The Rules to the Game of Life - Alan Watts

In this video Alan Watts pulls back ‘the human game, digging into language, ethics, finding balance, and the art of the controlled accident. Alan explores the connection between language and ethics, helping us understand why the perfect balance between randomness and order is the optimal middle-ground for experiencing life.
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[@asherphoenix5584]

"Nothing is ever as important as it is when you are thinking about it" -Daniel Kahneman

[@robinhood6954]

WTF..!!

[@paulettek8973]

Explain plz

[@asherphoenix5584]

It means if it's on your mind, it will shine with importance. When you put it on the back burner, it has reduced importance. When you no longer think about it, it has no importance. I'm referring to subjective importance opposed to objective importance. You still need to breathe if you don't think about it's significance, but basically it is the attention and intentions of the individual that determines importance and not the properties of what you find important. It's the relationship you have to the thing and how salient it is to you in the moment. For example, almost all people above a certain age have experienced a break up. In the moment of being broken up with it hurts so bad you can't stand it and you desire so badly for things to return to the way they used to be. Check in with that same individual 2 years later, and unless they've committed suicide or developed an unhealthy obsession or depression, they've likely moved on. Found someone or something else to give them purpose. In the moment of the break up that individual may say the pain is so unbearable and the break up was super significant but the same person 2 years later, if they deal with it in a healthy way, has probably boiled the relationship down to a few teachable moments and rarely considers the last person beyond that. Nothing changed about the events but the individuals attention and intentions changed, which changes what you find salient, and thus what was once the most significant moment in your life has been reduced to so much pillow talk.

[@robinhood6954]

@@paulettek8973 Kahn't do that here! ☝️

[@Uuuuyyyyuuu]

Absolutely true. Brilliant and concise. In fact the more I think about how great this quote is, it intensifies in my mind until it becomes the only piece of philosophy I will ever need…until I start thinking about something else. In fact, now that I think about that- I just realized I’m 42 years old and have no idea what I wanna be when I grow up? Back to square one.

[@brushstroke3733]

Alan Watts is one of the most entertaining people to ever be recorded speaking words that point to the underlying truths of existence.

[@moondive4ever]

Beautifully said!

[@bingobriano6021]

its almost as if he talks about existential reality as if it were a game 😉

[@dannycassinellibarac9993]

No need to fake. You are. Individual awakening. No time to loose. You have all you need inside. Complete package for this life.

[@Lilbitatatime]

Have you heard of the Dualistic Unity Podcast w/ Andrew and Ray? If not, I recommend checking them out. Jaw Dropping conversations! 🤍

[@turtlerabbitart]

Life is not as serious as your mind makes it to be.

[@needheartranken]

I had this philosophy since I was a kid. I see people around taking it seriously when I just slack around. It bounced back to me now I'm 27 and I'm taking life so seriously because I slacked off so easily that I didn't know I need to win the game. It sucks.

[@highwayranger4878]

Seriously, you can't be serious. By not taking life seriously is being serious. You see!

[@turtlerabbitart]

@@needheartranken A game is supposed to be fun not serious. There’s nothing to win. Work can be play.

[@needheartranken]

@@turtlerabbitart there is a LOT to win! I find being here in NOW chillin in the now so detremental. It's okay to use the power of Now as lubrication for the brain but there's a lot to win. 8th law is to CARE, to win!

[@turtlerabbitart]

@@needheartranken I can agree as long as CARE does not equal CLINGE. Clinging to anything will not result in more success, rather in slavery of your ego.

[@M.Kprimetime23]

His words bring a weird sense of security and peace to my entire being. Its divinely strange most the time. But i like it

[@CleberHarrisonGuitar]

Although he said we're God playing hide and seek, when I listen to him, I feel like God is talking to me.

[@M.Kprimetime23]

@@CleberHarrisonGuitar I can relate to that 💯

[@jamesstewart2467]

My friend, is because he speaks with Love and your Soul knows it.

[@genyagalit]

For me too.

[@Patchouli59]

How am I supposed to listen to this? All I hear is loud piano with Alan Watts speaking in the back ground somewhere 😢

[@yongchin4054]

Good lecture good music. Truly appreciate the effort you put in this video

[@JS-sy7ym]

When that piano started, I jumped so hard I nearly fell out of bed.

