The Lie We Live - Alan Watts On The Acceptance Of Death

A clarifying and powerful lecture from Alan Watts on life. Original audio sourced from: Alan Watts, Inevitable Ecstasy
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“When you die, you're not going to have to put up with everlasting non-existence, because that's not an experience. A lot of people are afraid that when they die, they're going to be locked up in a dark room forever, - Try and imagine what it would be like to go to sleep and never wake up. And if you think long enough about that...it will pose the next question. What was it like to wake up after never having gone to sleep? That was when you were born...you see...you...you can't have an experience of nothing so after you're dead the only thing that can happen is the same experience or the same sort of experience as when you were born.”
Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
Speaker: 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.

[@paularanzoni1527]

Accepting death sets you free ❤

[@JohnMartim-sy9yf]

I fell free because I know I´ll be immortal and happy!

[@Uncle--Fatty]

GrandMa said to me, from her hospital bed through the phone I was using from State Prison... ... ... " Don't Cry for Me... LIVE For Me... When you cry for / about someone's 'death'... you give death, he strength. When you Rejoice and Honor the LIFE that was... you give strength to the Living..!! "

[@lindaetheridge-stroud1502]

Every body can speak only for themselves. I enjoy being alive. Every day is a precious gift from God. If you can breathe thank the Lord.

[@dmackenzie3528]

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” ― Alan Watts

[@Med1na2012]

💯 unfortunately most reside within the limited realm of thought. The realm of relativity.

[@alexi.de.charle]

When we know thyself and accept thyself, we achieve thyself, and henceforth we are able to give our whole self to the world. There is nothing greater than this. To grasp for meaning outside thyself is to disregard your self and instead think your self as not enough. Believing in yourself is a life worth living and dying for.

[@breandadavis3168]

One of my favorite quotes by him

[@TrentonOR93]

“The reason we die is to give us the opportunity to understand what life is all about. By letting go, because we come to a situation the ego cannot deal with . When we are no longer hypnotized by that then our natural consciousness can see clearly what all this universe is for “😍😍😍

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

Must watch: The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

[@jaystone5036]

lovely

[@bunchofgrapesorafig]

You mean that our awareness is set free from an imaginary personality at the time of departure when so called Death arrives. And it is precisely that imaginary person that you believe resides in you which is causing mental illness. You are the awareness that is observing all of creation. There's no one inside of you at all...

[@tyfife79]

​@@bunchofgrapesorafig That is what he means, yes 🙏

[@bunchofgrapesorafig]

@@tyfife79 probably, however there is no ego and no person there anyway, it's a charade. Only pure awareness of clarity. Can you actually see light? Or is it transparent?

[@d.sfilms7677]

Please never stop making these. It always blows my mind when you find a new beautiful Alan Watts speech i haven't heard before

[@Med1na2012]

The message can be found everywhere. It’s all infront of us in plain sight. Nothings is hidden Just take a good look within your self and all the things you seek will unveil themselves.

[@petersmeets7626]

Is there anyone in the whole cosmos who can put it better what life is all about than Alan Watts?l’m speechless.❤

[@dickyboyryw]

If you not familiar with his talks, videos, then become familiar. Watts may have passed in 1973.But left a Wealth of insights behind. One of the greatest men to have ever lived. Up there with Buddha ect.

[@Med1na2012]

Yes you can when you recognise the process and awaken. You also become an ambassador to the message that echos through time. The message never dies. It’s unlimited always forever connected.

[@johnharrison7176]

Yes you , you understand all of this it resonates with you so you must know it to be true. Learn to be quiet and it will all come it's within everyone of us. It's nice to listen to Alan and others but don't give them to much respect and power that you think you haven't got this knowledge yourself.

[@sdw8680]

I remember my elderly neighbour who lived till 93 confiding in me that one can live too long, especially when you’re unable to do the things you once enjoyed!

[@banzy3]

My Nan was born in the 1920's and tells me the same thing on occasion, although she's as sharp as a tack, always sounds upbeat and doesn't live in a retirement home. My wife's Nan died recently at 101, and her sister is 103 and lives independently and is good health, but again tells people she's lived too long.

