Alan Watts For When You Need To Stop Thinking

An inspirational and profound speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts.
Original Audio sourced from: “Eastern Wisdom - Eastern and Western Zen"
Video Produced and Edited by T&H Inspiration
““For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.””
- Alan Watts
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T&H Inspiration is on a mission to share inspiring wisdom. The goal is to have you pause, think, and reflect. Many of our videos revolve around the extraordinary teachings of Alan Watts that we produce with permission from the Alan Watts Electronic University.
T&H also films and releases original interviews with iconic people who have experienced successes, while also persevering through life's highs and lows. We look forward to sharing more of these perspectives and insights.
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.

[@joeomalley1252]

❤Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit!

[@OutpostMJ]

You've captured -- distilled, perhaps the better word -- the essence of it

[@chandankumarshaw2670]

👍🙌🙏

[@ArthurM1863]

Zazen!

[@ShannaM1]

The synchronicity!!! I had a bad bout of depression the past 3 days and as I was trying to come out of the fog, I sat outside just staring at my garden plants. Didn't have a thought in my head for a couple mins & was actually surprised I didn't. I realized it is something I need to do more of...just being. Nothing more than just being. It felt amazing knowing I could actually do this! 🙏💖✨

[@zandrokos]

i really need to get better at not thinking. there is so much peace when you are able to calm your mind

[@secretsarelies9681]

I find that my excitement over what seems “good” is directly proportional to the level of crisis I go into when things go south. What I have found, is that over time, what seems “good” when it happens is often not when looking back on it years later, and vice versa. I think the truth is, right now is all we have ever had, and what happens is neither good nor bad. It is both.

[@Darius89x]

OH MY UNIVERSE!!! Are you the future version of me? Because same. Im there right now 🫤😔

[@sebastianjimenez8739]

When you truly experience life without judgment, you become free

[@denisemcdougal6445]

Agreed

[@leekimyong3927]

Thanks for d wonderful video.

[@ChildofGod98765]

Amen. Needed this. Please pray for me and my children. As a single mother things are overwhelming on me. I’m constantly struggling to support my children. The devil has sent people to attack me. I get harassed and called names for simply asking for prayers, but prayers are all I need. God gives me strength to keep going while I struggle to buy groceries and while I struggle to pay rent. Thank you Lord Jesus.💕❤️❤️💕

[@HappyJoyJoy777]

🙏🙏🙏

[@sagebutterfly2]

blessings to you

[@user-br6px6ok9x]

Prayers won't pay the bills....you do that

[@OutpostMJ]

@ChildofGod98765 -- First, I am sorry things are so tough for you right now. From your comment I believe you are a Christian, yes? Fyi: Alan Watts (the philosopher speaking in this video) I believe was an atheist....and a sharp critic of Christianity (all religion maybe?). That does not mean you cannot still find his words helpful (sounds like you did). Of course, Jesus of Nazareth himself, in the Sermon on the Mount, teaches that we should not worry (overthink). And Paul speaks of a similar, although Christ-centered, "stop overthinking" meditation.: "And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." -- Philippians 4:7

[@brianreid4169]

Matthew 6:25-34. Be careful with Christianity and other people’s interpretations of it. Christians have a tendency to dwell too much on the past and place too much hope in the future. Life happens now. Focus more on the blessings that you currently have and less on the things you do not have. Do what is best for you and your kids today. No amount of worry, stress, or anxiety has ever really changed the outcome of any situation. When we live in the past, we suffer from depression. When we live for the future, we suffer from anxiety. When we live here and now, we are at peace. We can’t really live unless we live fully in the here and now.

