Alan Watts: A Coincidence of Opposites - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 16 - Host: Mark Watts

Contemplating the coincidence of opposites within the ‘human game,’ Alan ponders the simple yet thought-provoking question: is existence serious?
This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.
Waves & Troughs // Coincidence of Opposites (0:00)
Learning the Human Game // Is Existence Serious? // Cause & Effect (11:08)
Existence is Spontaneous // Letting Go // The Playful Universe (24:08)
“Any experience we have through our senses-whether of sound, or of light, or of touch-is a vibration. And a vibration has two aspects: one called ‘on,’ and the other called ‘off.’ Vibration seems to be propagated in waves, and every wave system has crests and it has troughs. So life is a system of ‘now you see it, now you don’t.'” - Alan Watts
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[@pedrovargas0838]

Life is just easier after finding Alan Watts

[@SlapPa9]

Find Terrence McKenna also. He too will give you permission to be you 👍

[@elnino85fv]

@@SlapPa9 Thank you! His first minutes sound great already!

[@SlapPa9]

@@elnino85fv 👍, be brave and nature will remove all obstacles.

[@rickynoodles2816]

​@@SlapPa9 omg plus ram Dass. That's a life changing trio

[@The_Eternal_Now]

It was always easy, but you were deeply involved in the "hide" aspect of life. Welcome to the "seek."

[@zaydadon8472]

He brings me the most peace

[@ericphalen7109]

Me too wish he was still here

[@jenmdawg]

Me too. I’ll “tire” of his lectures (we have so much access) and then find myself restless/anxious even though I meditate, etc and return to these talks and it’s like coming home.

[@TheSoulBlossom]

@@jenmdawg Beautifully said

[@erawanpencil]

@@jenmdawg Every 5 years or so I'll listen again and they get deeper and deeper. Imagine anyone else saying you don't have to survive, that you're already the whole world; only he can say it so simply and so decisively. There are so many people out there with serious philosophies and teachings and meditations, so much talk about finding callings and meaning and purpose... but he shows that it's all a game and in an instant all the anxiety vanishes.

[@cjfredi]

Agree.

[@KonGrapsas-bq2br]

Dearest Mark Watts ; Your love for your father is inspiring.😮😮😮

[@dennisw8166]

My son introduced me to Alan Watts. What a wonderful surprise it's been. God bless him and his influence

[@mohammad4110]

Be proud of your son

[@paolagiunti2979]

Reading his teachings was a real help in my life.

[@chasemorris8040]

L . M L😮😮

[@chasemorris8040]

Tom Has M Mm The Yuan 8@?6ddj

[@chasemorris8040]

8:21 /😢 mii 8:51 i Z

[@chasemorris8040]

IThe ll 11:06

[@romanovmarkelyon1021]

It’s wild to think as much time has passed since this talk as the amount of time Alan Watts was in this world. I’m glad his words live on.

[@empressonthethrone]

Listening to Alan Watts is ASMR for me. His words rings true even in this day and age.

[@trainwreck682]

At first the noise in the background was distracting. Now I find it just as relaxing as the talk itself.

[@ahmetdogan5685]

Lullabies for the soul.

[@shaungronda2759]

Beautiful mind and soul

[@mitchellanderson3068]

The opening quote is probably my favorite Alan Watts quote of all time. It’s so beautiful

[@alexforrest4551]

I felt lead to alan watts . Met someone who said this to me too ❤

[@acesteals1706]

marvelous human being.

[@jaytyler7700]

I love the that he's bringing a human element to those that might have mechanical view of the mind. Allowing them to evolve their practice into a meaningful art. He probably walked into that room with many ready to contradict anything he said in their own minds. To hear the majority of the room laughing with him...Alan watts was an amazing mind and a beautiful orator. I'm thankful to the series of events and hard work that lead him to share his gift.

[@remusmuntean701]

Thank you Mark 💜🌅🙏🏼

[@mykelmongomery5109]

I've starting to listen every night

[@K2blades2]

Thank you so much! Nothing better in the world than listening to Alan Watts!!

