The Lie We Live - Alan Watts on the Illusion of Time

[@martinbisschoff988]

I am now 65. At a guess I reckon I have not worn a watch...for about 40 years. It was a conscious decision. Ditched TV and the "news" about 20 years ago. I live literally second by second. My blood pressure? That of a 25 year old. Energy? In abundance. Health? No problems at all. But, I am grateful. Always. Even for the smallest things.

[@Ellie-rp8bh]

Same

[@mechanicaltypewriteroperat9885]

@@Ellie-rp8bhWere you a trust fund baby or something?

[@Crymeariver227]

Same here at age 69. Ditched all of the trappings preached the first 25 years of life and once I let it all go and stopped living in a time that was never promised me, I truly began to live. No one is promised tomorrow and tomorrow will bring its own problems. Don’t invite the future, don’t live in the past. Be here now.

[@kellymccance1962]

​@@mechanicaltypewriteroperat9885 no kidding! 😂

[@douglasspringer1665]

Good for you, Martin. Can I call you kid? I'm 70 going pretty good everything, works pretty normal. Hang in there son.

[@zemog1025]

The best memories in my life came while I was living in the moment, and the worst came when I worried about my future/legacy.

[@verne51]

LOL legacy.

[@organichuman]

​@@verne51A shame many now being born will never have one? Or maybe it is a good thing in many cases.

[@tchkvsky]

Well, I hope you took a few minutes to plan for your retirement.

[@tchkvsky]

@@organichuman One creates a legacy. It does not just happen. Good grief. Alan Watts is poison.

[@connorcody1831]

So u did all this n then u accidently found a .mobile fone then you tube then allan..😅😅😅😅😅 yeah pull the other one..

[@Jack-r2v9b]

We have clocks,we don't have time- RIP George Carlin

[@johnroche5461]

Exactly

[@mountaintruth1deeds533]

🎯

[@robertathey8504]

When I was a kid, a day felt like a week. A week felt like a month. And a month felt like a year. When I graduated from high school, it reversed.

[@lefa]

So true!

[@chasefunk]

that's because time is relative not because it falls into line with something Alan said.

[@saulescamilla3605]

My explanation to this is because since we are closer to the day we were born we are experiencing life, we can feel every moment, and in those moments we feel like it will never end. We never think about about distractions, we think about a day and become anxious for that day to get here like Christmas or summer vacation from school. As years pass we obviously get further away from the day we are born and we less and less feel in the moment. We are constantly distracted by getting things done on time and there’s never enough time. Things that never used to take up our time then, now becomes a life of constant maintenance. Something seems to always need fixing around whatever it may be and also we become ambitious. I feel ambition is the most harmful thing to a human and it has turned many people I know soulless. It’s make a person that what once a great person turn into a complete POS. They are always trying to get over people including friends and become greedy and corrupt. They become insatiable for success and nothing ever satisfies them no matter how far ahead they get in life and become unaware of the person they become. All for a future that was in their head that when that future came and finally have time, realized too late they truly never did anything with their life.

[@chasefunk]

ambition is the most harmful thing to a human being?!?! i'd put cancer above that but you do mindless you. @@saulescamilla3605

[@maryann7941]

I felt the exact same way...😔

[@BobbyAngmalaysia]

I'm 42 this year, and i consider myself lucky to realise this when i was 27 years old. Quit my job, pursued my hobby. I consider myself retired ever since. Doing what i love from home, spending every single day with my wife and kids. When i first heard these lines from Alan Watts from a Volvo commercial, i went into tears realising i was so lucky being able to live every moment, doing what i love, spending all my time with my kids and living every day giving every bit of love to my family, always reminding them to cherish every single day as i wouldn't know which is the last day we see one another. i now cherish every single day. sometimes when we feel like bringing the kids for holiday, we just skip school. teachers were amazed we couldn't care much about their school results. we learn new things together with our children all the time, we chat with one another all the time. i'm so so so lucky to be able to do all these while still earning an honest income from my hobby. i was once unsure if this is the right way, but having heard alan's philosophical speech, i knew i'm on the right path every morning. and every morning i count myself lucky and cherished it just for waking up and see my loved ones.

[@Farlig69]

All very well but how do you make enough money to survive & feed your family? Is that method of income available to the masses? These philosophies may be all very well but when 99% of the world runs on the working man being abused because he has little other choice in which he may be able to feed himself and his family, then what of it?

[@marcuso2006]

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[@Bianchiboy]

Drivel, I bet. Although it would explain where you got the time to type in such a lengthy, boring comment.

[@tchkvsky]

You are describing what amounts to work life balance. Not a big deal really. PS: try to give your kids some freedom. Do they have friends they can spend time with?

[@codeninja1]

I will be 41 in a few months. Time passing by so fast. Stressed beyond belief. Not happy at work or at home. I want to make the change but too afraid to do it. What is it you do now for your hobby?

[@michaelnichols2358]

I've listened to countless hours of Alan Watts and I can honestly say that this is the best 10 mins I have ever heard him deliver.

[@_BobaFett_]

I agree.

[@felixfedre518]

Yes, his strength was in making observations about people and life rather than trying to answer, unanswerable, questions about God and eternity.

[@DereK1995WiN]

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[@lawrenceholden5716]

This is profound and so true.

