Alan Watts: Learning the Human Game - Being in the Way Ep. 17 - Hosted by 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.
Language & Ethics (0:00)
The Game of Balance (13:33)
Culture, Control & Spontaneity // The Art of the Controlled Accident (24:20)
“What would you think of the heavens were the stars were all arranged at even intervals and concentric circles? Would you like to go out at night a see that? No. We like the stars scattered as they are. We also like to see when the waves break on the shore, the patterns of foam. The funny thing is you can look at those patterns hour after hour and realize that they never make an aesthetic mistake. They never do anything inelegant; just like a cat, it never makes a bad move.” - Alan Watts
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[@maximelagace]

"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt." -Alan Watts

[@SignalFifty]

His message was, whatever you're feeling is alright. It flies in the face of the cancel culture we are living in today, a culture that tries to teach us that feelings are the enemy. They are part of the HUMAN experience. Without them, you are not a conscious entity.

[@THOMAS_MHDS]

Niiice.

[@user-yt5sg7kp5s]

😅😮😅😊😮😮❤

[@23cutemonkey]

When I listen to Alan Watts, I know that he is alive in me and I am alive in him in the timelessness that is where we all are, now, immortal. I love the joy he manifests and shares in speaking the truth of what is. What a gift he is to Life. What clarity, what simplicity, what wisdom. Thank you, Alan, always.

[@piehound]

Nice words. But in my life i find clarity often lacking. Words alone . . . no matter how clear just don't clarify life itself. Same with wisdom. The words themselves may be very wise indeed. But that's only talk or text. Now try walking the walk instead of just talking the talk. I find trial and error is mostly what happens. The wise words only serve to remind me i've erred again . . . painfully.

[@fernandaconceicao146]

To listen to Allan is a knock on the door of perceptions and a reallity check out .He nurrish the intetectual and wakes you up for ineffavel nature that permeates all phenomena ,is joyful and painful to listen because he push a door but its the power of diligence and motivation( your own) that makes this Clarity a truth for us He have the power to shake us with his words , words are symbols showing directions,....I understand what you saying felt it many times But we always have the Present Moment to step On no matter how many we missed and we feel discouraged To judge ourselves to feel without resources is just more one trap.Never give up.

[@juanotamendi8913]

What a wonderful human !! I truly wish he would of seen the huge difference in the world !! Much love and respect Mr Alan watts, like the father I never had !!

[@lovesoap]

Omg I consider him my father too! Like listening to your wise dad give you loving advice. He died before i was born and he has played a major role in my life. I love this man. ❤

[@douglasholden3169]

We all see 6th to 9th. What am I. OM Breath. Inner shh no i peace.

[@jonathanweilbacher9714]

That's awesome. He infuses every ounce of existence within itself. Truly amazing!

[@lilysoulstar6221]

He sees it 😍✨

[@Ludifant]

@@douglasholden3169 Inner Shh, hahaha love that:) Sushing yourself, "Why the heck can´t I be silent in my own head.. be quiet!" Reminds me of the "serenity now!" skit in Seinfeld. I try to take the thoughts as birds chittering. I don´t sush the birds, I don´t glue them to the ground and I don´t fly after them. And they migrate in their own time.

[@antoniovittorio4686]

'BALANCE' is the word that most characterized the game of life.Balance of the opposites. Like a game, life needs RULES & RANDOMNESS, CONTROL & RISK, otherwise it becomes a bore. A great speech, great because timeless and delivered by a passionate man who speaks for the sake of truth.

[@bethanienaylor]

A bore, or pure chaos

[@AubreyDuckworth]

You nailed it....well said I'm sure he is smiling at the kind gestures!!

[@GaryRSpicer]

This is how anyone can change the world, question everything in the freeing human way

[@moorzymoores]

This bloke was a clever clever man. Everytime I listen he never fails to teach something.

[@anneatmon188]

Alan Watts has such a calming and soul centering voice

[@santaclase3410]

Santa Clase 7 days ago 🥰🥰🥰 get well everbody🥰🥰🥰

[@berthacheese8924]

YES!!! So warm and relaxing. He feels like family. He was given that voice for a reason I think! I listen to him often and especially if I'm not in the best mood

[@jill-of-all-trades]

@@berthacheese8924I can see listening to his voice would be calming when I’m frazzled.