[@SignalFifty]

Second only to listening to yourself.

[@izgl]

I have to agree

[@sandralynnsparks3468]

I don't know why I passed his work by earlier on. Life would have been a whole lot easier. Perhaps I just needed to realize a lot of his ideas for myself, then finally, after years of feeling alone, find I had always had a home. Thank you for continuing to share his work.

[@bettyhaines2570]

Thank you Mark Watts 😊❤ for this beautiful video of You're Brother we love you to Mark Watts 😊 You have a good day 🙏

[@codeybrown9508]

Mark is his son

[@aaronananth]

MOST PROMINENT ...we as humans have Scattered mind .... which needs a way of CONCLUSIVE INTELLECT which takes us to Wisdom.💙🙏

[@rtt1961]

Great modern philosopher.

[@shindig6361]

Fabulous and funny!

[@carol-annes5492]

thank you Mark!!!

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Just beautiful …..🌞

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Appreciation for making be heard this is an amazing lecture …..a human being -Must learn to see the spot light and around and back more in movement being aware of the environment ( where the tremendous energy is hidden so kind of out the “concentration “…..)….🌞

[@2951hawkeye]

Thanks for sharing your Father's work. I Love listening to his talks.

[@ShivAusar]

thanks for sharing your wisdom

[@janneaburgess911]

Thank You for sharing Your dad’s wisdom. It makes a huge difference in how I Live My Life. Thank You for teaching Me that Life is a Musical & that we’re supposed to sing, dance and play along the way. 🙏💚🎶✨

[@jakecarlo9950]

This is peak! If you’ve been laboring over Derrida or Heidegger, good news! Just sit back and enjoy the essence of the matter right here! Whew good stuff.

[@DJMICA-bz3qz]

TO THE OWNER OF THIS CHANNEL: I’m filled with happiness to see Watts’s work have the real names of the lecturers attached to it. I assume he needed his son to do this. I want all the data from those morons who put his stuff up “with music” or ocean noises or something. These people don’t have the attention span to follow a full lecture so they chop him up. The tapes FROM watts by watts is the only way I want it in my library.

[@aceinthehole3563]

Watts is great chopped, diced, smothered, or covered...

[@DJMICA-bz3qz]

@@aceinthehole3563 you have no idea what your talking w

[@DJMICA-bz3qz]

@@aceinthehole3563 his tapes were not for peons with no attention span

[@CameronQuin]

You may need to listen to Watts again as it seems you may have missed the point.

[@aceinthehole3563]

@@DJMICA-bz3qz I have no idea what you are talking about...

[@tomato1040]

Yah, like The Coincidence of Opposites: The Philosophy of Psychology or The Psychology of Philosophy in The ⚖️ Balance of refereeing Our🧘Selves in Divine Choiceless Awareness, transposing mere matter to Pure Energy in the Realms of The Gods of Super Consciousness.

[@prometheus1111111]

Watts does excellent analysis and breaking down the pathology of the ego without ever pointing out to who or what has orchestrated the pathology of the ego. He never Asks qui bono. His idea in following certain Eastern lines of thought was to destroy the ego, suppress it overcome it all together, and enter into this nothingness then you arrive to get the point of life and can dance freely. Why shouldn't he ask why have the ego in the first place? The ego is extremely necessary but it is only that it never had the chance to develop naturally. that is, to be informed by the essence and to be the subjugate rather than the master. This leads to what Carlos Castaneda called foreign installation which is really none other than anything that the elites or the dark forces that rule wish to program life with. Nothingness like infinity is one of their favorite fallacies they use to diminish humans by a cognitive strategy.

[@adrianahuls4983]

Wonderful movie..