[@House.Of.Dysharma]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@hanaezra9452]

😂😂😂😂it's far too loud

[@ia2291]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@plumeria66]

No different from dreaming. We dream about other characters and dialogue with them. We made them all up. We are just talking to ourselves in the dream. But we pretend we are not by dreaming these scenarios. Once you are lucid and see the dream is made up, the dream dissolves and you wake up, because the truth is revealed. Unless you can hold your attention and keep dreaming and playing the game. The trick is to know this is a grand dream and we are playing God’s game.

[@Caleb85164]

When you realize your dreaming, it’s called a lucid dream, but what if realizing you are in a dream is still part of the dream?

[@BMilitant]

This

[@dennisokumu3759]

Listening and learning these on my semen retention has really changed how I think ,see,feel and do things. We should strive for greatnetness of GOLDEN RULE OF LIFE!

[@bza069]

Just 1.7 measly views and Alan Watts shares the secret of benightment in just a few minutes.

[@robinhood6954]

I don't want to be benighted thanks!

[@amyrosenold-music-healing-yoga]

Classic Alan Watts :) He's the only guy i know of that speaks about the play of life, as a game, and like any player of music knows, the more knowledge and skills one aquires along the way and the more one can do with the playing, the more interesting and fun it gets, and that we do it for it's own sake, not to "get somewhere", but to enjoy living in a uniquely human way, right where we are. Trying to put this stuff into words isn't easy!

[@All-That-Is-69]

The Music Is Amazing. And Right Timing.

[@erichoffert9805]

He speaks my language...

[@robinhood6954]

Yeah, well most people speak English thesedays.. ☝️🤣

[@garyinmarz8938]

Always make sure that what you know doesn’t become who you are, because then you need to start over again, and again and again and again…….

[@theuniques1199]

What you know is you, you know that you're everything right now and you know that everything is you right now, this is how you the Universe repeats itself to always write this same exact comment by always being proof of itself right now, again and again and again is you the whole reproductive Universe right now, to exist right now and to know you exist right now is also to always exist right now and to always know you exist right now, eternity is repeat as repeat is eternity, know is now as now is know, I always have and I always will rewrite this same exact comment verbatim.

[@garyinmarz8938]

@@theuniques1199 ‘Our personal universe’ (the one that we can understand) is mostly made up of past (stories from parents and grand parents), our experiences till NOW, and predictions 20 to 30 years from NOW. Like all others who have lived before us. More or less a 100 year bubble of familiarity that keeps humans sane and in an illusion of ‘control’.

[@theuniques1199]

@@garyinmarz8938 Till now is a belief of being right now, our Universe is a belief of being the Universe right now and you are the Universe fooling itself with the concepts of till now and our Universe but you are always the Universe that knows it always exists right now.

[@garyinmarz8938]

@@theuniques1199 When ‘now’ is no longer needed to proceed to another ‘now’, I may believe in something else if I am still able to ‘believe’.

[@carolynowen3388]

Profound, it's all about Balance, I believe.

[@MOAON_AABE]

Love the music 🎵

[@Allrounder-we7gb]

Imagine smoking a bong with Alan Watts 🤤😯

[@truesacredrebels2400]

So well put together to deliver these messages. Draws one in deeper as it goes along. Thank you for offering this 🙏

[@nickegglington356]

He's correct. It is....multiple games interlaced. We are all in our own self created simulation.

[@tancreddehauteville764]

If life is a game, I lost it decades ago.

[@andvan5171]

Truly an inspiring person. Not perfect but understanding. We are graced and gifted.

[@hc8655]

I have no idea what he is talking about after 17 minutes, but i like his voice and the background music, thank you. Hope everyone have a happy life❤

[@ia2291]

😂😂😂😂

[@rafirahmani8718]

🃏 to play any role 💯

[@iamshango3005]

Im playing joker

[@sandraspidle5972]

Brilliant. We are all part of the whole, and must be mindful of this.

[@Knightshaide2000]

Thank you I've been listening to you for years and you are wonderful .Thank you for your Guidance that has helped me so much! God bless your beautifulo heart

[@locowachipanga561]

My alarm clock at 6 am: "You are in the process of waking up, you are flirting with the idea but you are not serious about it"

[@ggoncalves80]

😂

[@MichaelSantonato]

This is beautiful. Thank you so much

[@fionam3735]

I wish I could have had a one to one with this man

[@TheAngiepangie424]

My favorite yet❤

[@kenny8351]

Brilliant! Thanks.

[@tamshari9212]

Yes it is lets us start with giving #Respect.👀

[@aliciaserrano888]

Superb!

[@milktop1]

Well done!! Thank you and thank you Alan Watts!!