[@r2ecko]

I'm guessing she is religious?

[@Ray.M.12345]

​@@r2eckoWhy should that matter?

[@Oldcrow96]

What a remarkable human being. I never knew him but he has taught me more than any other.

[@herrweiss2580]

“Death is The Source of Life”

[@aspjake123]

I have a very close friend and coworker that has brain cancer is was just today, 28 Nov 2023 given about 2 months to live. I am deeply saddened for him and his family. Makes me think for sure about my own mortality and how fragile and swift life can be. This guide I just watched has prepared me to learn to let go and that death is inevitable for us all, including my own and that death is a part of life and that is Ok.

[@rayburnyarborough4695]

I read a story about a man that developed brain cancer. He bought every hot pepper he could find at the store and made a concoction that he tamed down enough to ingest and said cured his cancer. The Will to live far outweighs anything else. If I was in that situation, I think I would want to exhaust all possibilities, abstaining from chemo, no matter what. There have been and are cures that are forbidden to use. I would have to do much soul searching to determine if I even wanted to remain here. So sorry about your friend!

[@aspjake123]

@@rayburnyarborough4695 Thank you for your kind words. My friend Leroy has a very, very strong will to live but after many radiation and chemo sessions taken only to still find the cancer is still spreading he has had enough and letting things take its course. To add he also had to have a triple bypass and was back to work 3 weeks after surgery. Us co-workers and friends were like hey take it easy man but he wanted to get back to work to feel normal!

[@rayburnyarborough4695]

@@aspjake123 WOW! It’s so sad that torture is their only “cure.” There’s a medbed clinic in Florida. Maybe we will see them used in our lifetime. They will shut down all conventional hospitals. I’ll pray for Leroy. After looking into Alan, I’ll stick with Jesus! Blessings 🙏!

[@maryday6285]

Life and Death goes hand in hand. Absolute truth, Amazing👏🏼♥️

[@sterlingray3982]

Death is the real retirement.

[@M64ainda]

Beautiful piece, thank you.

[@LPVP123]

We are inbuilt with a million ways to experience pain and suffering which gives me the idea pain and suffering are simply part of the human experience… but there’s something in that seemingly gloomy understanding and it’s this … the object of life isn’t a absence of pain and suffering but the personal transformation in understanding it’s not about you it’s about others and how your suffering in some way can help to reduce there’s 🌸

[@edwardtomkinson3418]

Death is a blessing in disguise in my opinion. I do not want to live until old age after watching my great Nan die at 99 seeing the agony she was in as her kidneys shut down giving the worst pain then hearing her scream in non human way.

[@dorfeyfiy8903]

Ahh, yes... a new T&H upload 😊 Couldn't wait 😀

[@jpturner171]

Wow…powerful!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@the916]

that sweet release 🤗

[@brushstroke3733]

I don't have any kids. When I die, a bloodline that goes all the way back to the first single celled organisms comes to an end. For thousands of generations, every one of my millions of ancestors lived long enough to mate and also managed to find (or force) at mating. I'm the first the fail to reproduce going all the way back to those first single celled organisms. It's astounding to recognize this. Hopefully I'll at least make good fertilizer or worm food one day.

[@Sicilia928]

I also never had kids and neither did my sister. So that ends the line, but only going back to my paternal grandparents and my mother. My father's only sibling, a sister never had a child that made it past 6, but my mother had four brothers and they had children. So I don't get your logic here at all. Besides, when you consider you are 50/50 your parents; 25/25/25/25 your grandparents; and, 12.5/12.5/12.5/12.5/12.5/12.5/12.5/12.5 your great-grandparents, by the time you go back to your 6 X grandparents, what you carry on from them is almost negligible. That being said, I moved to Italy and have made some dear friends and I have tutored several of their children in English for 8 years and still going. They may not carry on my bloodline, but they will carry on many of my thoughts and conceptions on life/death and many other topics we discuss. And after all, I find the thoughts and deeds one leaves behind more important than leaving behind DNA.