[@doritoz98]

My absolute favorite speaker.

[@Sherry1065]

If you don't know about Ted talks or Ted X there are some pretty good speakers over there as well, who speak about every subject imaginable! If you've already discovered them, more power to you! All the best to you and yours! ✌️❤

[@jaxong.2701]

Lmao "ya wanna go out and see at the stars bunched together? Would ya like that? No..!." cracks me right up every time

[@MGC64]

Im slightly overwhelmed about how insightful this man is

[@Ucayali267]

Thank you for these uploads. I visited Alan Watt's place of birth a couple of months ago. A little suburban village Chislehurst in south London. I’ve seen his house, the little high street, the church he attended, and the pub he made a birthday party for his then 80 yo father. I was strolling through the village, listening to his autobiography on my airpods and trying to find as many places as possible. It’s very easy to imagine how it was when Alan lived there and then visited when he moved to the States. The village didn’t change almost at all. Visiting Chislehurst was an amazing experience.

[@Ludifant]

He was an extraordinary man, that is for sure. Strange to think he came from the same type of background we all come from. Next time I am in the UK, Chislehurst is on the map :) Thanks for the idea.

[@justdriveon]

I went to see the ferry boat in Sausalito while listening. 😉

[@michaelbeede8436]

@@justdriveon lo

[@The_New_Abnormal_World_Order]

Thank you for this comment... you have inspired me to make a pilgrimage!😊

[@dgodiex]

@@justdriveon I had the privilege to live and work on the Vallejo for two months in 2016 (invited for an artist residence. They knew how much I loved Alan, so it was a surreal experience. Many things belonging to him and areas where many photos of him where taken are still intact on the boat).

[@user-ep2qq5gq1f]

Alan is still ahead of modern times.

[@Earthangel63]

OR… Is it spooky he sounds like he is talking about these days? Have we learned anything? I heard him say that computers may help us out eventually….. if he only knew where they have brought us today. Help in the beginning…. But now 😞🥺

[@kevinmalone6132]

27mins in he absolutely nails where we are right now in society. This talk was late 60's. Humans (this go around) seem to be a predictable disaster...

[@richardfinlayson1524]

Gee it's amazing this was recorded in 1965 ,the year I was born, that's fifty eight years ago,he was certainly on the leading edge of the 60 s generation. Thanks for this guys,take it easy.☯️☮️❤️

[@luciderr]

It's also very comforting to see that his lessons aged well, proving the authenticity of his teachings.

[@thevagabondsageinthewoods]

I dig it. ❤

[@Earthangel63]

Please NEVER take his wonderful lectures away from us✌️☯️

[@jeaninecaterisano8661]

He lives!

[@gongallah]

I dig you = I'm gonna mine you for your wealth of experiences, knowledge and wisdom.

[@jimywebb23]

Mr Watts really had a way of articulating the meat and potatoes of life

[@Jambazisugu]

Are you swedish!

[@jimywebb23]

@@Jambazisugu Arkansan lol

[@jeljel4037]

I could listen to him read the phone book. Such a pleasure to hear someone speak his mind without inserting the word "like" every 3rd or 4th word. Wayne Dyer is another oldie but goodie to listen and learn from.

[@MsDeathGuy]

I listen to these talks when the effects of psilocybin start to fade off.Really puts my thoughts in order.Doesn't really matter what he is talking about,is just the way and flow of his thoughts

[@WILLed_into_Existence]

I do the same, listen to him until I fall asleep after my trips. Ram Dass is also great for this

[@beach182]

The art of the controlled accident ❤

[@jamesmcfarland1521]

Very dyffrent right ✅️

[@jasmineedwards8333]

❤ Gentle accidental Hiding our guiding ❤

[@frenchie9952]

Talking about rules of grammar - one can't say 'On which side of the road we should drive on' the 'on' can only be at one end of the sentence. Just an observation, not a criticism. I love this guy

[@nathaliechollet8848]

Thank you ! I so adore this man! I feel like his voice and his laughter are a therapy for me❤

[@user-ud2vw6ib1b]

Settling words of applicable subject of interest

[@kevindwan]

it is rumoured to be from the Irish phrase. Blindboy boatclub claims on his rubber bandits podcast that when the Irish and blacks were living in close quarters in the US cities in the 19th and early 20th century, the blacks picked up the cupla focal, and that that is where the term 'you dig' comes from!