[@Diana-we4fp]

There's something about Alan that is irreplaceable. His tone and way of speaking. His wisdom and eloquence. You never sense that he's preaching, but merely trying to open our very being, everything about us, so that we can see who we truly are, and live accordingly.❤ Brilliant scholar, and his words often bring tears. ❤ Thank you for creating this channel. It's what the world needs more of. ❤

[@kwik8534]

There will never be another person anything like him. He will live on forever , quite amazing when you think of the irony on how he talks about the purpose of life . I believe his way of speaking is because he is in the flow state he wasn’t trying , he wasn’t working he was living .he has unparalleled confidence in speaking . i feel more people need to know of him. anytime I can’t sleep, feel depressed or lonely he has gotten me through it .

[@richardgoodrich4783]

Absolutely. Sometimes while listening, it's almost as if he is speaking directly to me. It's like he and I are in the room together, just talking. These videos, his lectures and books seem to keep his spirit alive. In this way, his message transcends time and his voice echoes into eternity. ❤

[@valeriecarruthers7084]

@@kwik8534Watts referred to himself as a “philosophical entertainer” for good reason. ❤

[@consciouswellbeing]

I totally agree, AW is a gift that keeps on giving 🎇

[@kyleadoup]

“One cannot act creatively, except on the basis of stillness.” What a beautiful truth.

[@d.sfilms7677]

I always think I've heard all the best Alan Watts speeches but then another one always comes along and blows me away. This one is really special and makes for a uniquely profound video.

[@zandrokos]

i love this one a lot.

[@37Dionysos]

I'm 69 and cannot imagine one more thing I'd like to see, have, or do before I die. By Watts' lights I'm already in Nirvana (so are we all, right now).

[@dmackenzie3528]

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” ― Alan Watts

[@evrenerikli2501]

Perfect visualization. I watched like I was dreaming.

[@user-et1vx7qv1b]

The depth of these profound teachings can only be understood through the emotional experience...it takes time to train our minds to let go, to surrender to the Greater design, so we can be able to see the depth of true nature of reality...❤ ❤ ❤

[@ReptileAssylum]

What a Devine incredible gentleman so wise and intelligent

[@NoraBhsas]

Honestly, without meditation I would lose my mind..too much chaos in the world to think about, to contradict, to reach perfection or to reach a destination, jobs to work, passions to be dedicated to. All of these things made me tired so practicing meditation daily is a must for me, not only a need at this point.

[@claudiaweier1153]

Deliciously eloquent.

[@MorgMorg-uf6ps]

The last bit of the video is...why incredible. If we are possible, anything is possible🙏

[@ItsShowtime23764]

Wow this just popped up when I just told myself I need to get fully in the present and get all that thinking chatter out of my damn head…thank u so much for posting! This is such Divine Timing… best video on this topic ever created…

[@whatcouldgowrong7914]

The most pivotal talk Alan Watts has given, to experience Nirvana / Satori even for a day… Will change your life forever, to finally arrive where you are right now but in a state of pure presence and astonishment that your here with the gift of witnessing anything. What a privilege it is…

[@Ureyeuh]

This video is an experience.

[@singhsachinofficial]

अपने सपनों की ओर बढ़ो, और जब तक वे हकीकत नहीं बन जाते, तब तक रुको मत।

[@ShAlove22]

WOW, Just AMAZING

[@robertapettigrew2497]

Thank you.

[@el.sol.y.el.rio.0159]

I love falling asleep to Alan watts, and now I will be falling asleep to your videos thank you brother thank🎉❤

[@SimoneMancini1]

Thanks so much for this wonderful and inspiring video❤❤❤

[@LeJimster]

I only recently came to know about Alan Watts recently through the band Nothing More. His talks are soothing to my soul. I feel like things are starting to align in my life and I'm on the edge of a huge change.

[@deborahonenow]

Again, so much wisdom from this man. Seeing, hearing, sensing, feeling, and Just Being-ness. The profound Simplicity that just Is. Plus, such gorgeous video! Thank you. Namaste

[@FreshDeath1385]

Thanks!

[@Aurelius-VDB]

Thankuu for adding this matching video and music to his voice T&H ❤ u are one of few channels who creat videos out of Watt’s talks without distorting the message or adding distracting musics..

