Try Not to Think | Alan Watts

An enlightening speech from Alan Watts about the beauty and importance of finding silence in your mind, and ways you can obtain it, including meditation. Part 4
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[@creationinspired200]

Thank you very much for this short the long ones you have to sit through and sometimes you dont always remember that one thing he said that one time because it was 5 minutes into an hour long talk but this is that one thing we all needed to hear and remember!

[@womalee]

Where can I find this full lecture?

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Where can I find the music this is set to?

[@sourcetext]

It's an act ,easy money 🤑

[@twiztidclown6653]

As a person that thinks alot then talking to my own self is sometimes not worth it, will drain my energy

[@1RaggedyMan]

The mind can be your best friend Th mind can be your worst enemy

[@TLDCHWTTOS]

The mind is a faithful servant but a horrible monster.

[@Wriggs74]

I've started talking to myself because i have no one else to talk to, but I like my own company.

[@Jason-eo1rh]

#im14andthisisdeep

[@TheForestgrl]

Same here, I talk to myself all the time, always have, but also I have no one to talk to .

[@creationinspired200]

My own company doesnt thieve it doesnt yell or swear it doesnt get upset and it always meows what to say errm knows? 😅

[@brian-gz3bh]

@@TheForestgrlI’d be glad to listen to ya!

[@engjds]

Get a cat)

[@hesamhm9383]

His voice is combination of wisdom and calmness. Just great ❤

[@malabuha]

Now the words of a former employer of mine "i don't pay you to think", "you're not here to think" get a whole new meaning 😅 everything for a reason

[@chaseself5420]

This is why meditation is beautiful. 15 mins in the morning after water, then before bed.

[@Error404PageNotFoundx]

It reminds me of something I read: Talking to yourself is not madness, but answering yourself is.

[@cristinapadilla6261]

Im in love with this man

[@fujrii_10_46]

Felt proud when he took our country's name as a good example 🇮🇳❤️

[@JamesStubbs-do1ru]

Thinking when necessary is good. But Being, whenever possible is great!

[@Julian-cw8je]

Yes. I agree

[@denn-denn1473]

@@Julian-cw8je Me Also, At least I ‘Think’ So 👍 & Yes, I Actually Agree 🎯

[@JCTR21]

Bruv, Alan Watts always hits me.

[@damineblair6787]

With energy

[@TheAmericanDane]

Man I love Alan Watts 👌🏼

[@spruce5123]

Brand new ideas are born in a quiet mind.

[@roa7001]

Great man that voice

[@Emmanuel-mc9bd]

Now I'm thinking about not thinking

[@-steady-8215]

So cool to see young Alan Watts 💙

[@johndilk2966]

Alan watts always blows my mind.

[@johndilk2966]

Try and live life, self sufficient. Wards are only concepts. Your downfall is to engage. Make your home a paradise and your palace. People sleep average 8 hours. Don’t spare any expense on a bed. Your defence is to run away.

[@sirsenior1861]

​@@johndilk2966word salad. This sounds like nonsense.

[@jackboa22]

@@sirsenior1861of course it looks like gibberish to one that doesn’t understand

[@GrubKiller436]

​@@jackboa22 The sentences are literally unrelated to one another.

[@MrMrPopols]

@@GrubKiller436 They are not. They shouldn’t. They represent though’s (little tips) that person had to share. I got all of them.

[@stets1972]

❤️ this man's wisdom of insight and ability to inculcate it with repeated consumption. He is the best KZbin discovery I've made in a long long time. He makes modern-take Stoicism seem generic by contrast.

[@bellahjew6199]

Allan watts always open my eyes ❤...his words fill my soul

[@ronamain8689]

I listen to Alan when I'm painting. He's a genius 👏

[@ArtofJim]

I did this since I can remember and I don’t really perceive reality like others do. It’s like it closes your conscious perception of reality. The only time I really feel like I’m experiencing reality is shortly after meditation or when I’m high af on weed

[@Scorpionsoull]

Starting my meditation journey soon..it is real important for own mental peace specially for over thinkers like me who already had trauma from past

[@infinitenothingness]

🙏 best of luck to you 🧘‍♂️ 🕉 Namaste 🤍

[@breandadavis3168]

It's so hard to meditate. I've tried many times but with having ADHD its 1.) Hard to not think/ keep my thoughts from racing and/or focus on something like my breathing and 2.) Develop any new skills or habits. I honestly dont know how any other ADHDers develop any new habits because every year I get older I realize how much I fall behind in life because of this very issue 😢 and all I want to do now is try and meditate. Do you have any advice?

[@elizabethbird5929]

Count your breaths. Count to ten out breaths -start again. In 3 weeks you should start to get quiet.

[@MrMrPopols]

@@elizabethbird5929what about counting ? You will think the numbers in your head in order to count so how can that be quiet?

[@elizabethbird5929]

@@MrMrPopols When you're able to reach 10 outbreaths, all else becomes quiet. That's how it starts. It still takes intention, attention, & practice to get to full quiet.

[@user-vq8cb8wy5n]

How true this is.