[@Peter-fs5jt]

I'll take that as an amazing endorsement Michael. Thank you for sprinkling the 5 stars so generously so we can partake of your experience

[@KajunMs39]

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ― Robert Brault

[@ianstuart5660]

You do?

[@KajunMs39]

​@ianstuart5660 Yes. Enjoy life,grandchildren and Family. I take nothing for granted.

[@ianstuart5660]

@KajunMs39 Thanks, so glad to hear that!

[@KajunMs39]

@@ianstuart5660 what about yourself?

[@ianstuart5660]

@KajunMs39 Very much enjoy the little things. No grandkids yet, but could happen at any time!

[@francieafrica7306]

"You can't live at all, unless you can live fully Now"💯

[@superhiker77]

I was recently able to understand this more than ever; it's huge when you do.

[@francieafrica7306]

@@superhiker77 i agree 💯

[@walterrojas2761]

Right now I’m taking a bowl of magnificent Mexican beans, just made tortillas and very spicy chiles: unbeatable way to enjoy the present.

[@JuanThaSilva]

What does that mean?

[@ken-mb5cp]

@@JuanThaSilva It means that time and space are a mental construct. A prison designed to keep you unaware of your true spirit which is always in the now. Who designed us? I don’t know.

[@josekanucee1428]

Dumping social media and seeking actual connections is the best thing you can do for your self.

[@x13xmonkey]

No watch for 30 years , no face book etc-only watch You tube. Spend as much time as I can with my daughter( family) and enjoy simple pleasures like swimming and hiking. I gave up all my possessions , only needs . Feels so good.❤

[@StrawPerson-xq9ko]

i am nearly there now. never been happier. massive respect too you.

[@x13xmonkey]

@@StrawPerson-xq9ko and to you❤️

[@lennyanders1639]

Take care of your body, it's the only place you have to live; meditate daily, it will give you inner peace.

[@suzieque4222]

AMEN TO THAT 🙂

[@spinglasshydra]

I've always remembered a quote by the Old-Hollywood actor W.C. Fields, "Success is looking at the direction everyone is running towards ― Turn and walk in the opposite direction". Take the necessary time to become who you were always meant to be; otherwise, life and society will define who you are for you. Wouldn't that be the definition of a waste of an entire lifetime ― Isn't it?

[@chasefunk]

you can decide to be a bum for example

[@spinglasshydra]

@@chasefunk How sagacious.... ???

[@guitarguru.3572]

I spent years going through crippling addiction and the period after with “I want my old life back” as my mantra. I yearned and yearned for things to go back exactly as they were. It was only when I surrendered to the reality that it would never happen that I ended up with a life 10 times better than it ever was. If you spend all your time craving what you think your life should be, you’ll never get to experience the beauty in what it’s SUPPOSED to be. And always remember, in the immortal words of Bill Hicks, “it’s just a ride”.

[@Nick_B_Bad]

I can totally relate, once I finally beat that H addiction after 2 years of feeling sorry for myself and thinking every day I should just pull the trigger I got a job. Once I lifted myself up my life took off in an upward trajectory and I bounced back higher and better than I ever thought even before I went down the addiction road.

[@johndymond4596]

Same i have almost 4 years now. But at the start when I was still in the rehab phases I listened to a lot of alan wats . he really made me take a look at myself. My favorite is the joker

[@derikjackson7359]

That was awesome that makes total sense

[@Aciddroid]

Hits home. I'm battling methamphetamine addiction after 10+ years of sobriety. In and out of jail. Getting divorced. Possibly going to prison. Trying to convince myself every day why I'm worth more than a bullet to the head. Sometimes I worry I'm going to run out of reasons and end up eating that bullet.

[@sandyzeatyahoo]

100% 👍

[@davemieze9021]

As a 49 year old man, I couldn’t agree more. I was just trying to tell a friend that I’ve reached the point where “I am who I am, I’m at where I’m at”.

[@tjhicks3600]

nice quote

[@noelalexisshaw-nas-noz5142]

And WE Can Go Far Beyond The BS Boundaries Of The Fake Ass Globe!

[@secrets2youth]

Dave r ux in California

[@thedigitalemotion]

Your not old a 49, life is just beginning!

[@jamestemple5696]

Awesome quote! Couldn’t agree more or have said it any better! I am also at that point! I am who I am, and I am we’re I’m at… 👍

[@MrAirblown2009]

There are few men in this world, which I can listen to and learn from immediately. Alan Watts is one of those men, even after he's long gone, I'm still learning from his speeches.

[@tchkvsky]

Ignore Alan Watts and prepare for your old age. There, you can add me to the list of men you learn from immediately.

[@JesusBichito99]

Yall love men 💀 bunch of bottoms

[@aarongottfried5595]

you cant learn shit from a speech you just take in words that you understand on some level . you have to follow and find consciousnessto find better levels of understanding

[@MrAirblown2009]

@@aarongottfried5595 Thanks for that, on whatever level you wanna take it.

[@MadonnaGrogan]

Truth lingers😻🥳

[@Rizik1986]

Forget your age. Forget days weeks years etc. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow never comes. Dont waste the "time" you do have. Live for today. Be grateful for what you do have and not what you might or might not have. We are so distracted. Controlled...