[@questionMark4443]

Don’t worry about it what ever it is you are trying to control. Control yourself for your inner condition affects your perception or the way you perceive it. How you feel is the key. For me it’s so good to be alive. Put on some music and dance. 🕺

[@karlinguk]

I ADMIT...I do like listening to the recorded talks of the late Alan Watts.. But find I can absorb/tolerate only small amounts of him at a a time. It strikes me that like a great whale, one who may first playfuly capsize you from the safety of your boat then takes hold of you. ..he will first take you for a ride as you willing hold on before submerging below the surface and it is then you will need to hold your breath while you taken deeper n deeper, this way n that way and shown all manner of sights that from the surface you were oblivious to. What I find amazing but frustrating at the same time too, is the way he seems to impromtuly navigate his way around, seamlessly and without a pause going from direction/place (topic) to the next and having not followed a plan/scirlpt... Its as if he just grabs your attention, goes in a direction that soon goes off course into many other directions, and all whilst below the depths, were oxygen is absent and were only his voice, thoughts and bizarre sights alone exist. Sadly, or forturnately... I can only hold my breath a short time before I feel a need to rush back to the suface... Hopefully though a little more enlightened/enriched for the places Alan took me to. Certainly a intetesting, unique, charismatic, deep yet bitter sweet being when here before as Alan Watts the man.

[@codeybrown9508]

The amazing part is when you find out there was no need to hold your breath in the first place and when you see that the only thing left to do is have a cosmic laugh the kind that hurts your cheeks

[@salm8990]

These word. Thank you for them. When I was in an car accident I saw something I couldn’t explain. This man Alan Watts helped me understand what I saw. I cant explain what i saw. But I saw was all of it , all at once. Everything… it’s was beautiful. I’m happy to be alive now, everyday.

[@rjac001]

Some good interesting thoughts but a lot of semantics too

[@VcottntailW]

He speaks poetically

[@pattern18]

"Hey there, trape-tastic viewers! So, here I am, diving into the deep philosophical pool of Alan Watts' wisdom. It's like trying to balance on a tightrope while juggling existential questions. Just remember, if you fall off the trapeze of enlightenment, just laugh it off and embrace the cosmic circus of life. Let's keep soaring together, folks!"

[@DennisNieves-fm4sl]

Cause and effect are two different stages of the same event. It's the difference between a wave cresting and a wave crashing on the shore. Cause and effect is as real as time. Which many scientists would disagree about time. But what do they know!? After all, it takes time to explain weather or not time exists. And the purpose of time is to keep everything from happening all at once. In fact, nothing can happen at all if it wasn't for time; for time is a fundamental reality of existence.

[@kieranjubb3040]

💙💙💙

[@konradmalilwe]

Binary code 1s and 0s

[@thiuniverse]

❤️

[@DJMICA-bz3qz]

I heard a really bad ass watts song of him doing the laughing meditation tho

[@DJMICA-bz3qz]

@@Biomassmission “bibio zen drums” on a KZbin channel called “warp records”

[@jasond.5723]

33:28 does anybody know what he was talking about here?

[@lobintool]

BTW: what's the difference between a psycologist and a psychiatrist?

[@danielmyers5897]

Basically-A psychiatrist is an md. Full medical school. Can write prescriptions. Psychologist may have an ms or a phd but not an md.

[@trishthompson1533]

Writing scripts.

[@emojiking8580]

✨️

[@VenusLover17]

❤❤

[@lobintool]

Anyway. all this stuff is all well and good..how does it pay my mortgage or any other bills for that matter?

[@orionmyth]

Transactional nature

[@johngumz4133]

There not real

[@arvindchahal7009]

They will be taken care of by the cosmos. You don't have to worry

[@PompousPicard1]

No, and thank fucking god it doesn’t. There’s so much more to life than just paying bills, and if that’s all you’re concerned with, why bother going on living at all?

[@titussteenhuisen8864]

Watts doesn’t emphasise enough life is continuous transformation meditate on everything is transformation; life death life etc. - no end - hope that helps with your mortgage

[@starfish3108]

I’m my own dance partner

[@Unfamous_Buddha]

Haha, you gotta forget!