[@brushstroke3733]

@@Sicilia928 I get what you're saying and I agree that everything that has ever lived, however briefly, has played its small part in the string of dominos falling going back to the big bang (and before) and will always be part of the infinite future stretching ahead. Anyone you meet, you influence to some degree, and those people influence others. I'm sorry you didn't see the astonishing truth I was pointing out. Consider this: you have two parents who managed to live long enough and find someone to mate with. And you have four granparents, eight great grandparents, sixteen great great grandparents, and 32 great great great grandparents who all managed to somehow live long enough and were fortunate enough to find someone to mate with. And that is just going back five generations (roughly 100 years.) Many people in history, like us, did not live long enough or find someone to mate with. Yet none of them were among the millions of your ancestors. The probability of you and I (or anyone) existing are astronomically low if you consider it from that perspective. Don't you think that is wild? If just one of them had died of disease or violence before mating or just never found a mate, you would not exist. You are the last of your discreet, specific line of a heritage of champions. I think it's remarkable, even if you can't see how incredible it all is.

[@Sicilia928]

@@brushstroke3733 That is amazing and very profound to think that one single ancestor not mating would alter so much history. But then, as a person who believes in reincarnation and that we agreed to this life before we came back, and therefore everyone is here for a purpose and there are no mistakes - I guess, not so much. But I see what you are saying and if you believe that everything is a crap shoot - yea, it would be incredible. And I respect your beliefs and appreciate people who take the time to wonder!

[@deborahhebblethwaite1865]

Brilliant🙏🇨🇦

[@os2171]

That’s exactly why I’m a scientist, an explorer of life, a biologist a neuroscientist and also why I’m child-free!

[@brushstroke3733]

What is "that" exactly?

[@Internet_Eater]

Nobody asked

[@brianhopper2305]

I've thought about death and the term use one has died and I prefer to use the term pass away or passed away if not for myself but for the other. Great topic ❤

[@thesage90]

" Death is honest Life lies"

[@Bitcoinbagz]

We are here just to learn we are giving tools & these tools are our senses once we leave so do our tools but our experience live with in the soul

[@doloresvangaal2248]

I've always wondered about this as a child... why are people so afraid of death. It seems very peaceful. Just see where life brings you. And when it ends, that's it. I often think that, if I'm a bit older, I won't seek unnecessary treatments to prolong my life.

[@1AloneX2]

we are as a blade of grass🙏

[@Wardell43]

So you've never lost a loved one? Then you are blessed. When you lose a Loved one, it's like having your heart ripped from your body. I'm not talking about Grandmaw or even your parents, which can all be just as devastating. But losing a child or a Grandchild

[@ShaneAusinka6]

The way this world is......Can't wait to close my eyes for the final time

[@Ifailed27]

Totally agreed. have gotten my life ruined aswell so I dont give a fuck anymore

[@enlightenedflowautodetail7237]

But here’s the thing.. your not gonna close your eyes for “the final time” as soon as your eyes close, and your soul leaves this body on earth, you will most likely be given a time with the universe to observe the life you just lived..: and from your soul’s perspective, you will see all the times in your life where you were meant to be happy and enjoying life.. and with that, your soul will go plunging back down to earth to be in a human body again.. this is what the Buddahs call “samsara”

[@thedude5740]

The light at the end of the tunnel is the next birth canal. No energy ever dies, it simply transmutes into the next pattern of life. We are an immortal energy having a mortal experience.

[@rayburnyarborough4695]

So, should we turn from the light and head in the opposite direction, towards maybe the true heaven? Just something to ponder.

[@thedude5740]

@@rayburnyarborough4695 so make the choice to be aware or unaware? I would prefer to continue experiencing life and death. Without death you can't possibly understand how to appreciate life. The point of life is to continue the cycle. Reality is a fractal pattern endlessly expressing itself.

[@rayburnyarborough4695]

@@thedude5740 But to come back to this fake reality shithole matrix life? Unless something very drastic takes place soon we will be consumed by the AI Reptilian War Lords. I am a supreme optimist,yet reality is getting very distorted. I’ve been enjoying David Icke and just getting into Alan Watts. I follow Jesus also, but don’t totally discount much of anything these days. I like to think outside the box, but stay close to my roots.