[@chasefunk]

it's called dementia

[@Rizik1986]

@@chasefunk Can you will yourself into dementia? You aren't as clever as you think you are. Its called arrogance.

[@markkouros6628]

Great reply With a bit of Dio...

[@Jamiey-]

Tomorrow never comes, because once it's tomorrow, it's today again.. Tomorrow never dies and you get to live another day

[@makpo88]

This is true ! Most of us was happy when they was kids ,we know what was time but we didnt care for it and we stayed in the present !

[@tchkvsky]

But we grow up and are no longer children. If you want that sort of life where you never grow up, check into a monastery.

[@carlsalvato8530]

I know what you mean.

[@1984veritas1]

Jesus said.... The Kingdom of Heaven is within you..... and....Verily I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven... Children are content until they grow and fall. Buy them an expensive gift and don't be surprised to see them play more with and enjoy more the cardboard box which it came in than the gift itself for example. Adults complain that the weather is bad when heavy raining.... those same adults as children wanted to run out in that rain and would have a great time jumping in puddles and being soaked etc

[@chasefunk]

this is true because most of us where happy when we where kids?! newsflash: only kids and animals live in the present if you would like to be one of them, by all means live in the moment.

[@artnovak3259]

@@tchkvskywow. That went over your head

[@josephconsoli4128]

I never forget this piece of Alan's. I'm 56 and now am reaching for retirement. "It's going to be great! I'm finally going to enjoy my life!" OMG, I've said that all my life. Time and time again. Right now is just time to muddle through to get to that great point. I still can't get it through my head that today is as good as my life will ever be. If I don't have peace now, don't have happiness, contentment now, I never will.

[@chucktplatt]

A year younger myself, and I’ve always said “ if you don’t have peace of mind,you have nothing.”

[@tchkvsky]

I can assure you that you are wrong. I retired 5 years ago and there is NO QUESTION that my life changed for the better. How can it not, when 3 hours of your day that you used to spend commuting to the office is now completely stress free? When 8 hours of the day, once spent engaged in mind-numbing bureaucratic gymnastics, is now yours to do with what you want? You will have OPTIONS when you retire, which you do not have at the moment.

[@petesfeeder]

I'm 49 and retired. Not like most think of retirement but I certainly don't have a job. Leaving the demanding conflict of 'societal time' has been the best thing I have ever experienced. We live feral. Doing what is needed but when it fits our lives. I encourage everyone to move towards this way. I believe it is our natural way of being. My wife and two children (home schooled) are engaged and thriving. I wish for you the happiness I enjoy not caring for markers of time. When I do find I need to know for societal interaction it's quite a laugh we share when we have to work out what day and month it is. My only regret is not realizing sooner. Be free Be well Much love

[@tchkvsky]

@@petesfeeder You live "feral" yet you are posting comments on KZbin. Even if you go to the public library and use the computer terminals there, you are using taxpayer funds to do so. That is not "living feral." That is living on welfare. Where do you get food for your family? At the local food donation bank or a religious charity? That's just pretending to "live feral." I also found amusing your notion of "doing what is needed but when it fits our lives" and advising the rest of us to do so. Sounds like either anarchy or nihilism to me. Alan Watts' insights are perfectly fine if one lives in a monastery where one's needs are taken care of from cradle to grave. But they don't apply in the real world, where interaction with other homo sapiens is mandatory. I hope your children are in good health and being cared for properly, assuming any part of your tale above is true.

[@josephconsoli4128]

@@petesfeeder Thank you. Hands down retiring beats working at a job. The point really is that we are wise when we make a joyful time out of every stage in our lives. Not trudging through the weekdays trying to get them over with. There is where most of us make the mistake. I look back on my old jobs that I brought so much negativity and drama into and realize I could've just rolled with it, finding it almost amusing! What's ahead might be great, but the present is where we need to find greatness.

[@henry6525]

The funny thing is that many people understand, realize and appreciate what Alan is saying and then......come back to their rat race....because to get read of these chains requires something more...

[@selflit]

i am sort of opposite example ive listened to Alan Watts from around 16yrs of age, heard about lsd too from him in much more unstained light it caught my attention but i quickly forgot about it until a friend after many weed and e-sport and movie sessions trying to avoid school together out of rebellion and stuff introduced me and him to authentic acid for the first time at the 18yrs of age. Around that time i had some family member pass away and 2year long distance relationship with my first girlfriend was over acid made me reflect on those things and it was very unexpectedly too good and exctatic experience but i visualized the cord that was still keeping me from letting them go as they meant for me alot, but integration part never properly came and ive became a little more then bearable for people around me psychotic from later years of usage too asocial and tied to technology in order to cope with life as it appeared to manifest. here i am randomly speaking to her again at 26 yrs old after younger queer partner left me even tho we are still in love with each other because i did not have motivation to find job and externally change stuff. half artist, half tech enthusiast wandering from topic to topic, held adminstrative job for half a year before i met him then lost it due to my hatred for capitalism, but tabbaco seemed to facilitate that logical aspect until nervous breakdown and rude awakening and realese from the past were forced abruptly. Big two other introduction for me into different approaches to spirituality were definitely Ram dass and Terrence mckenna (as well as jung), firt three of them leaning much on the shamanism on occasion, but Richard Alpert was definitely more fond of Alan and they seem to have dropped one tab together, of course you hear that when it means something for you otherwise you would not register or even universe wouldn't send that to you through algorithm, maybe i got it wrong. but the funky thing that alan said to ram dass is that he is too attached to formless, and be later had disembodied friend or entity telling him to comeback to his humanity and get on eith curriculum. So the morale of the story is that we have to find a way to integrate ourselves and not go up in the clouds of intellect too much. there is time and place for that, but limited and unlimited are both part of our yearning nature, it is all a plot of our own making so don't be afraid to jump into the abyss feather 🪶 bed may be waiting on the other side!

