Don't Be Scared It's All Just A Game - Alan Watts On The Great Illusion

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A profound speech on the life's illusion by Alan Watts. Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts - Out Of Your Mind 04"
““This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.””
- Alan Watts. (1915 - 1973)
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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.
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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.

[@dmackenzie3528]

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” ― Alan Watts

[@indi1st517]

Then if I am to survive, I am to become the joker. -Unknown origin.

[@ernestcotton9324]

Yes

[@MrJamesdryable]

And in this intense struggle, we are unknowing poets. Alan Watts

[@StrongBodyandMind33]

I’ve been saying this for years! I always posed the question to those who complained about the system ( which I don’t agree with as well), why don’t we all just stop going to work?? As simply as he put it, it’s because people are not ready and many do like the competition even if it means hating your life

[@OnlyThisMoment]

I am never serious but I am always sincere 🙏

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

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[@maximelagace]

"Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe." -Alan Watts

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[@Red23165]

Thank you ❤

[@johnnysandiegoable]

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun… for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride.” -Bill Hicks

[@daluthandontontela5382]

Love the way you make it understandable ❤

[@uy2526]

Why we keep complicating a gift that is so simple to enjoy is beyond me !!

[@bas5984]

For many people it is everything but simple to enjoy.

[@dan32113]

It's the Capitalist system. Greed of fellow Humans ie Landlords force pressure on you. As they want more & more. But the consumer part is an unnecessary construct, you need little to be happy.

[@mnetzer6777]

@@dan32113 Do you know if a better system? Just curious

[@dan32113]

@@mnetzer6777 this is an interesting thought. Jeremy Corbyns policies were called loony left by UK media. But in fact are seen as moderate in Europe. A Capitalist system that is regulated could work, unfettered greed no. Remember it's socialism for the Rich, when the Banks failed the Tax payer bailed them out. Austerity was forced on everyone because of their reckless behaviour.

[@MichaelSmith420fu]

​@@mnetzer6777this isn't even a system. The only reason a society exist or works is directly due to the people who agree with each other. But I'n a system(s) like America democracy (or w/e), it literally and metaphorically is corrupted and compartmentalized. People do what people do. Unfortunately, parasites aren't always so easy to remove. That's the problem with our (non)"system". It's It's superficial, chaotically wrought, and poisonous.

[@nicollegarty4222]

Outstanding!! 👏🏽👏🏽🧘🏽‍♀️🌹💐

[@SOURCE_ENLIGHTENMENT101]

Thank you....Namaste

[@Kalyl690]

Thanks guru Mr.Allan Watz

[@MRMUZO-gx7yp]

Thank u

[@graemegeorgeharrison2468]

Wish I knew of this man as a child

[@rawfoodphilosophy7061]

If he was a baby I'd craddle him in my arms and brush his teeth

[@Primetime420]

Real talk

[@illusion1361]

It’s all a game how you play it and who you play it with determines where you get to

[@coryschlegel5705]

I choose not to play the game. Especially if it involves other people. I had a dream about "an end". In a live raft with others struggling to have rational thoughts. I saw a dog trapped along the river banks before we were about to go over a waterfall. Instead of wasting time trying to communicate to the others all in hysteria to bail. I just jumped to go for the dog an left the people behind. I choose to play the game of life. Not the game of drama...

[@WalkingInkPad]

🙏🏽🗣️💯

[@michaela.norrissr.6510]

And we Chose not too be... Period, For we know that is how we got here...

[@W1seWallyW1lson]

❤

[@moosaleene7superserious]

❤

[@MichaelSmith420fu]

So.... I had premonitions about the majority of the more intense aspects of my life long before they happened. I thought they were just weird dreams caused by my subconscious mind. They were that and more. I wish I could tell someone about the true extent of my premonitions and clairvoyance. It's haunted menall my life until I finally gave up on trying to make sense of it. what I can say is that consciousness and SpaceTime have a different relationship than we seem to understand it's not straight up causal in one direction.

[@darren65ish]

❤❤❤

[@rawfoodphilosophy7061]

"you must join..........and then freedom dissapears"

[@thunzie]

Yellow?

[@nickegglington356]

Correct. And we get to play infinite roles for an infinite amount of time! It's the greatest fun park of all time. Our ancestors created it long ago. Given how quickly our technology has evolved in just a few years....do you really think it didnt evolve until 100,000s of years into our evolution? No...we a far more advance than what it appears. What exists outside the game. Outside the construct is far beyond anything you can imagine. ;-)

[@tizmeHi]

would be so much better without the background noise

[@MichaelSmith420fu]

Im tired of playing joker. Now im Batman

[@tilmanreiss]

So, in short: a philosopher is someone very good at pretending to be smart.

[@y.u.208]

🙏🕯️🌌💮💐💮🌌🕯️🙏

[@yourmother1211]

“It’s all just a game” - papyrus watts

[@mnetzer6777]

This is a great compilation, but that music sucks

[@CONNELL19511216]

For buffoons as well as baboons

[@wonkyfug]

Get it over with.

[@joedavis4150]

... We could certainly do without that damn background music...

[@alterecho8261]

Instead of the music, try listening to what was being said. It's a completely different experience.

[@triplethegrowth]

*You could certainly do without that damn background music. Personally, I could care less.

[@PrincessMargaretJoacquim1111]

​@@alterecho8261 it's all about Focus n getting distracted 😅

[@PrincessMargaretJoacquim1111]

Beautiful 😍🤗🤗🤗❤️✌️🕊️🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃😎👍

[@DayDayBear14]

You can find these recordings of his speeches without music. The music is fine. It’s you’re listening that is the problem.

[@Alec0124]

this man is a legend.