[@rayburnyarborough4695]

@@thedude5740 none of this has been or can be proven. One of my favorite scriptures is: “To live is Christ and to die is gain.” I’ll never rush it, my time will be my time. If David Icke is correct, we don’t want to return to this prison we exist in that is ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths, or possibly reptilians. Nobody knows except those in control, or think they are in control. I am perfectly aware of the evil surrounding us , and all the needless pain and suffering. I am a born again follower of Jesus, and think I’ll stick with something that I am 100% certain about. Jesus rose on the third day and defeated death, hell, and the grave.

[@thedude5740]

@@rayburnyarborough4695 there is evidence of what I am attempting to discuss. Vibration creates every pattern in existence. From the micro to the macro these patterns are repeated. Cymatic patterns are the 2D versions of what is occurring in 3D throughout reality. Vibration also creates light, sonoluminescence is evidence of that. Cymatic patterns are "the word" of God. You are "the word" made flesh, an expression of God, made in the image of God with the energy that is God. With your every breathe the name of God is on your lips. Heaven and Hell is a story about an internal struggle you experience in life. Even scripture quoted Jesus saying heaven is within you and you won't find it over here or over there.

[@jaysaholly2019]

Goosebumps*

[@Micah-3333]

It hard to do but when you can accept it it's become s ease make the most of the time you have and do what you love and be who you or don't live a lie

[@GATSU1979]

December 2019....i felt ill for a few days...i was lying on my couch and my breathing started to become very very shallow all of a sudden and i could hardy move...i wasnt sure where my phone was and i knew something was seriously wrong as i couldnt move.....i just thought shit...i cant get to my phone and im struggling to breathe...i had no choice but to lie there and accept i might die and there was nothing i could do about it....i was surprised at how much i felt at ease with it....i just thought i wonder how long it will take for someone to find my body as i live alone...so i lay there with very shallow breathing for around an hour but started to feel i could move a bit i slowly rolled myself off the couch and crawled to my bedroom very slowly, managed to get myself up onto the bed...i woke up next day breathing a bit better but i could hardly walk without feeling completely exhausted.....think it was covid just before the world knew about it in January 2020.....i was at peace with the thought of dying.....there was a serenity to it

[@sjoe6282]

People that want to live forever are those that never lived a full Life. Without death there wouldn't be life. Thus those who want to live forever are already dead inside.

[@AGregBergThing]

My moms last words, she said "all that worrying for what?"

[@rathgarredbeard4808]

Every man dies, but not every man truly lives....

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

Must watch: The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

[@Inkulabi]

1:30 💖🙏🏾

[@WilliamByrne_Official]

Can you please tell me the music used in this video?

[@ba77leman.]

Just queue up again Respawns

[@JMReid1220]

The bank that holds our mortgage and the credit card companies certainly want to keep me alive as long as possible

[@leighcecil3322]

A life that happens once... never happened at all.... LoL 😮..! To die while living..is to live in the eternal present.. namista 🙏

[@moesypittounikos]

I thought I was brahman, conscious light, immortal bliss beyond space-time😮

[@azloii9781]

0:42 This has been misinterpreted by way too many parents with lost dreams and wasted potential

[@wayofspinoza2471]

Spiritual ideas may help you feel better; however, listening or reading spiritual material will help you momentarily; unfortunately, you will go back to old patterns of behavior that keeps you in a passive comfortable state of being. You must be involved in a serious study and work group to change your basic character, from an ego mindset to an awakened intelligent spiritual being.

[@MichaelAdamsFilm]

Would prefer only voice and no pictures here! -- and I say this as filmmaker, photographer and writer!

[@JohnMartim-sy9yf]

Death is a monstrosity that only exists because Man made the wrong choice when he was immortal. Therefore, future immortality is an inevitability after we pay the price for our mistake. Because the purpose of Life is immortality in absolute happiness.

[@maureendonato2881]

Ugh!

[@helisoma]

Alan i respect your memory a lot but you planned your own death at a young age, and your life is given and not yours to take...taking it of your own accord isn't i would argue a result of courage or natural course...but merely self interest...i know death is something special but it's not up to us...

[@michaelsantinon8231]

Who cares who lives to tell the tale, big deal, its all just a waste of time, for what..