[@AceKiller9000]

One moment, you're Cock Of The Walk. Next moment, you're a Feather Duster.

[@andrecampbell9509]

This society has become such a disappointment.

[@pasjakola]

Become?!

[@okeyekemezie]

His voice is even more therapeutic than his words.. Alan freaking Watts

[@MichaelOLeary-o1p]

I would like to thank Mark Watts for preserving and promoting his fathers work. Well done!

[@utmdj]

America is not a country. It’s a business

[@Noname-ps3mq]

Yes, it is if you believe that, I think you need to watch more Alan Watts videos you seem to miss the point. You have the choice to think the way you want to think and create the life you want how you think about things will dictate your reality. America is the greatest country in the world, and I’m gonna use it as my vehicle to create health, wealth and prosperity and give back to others as much as I can. Do you see the difference in what you say and what I say research nihilism. It’s a trap. Don’t be fooled

[@artnovak3259]

And will continue to be so until we have had enough.

[@krs1690]

The whole world is

[@makeoversbymeme2077]

Facts ! 28 USC 3002 15

[@stevehaywood-xw5eo]

Yep!

[@markerwin9167]

Wishing I heard this 40 years ago. Thanks

[@chauncygardner123]

“Always wanting the future”. I love that because ( for me) it was so true.

[@chauncygardner123]

@Wolf Mage Thank you!🙏🏽

[@passerby6168]

Love your name. Great movie.

[@mechanicaltypewriteroperat9885]

Other people’s future or yours?

[@zoneundertop]

Government is about tomorrow, same with weather reporting. Today is a statistical fact, logged & forgotten.

[@_MMWWMM_]

How do you stop thinking like this though?

[@jahmayakessler]

This was fantastic. Thank you for creating this for the world. ❤

[@jaysheeze]

💯❤

[@chasefunk]

you know he died in '73 right??!?!

[@Apollosmission13]

When I watched my father die a slow horrible death. I realised these words about living in the now, and what I want to do now. This was quite profound

[@mannysense3703]

You created that environment.

[@jeff_forsythe]

God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

[@gwendolynfoote4460]

I heard someone say, "I wish fall would hurry up and get here." And it hit me. She's wishing away 2 months of her life. Im 55 and i know my time is on the down hill slope. Its just a matter of how and when. I have began to realize how wasteful i have been. But also, when and where I've been blessed or spared. And time is still ticking by...

[@jlynnc9559]

My mother would always say to us, “Don’t wish your life away”. No truer words.

[@jeff_forsythe]

I have bad news for you. God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

[@maximelagace]

What a speech, again. Makes me think to "Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present." -Alan Watts

[@joshua3304]

This needs a million views. Not even halfway through. A man's voice is only as good as his words.

[@joey1962]

One of the best Alan Watts videos I've seen. Wow.

[@jasminejudah7388]

The universe woke me up on Saturday from the illusion of time. I am completely set free😊😊😊😊😊

[@digitalsketchguy]

I feel like I am just consciousness experiencing life & time, moving from childhood to old age. Even though I have been around for 60 odd years, it's like my intellect & mind is something separate from my consciousness which seems to be always there, never changing , almost like the observer and never ages, while my thoughts & ego creates the false reality of who I am, what the world is etc. Does anyone feel the same?

[@Kimberlite66]

YES, I feel the same. Like i am numb and just going through the motions, in the meantime life is scooting by so quickly. I feel like i want it all to slow down so i CAN actually enjoy it. Its an awful feeling. And i look at old photos of myself and although I can recall those moments and emotions, its like i am looking at someone else... someone elses life. Detached. Kinda scary.

[@Kimberlite66]

Though i do feel like i suffer from death or ageing anxiety as i think about my impending doom quite often, so i cant enjoy the here and now cos i am always worryingl

[@jeff_forsythe]

I have bad news for you. God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

[@deepwoods_dave7368]

One of the first things my AA sponsor told me was “all we truly have is today, we cannot alter yesterday, nor predict tomorrow.” I’ll have 11 years of sobriety in a week and I live by those words.

[@hexxan007]

Congrats! That is HUGE!!!! ❤❤❤ !!!

[@janedoh123]

well done they call yesterday the past because it’s gone tomorrow the future and unknown but now it’s today is the present because it truly is a gift

[@JasmineR1993]

Proud of you!❤

[@deepwoods_dave7368]

@@JasmineR1993 thank you

[@deepwoods_dave7368]

@@hexxan007 thanks

[@usarmyveteran177]

Death implies life, and life implies death. The degree to which you are willing to die is the same degree to which you are willing to live. The man who understands the Tao in the morning can die contently in the evening.