[@deadreckoning6288]

What an amazing talk. Concepts Ive thought deeply about through my life. It strikes at the heart of my Calvinist upbringing & the disturbing idea of original sin and all encompassing control.....which is utter bs. Its taking me a lifetime to decondition myself from this brainwashing. Thank you Alan.

[@meditatewithjames]

When we move out of our way, we can see who we truly are

[@earthianmike]

I so dig Alan Watts and what his art could mean to people ✨💖

[@CSMcVay]

What a perfect message for our times. Watts was an incredible, clear thinker.

[@SignalFifty]

He was a prophet. He wasn't speaking to the early 70's; he is addressing the 2020s: Right Now.

[@angiebradley1356]

Timeless.. that's true wisdom ✨👌

[@josephhebert1785]

I've been listening to Alan Watts nearly every day for the past 8 years and it just dawned on me that while he has an English accent, he speaks like a west coast American.

[@eliasbuchwald1064]

Fascinating. What a tremendous pleasure listening to his deep thoughts on life. Thank you for sharing this with us

[@danielhampton4292]

The man is inspiring. ‘Nuff said!!

[@bendouglas7097]

Love alan watts, a personal hero of mine. I also give big thanks for this channel

[@tomato1040]

''I AM'' is more conscious than 'I Will' or 'I Was'. ''I AM'' = Present; 'I Was' = Past; 'I Will' = Future!

[@susanloforti4494]

I used Alan Watts' boat in Sausalito, to document my journey toward Enlightenment in a blank book that was left there in the 1980's. My samadhi occurred on JUNE 15TH, 1992. DEEPEST THANKS TO ALAN.

[@tyreliouszukarious2582]

Who had the samadhi ?

[@reme7903]

This is just pure genius in its simplicity. This speech brilliantly conveyed the sublime balance in everything

[@jamesmcfarland1521]

Right on point with wizer growth 📝🛐

[@jacoblongwell6419]

I wish I had the oppertunity to smoke with Alan, I like to think he is with me now as I enjoy his voice speaking dharma as it is. He helped inspire me to quit drinking, a wonderful Bodisotva.

[@thevagabondsageinthewoods]

Bodisotva?

[@jacoblongwell6419]

@@thevagabondsageinthewoods like a Buddast Saint

[@thevagabondsageinthewoods]

@@jacoblongwell6419 ohhhh, ok. Tyvm

[@kronicles999]

I'm quitting drinking again

[@tassopicasso6123]

Truly a remarkable man. Such insight is food for the soul. Thank you, Alan Watts channel.

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Amazing mind ….🌞

[@KB.Emmanuel]

yessss i adore these uploads

[@peymanghorbani6390]

Alan is the voice of the universe.

[@busisiwecwati7918]

Thank You...for the uploads. Alan truly gifted i'v learned a lot

[@webbdepot4060]

Thank you for this.

[@willatno2]

Thank you for uploading …… brilliant stuff

[@apheshavaldez405]

I wish Mr. Watts was sitll around, I would feel blessed to have the opertunity to be in his presence. His work still proves to be very relevant today.

[@marquezgarrett1311]

Thank you Alan

[@fanpromotv9306]

Happy new year's watts thank you 🙏🏽

[@trevywevy802]

Man I dig you Mr Watts! 🥰

[@chrispecora6223]

Thank you too Alan🌹🧿💧🌊🌕

[@pickle9753]

These are beautiful, and very insightful thoughts. Fascinating stuff. I could listen all day. The tone and voice is very soothing. The pulls off the pipe in the background, and the occasional suppressed coughing, is the icing on the cake of making me feel comfortable and relaxed. 😂🥴❤️🤷🏻‍♀️☯️☮️ Thank you very much for sharing.

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

What a beautiful example brought ….🌞

[@Africanrose123]

Beautiful, real talk. Sending divine healing love to mama earth and all its habitants 💞

[@piehound]

Thanks. I dig it.