[@rogerlin9602]

To play the game and know it's a game is quite fascinating. He doesn't take it seriously, but he isn't shallow and frivolous either. All the roles are played by the joker. 😂😂😂😂 All positive and negative are paired. The positive is always in the process of overcoming the negative. Winner and loser must be paired. It's transactional. But if the negative always overcomes the positive, the game won't continue. It would be a tragedy! ⛩🐳🐘🍇🌝🐧🐞🍉🍭🐓🎯 Reality is invisible, but stripes are put on so people can see it like a zebra. God is invisible because of his self forgetfulness. The world is visible because it's a game. Therefore, we are all forgetful God playing on Earth like jokers.😇🤡😇🤡😇🤡 Thanks Alan. 13 June 2023.🎯⛩🦊🍇🐳🐞🍇🔬

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[@mnetzer6777]

Damn!! Well said my friend!!

[@42BETWO]

More!!

[@scorps192]

🤡

[@GUN_X]

Truly "all just a game!!1!1!1!1!!" moment

[@samreich7042]

WHY ARE THE SCRIPTURES AN ABSOLUTE IN THEIR UNIVERSAL TEACHINGS?🎉🎉🎉

[@cturdo]

This is all well and good until you decide not to play the game with the landlord or the tax man, then your game changes pretty quickly!

[@steveotatooed]

Yah then you play the homeless game 😂

[@goodbyebluesky5770]

We are in one gigantic experiment!

[@youwatcherist]

It's All A Game, a Thought Experiment, We're in the Matrix Erin Valenti

[@SIMxv]

Awesomeness for this video. Ase

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤

[@3rdScribe155]

a game with dire consequences! .

[@FrisbeeGirl]

Ha! With a thumbnail like that: no, it's not a game and be very scared because it's a flipping nightmare.

[@takeuchi5760]

I mean the thumbnail was literally the Joker, the archetype whose defining characteristic is not taking things too seriously. I don't see the problem.

[@FrisbeeGirl]

@@takeuchi5760 Interesting! I saw/see Pennywise, which is a whole different ball of noodles. Not sure what this says about the shadow work I need to do!

[@patrickjensen7682]

the background music is so distracting and too dramatic

[@MrJoker-]

Laugh and carry on.

[@reeblesnarfle4519]

Tremendous. 😎👍🌹🙏

[@yourchris8332]

ALL JUT A GAEM!!!!!!

[@ladyspellbreaker1313]

I love Alan Watts wisdom. This is beautiful. Happy dark side of the moon. It’s amazing the way we humans attach so much meaning and labels to everything forever creating duality. Thank you for all you do, share and are.

[@eriklee1794]

"Be careful of the word GAME"

[@Shallowworld9236]

Alan watt out there swallowed all red pill

[@steal4526]

I remember....when I go to sleep I wake back up. I meant that is two way.....going to sleep and waking back up and at death.

[@steal4526]

One big circle but different life's.

[@CAS-2021]

Listening to Alan watts I've realized depresses me.. in a way.. because the truth fu☆☆ing rips deep.

[@pinkifloyd7867]

The Truth does set you free. But first it's gonna hurt a little .. Trust the proces ❤💥❤

[@Thadhouse]

This ain’t Watts but good stuff

[@_zproxy]

00:05:07 ♪ ZEBRA¹

[@RiggedVedist]

I see 90,% tragedy

[@quantumastrologer5599]

I want to believe this.

[@SiriusZiriux]

THIS IS FAHKING AMAZING PLEASE MAKE MORE LIKE THIS!?!?!?!?!!!?!!??!

[@michaela.norrissr.6510]

True that shit... Poor folk usually can't afford to Play Rich Mans Games... Then there are some of us That Choose not too... Those few, We are not them...

[@42BETWO]

It’s precarious, living within the tension of this polarity between chaos and order…losing and winning…good and evil. Random and chance has enough order to it to bet on it. Win some, lose some…never zero sum (over sharpen a blade, it blunts).

[@ignatiusakai.g4374]

I figured it out, I'm not playing Time will tell, don't listen to a word I say... the game must go on, I have no reason and don't want to continue much longer... remember and laugh in memory, don't miss me... The game played out this way, you should play along in joy Don't follow to know the end...

[@sherry19601]

The music ruined it ,

[@atthefeetofthemaster]

No man can stand outside the game theorem of all of life. that is absurd. those "outsiders" are indeed very key players. Expansion of the individual guiding from spirit first, then to the mind and onwards to matter opens up to a greater synthesis of the "rules" if you will. the game breaks down when you see that the construct of games themselves is an order served to us by what we perceive as a "game". There is not enough subtlety for games within the bounds of the layers of infinity x

[@Eyeballman24]

I have a tendency to take things too seriously, because I wish to not see others suffer needlessly. I get agitated at the idea of the powerful inflicting suffering on the powerless and it makes me want to fight. After all, you can not know peace, without conflict.

[@andrearenee7845]

I made a pac with myself that I would NEVER work for a company more then a few months. Being an actor, it was perfect. I worked in every field I could to learn as much as I can, and don't regret anything. I am not rich, far from it. But I am wealthy from the knowledge and graditude I gained from others.. So many. Including Mr. Watts..

[@victorysoul8408]

Song: recognize by Grant Borland

[@sinky187]

Can someone please explain the actual meaning here, I have it to a degree but if some one could put it in a nutshell?? Thanks

[@juliem2713]

Why why why the music?

[@taxationistheft1789]

I think he was a genius

[@troyselland6059]

This revealed truth reminds me of the Heyokas of the Lakota Oyate where I grew up. Heyoka vision is beautiful! The sacred role that they play is so enlightening. Vision. Play. Dream.

[@OrgusDin]

sip firewater, say woo woo, cope, receive welfare check

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