Trust The Universe - Alan Watts On Finding Zen

An inspirational and profound speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts.
Original Audio sourced from: “Eastern Wisdom - Eastern and Western Zen"
Video Produced and Edited by T&H Inspiration
“The difficulty of describing Zen principles for Western ears is that people in a hurry cannot feel.”
Alan Watts
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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.
T&H also films and releases original interviews with iconic people who have experienced successes, while also persevering through life's highs and lows. We look forward to sharing more of these perspectives and insights.
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.

[@guilhermeheinen]

"all is a play of energy and there is nothing to be afraid of"

[@exton2174]

I Absolutely Love This Quote. ThankYou ❤

[@daniellawton4336]

Nonsense. If you can't see this with your own eyes daily,. and manipulate it, there's nothing wise about it. And passing it on to others only harms them. Follow the rabbit hole if you want to understand that everything is made of energy, and want to learn to switch to other realities for real, on that basis. Or keep pretending with Alan Watts.

[@lunalith]

@@daniellawton4336 ha ha ha haaaa YEAH!!!

[@voightkampff7399]

"Energy is eternal delight".

[@daniellawton4336]

@@voightkampff7399 A statement made by someone with absolutely no understanding of "energy". Designed for stealing money from the depressed, who are reacting to their captivity in a single oppressive reality, not realizing that we live in a multi-verse and have access to 600 copies of ourselves. For real! The Olmecs mapped it out, 8000 years ago. Later,. along came fake religions and magical systems like the horrible "Zen" cult, to steal money from people based on self-soothing sayings like this one. Follow the rabbit hole!

[@guzmandaniela3047]

I love this beautiful community of people letting go and living life fully and awakened, we’re all just walking each other home

[@conda35]

Namaste my friend !

[@cd1772]

Ya there’s almost none of those and many wearing the mask

[@ИлинаНиколова-з1т]

♥️

[@m.alcholish9401]

Thank you❤

[@Cafeallday222]

Let’s hold hands and do it together ❤

[@vickyrhy2373]

I wish everyone listening great health, love,light, and prosperity it is our birthright.

[@VeReePW]

❤

[@Newbelievers1717]

Amen and thank you 🙏🏽 sending you love, light, abundance and love 💗 in return!

[@XstonedmonkeyzX]

DaH

[@lizzettorres1111]

Thank you and to you as well. 💜☮️

[@Nataliegggggg]

Right back at you be blessed

[@d.sfilms7677]

I don't mean any disrespect to anyone but the comments under these videos complaining about the background music are the bane of my existence Edit: just finished the video and it is another masterpiece. The incredible words of Alan Watts accompanied by the perfectly selected images and music

[@LiminalLight]

Not very zen of those people

[@takeuchi5760]

​@@LiminalLight not very zen of us to be even bothered by them either heh

[@LiminalLight]

@@takeuchi5760 I'm not bothered. I saw the comment and pointed out the irony of the situation.

[@aoeiuyghrseiudoghisedg]

Same bro. I way prefer it with music.

[@callen.6371]

@@LiminalLightun zen yang people

[@yogaforsale2882]

I have such a deep appreciation for Mr. Watts and all of these great teachers who have articulated the impossible, to be able to communicate such things in a language intelligible to the modern mind, with a compassionate heart behind it. Timeless wisdom. Thank you to the video creators for putting together this lovely video. I wish everybody reading this only the best in your journeys.

[@claydogr1143]

I wish the same amazing life journey to you 💗 namaste

[@geraldhansen2227]

The Universe is infinite, no beginning, no end, no Big Bang, no centre, no time, unknowable, we are an essential part of IT.

[@CristyanBernardes]

Right

[@neliodas2158]

only when you dream

[@CristyanBernardes]

@@neliodas2158 in the dream we emerge into the unknowable unity

[@akshatsharma8151]

IT as in Information Technology?

[@HitEtNunc]

The new vaccinated people is not part of it anymore.

[@russellharding3371]

It sad that we constantly need to be reminded of this... But I consider myself lucky to have the opportunity to listen to Alan Watts

[@jageo48]

Alan is my most favoured speaker on the nature of existence. I find others who dismiss him as not being sufficiently patient to see through the veil of phenomena and emotions. The idea of Zen, is as Thomas Berry was wont to state: "Nothing is itself without everything else." Alan very simply explains in his own way, that our humanity is entangled and intertwined with our essential underlying nature of being; that they are as inseparable as a crest is from a trough, to create a wave.

[@Learn_with_Ari]

Next to Alan Watts , Rupert spira seems to be in the same frequency...

[@jageo48]

@@Learn_with_Ari Spira comes across as too wordy in my view. Mooji, Tolle and yes, Watts are more down to E-air-th.