[@dgodiex]

4216 likes vs 1 dislike. This has to be one of the most succesful videos (in terms of ratio) of the whole YT.

[@marcosluna7792]

Exactly what I needed, when I needed it. Thank you! 🙏❤

[@derbawah]

i didnt understand the concept . what is he talking about , can someone please give me a quick summary or realisation from this video

[@renatehendricks5078]

Thank you for these wise lectures from Alan Watts keep up the good work 🙏

[@gr8ful818]

What a trip to have a dad like yours if this is a little Allen ❤

[@davidc6003]

Watch it, you're adding new language created by pot heads.

[@bronsomccor2642]

When i listen to alan watts i feel like hes in me and im in him we are connected as one he expanded my mind

[@derickd4665]

Thank you very much! Love the place were Alan's words point. Greetings from Bolivia!

[@RenatasVilcinskas]

I dig this ;)

[@SarahRickard]

Alan ❤

[@barryyoung6797]

I would love to have an Alan Watts App!

[@MarinTvarog]

I've come to listen to Alan Watts after ive experienced (during meditation) the whole unity with everything that is, from humans, plants, animals, whole cosmos really. I did not know what has happened. I cried about 5,6 times per day for a month from pure love and joy. After reading and listening to primordial energy/God that took form of Alan Watts ive learned that what happend to me was satori, buddhahood, enlightment. ❤🎉😂 There is no one god on top of all, authority which created all this, and were the products of this entity because thats not what love is about. We are it, we are all gods. We are all one in form of many, and this existance, universe itself really is the celebration and "gathering" all possible experiences just for pure love and fun of it. ❤😂😊 From that day on, im no longer the nihilistic, cinical asshole who knew that science is the only way to explain our existance. 😅😂 Alan Watts explained everything and spoke nothing but truth of our universe. 😊

[@dustinthompson764]

Thanks for your testimony you're right check out neville Goddard if you haven't

[@MarinTvarog]

@@dustinthompson764 Thank you, i will look into Goddard 😃

[@dustinthompson764]

@MarinTvarog this life is so amazing and Goddard has some good material

[@AltruisticTimmerrr23]

Allen Watts is still making me a better person in death. Literally. This video made me question something I said and back track and realize my ignorance on a subject and make an amends. We should all strive to walk in this mans impossible shoes, I believe 😊 I wonder if meeting him was like looking into the Sun.

[@nathankaiser2511]

Thank you Sir Alan for sharing the wisdom Amen 🙏

[@account-gp4sn]

"CAN YOU DIG IT!!!!!!?????"

[@MyKelvin89]

“The goody goody’s are the thieves of virtue”

[@sandhyajoshi8475]

Aah that makes sense, thank you

[@johnwrickel]

❤ Dolt by John Rickel ❤

[@kayweiss7207]

please dont put in music

[@WhiteApeMA]

This reminds me of a saying, "balance is not a static state of things, but a rather arbitrary mixture of balances and imbalances of all kinds."

[@rainbowguide5873]

What we feed our consciousness is what the embodiment of the earth is feeling so what we as the only conscious mind we need to feed ourselves positive so ot in essence will receive our vibration of the love of life on our abundant planet we are living and created from

[@TheLove1Makes]

Good Meaning

[@uprooy]

Unbelievable.... whàt a wisdom....

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Like it - and it is - beyond its control …..interesting ….🌞

[@MeditationGate01]

Very good

[@WulfDragon-sf5hx]

Thx 🙏👍

[@santaclase3410]

Santa Clase 7 days ago 🥰🥰🥰 get well everbody🥰🥰🥰

[@stevehaas9515]

Origins of flow work.

[@jacobcarson3997]

Apparently Alan never saw a sleeping cat accidentally roll backwards off the back of an open staircase

[@HANNAHLUMERIA-it5rw]

Means I dig you or appreciate you on more than a surface level.

[@salparadise1220]

'Grok' is even better than dig. Albeit closer than appreciate/enjoy/understand. From Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.

