pulling you another way. Break free. Be brave. Follow your heart. You are a chosen one. Don’t listen to the ones with enslaved minds. 💜 Heart-Based Manifestation KZreadr

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

There's no such thing as the chosen one, you are full of.... We are all in the same boat, condemned to a life made of suffering.

@quintonsuyker6526

2 жыл бұрын

@@doomer2539 damn i like ur style. Agreed. So sick of all these people using that term chosen.

Love this guy ❤😢

Every time I'm blown away by these so profound thoughts. Thank you for this.

Love Alan Watts thank you for videos morning coffee and listening to him is everything I need :)

As a new small business owner I’m dealing with this now. Instead of having more time to hone my skills and work on clients I spend so much time on bookkeeping, legal paperwork, marketing and tax forms. If I had the funds I’d hire someone else to do it. They do make it quite hard for small business owners these days. I’m now thinking whether I want to keep at this for more than 3 years.

The record of what you do is more important than what you do. -Alan Watts. An organization is entirely different from an organism. -Alan Watts

@iliaadamanthark8336

2 жыл бұрын

In big companies, it does. The record will become a good material for lessons learned and performance overview. Without that, the organization will never expand or better themselves.

@theotherguy5516

Жыл бұрын

​@@iliaadamanthark8336 Even with those things, an organisation can't seem to better itself.

Lord Jesus Christ never lets me down. I give him all my problems and my Trust. I can do all things in Christ because he gives me Strength 🙏💕

@theresefournier3269

2 жыл бұрын

Faith, peace, hope, love... YAHsome!

@alwagner9722

2 жыл бұрын

He was human but just so happened to be a powerful mystic, and was killed for trying to teach people the fact that not only was he [A] Son of God but that we are all children of God and full of the Divine Spirit. This has been repressed in the west completely.

Such a visionary.his words are as actual as they were back in the 70s

Living modestly..best life ever

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, it sucks.

Good video!! Thanks 😊✌️🧘🇨🇦♥️👣👣👣

THANK YOU FOR BEING ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHANNELS, FOR BEING MY INSPIRATION, AND FOR LIGHTING THE WAY ON MY JOURNEY OF DISCOVERING MY PURPOSE IN LIFE, TO BE A SELF EMPLOYED CREATIVE ARTIST, MY PURPOSE IN LIFE IS TO BE AN INSPIRATION. THANK YOU 🙌😇

Thank you for this clip on '[My, Our, Their] System', striking to me at 7:30 "...and status, to very large extent in our economy, consists in conspicuous consumption..."

ALAN WATTS the LAMA of DEEP THOUGHT

A…….Concise…Beautiful…Cypher…💎.

Beautiful, Excellent, Thank You

Awesome. Thank you

I fully agree that our materialistic system does not make us happy. I’m totally against conspicuous consumption.

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

If you buy useful things then you are happy. For example a homeless person buys a torch. That will make him happy. But if you buy useless things compulsively you won't evere happy

I really enjoy Allan Watts input. I shared a video of Allan to a friend. He came back to me said he would listen to it. Because he checked out Allan. Came to a conclusion of a negative consequences. It troubled me ! I observed my thinking of it all , laughed cause 🤣 it his idea. He can do that. As I thought about it. People disregard stuff for the lamest things. That is the choice. So the person who started the act 🎬 🤔 ! Look both ways before you cross the road ! Is a wise statement? Right Would you disregard it if that person who started the statement look both aways before you cross, was killed by crossing the road ? Would stop looking or would you figure out that . Observation is best. Realize the truth of all statements. Because of personal experiences. Not cause someone said it. Even Jesus Christ teachings. You can see it's truth stitched through the life you have already lived, when you look from a spiritual development!

Thank you for sharing agree 💯 percent

Thanks this is what I needed to hear

Honest truth & wisdom... Allan Watts. Just wrote 5 paragraphs, but I guess AI couldn't take what I wrote. Gone.

Thanks!

I am deeply inspired gracias

Being your own boss is only bossing your own being around. Like any desire, be very careful what you ask for. It will be and won't be anything like you imagine it will be. LOL!! Desire is such a nasty game of lack and somethingness. It's terribly fun. You think you want what you want until you realize you know that you never wanted anything you desired, and that you never got anything you only thought you desired. You only got yourself which is everything you ever have as there is nothing else to have.

I remember this 🙏🙌👁️💯

I agree with you 💯💯💯💯💯

This goes right along with the classic Bob black essay, the abolition of work. Takes about 35 minutes to listen to.

I get job satisfaction in what I do and work for. As a teacher it's rewarding to interact with my students, be a facilitator to inspire them and allow their ideas to flow. What I don't like is all the records and data keeping. A good video to realise that happiness lies in just being yourself Alan said he didn't even owe a tv. That's it. Don't have to put up with the Joneses and follow fashion. .