[@m.alcholish9401]

But for me, finally its about what we know, not what they said. Thank you❤

[@aletheabaldwin6612]

It is all about Flow. Within the body, within the planets, within everything. Let go, and flow, you paddle YOUR canoe in this flow

[@EnglishWithHaider1]

Here you have summarised the book, 'The Untethered Soul'. Beautiful!

[@Ethan-024]

Be like Water my Friend.

[@vwrabbit4life]

Don’t paddle. Sail

[@michaelosokolo616]

You are the flow, there is no canoe. It’s just YOU

[@gabriellat5927]

Beautifully said, thank you Alan Watts, You calm my heart & Soul when it feels like our world is so complicated & compressed ❤

[@Jon-t9u5k]

32 years and I finally have zen, if I stop looking through my eyes and used my soul to feel that everyone feels the same emotions and trying to find balance in those emotions, not to control but to accept. Once I accepted what is. It just is.

[@sethhurd2676]

One of the most powerful and inspirational Alan Watts videos I’ve seen. “Seeing that all life is a magnificent illusion, a playing of energy, and there is absolutely nothing fundamentally to be afraid of.” ❤

[@deborahonenow]

So much wisdom here. And, such gorgeous scenery! Alan Watts' wisdom lives and proves to us daily that he saw it All so much sooner than the rest of us. Many thanks for this. Namaste

[@Paul-g7l]

True

[@rose_d_mary]

It's so funny how he mentions that once you realize you're "that" you become full of delight and energy. I was in a really dark mental space a little while back and I thought it would be a good idea to get high when I had anxiety; I began to shiver and shake and I felt so awful trying to stay awake, it's like I was experiencing an overload, so I went to bed and listened to music. Ironically enough out of the thousands of songs that could've come on when i hit "shuffle", one of the first ones to come on was simply an anthem about letting your light shine. I felt so cold, my hands and body riddled with anxiety and mind with racing thoughts, but once I was able to be still and listen, I quickly warmed back up like magic, like the gas on my internal lamp was cranked up and I could finally feel at peace. I truly feel like my energy was fading and it took me getting back in tune with the world around me to bring me back, to make my light shine again

[@rose_d_mary]

@ yeah man, you just gotta focus on what makes you happy in the moment, perception is powerful and if you’re in a negative headspace you can spiral. I like listening to music that doesn’t talk about bad shit when i’m high

[@papasmurf123ish]

Collective Soul?

[@erichlowe6098]

I trust the universe ❤

[@MixedRaceAndProud1690]

100% 🙏💫

[@afauntleroyafauntleroy]

Simplicity, (an authentic marvel/wonder) never ceases to amaze me. Thank you Alan Watts! All there is, is life............................. AND NOTHING ELSE!!!

[@aaronevans2127]

6:55 forward is the most relatable thought pattern I remember having as a child. As a 6yo I had existential crisis daily because this was a recurring thought in my mind and had a deep sense of feeling alone having no explanation and seen as crazy from my Christian raising. My grandmas screech forever engrained into my mind, “Whaaat?! You’re too young to have those thoughts, you shouldn’t think that way at all.”

[@enchiladaaa]

i always thought I was weird for thinking this way at such an early age I thought something was wrong with me because I would bring up topics like this with my friends in elementary and they would say why are you even thinking about that? as I get older I appreciate the way I thought thank you for sharing that

[@1111tiffo]

I was that same 6 year old child. And of course felt so odd and alienated bc no one else seemed to ponder these bottomless thoughts.

[@fredyoung9384]

The sound of his voice and what he talks about always soothes me. Thank you Alan.

[@cettocatapusan4761]

Thank you so much Alan Watts I'm going 60 this coming august from Philippines Dumaguete City Negros Island Region.

[@jackandlill]

Happy Coming Birthday!! 💫

[@alphaomegalovesu1017]

you will see the beautiful things if you search for it, using your heart.

[@martinscrapp7166]

Deuteronomy 4:29 - "But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart with all your soul."

[@Burgesstarot]

“There is nothing fundamentally to be afraid of.” -AW

[@JoyUche-ud9ye]

I am afraid

[@A11A114A]

Adamus St. Germain is stalking me! He stalks me like a P S Y C H O P A T H ! P S Y C H O P A T H ! He uses MY body in a DISGUSTING way! I am TORTURED, abused / mentally and physically, although these words have too narrow a scope and do not reflect the range of situations that I have experienced and still experience. It is not my words or body sensations that are being thrown at me, I feel like I am on a leash, not myself.... etc. I am constantly so "torn"/"torn" that the only solution is to commit suicide. It is very likely that I will finally manage to do it (I have tried many times) and thus escape from this situation. He uses MY body in a DISGUSTING way! Warn other people so they don't end up like me!