[@Peacefully_Relaxed]

I have seen that light described at 8:16. I feel that I saw myself in soul form.

[@frank1423]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 my prayers goes out to whoever needs it. AMEN . 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 Stay strong , stay in the moment as much as u can and from there do everything else . my silence sings and my emptiness is full ... BLESSINGS TO ALL .

[@bradcarroll-n8x]

What kind of prayers??? How can you hand out prayers of randomness? I’m interested. Do you think you are so powerful that you can pray something for a stranger and if it happens to them it is because you prayed?

[@otorishingen8600]

What an amazing teacher 🙇‍♂️

[@toekneetogo]

Great presentation👍 What a boost to lighten & focus on the moment of everything.. ❤

[@user-tf1ey3ux6f]

Tremendous work by your whole team, really thankful for your help.

[@rogerlin9602]

7:03 There’s no difference between transcendental world and ordinary world. All beings are Buddha. 💖💐💗🍄🌈🤲🍄🤣🪷🍒🦒🍑🐣🍇 Ordinary world is supreme ecstasy. Thanks Alan. 9 July 2024. 🐣🦒🐠💥🌈🤣🍄🪷🌈💝💝🤲🐿🤡🐿💖💐

[@rogerlin9602]

3:09 One cannot act creatively except on the basis of stillness. If you stop thinking, you won’t notice the passage of time. 🤡🐠💥👍🏻💥🦒🪷🦒💝🍇🤣💖☘️🌹😇😇 The world of colours and sounds is infinite if you don’t impose conceptions on it. 🍑🤡🍒🐣☘️🐠☘️🐠🤣💐💖🦒🌏😎🐿 6:12 Stop thinking by looking or listening without meaning. Thanks Alan. 9 July 2024. 🐿🍑😎🍁💗🐿🤡🤡💐🤲👍🏻👍🏻🍒

[@joeomalley1252]

Love is the only thing that conquers fear, their weapons of choice in the paper tiger evilconomy. Every empire is eaten from within, and will be devoured under this system. ✌️❤️

[@AndrewRobinson-ee7um]

That was great. Can’t believe I haven’t heard it before. Thank you !

[@KeenyNewton]

Amazing!!!

[@psychiccouple1728]

Thank you

[@itsallgood8428]

I absolutely loved this and the visuals. Thats the life i want ♥️

[@LawnBros25]

Beautiful….

[@MsJa333333]

AMAZING the curator of these videos is excellent . The coordination of the videos with voice and story is fabulous makes it so real;more importantly is the thought behind the narration invoke by Alex is wonderful.

[@alfreddifeo9642]

🎯🙏 Thank for this that is being pointing out to discover. Wishing love, grace, courage and understanding for all.🎯♥😶 🙏☮

[@chandankumarshaw2670]

So beautiful ❤️ no difference between osho and watts ❤

[@gecomert]

Good joob for the video man, it matches perfectly

[@chunchiu2977]

Stop thinking, but instead, feeling first in the purest manner possible before thinking of anything. By allowing the sensation goes deep enough, the consciousness would genuinely arrive somewhere all in one forever. Just like the fractal pattern of million things, be it the growing summer cloud or the expanding tree trunks, our nerve system or the river branching towards headwaters. They are all forms of one mandala.

[@JmeinKC]

Beautiful ❤✨

[@doramarcelino768]

Um Ser Humano extraordinário… Brilhante!

[@Judith11.11]

Hi OG's! ♾️☯️

[@carpenterfamily6198]

Prefer older AW videos without only his voice, no sound effects

[@myggggeneration]

Agree. I find the visuals a distraction. (didn't watch them.)

[@TyTy-oy7fi]

An important video for human kind

[@zerozenjacques5170]

Wow this was amazing!! 😊😮❤

[@nunabizness]

that was amazing

[@gaz4145]

Not really on the basis of not thinking, I found the video was more about on our existence

[@William_0e]

The Gargoyles roughly pushed them into the opening, where there was a platform, and then flew away and left them.