[@cheri238]

🦋

[@justinbarnes5095]

I did not go to school watch tv or anything and I just heard of "the man Alan" and I understand every word and I talk just like him when I speak.. point is how do I know and talk about something I was never taught or anything it is easy, u can't no u no something's if u don't no u no it and that should show u that we r all one of a infinite number of 1 and to come from that one u in turn r the one meaning all information that comes and goes thru one in turns goes thru all , quit looking up to people as models or whatever else the more u fail and it's because u falsify Ur reality of Ur being here with the purpose of someone else's being here. It is the part of letting go and u will only please u or displease u in the end or the beginning and if the end is the beginning u will see that the only point worth making is now cause the point of right now is the point of both beginning and end. Sorry this probably don't make since thanks

[@daviddossenback4095]

What happened to all the other Allen Watts channels.

[@mohammad4110]

I guess Matrix don't want Alan to enlighten many people

[@randompointlessness2766]

He is presents a chance that we might miss it all, and life will pass us by if we aint present, thats a bit pesimistic.. we were there, we did the things and reacted in way we did and that was it, our life.. so no need to put a sad face on it, nevermind how much you absorbed.

[@roynadav5686]

yes , like black and white opposite ,as apart of the whole , so watts point of being a ware of being a ware ....

[@mrs.joeschmoe5681]

I am seeking a dance partner 😏

[@PAKallman]

🕺🏽🎊🖤

[@matthewheffernan6729]

The destination is the dance😁 yes we breathe in and well,ve arrived. And such is life. Breathe out. LoL

[@agentdelphi8295]

Me too

[@DnB_Purist.]

Absolutely 🥺

[@christinawilson7312]

“MEEEEEE ✝️☯️💓💥🌟💋🫵💧☔️TOOOOO🔥‼️

[@joanallisonkica739]

Is it Sirius?

[@mohammad4110]

No it's Severus

[@whiteashpiperwhiteashpiper5447]

I wonder what Alan's favorite pipe tobacco was?

[@justinbarnes5095]

Pot

[@whiteashpiperwhiteashpiper5447]

@@justinbarnes5095 funny, that's not tobacco.

[@codeybrown9508]

He so ahead of his time he bought that weed legally from a dispensary the day after tomorrow to smoke in 1971 😂

[@benquinneyiii7941]

Mo Jo

[@VitaFlare]

First 😵‍💫

[@apkeeney]

Is the worst 😛

[@leonlee8524]

"That which is explicitly two, can be implicitly one" As the second, I'm also 1st, so ha!

[@VitaFlare]

@@leonlee8524 Thanks Leon for making me laugh with your comment!

[@lobintool]

And the point is what?

[@ceciliamalinski2607]

There is no point. Everything just is. Enjoy the illusion....while paying the mortgage.

[@rtt1961]

@@ceciliamalinski2607 Yes!

[@interdimensionalsailboat]

Idk i find the argument sort of against evolution as a view on the world a little bit of a strawman. I dont presume it was said that there is this nebulous "survival drive", Its just that life exists in a way which propagates itself through its behaviour and then the ones that do so succesfully are ones that you see more of. Types of life which didnt do that because of whatever circumstances are no longer here, naturally. Sometimes i really do feel like he adds things to arguments that probably never existed? But perhaps that was how things were talked about back then. Similarly, when he talks about a mosquito or whatever feeling like its human. I mean, we have no good guess on whether there is anybody home. And at least nowadays with some worm, we modeled the neurons digitally and basically get the same behaviour as the animal itself. I know that alan views consiousness as stretching beyond the skin and while i do respect the natural world and all its beings, I kind of just cannot imagine dropping stuff like that as if it is a statement of fact.

[@shawnpalmer6715]

a winner in a match needs a loser

[@gotonethatcansee]

00:21:24 ♪ GRIFFIN⁴

[@tomato1040]

IT IS REALLY THE SUBCONSCIOUS ALAN IS REFERRING 2. PURE=mc2,❤️‍🔥 LUST BRINGS🧬LIFE=mc2, YET IT IS STILL🧘CONSCIOUS. "UNCONSCIOUSNESS" IS CLOSER TO DEATH. LUSTING 4 SPIRITUAL UNION IS "THE WORD MADE FLESH" IN THE G👁️D🔯G👁️DDESS💋!

[@santaclase3410]

EyE,m forist gump🕉🕉🕉