[@autodidacticprofessor869]

@@JoyUche-ud9ye Let go.

[@kevingallagher400]

@@JoyUche-ud9ye please. let go. there is no real, and there is pretending. because everything really isn't.

[@ThyScopeless]

I always like statements that include the word nothing or nothingness . I’ll entertain myself by repeating the question and capitalizing the N of Nothing/Nothingness.

[@wayofspinoza2471]

Alan Watt shares his wisdom in a provocative and creative way; yet, what he communicates, even though insightful, will not change your ego to an enlightened state of being. The belief in free will and free choices are an illusion. Gurdjieff explains that man is asleep, and how can anyone acquire knowledge when you are asleep? Studying Gurdjieff’s work and Spinoza’s philosophy these past 45 + years have awakened me, since then, I have created a method of awakening one’s higher thinking intelligence, then true permanent enlightenment, and happiness are possible.

[@cameliaturda6472]

This voice , man , meaning keep my soul alive . Mulțumesc .

[@ethanfreeman1106]

that's all i needed - just some words of encouragement. very insightful, but also very fleeting. the philosopher himself is aware of the impermanent of things, such as himself, you, or me. aren't we all ultimately the same, in that sense? we come and go like all things. it may be the middle of the week, but have a good weekend, guys. this next one, and the many ones ahead.

[@writecharliewatts]

This one always vibes with me deeply. I know in my own life making that first step towards a commitment that provides multiple challenges and obstacles that leads to a worthy goal or an adventure with good fun planned. At some point you come to a dead end and have to improvise and trust that there is always an alternative path you never saw that will get you to where you want to go, you just had to let go of that rigid plan of execution. It was only an assumption, but the universe knew a better way, so keep your mind open to all paths. And trust that motion and moving forward is always the way through the storm.

[@th2k864]

Such beautiful and amazing words and insights from a man that had a problem with alcohol. Perhaps the fact he saw so clearly created too much pain for him and the booze helped him manage it.

[@JasonMomoa999]

I calm myself with my modeling, singing and my friends.

[@Sophia-yo9rp]

Thank you for your effort in sharing Alan Watts teachings. I appreciate it. Bless you.

[@rogerlin9602]

8:10 Energy is eternal delight. You are that. The perfect man employs his mind as a reflective mirror. This is to live without hang ups, to drift like clouds and flow like water. See all life as magnificent play of energy. There is nothing to fear. Thanks Alan. 3 July 2024. 💗🍇🌈🐠🦒🤲💐🐠🐠🪷🤲☘️🐠🌹🍁🌊

[@isaurogomez6752]

🎉✨️🎉🎊🎯🎊🎉🎈✨️🎉😊.

[@Geetanjali-inspired]

Completely Resonating with these lines as said in video....I was to quote exactly these same lines from video... amazing lines.... 👍 👏

[@neliodas2158]

you havent seen the horrors of the other side. then you want to see the punishment of the Creator.

[@RB-wr9ij]

Makes my heart to see you & little one so happy & healthy 🥰🙏

[@austinvickers8078]

I choose to listen to the ones with music. I feel it with music ❤

[@ljdolyart]

Beautiful and so calming. Thank you for making this video . We need more like this to calm our insides . Always love listening to Alan Watts speak. The images and music are so calming too. Great job!

[@patgoodemusician]

I'm not crying, you're crying. OK, I'm crying

[@Darth-Pleb]

I specifically checked the comments to see if I wasn't the only one.

[@nicholasregall1307]

So enjoyable to listen to this man's voice.

[@thesleepingbuddhist]

My career is over. 4 years I invested into it, looking to invest 40. And now it’s all fallen apart. It was inevitable, I know. There are 6 year olds dying of cancer, and I am where I am. What do I have to be upset about? I never had structure. And I didn’t fool myself into believing that I did. It still hurts. But, I will continue to do what I do, and that is help others. We love you.

[@robertovalle8048]

Woooww! What a master Alan Wats, this gave so much peace. Thank you

[@SecretsOfASage]

You are loved.

[@StevenWhite-Live2Full]

Always a pleasure to listen, without speaking.

[@justinphemister5813]

I love Alan Watts 🙏🧘‍♂️

[@taniasouth]

I find it much more soothing hearing and watching an effect on words. It gives a sense of understanding 👌

[@blucat4]

An effect on words? What do you mean?

[@ticketbliss7466]

Amazing video & audio. Thank you so much for putting this out there 🎉❤😊

[@matthewwilliams5407]

Life is our birthright, what we do with it is how we respond to it.