[@stevenpivornik9982]

It's almost like how the line goes in the movie Ferris Beuller's Day Off: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around every once in a while, you can miss it."

[@jeff_forsythe]

I God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

[@B_B_B_]

I don’t believe that animals only live in the present. So many of them prepare for the future. Dogs and squirrels etc bury things that they can dig up in the future. Animals like elephants also take community trips back to where their loved ones have died, while rubbing their trunks over the bones. Animals certainly know there is a past and a future - they don’t just live in the present.

[@Crymeariver227]

Have you ever considered animals are hardwired to do certain things without understanding why? A Peregrine Falcon nests on extremely high craggy cliffs; when the chicks hatch and grow, they intuitively know not to walk off the edge of the cliff until they can fly. Squirrels always bury the nuts they can never find later but it doesn’t mean they think about the future.

[@B_B_B_]

@@Crymeariver227 What does perception of depth have to do with this? I’ll give you the answer… nothing. Your statement that squirrels “always” bury nuts they can “never” find is also completely wrong. Squirrels have an incredible ability to remember where they buried their nuts. They use spatial memory and landmarks to make a cognitive map of their storage spots. They also bury similar nuts in particular places and revisit their caches often to reinforce their memory and check their food. While it’s almost certain that squirrels do indeed forget some subset of the nuts that they bury over a nut-burying season, it’s not clear whether these are truly forgotten or simply abandoned in favor of those that are easier to recover. There is extensive evidence to show that many other animals understand the past and plan for the future. Elephants have a strong connection to their past and even engage in a form of mourning or paying homage to their deceased relatives. They are frequently observed to visit the bones of their dead relatives as a community. I have a rescue dog that used to cower whenever I went near him with a leather leash. I later discovered that his previous owner used to beat him with a leather belt. Are you still going to argue that he doesn’t understand the past?

[@Crymeariver227]

@@B_B_B_ For a simple question of consideration of something outside of your beliefs, you unleash your energy with this diatribe? Wow, who hurt you?

[@B_B_B_]

@@Crymeariver227You’re projecting your emotions onto me. As this is my area of expertise, I’ll educate you a little more about this: Projection is a defense mechanism where someone attributes their own unwanted thoughts or feelings onto someone else. In this situation, you felt upset but instead of acknowledging and dealing with your emotions, you projected them onto me and claimed that I’m the one who is upset. You clearly can’t handle even a mild debate. After being proven wrong and put in a checkmate, you completely evaded the topic of the debate and moved on to yet more drivel. If you can’t handle mild debates, then you shouldn’t start them and maybe avoid the internet. I wouldn’t recommend working with adults either.

[@Crymeariver227]

@@B_B_B_ oh for the love of God dude, give it a rest. You’re just not all that important in the larger scheme of things in life and it’s apparent your ego is certainly driving you. Have a nice life and please don’t respond again; you’re really not worth my time. And that’s not debatable.

[@JenMarco]

2 minutes in and that was the best words of wisdom I ever heard in my life.

[@chasefunk]

you sound like you don't read

[@ryanvandy1615]

@@chasefunkwhat’s the point of insulting Jen?

[@ryanvandy1615]

@@chasefunkwhat’s the point of insulting Jen?

[@chasefunk]

what's the point of defending her?@@ryanvandy1615

[@madrx2]

It's not often I can listen to Alan Watts without a tear rolling down my face. God damn, he is brilliant. Hits so hard.

[@rogerlin9602]

You can't live at all, unless you live fully now. Thanks Alan. 9 June 2023.🎯🔦🐧⛩🔬🦅🔍

[@westeggz]

My only quibble, a very slight one, is that when I was very young in grade school, I lived very much moment by moment. I now look back with envy, compare to how I treated time illusion as discussed here. I'm now 67 and recently endured a small stroke, which was major enough. I need to concentrate on each day and not dread the future as I get older. 🤔

[@jeff_forsythe]

I have bad news for you. God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

[@tavarescornwell4720]

I've heard countless audio and visuals Alan Watts speeches and lectures but this one... So, I hear Alan Watts, and it's his voice it's like a father figure trying to give you some good advice on "Life"... I really heard this one. 🎉Well put together🌄

[@MadonnaGrogan]

😻😻🥳😊😉

[@volks7]

My story is long but ill just say this I had surgery almost died and my long distance girlfriend died when I was recovering from surgery I lost everything including myself but I discovered something very important When you love someone and that person makes you happy don't wait fight for what you love dont be afraid so you don't have to live in depression, regret Enjoy every second of your good times and learn from the bad times

[@Mitix2010]

Very wise! Summarizing, I'd say that we spend all our lifetime and energy trying to build our future, instead of building our present!

[@MichaelSmith420fu]

He was a brilliant man for his time. Things are always moving tho. Creating is fun. Changes and moving through precipices is good. There's always a spectrum of a flow. I try to incorporate my child self into the flow

[@Alientology333]

Really excellent video. We need to get this out there to help people wake up.

[@andreflavell3453]

It’s hard to wake people up . They are mainly brainwashed

[@Sammyli99]

Great work, well done, music, VID selection, and blending, it must have taken hours, and a big thanks.

[@comotuabogada]

We have to become aware. I'm younger than 40 and I've achieved it. Find your own way. Live the present in full awareness🖤

[@chasefunk]

lol you have achieved becoming aware at younger than 40? congrats dude!!!