[@Wamaka545]

The silence reveals to you alot of things

[@fabiosky4368]

oriental knew this 2 thousands years ago!! they practced meditation with the goal to have an EMPTY MIND. being present only in what we are doin now. ciao

[@monsterofeastfelton]

So true. And it can leave you feeling euphoric if you can really let go.

[@frontsidegrinder6858]

Alan♥

[@petrospetromixos6962]

What i have realised is you first know something and then you are thinking about it

[@raven_star_child]

@ThePursuitOfYou #ThePursuitOfYou Thank you for keeping the works (words) of Mr. Alan Watts alive & thriving 🌼

[@ThePursuitOfYou]

My pleasure! Thanks for watching 🙏

[@jimmypeach8838]

Why daily meditation is wonderful

[@barbarachipman9436]

And this is the reason I want to sleep all the time

[@QuietLumina]

Same… it’s exhausting to think so much.

[@engjds]

Sleep is a mini-death, choose life.

[@Davewutsup]

🌜✨😆✨🛌🪐✨

[@maihoang8567]

​@@engjdsthank you

[@amyth8121]

I love Mr Alan Watts. He has helped me very much.

[@fineasfrog]

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi "To stop your mind (to let the mind be silent) does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind (sentience) pervades your whole body." page 41 "Zen Mind, Beginner Mind" Letting everything settle to the level of bodily felt sensation can give us a global sensation of the entire body. This we can call the beginning of presence. Simple presence that is associated with the physical body but over time can reveal that it is not limited to the physical form in fact simple presence is non-phenomenological. In a sense we learn to arrive where the body already is. At first we learn whole body awareness then we may eventually discover that awareness is not limited to the form of the body. This form of the body is only given to us as an experience or appearance due to the outer six senses. If we 'drop in' and allow a felt sense of simple presence, we are opening to and being receptive to presence which can reveal itself to include the appearance of the physical form and also not necessarily be limited to the form. The body appears as form but in its more subtle aspect it is presence; it is the matrix of all divine possibility that to the outer senses appears in form here in this world we know as a world of separate bodies. However we may may discover that 'this world' is what appears to the mode of our perception that is developmental and we have implicitly learned that tells us: "I am 'in here' in this separate body and everything else is 'out there' as a world I see as all sorts and sizes of separate bodies including other people as well as all objects including such bodies as the sun, moon and galaxies etc.

[@Fly_Butterfly...]

Thank you for this. May I ask you where is it from? Book? Alan Watts?

[@StriveNot]

⁠@@Fly_Butterfly...Zen Mind, Beginners Mind P41 by Suzuki

[@rosemarietolentino3218]

Just do what he says don’t think about it. R.I.P Mr Watt’s.

[@GrubKiller436]

If you don't think at all, you will be miserable.

[@traceylarrs1248]

He put his message into words so well, ironically.

[@frontsidegrinder6858]

Yeah also true , but simply nice.

[@user-vs4cb6zd4w]

I've given up all hope of having a better past.

[@daniellecailly5448]

So true, I love Alan Watts. I'm someone who's isolated an when I reach out I'm hurt an disappointed by peoples judgements. I vent out loud, thinking "better out than held in " but find its a repetition of negativity.. going nowhere. I have to consciously try to stop, an adopt a better way of solution .

[@davidgough3512]

More than a couple of times in the early 60's I had Sunday school teachers, even school teachers warning against meditation, because an empty mind is the devil's playground.. sort of like the old trope "idle hands are the devil's workshop". Yoga was a big no-no.. almost blasphemy. They didn't like any notions that might rival wordy prayer and "the gospel". They were definitely trying to counter the counterculture.

[@davidgough3512]

@suits334 yeah, doesn't take conspiracies.. more like a zeitgeist thing.. despite also being told to "be still and know that i am god"

[@higherlunacy]

And here I am playing shorts and videos all day thinking I'm going to learn something new today.

[@jonathanpotthoff7006]

My psy told me exactly this yesterday

[@AC60910]

That voice and content...the delicate delivery...a dream of human being...❤

[@janinewatson1377]

Negation is the highest form of thinking.. No thought, no emotion. Perfect emptiness, yet there in something is moving... Seeking it's own course.. This is the way of the spirit.

[@InsaneZANE311]

how does one not think though? there’s no solitude in this crowded world we live in. way too many things interfering with that peace of mind we all so desperately need.

[@jhaimp.sullivan5618]

That is interesting, I feel tho too as if in some ways we don't think enough or we are far more distracted by what we r subjected to, or subject ourselves to through a societies pressures , or from personal lineage .. so much so wherever u are . May hinder us to where we can't see the truths of the world ..

[@mikebarrows8344]

Learning his knowledge is what I would like to do

[@bpraisemokoena]

❤❤❤❤ Totally love this man.

[@tanmaygupta8590]

yes i m from India we are told to never think just do work and meditate your mind through god or exercise or yoga

[@megabonnar]

I tried not thinking and ended up thinking more

[@AsifAli-fb5mq]

SIR❤THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[@charlesdahmital8095]

Have an open mind. Just not so open it falls out.