[@annej9358]

The music fits beautifully with the lecture, although I can appreciate that not all agree 🤗

[@dannycassinellibarac9993]

Joker or fool o is the ultimate player. Like the spy in Stratego.

[@dawn1854]

Thank you.

[@carmendale9710]

Thank you ❤

[@anthonykology1728]

a good story has all the elements

[@auntymammalia9384]

That last bit, tho. Wow.

[@edwinbruynooge6752]

I love this man ! Edwin Bruynooge worldwide Management and Productions music !

[@heavenlywarning]

*I'm so grateful to watch this video. Thank you, I can learn a lot of things! 💪*

[@parassharma8742]

Thanks

[@braxton8960]

Wow❤

[@noone00000]

Wild and free

[@iamshango3005]

Me too

[@LIQUIDSNAKEz28]

Where can I find this WITHOUT the music?

[@OG1919]

Another comparison is we can take everything we learn in all of our many lifetimes in the 3rd dimension and see we have played every role, and in every way now know and understand what it's like to get by without the Love God and Creation meant for us and is our genuine state of being. Not so much for lessons, but for "experience." Learning love, as all we need is love.

[@adteachings]

The music is loud and distracting. Mr. Watts' words have quite enough power on their own.

[@wellen5336]

YES!! The music coming in unexpectedly after the 2 1/2 minute mark was harsh, and it is way too loud, putting Alan Watt voice in the background Anyway, you can redo this video because it’s excellent content, but it is hard to enjoy the content with the music so loud

[@wer45635]

Enjoy the game of life

[@NehaKumari-hn4uk]

"Game " for him my life is a game my emotion my respect is a kind of fun someone 7 year time after seven year trying to move on is a game for him I am surprised how god can create person like him

[@swampthing7234]

That's arrogance in believing your emotions were unable to be taken for granted. If you're playing the game, stay vigilant.

[@shannondustinthewind3799]

One with all

[@Swati_1112]

Same exactly same.

[@sandrave6056]

❤❤

[@mizumoz8653]

God is just the goat What game we going through I hope I'll play well 😊

[@killer070911]

Good day !!

[@robinhood6954]

I've known better, lol!

[@erthbot1]

This is amazing. I'm really enjoying listening to Alan discussing the the nuance and meaning of our existence. However, positioning our reality as a zero-sum game where winning necessarily creates losing, while beautifully symmetric and easy to internalize, is problematic and possibly just wrong as a general principle. Using the marketplace analogy puts an obvious focus on this. When I buy something from a seller, is it true that he wins and I lose or vice versa? Buyers and sellers both winning is a regular feature of a healthy transaction.

[@luvenpranicfrequency8043]

Word

[@thew.i.s.ecommunity7986]

I was really enjoying this until the music

[@manasacharyya7068]

I feel the editor is really doing some odd job cutting off full length lectures at odd conjectures

[@ralfstofer8609]

The nice music is disturbing the listening in my opinion. It should be quiter.

[@franciscopaulino2201]

I'm lost we that music...

[@dannycassinellibarac9993]

Anyway it's going to happen!

[@leeli2690]

Jadilah Insan yang mampu ingin mengambil serta berkongsi rasa sakit orang lain agar beban sakit terbesut ringin dan berikan jika Ada keampunan kebahagia untuk orang lain. Ingatlah Allah maha adil dalam ujian ini serta Maha halus penilaian. 👉🧠👈

[@akmw44]

TRY THIS RVERY MORNING =Laugh at yourself for 3 minutes every morning, prerable in front of mirror, do it for a week,,,,, Life isn't so bad after all hahaha

[@swim9361]

*2 and a half minutes in, music randomly starts playing* me at work, confused: 😦

[@maricamicallef9545]

Why the music??

[@twinturbo7234]

Geez, deep piano notes override important message. Even getting louder as if to compete with him. The music said nothing. Really sad.

[@SMGAPR8]

Agree, probably re edit 🤔

[@stevenczarnecki970]

Yeah I had to turn off when the music started... Blows your concentration

[@benderbender1233]

🤙

[@eric-humanappliance]

It was fine until the music started. His message is enough. No need to add drama.

[@olegiakovlev8102]

Listened for 2 min, such a great interesting speech... And then the music starts and it is distracting and can't focus on lecture anymore, and can't listen to it during night time peacefully. What a waste of material.