[@jefferadus8582]

You have to thank j Rockefeller for it ( i want a nation of workers not thinkers)

[@DartsGondel]

Did you notice that in such a complicated and articulate train of thought, at 7:47 is the first and only time he uses a vocal thought pause "uhm" (or "ähm") - which today, we use so much because we don't have that full control over what we want to say? Incredible

[@benayers8622]

So many words were manipulated to achieve this drugs/medicine is a prime example they should be defined identically but instead are used to lead people into lies and tie their subconscious in circles so that their overall logical computational ability becomes permanently limited believe me i was lucky to escape this and i wish everyone was as free as me

[@ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw]

Human.

[@todaythebirds]

Good point. But, if I shouted at the screen "carrot!!!" does that mean I'm living in the moment??

[@jeff_forsythe]

God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

[@cruzcruz9657]

that why Christ sad my Kingdom, is not of this world,I⌛for Christ return

[@AranRinzei]

I guarantee you this time years and YEARS from now you will still be waiting for your cosmic semitic zombie savior to return.

[@Thomasisthekey]

This man understood the universe by doing no more than understanding himself,something that is not easy to do. He only mentioned time, that analogy can be applied to any topic that furnishes a "legal history" or fear/promises of the future, it ruins the in-between. Love this man ✌️

[@chasefunk]

alan understood the universe? slow down there Thomas, it's healthy to fear or think of the future, just ask any bum on the street and they will tell you.

[@Dad_Brad]

Most of these clips were compiled fairly early on in Watt’s life. It’s amazing because he lived quite a long time and never stopped learning and lecturing.

[@donnaacker6282]

God tells us not to worry about tomorrow or dwell on our past. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed and the past cannot be changed that's why today is a present to live and make the best it can be.

[@museti-zd2ee]

You can't live at all unless you live fully now!!!

[@otahu26]

My Life Feels like a Stand Still. Days feel like hours, Months Are like Seasons and Years are flying by and yet I am not aging. I'm almost 50 now and People still say I look 30. Sometimes 25 if I die my hair. But If I close my eyes. I can transmit myself to a Day in school in School perhaps. Remembering that day as though I was just there. All the time and all the motions. All the People. Me Playing with my transformers toys. What is time? If We can not travel it with our energy. Linear time is something that kepts us limited. If you do not limit yourself. You can Move through time.

[@jeff_forsythe]

God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

[@loki_tha_god]

It's no exaggeration to say that this man changed my life.

[@grandpahickory613]

My wife of 44 years has died from cancer...Suddenly, I am forever alone...... I was always working over time always going 7 days a week, 12 to 14 hours a day......Now I have retired, and I look around, and wonder what I am doing here, how did I go from being happily married, to being a lonely old man turning 72 years of age with loads of regret because I was always working instead of spending more time at home with my wife....I feel so cheated... I have been robbed of my youth, I am yesterdays song......I am like a sparrow alone upon the housetop...

[@jenniferwells9032]

🥲❤️❤️❤️

[@RustyMartin-b9f]

This man was a prophet on some human level..💯

[@iamthefiremanjj]

We are all the prophet

[@Thomasisthekey]

@@iamthefiremanjj yes

[@anhedonianepiphany5588]

Prophets are _usually_ human, of course. They also tend to be obsessed with future events, which is quite contrary to the sentiment expressed here.

[@BMW-tr3nf]

What a wise man. Live for now. That is the future. Thank you .❤

[@chad9455]

Prophets are also Godly men.

[@cosmicdispute88]

Thank you for this video. I needed this. Those who are naturally awakening, need this. Thank you.

[@aug.jam.1]

I've heard days of Alan's audio but this is a great compilation

[@juicetin942]

This is gold. Thank you for sharing it

[@Sonnyblack100]

I’m 50 , never had a job , been around the world many times , I think I see through the bs of school and work

[@harryl9yearsago788]

How do u travel around the world without a job / money ?

[@michaelclark8582]

I never listened to fk all I left school because it offered me nothing ever I told them all to piss off .but let me tell you one thing I learned I didn’t need anyone only me! And in life I got everything I ever wanted ❤ I’m the luckiest man on this earth, best family best of it all , no regrets, xxx

[@Wopayne]

My enlightenment happened in the middle of the 11th grade. I actually woke up and left in the middle of the day. Nobody came looking for me ...

[@DebNewton-kh4cv]

Wow! I really resonated with that William….just walked away

[@DebNewton-kh4cv]

I’m sorry, I didn’t realise I’d called you William, that may not be your name…apologies

[@AureoYoghi]

I wrote We Are Gods to share with people my belief that we are in control of what happens to us when we are present in the moment and we don't allow society and circumstances to distract us with false illusions ❤

[@NineR--]

Where can I find this book?

[@joemomma7]

Recently lost my wife. She was 35. Planned our future together. Seems as if so much planning and not as much 'in the moment' times. I miss her

[@TrueMeaning]

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[@JohnDickerson-u9m]

I'm 48 and I know

[@sharpthingsinspace9721]

This is an idiotic channel, I am a dog owner. If I’m gone for a few hours my dog isn’t very much exited to see when I return. When I’m gone for days and return he can’t stop bouncing off of me and licking me. What a stupid video.