[@Deepak-lc4gw]

Learning use in creativity finds errors in one's own CREATIIVITY learn it again do same process. Process is also alternate

[@brendaclark4023]

Im a true born cat. Leo in every way. Bring it ❤😂🇨🇦😊

[@buskingkarma2503]

I'm fifty something years old now,and I used to have him on cassette player tapes and that my student friends would give me,and I'd smoke a joint and listen,40 odd years later,,I'm smoking a joint,drinking my cocoa with my slippers on getting ready and settled for my bed😆,,listening to him on KZbin! 👌

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

It’s so interesting that wanted to learn English because of 😂Shakespeare in some sense kind of one of the reason to be aquatinted by reading or learning somehow…..and because of linguistics to understand how the language is born ?…. How to understand another languages …another ways of thinking ….experience…🌞

[@VenusLover17]

❤❤❤

[@AngeliqueGia]

Contact as a verb 😂 We use it all the time now

[@Tachyon111]

❤❤❤OMG

[@DnB_Purist.]

The goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

[@winniethuo9736]

42:15🤔🍺👏

[@jasonschrader7454]

A true conquer of life. Died his own existence.

[@gaaoui]

Ethical experimentation sounds so constructive, lifelike, in the vehicle of pure positivity, as a form art, as we be art in it, that we are as evolving beings!!! 🦋🦋🦋🤗🫶🌟✨ so beautiful, wishing so much peace, health, and happiness showers always higher growing

[@rainbowguide5873]

The fact is we all communicated and pulled together when COVID happened the answer is simply we all need to communicate and seek balance by a having the same mind set of the same manifestation of the highest good for all universes so as above so below as within the mind so without in body so al can be with all

[@Ludifant]

How many pieces in three dimensional chess?? Seems the normal amount would be rather empty. Also I guess we could invent new pieces, like the depth-queen, that can move in more than one plane.. Because I presume a normal queen can move in one plane in every direction, but has three planes to choose from. Also we would need to eshtablish whole planes for the pawns to reach before promotion and en-passant would be a challenge... I would love to witness a full game :)

[@kawikakon2646]

Joy does not share understanding dose not share . lol es very very much true and there are other words as well that is the same ! people oddly dont no how to reserve there self or preserve , its a good way of longevity as well lol.

[@isaacrobles2416]

Amen 🙏

[@natsnicnacs2346]

"To be completely safe is to be completely dead"

[@1neAdam12]

Don't overthink it

[@JesseJames-ig7gu]

There’s a law that says that you can request that 500 page form in Laymans terms Been listening to Alan for a long time but now that I’m finding enlightening I see a lot of holes in his speeches

[@NowisEvollovetion]

Is There A Way To 'Avoid' (To See Through) All Of The Fear Associated With Physical Death? A Way To Effectively Become An 'Immortal', And So 'Naturally Eternal' Being? A Way To 'Realise Immortality'? Yes. There is 'A Way' to actually do so. And That Way Is 'NO WAY'. You Need To Realise. That 'A Way' Is In Reality 'Nothing More' Than 'A Means To An End'. And so, logically. The question then becomes. So What Is 'A Way' Exactly? Well. 'A Way IS A Way' Of Actually Connecting 'Two Entirely Different Positions'. So Effectively Making Them Both 'One And The Same'. Or. To put it another way. 'A Way IS A Way' Of Actually Creating 'The State Of Complete Unification'. That 'Unified State' In Which There Are Naturally 'No Ways'. That 'Unified State' In Which 'All Ways' Must 'Naturally Be Seen' To Lead To 'Every Other Way' That 'Unified State' In Which There Are Naturally 'No Different Positions'. That 'Unified State' That We Refer To As 'God's Mind'. The 'Endless Void'. The 'Nothing' That Naturally Underlies 'Everything'. A Truth That Is 'NOW' Able To Show Us. That - GOD 'ALL WAYS' WINS. And yes. 'NOW' That The Circle 'IS' Finally Complete. 'NOW' That We Are Back 'Once More' At The Very Beginning Of All Things. At The 'ZERO POINT'. IT IS 'GAME OVER'. And Yes. 'NOW' We Can Naturally Begin To Play The Game All Over Again. Love. The Creator Of The Game. ME (The Reader Of These Words 'NOW').

[@ivandossev]

17:37 I am sure Alan Watts meant to say Tic-Tac-Toe can always end in a Tie, if both players knew how to play.