[@KillTeamHungary]

HO-LY-MO-LY. That was something :)

[@shivanshkatiyar]

❤❤❤

[@SecretsOfASage]

♥️🪷🙏

[@RayASMR232]

❤🙏💜

[@cameliaturda6472]

💜

[@AnziDonald]

Hallelujah!!! I’m favored and blessed with $60,000 every week! Now I can afford anything and also support the work of God and the church.

[@IberiaGoodemote]

Oh really? Tell me more!

[@AnziDonald]

This is what Ana Graciela Blackwelder does, she has changed my life.

[@AnziDonald]

After raising up to 60k trading with her, I bought a new house and car here in the US and also paid for my son’s (Oscar) surgery. Glory to God.shalom.

[@KilborneYenz]

I know Ana Graciela Blackwelder, and I have also had success...

[@KilborneYenz]

Absolutely! I have heard stories of people who started with little or no knowledge but managed to emerge victorious thanks to Ana Graciela Blackwelder.

[@soleraverde]

👏

[@user-wm2vq1pk1x]

It's funny I have always thought like this man and I am beyond amazed how many people don't think this way I've always known we're all living for the wrong reasons humans as a race have so much more potential and spiritual awakening needs to happen and once you realize that God is really just inspiration and imagination then you can literally manifest anything you want and that's how the ancients did it because they knew all religion is is a form of control and to keep our brains dumbed down and until we let go of that we're never going anywhere but down think of how many people have wasted their lives for something like property four objects when you learn that we all have the same capabilities as God perfect example Mass healing imagine if every single human on this planet put their thoughts to 1 intentions one thought what do you think would happen whatever it is we all would think would happen it would happen we have the power within ourselves when you lay your head down at the end of the day it's just you and your head and we all are capable to manifest our own realities I was born knowing this and I'm obviously an old soul but to this day it amazes me how dumb people really are

[@A.G.Birajdar]

❤

[@CozyBear.]

One hell of a shroom trip or dmt

[@zandrokos]

really want to try this sometime

[@Everything-ness]

J krishnamurti would very easily say that discipline and or sitting forcibly is conflict... Where there is conflict spirituality and togetherness doesn't exist.... My favorite thing about Buddhism is you can pick it apart also as long as they talk about it😅

[@piagalimberti6511]

🙏🙏🙏

[@someteacher1502]

Not sure i have understood the video. But entertaining none the less

[@cosmicalsounds]

Can someone explain the last parts when he talks aobut sound and why us sitting here?

[@husnainanwaar1992]

how to make a cover for the tabele not to hurt me

[@Phage-]

How do I stop myself from thinking. I can’t stop ot, ot torments me. I feel pain and might every time I think. I mostly try to distract myself taking advantage of my internal reward system. By playing games, watching shows or movies. Or Intirn to alcohol which O combine with the others. Usually I combine them to enhance the effect. But for dome reason I keeo thinkinh even now my alchohol tolerance has grown too great. I usually use nicotine in combination, because ot enhances my he is gfect, bit my tolerance gor it has grown too great as well. Now I also just left eith suffering

[@user-wm2vq1pk1x]

What a quote the million masks of God there you go that's basically what I've been saying we are God there is no God it's within you it's within your imagination inspiration it's within your powerBut try telling that to most people especially who have church ingrained in them

[@TonyWitdaVibez]

Ok but how am I supposed to stop thinking ??😂

[@jeffcorp972]

Offer something more. We all n33d it.

[@johanhulle]

"When you stop thinking the world become interesting" How can something be interesting without thought? I want to understand but I dont.

[@zandrokos]

biases and preconceived notions come to mind. and this is a lazy answer because there is more to it but we tend to overthink everything now.

[@majestic8326]

You fully emerse yourself in the experience, you dont question it in any kind of form, you let run through you like electricity

[@carlgemlich1657]

Alan said in another lecture to experience the wonder and beauty of the flowers without having to name them or think about their origin. Become interested in the differences in their color and shape. I also look at birds in the same way. We're all part of the same energy field, just different forms.