[@MrManny075]

There is no illusion if you understand this principle of life, Live for your life as if you live forever and live for your death as if you die tomorrow

[@ladyhonor822]

BLESS YOU SIR ❤

[@twistoffate4791]

You have the abilities of animals completely wrong. That is why I cannot take your directives with complete seriousness.

[@TheEverLovingOutdoors]

I'm a combat Veteran. I guess that changed me to live in the present. I can now think in ways I never could have thought before.

[@SarahMichelle777]

Thank you got your service. 🫡

[@Mr.Storytime959]

living in the present still means u plan for the future tho right

[@LucindaCochran-b6d]

Thank you for your Service

[@hounddog7256]

The Power Of The Now by Eckhart Tolle is also in sync to this message, good confirmation for a contented life.

[@mikefufuffalo8487]

This was awesome. Even more of a brainscrew when you realize that time itself isn't a static thing. You can bend it, and even two people born at the same moment can experience time differently. Children experience time slower (Seriously). Smaller things still experience time even slower, such as flies, which is why it's so hard to catch the bastards. They see in slowmo. If you leave the Earth you will age slower, and if you were on a more dense planet, time would feel regular to you but move very fast outside of the planet in comparison to you. Time, itself, is the illusion.

[@notsoseriousmoonlight]

Well said!

[@apdcarr]

I have always felt when younger time was slower, hours longer, a Saturday when around 9 to 12 years old or a Sunday day out with mates when around 18 to 22 seemed a lot longer days 😮

[@brittneysmall1152]

@@apdcarrchildren do experience time slightly differently due to being physically smaller but it also has to do with how much time they have experienced. Vsauce has a great video explaining this. But the general idea is that as a child you’ve only been alive a very short time so small chunks of time feel longer. For a 1year old 1 month of time is a 12 of their life. Or for a 5yr old 1 year is a 5th if their entire life. Versus adults who as they get older & older small chunks of time make up less & less of their total life span. Once that 5year old doubles their age to 10years old that same 1 year period is now only a tenth of their life instead of a fifth. And as you start to stretch that out to meet a 20year old, 50 year old, etc. that 1 year period becomes a much smaller piece of their lifetime. So yes as we age time will feel as though it continues to speed up. We also tend to feel like certain parts of our lives went by very quickly when they are more exciting. The periods in life where the big events are happening. We have rapid development in our childhood & are always experiencing what feels like big moments. Then as late teens & young adults we have a lot of big experiences as well. Graduation, moving out on our own, meeting our partners, college/careers, children being born, etc. Versus other decades that we don’t have near as many big changes going on. Of course the timeline will vary a bit due to our different life experiences but it holds true as a generality.

[@ricktherok6716]

Planets dont exist pal. .

[@mikefufuffalo8487]

@@ricktherok6716 Then what are you standing on? :p

[@tonyatliss3709]

I don't know how I found this channel but everything is true about this I'm 41 and this shit getting real

[@jackshilshlack2820]

hi! and right from the start who/what do You think God/god would need to experience pleasure of any kind? a body???!!!

[@joeymurdazalotmore6355]

I'm 44, and Allan watts words get real , fast, this left me slapped

[@polatiger4765]

6:06 WRONG!! What will a little duckling do when the duck-mama is dead? It will linger near her body "waiting for her to get up" because dependence and protection and stuff. What will a little kid do in the same position with the mother lying dead on the ground? Same thing, same reasons. We are not very different. The only difference we have, we have a big society with many rules. Rules that you learn and learn to follow. Animals also have communities but not as big as humans. And animals get sad too.

[@artsmart]

One of the most intelligent thinkers of our time.

[@yankee2666]

You better read between the lines, pal.

[@artsmart]

which means what?@@yankee2666

[@chasefunk]

not by a longshot

[@AllThingsFilm1]

I've gained more awareness and realizations from this one video than the hundreds of videos on "the now" and "the future" combined. This is the best explanation of why "now" is more important than any other reference to time. Thanks, True Meaning. And thanks, Alan Watts.

[@JoannaCubana]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@sijorojasjrchannel5340]

Yes , past is memory , history is memory , future is illusion , and only current present that shape those future , with action not with words and dream , by action to make the future reality , palling and doing it , not just planning and planning without any actual action , a physical action 👍🏻

[@VictoriaThompson-xl4zy]

And this is why we call him a mystic.❤

[@nickfallon81]

I have never seen this man before but to me that just came across as intensely profound!

[@VictoriaThompson-xl4zy]

You should check out his other speeches then. I highly recommend!

[@chasefunk]

it seems profound but when looked at closer planning for the future, education, hard work is simply how you build a better tommorow, you can bargain with your future and it works. Alan fails to credit how hard work and planning can improve your future and further more (and this is just as important) how the lack of education or hardwork and planning can lead to a lack luster future. I think it's easy to be critical of society when all you do is study eastern philosophy at berkley and get high with your hippie buddies.

[@Ulvhamne]

I learned lucid dreams in my early/mid teens, and what I dreamt most was of flying, or sex. I got proficient enough at lucid dreaming that whenever I had nightmares I was aware of it being a nightmare and could just stop it being a nightmare. What happened as time wore on is that I stopped remembering dreams, I just flat out pass out the moment my head touches my pillow, and wake up 7-8 hours later without memories of dreams. I never started wistfully wishing for less control of dreams. But yeah, live in the now, but work for tomorrow.