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

Whish you good luck as a teacher. I don't use tv neither, all i need is in my hands right now 📱. Who uses tv is a slave

@sumithrasiva1507

2 жыл бұрын

@@doomer2539 Thank you. You seem like a hard working person . Success in all your undertaking.

The essential principle of business in the world is this: figure out some way in which you get paid for playing. When i was young i made a solemn vow that i would never accept a job and i will always be my own employer. Enjoy your life more , life is not meant to be spend in an office box 😉

With the hands joined in Black & ☯️ White, IT is The Middle Gray Matter that matters in keeping in💖The 💞Pink!💗

powerful

I see the system for what it is now at the cost of pain and disbelief. If people continue to go with this system, which is changing at a very rapid paste. Unfortunately they will be off so much worse than they were but 2/3 years ago. But me and my fellow brothers and sisters will rise once the phoenix rises.

Everyone is you 🗝

The nature of the universe is paradoxical. 1. You don't ever have to do anything, ever, in anyway shape or form ever for any reason. But. If you're going to do something 2. You have an infinite # of possible configurations and actions within every category of life

2021 December 💥

I too see no lack in not having a TV. The opposite actually. The time I would spend watching, I am 'doing' and no brainwashing. I like videos I can hear but needn't watch.

The 'system' dos not matter. What counts for anything is a foundation of Truth. Without Truth as the foundation, no 'system' can ever be maintained.. spaceandmotion

You made Very Good video Specially that small clips of alan Watts Alan don't Need to explain why he explained It's darkness/ Agyan from which human suffer He lighten up one lamp And that lamp is so sufficient to kill that darkness But Alas! Every thing Go together

Stop trying to figure out where you're going to go take the time to realize where you're at

Yep my daughter wasted four years in college as a child and youth worker god bless her soul but I said that nice and all you can open that text book as many times as you want and study it the reality of real life just doesnt apply to a text book four dufferent things more complex then comparing apples to oranges

What a gR8 personality he was

They see it. They don't want to believe that it is, what it is.

Rings true more than ever 50 years later. Pathetic world we live in

Great vid but what was up with those ringing sounds towards the beginning?

he will, my hope

@skajlo5404

2 жыл бұрын

or was

True

... Referring to avoiding this dastardly situation, I heard Terence McKenna say..." some of you live under bridges, some of you save coupons"...

🙏🏼

Alan watts makes me feel like he knew the guy who created this puzzle called life

@reeblesnarfle4519

2 жыл бұрын

To know God is to be with God.

Does anyone know the name of the piano music in the background at the beginning? I would appreciate an answer,thank you.

@Christof_The_Great17

2 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering the same thing

@justintimemagddelow672

2 жыл бұрын

😐

@Christof_The_Great17

2 жыл бұрын

The music is called Detach by Peter Sandberg

Got rid of the propaganda dispenser (aka TV) a long time ago. Good luck trying to have a conversation with someone lost in that fantasy world.

@ellasiblik3654

2 жыл бұрын

I think some TV can help in growth but it all depends what you choose to watch. Advertisements and news being the worst in my opinion, however, educational documentaries or movies/shows with difficult plot lines or social commentary can be beneficial.

@brettharter143

2 жыл бұрын

TV with difficult plot lines is still propoganda. Its just hidden better. Wakeup

I became a 🎸 player in Band ( But ) who gets noticed in Tucson that stays 😬😳

Please tell me the name of the first piano song

facts

Systemic: [Thought, Desire, Willingness], Initiation, Progress, Evolution, and/or Completion, [Achievement, and Attainment]. 😶.

❤️

Please someone tell me the names of the tracks in the background

🙏

Thanks Master Alan Watts🕉️💚

@patrickl6932

2 жыл бұрын

NO MORE PIANOS

One of the most important comments Alan Watts made..'and I don't even own a television set'🙄

The light doesnt come around to often maybe gone forever?

great information; music is a Huge distraction

4:24 🏅👌🤞

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

You can't trust nobody fully, neither your mother or father. Sooner or later somebody will let you down except if you don't know a soul

@donnaparker1998

2 жыл бұрын

@@doomer2539 you will Eventually REALIZE IT & YOU WILL LET YOURSELF DOWN SINCE YOU DON'T KNOW A SOUL ... YOU SEE ?!!

@doomer2539

2 жыл бұрын

@@donnaparker1998 actually i have friends and i trust them but not at 100%

Let's turn this unique, the wonder called LIFE hosting planet, into the paradise it deserves, for ALL its inhabitants! With the alternative system to monetary economy, which is named Resource Based Economy RBE! Please learn more about RBE! Thank you ❤️🗺️🖖🐇

Yaar I really don't felt once in my life that I fit in this mechanical system.

I also made a solomn in my childhood - I will never do a job

Could you imagine if he weee here now

Just CILISI it.. its easy.!!

💜♾🙏🏼🕉

The Government Sucks. Let the Man raise his avacados.