[@DawnEnergy]

"you were awaken all the time" LOL

[@mrssinceday1thenotherhoesf101]

Ion play and that’s what I choose to to

[@juliet8678]

I agree, the music is horrible and way too loud! 📣😫

[@Perceval777]

Would've been better without the music.

[@beatleme2]

16:30 if it were the other way around, where good is evil and evil is good = a Universe that is not a contusing game, it would be 100% tragedy hence, the end times we are living in now, Revelations being fulfilled.

[@Ize.lo_1]

Stop trying to be yourself, and just be yourself.

[@rebeccataylor4809]

The electric keyboard plonking is a bit distracting. I would prefer the words plain. The music doesn't add profundity and mystery. It takes it away. I want to hear the words without being directed by 'music' as to how to feel about them. The nice thing about AW is that he has such a simple no nonsense delivery.

[@dawncoyne2836]

Why the bang the piano?

[@TheRealFourinhand]

Don’t add music

[@nicolaboyd6260]

I dont know if I'm really stoned but staring at that picture is there images between the trees ?

[@ryanredmond-jx7ix]

I'm a glitch in the matrix. OR just the momentum of wind the wind from a swipe of an arm next to a weak spider web, destroying its integrity.

[@davidlee2215]

why the background music...

[@obatalaarcturus659]

Your Living Soul's Truth Os Only A Game to Dead People... Any Questions? 🥂

[@May-vy5bu]

The music is distracting. I want to listen to him.

[@jacobjacob4139]

Why spoil the man's message with music? Damn I couldn't even finish listening to him.

[@DaughterofaKing1]

I know right. People always being EXTRA. Clicked off, trying to find the original.

[@olegiakovlev8102]

​@@DaughterofaKing1 have you found the original? Please share the link :)

[@gabriellew.]

The music is too loud.

[@xaosm_os]

music is distracting and overpowers Alan's speech.

[@Cl4rendon]

it`s always disappointing when someone means to mix in dramatic music to his speech which can really do without.

[@edholden3930]

The music makes it more interesting. Without it he is kind of boring to listen to

[@swolemoth]

​@@edholden3930 Then just listen to the music on its own. You've stumbled into the wrong area of KZbin. An adult will be along to collect you shortly. Everything is going to be ok sweetie.

[@edholden3930]

Who's coming to collect me? You, your probably one of the morons who took the vaxxs

[@SaintAnthonyIV]

I'm awake ⏰

[@vladislavovich100]

What rules, what game, this guy is insane

[@Iamheretolove]

From which lecture is this?

[@dabiededoo]

all he said is about the seven principles from the small book the kybalion maybe not exact from that. but that book is about the same principles and explains them in simple. just as he says here.. (in a way)

[@TheAGODAMI]

@@dabiededoo 😒 *I wouLdn'T say iT's "siMpLe" aT aLL buT iT does coRReLaTe to this message in a loT oF waYs.!* ✌

[@johnstfleur3987]

"8."

[@Erintel]

My hamster's name is Frank.

[@robinhood6954]

And I hear the mangoes are doing fine this year... 🤣

[@locowachipanga561]

If we actually live in a simulation we are all the same, we are one, we are code, then dna is only code. Oh my.

[@swolemoth]

Always with the fucking music. Just let the man speak

[@ezekielalkhabeer7084]

13:31

[@stevehalls9689]

People play to win don't they? football, chess tournaments seem very serious don't they? What is the purpose of the game? Does the game need a purpose? In any game aren't there always winners and loosers? Would people play games if there was no chance to win or risk of loosing? What if life is actually an unwinable game? and how does one know if one has one the game? Is winning the game actually the purpose of the game? If it has no purpose why are we playing it?

[@Dman9fp]

Exactly. People are asleep to philosophy, I was for a while. But it's inescapable, and the biggest suckers are those who just go on in life accepting all they're told, all the norms, etc. Just some thoughts, I know there's no correct or most righteous answers. Most people tend to want to believe if they struck it rich, won the lottery, became a vice president, etc. It'd do Nothing But Good for their life. To hell with the simple way of life. More choices and power must equate to more happiness right??? Otherwise what the hell is this rat race even for, besides destroying nature and c0rrupting the otherwise admirable smartest animal on the planet....

[@wer45635]

Enjoy the game of life

[@mosaicmind88]

WHY the music? Just let the words be. At the very least, offer the same video without music so people have a choice.

[@robinhood6954]

Oldest trick in the book!

[@noone00000]

Mind control

[@jayc3110]

Thank you for this contribution. That music however, what's so annoying, distracting and unnecessary. Best wishes