[@zantas-handle]

This is THE most professional and beautifully finessed video that I've seen for a long time. The way everything works together, the words and the images, it's just brilliant. But MOST OF ALL, this is the first video I've listened to that has successfully fronted the voice above the music, so that the speaker is still totally audible, unlike the majority of yt content where the pounding music track grossly overpowers the narration, making it impossible to listen. I take my hat off to you for a truly fantastic editing job!

[@MrPeanutButterJar]

This video is so helpful. I have Autism and ADHD. I struggle with time even if I don't want too. And I feel like I could watch this every day and it would help every day. Thank you ❤ anyone else that's autistic and agrees? I'd appreciate any positivity in my life right now. No rush right?

[@ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw]

Go with the flow.😊

[@b.chuchlucious5471]

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. - Matthew 6:34

[@joycekennedy5252]

Yes Amen to that truth.

[@Jonnyrotten666]

This moment...goes on forever...

[@MarioEarlMiron]

Time does not exist. It's a human creation. There is only now. Humans are the only spices in the universe that have taken the idea of time and have broken down to tiny bits something that does not exist. This is why Einsteins E=mc2 is crap. The element of something that does not exist is in it.

[@Nick_B_Bad]

One of my greatest fantasies in life is when I finally am able to never need to look at a clock and keep track of time again. A point in my life when time mean nothing and is irrelevant.

[@thedoncadillacshow2907]

Live in the moment, live for the moment, ALWAYS Someone once told me, " if you want to make GOD laugh, make a plan ". Great video! Thank You 😊🙏 ☯️

[@MatrixMaster777]

Great Comment, Thank You^^

[@spinglasshydra]

My Mother always phrased it this way, "Do you know how to make God laugh? ― Tell him your plans." It's the same meaning, but if we decide to, 'not force anything in life' and then patentiants plays a huge role.

[@chasefunk]

ya, you hear that kids?!?! don't plan for your future and you'll make God laugh. Probably because you'll be squeegeeing somebody's windshield for quarters on some God forsaken intersection while God says under His breath, Listen to what Alan watts said on life advice eh , heh heh heh. look at you now, living in the moment!

[@JaimeJDoesStuff]

"The time in-between is just a dream" -Me

[@shannonshea1418]

I just turned 46. I don't know why, this year, but I cannot believe in a blink I am here, and at a stand still with life. I needed to hear this. I am so grateful I started listening

[@jeff_forsythe]

God created this planet to give us a place to suffer instead of going directly to Hell, no amount of suffering goes unrewarded because it scrapes the black karma off of our souls and then we are permitted back into Heaven...................................Falun Dafa

[@staremmitor7946]

We must ¹earn &it must never cause hardship to any other, not one 🏰 🌳 THAT MUCH I KNOW MOST CERTAIN ⚖️ 🐺 Amen

[@robertcaroon9399]

No one could've said it better. The truth can't be uttered any truer.

[@Sancta-TrinitasMarie]

Awesome 👏🏼 actually I’m struggling with time lol

[@kennethakin271]

I’m not bound by time I’m endless I’m eternal.

[@tchkvsky]

LMAO, just wait till you get to be my age and wake up in the morning with aches and pains.

[@nukima11]

​@@tchkvskywooosh

[@TheBertieW]

@@tchkvsky But you woke up each morning so far, right?

[@carlbrenda6518]

Ok Thanos....

[@chasefunk]

and maybe, juuuuust maybe a lil dillusional.

[@chukypedro818]

Africa is living for the now that's while my continent is a century behind.

[@jimmysmad]

i wish they wouldnt put crapy back ground music on, it ruins it. And its always a piano

[@roddmatsui3554]

For more than 35 years for me now, I have been enriched in my thought by the teachings of Alan Watts, and like some, when I read his words in text, I hear them spoken in his inimitable voice. Inimitable? Why then does it reproduce so perfectly, with such accuracy ? The answer is in the human mind.

[@richardcottone6620]

There have been times, in my youth, that I was living in the moment, fleeting moments

[@adamgorelick3714]

If one progresses fast enough in life, always knowing that better things are coming, when one can finally "arrive", then one's boarding ticket for life will turn out to be one's death certificate.

[@andruboy80]

Living the present, and not worrying about the future truly fills you with energy. Especially 80 year olds still working at a supermarket! Wow! obviously they lived a great life in their twenties 😅

[@earthangel_1862]

I live my spirit not by the flesh 💫🙌🙏💞

[@Rahbinah]

You can live in the present and prepare for the future. You just shouldn't obsess over the past or future because all we really have is the NOW

[@jimmytiler5522]

Very profound I must admit.And correct cept when it comes to free thinkers such as I. I always knew I was different but couldnt put my finger on it until I met Jesus in His word the bible. He has given me the wisdom to know NOW.

[@billwilliams3580]

“The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man” (12:13).

[@sweetoneloves6811]

watching this I have truly released so much thought, that I didn't really need in my head. This video is amazing

[@__teles__]

"in the middle of life" That great moment at the beginning of Dante's Inferno. Its a momentous occasion of clarity and understanding.