[@DudeitsVero]

On repeat, hopefully my brain will engrave it and finally listen to shut up. 😆

[@goodolmemory]

If I want an intelligent conversation, I'll talk to myself

[@PrimeG693]

I was just thinking about most of these words late at night. Damn!

[@JJNow-gg9so]

Gratitude and love are my thoughts AMAP.

[@heat6498]

What a mind

[@donniekebsch5304]

Just like when we start to wake up you think about the past are have a sleep

[@linftheast9254]

I catch myself not thinking a lot

[@user-wy1wk5io2q]

We should use our minds to critically think but not to dwell in the past or about the future.

[@bethhayes1]

Yes!!

[@140Dido]

This truth should be a human right!!!

[@user-gi6md7px9p]

❤❤❤❤❤ Wisdom

[@LuisCipher]

When you sleep, your mind is not at rest. Your conscious mind is, and your subconscious mind never rests, except when you're dead.

[@kaif140]

I never had a problem with my thinking. Why not let it be. It's there, its a part of my body, part of me. Why fight it? Why produce this conflict in oneself. Just watch me thinking even if its rubbish is more fun, than fight the thinking or try to change it or try it to cease.

[@sonjoseph]

Now that I know what the word “reality” truly means, I can stomach and appreciate this man’s words. #ACIM

[@Distant_INC]

We have great conversations. I don't see the problem.

[@LyraHikari]

Follow me for an everyday dose of thought-provoking Eastern Philosophy.🌸

[@hansslane7080]

No one can stop or control thought. Thought is a metaphoric stream to tune into. Thought is energetic with either polarity.

[@user-bp9xw3ht8s]

It's called meditation. It gives us access to pure consciousness, which creates our reality.

[@markapuron4132]

❤❤2222❤❤

[@user-mp9dz5on4x]

Very smart man ❤

[@EkayLaive]

I talk to myself too much in my head. I hate it

[@lovelife2186]

The internet makes you think or talk to yourself all the time I must lay off

[@gooseman-]

Allan watts got me right

[@Zwei-Rosen]

No self-reflection leads to opinionatedness, but too much of it leads to madness.

[@dive4323]

Great one

[@maryfrawley4388]

Interesting advice. I'll have to think about it.

[@King-er7ef]

I laugh with myself all the time ,,in that moment of laughing nothing else exist

[@josefraguas2768]

Learnt so much since i started reading him as a young teenager… thanks to Bruce Lee.

[@ferdinandmagellan9210]

More true now than ever

[@user-pj8vd1br3g]

Be interesting his thoughts on current social media madness

[@spitmirror]

I prefer being a listener in conversations, but I have no friends, so I talk to myself, because I'd rather have something said, than not hear anything at all, even if it means I have to talk.

[@briandowers851]

I’m looking forward to the dubstep drop of that closing statement. Untapped potential.

[@ZenSei03042]

I enjoy that selftalk tho

[@NghiLa-yv6kv]

Amen🥰!..

[@larryaldrich4351]

Also a key component to the Yaqui Way of Knowledge.

[@elstyblue]

I would really like to think anything but thoughts.

[@user-wd6lm8xb6z]

I thought it was Andy from the office. Ed Helms 🎉

[@merciless0bacon52]

It's not so much thinking itself that is the problem, it's the nature of the thoughts that can be. Thinking and being connected to reality can be mutually inclusive events:)

[@mingtoiisaac4623]

❤

[@lynnetg]

💜LOVE IS THE ONKY REALITY 💗 and so it is.🌸⚛️WE ARE ALL GALACTIC CITIZENS ⚛️🌞🌎🧬 is the ultimate TRUTH 💗🙏👁

[@bhupendersinghrautela4064]

🌹🙏

[@ronnieblakley8837]

Good stuff

[@corrieaaron9679]

Wow

[@therationalist234]

It's interesting that we tend to exaggerate the importance of the monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and often minimize Buddhism and Eastern philosophies - it's the most populous part of the world since civilization began!

[@SavannahSteel]

HES SO YOUNG

[@Frostborne2778]

We have composed “existence” in our own experience into but a tapestry of signs. Think of the word “fun”… what is “fun”? Was it the experience? Or was it how you remember it as? Or is “fun” an emotional construct of the mind? What is a word as simple as “fun”? Is there a true way to define it, relative to reality? All definitions are ever-complicating signs, used to describe a word. And so, by constantly defining a definition, you end up with nothing but signs. Something that does not exist. Something that cannot be comprehended as “real”…

[@Pen-sq7bj]

I'm afraid to talk to anyone but myself

[@ROMANEMPIRE69]

That’s kinda hard sometimes. It’s like in church as a kid when u had to be silent. It was always something funny that popped into your head. 😜😜😜

[@haroldassmailis9680]

If it would be that easy, I don't think we would need psychiatrists. But of course he's right, practice meditation, less news, self acceptance.

[@malabuha]

True 😅

[@DJCPSG]

😩'You fool! What were you thinking?" 😏I wasnt thinking anything..you should try it, its good for you.