[@johanhulle]

@@majestic8326 I get that part. I just dont get how anything can be INTERESTING without thought when thoughts are the essence of interest

[@majestic8326]

​@@johanhullewell interest is much more primal. If you see an attractive girl u dont think about finding her interesting. She is either interesting or not. It happens unconsciously

[@user-wm2vq1pk1x]

It really does amaze me that people need to be told this stuff but then again everybody always tells me I'm an alien I'm not an alien I'm just not not buying the b*******especially knowing what this man knows lol

[@meienberg1]

Hmmmm. Hmmmmm. Hmmmmmm. Need time to process and to digest.

[@A.G.Birajdar]

Alan is dopamine

[@jeffcorp972]

Not 'tall

[@friendsofthepygmies3932]

No thoughts doesn't stop suffering. You just have no idea anymore about why you suffer or how to get better

[@ChannelWackadoo]

PLUR

[@zandrokos]

So wish the concept of PLUR hadnt disappeared so fast. It is still around but there was something really special about rave culture.

[@TheExistenceClass0]

Thats Like Saying Stop Breathing! How Could You? Thinking is natural Phenomena Of the Mind ! I would Rather Say Don't Listen to , Not Me , But Him!

[@dts7824]

Try mediating for a while and you still see what he means. You start to notice your random internal monologue and stories you tell yourself that make up your perception of the world. First you realise how overwhelming they are to notice, then you realise they are not you and your mind can quieten down.

[@TheExistenceClass0]

@@dts7824 @dts7824 hh Hearing this I Assume You Have Tried It ! Now My Question Is were You Not Thinking at that time ? I don't Think So. It Is Un-Natural To Not Think ! How can anything Un-Natural can be a Healthy thing ? Like Tongue Is For Talking Brain Is For Thinking There is No Such thing as Over thinking

[@dts7824]

@@TheExistenceClass0 not sure I understand what you are trying to say here

[@TheExistenceClass0]

@@dts7824 as Far as Meditation Is Concerned there Is No Better Meditation in my Eyes Than to Dance Like Crazy And Joyously at Least Once everyday !

[@TheExistenceClass0]

@@dts7824 DANCE JOYOUSLY everyday To Not Think ! It's Called The Dynamic Meditation

[@bryannicholas2130]

11:38 of talking and he said absolutely nothing

[@dts7824]

Nothing that you understand you mean?

[@NOCNAAWARIAStudio]

Just stop drinking

[@philipjohnson3298]

Here we go again. . . Look If ur starving in Gazza or The Yemen no amount of non thinking will alleviate your hunger or thirst.

[@TallisKeeton]

uh, dude, just stop make people stupid by teaching them to stop thinking. all the powers of politics want us to do just that - stop thinking be happy :D consume products :D be lazy :D be unhealthy :D be unproductive :D

[@whysosrs5534]

You dont get it. And that’s okay lol

[@marconeyu]

You are a prime candidate for what Alan is talking about! You, my friend, need to stop thinking altogether right now😂

[@OutpostMJ]

@TallisKeeton Yo have a point -- and the comments counter-weighting your comment have a point. Ironically the people that "run with" the "stop thinking" advice are often themselves stuck in a rut...perhaps fearful of thinking because they loose control of it like a runaway train. Yes, think wisely (based on principles, intuition, and facts as best you can discern them) -- but, try to ease up and not overthink or get stuck in loops or excessive worry (some worry is inevitable and maybe necessary). In terms of facing the political dangers and the onslaught of commercial warfare (advertisement, scams, etc.) on the mind you should think clearly and smartly. Idk -- as brief as I can address your concern and the criticism of you comment by others. Okie.

[@zandrokos]

He is saying to not engage in unproductive thinking. Like worrying about dollars.

[@zandrokos]

I mean you literally dont understand anything about what this man was about or what he tried to impart on others.

[@rudhirrajkumar]

❤