[@benbutler1102]

To whom ever put this background to our dear Alan......thank you, soo good

[@litepaint]

Thanks!

[@Theiam010]

I’m always gonna be here

[@Priestesswisdom]

A while ago i was in such a beautiful stillness even sound in my ear was still and it was amazing that feeling yes Had a dream with gold kind of light 🤍💛 walking trough a temple

[@pallabdatta6926]

A human being's journey is from his circumference as a movable observer to his centre as an immovable witnessor. The moment he completes this journey he is no more in bondage of this mayik jagat or illusionary world. Only then he can say "I am not deha or body, I am atman or energy which has no physical structure but flowing in the same frequency as jagatprakriti, only then he can understand that actually he is never in the bondage of birth and death but always free to flow as infinite energy in the prabaha of prakriti or fluid flow of nature, in the unending construction and destruction process of prakriti or nature.

[@mindwavezz-MeditationRelaxZen]

I agree, Besides Alan's Genius lies an orchestral visual masterpiece of talent, thumbs up on the editing and music

[@Paul-g7l]

This is one of the most beautiful videos i have ever seen on KZbin and life changing ones.thank you very much, alan Watts.

[@Saskia.Nagano]

How wonderful this is this said, about how we can describe life 💫 ♥️And the why of everything

[@InspirationSphere-y3b]

So much depth in your message. I find myself reflecting on your words long after the video ends. Thank you! 🙏 [7:35

[@chiaracris84]

This is one of the most beautiful videos I have watched lately. Thank you for sharing it ❤

[@lanhlenh5113]

I’ve been truth this, and just like this I am feeling me like a human ✨💪🙏thank you 😊

[@katerina81731]

❤❤❤ forever thank you, Alan🙏

[@sawnaingtun8776]

Always universe exists as an immortal and when we have something trouble with society after we only have to pray for something good to happen to our life so I pray for myself and I hope what I have to pray for and its really good happens to become a reality daily life and that's it all of the about me. 😊❤❤❤❤

[@adalbertoruize]

We do not know how we make the sun to shine, we simply do because “I am”

[@flintyoutdoors2201]

We are all guessing and hoping but i so look forward to the day we know what it is all about.....im sure we will...this puts me at peace with the day i part. X love

[@wso3775]

This is a masterpiece-well done.

[@johnharrison7176]

To all those mentioning the music it isn't loud or distracting at all. Its just your inability to concentrate on 1 thing you can hear alan perfectly well. So no need to be distracted.

[@kathylgoedert]

Need to judge something maybe.

[@blucat4]

Often background music IS really, really annoying, but not this music, it suits the video.

[@elsolyelrio0195]

YESSIR thank you very much for sharing the editing is awesome and the music has a perfect volume it doesn't overpower the video this is amazing thank you so much huge fan of Alan Watson now I am a huge fan of yourself thank you thank you brother🎉❤

[@des6304]

What is the name of the track used on this video? It’s beautiful and it matches the words so perfectly. It’s impossible to elevate Alan Watts more than he already is but this music really did that. Thank you.

[@toruslife]

Thanks for putting this out there, its beatiful 🙏

[@niceice33]

I trust the Universe, this unknown Force...just accept IT or...let IT go! Nothing else!❤

[@LizziebelleXOX]

Thank you for your efforts and sharing this wonderful video with us ! Really appreciate it 🎉🙌🏻😊

[@AmyWinslow-zi1fg]

Much love and gratitude

[@marco1.618]

The last sentence.. TOP!

[@zandrokos]

i had this really strange dream last night that i was watching some sort of documentary on alan watts (which doesnt exist) and at various points i interacted with him. i really need to get better at writing dreams down.

[@BaytoeGroundZero]

Do you remember anything at all? Any detail.?

[@zandrokos]

@@BaytoeGroundZero not really sorry. i need to start writing things down even when i think i wont forget them

[@robertmcamis389]

Love listening to you. Blessings from heaven.

[@VENZUL0]

The universe is trustworthy, it's the people in it that you have to be discerning about.

[@teeniequeenie8369]

This was sooo good I rewind and listens again❤️

[@ronnieking1133]

Thanks brother ❤ love and lite ✨✨✨

[@yoyo-wr9ep]

Energy is eternal delight ..beautiful 💥🥳🙏

[@zhihengfan3796]

至人之用心若镜，不将不迎，应而不藏，故能胜物而不伤

[@AL_THOMAS_777]

純禪 ！PURE ZEN !

[@rogerlin9602]

8:19 Energy is eternal delight. - William Blake You are that. You can’t be anything else. You are relieved of fundamental terror. 🧲🧲🧲🧲😇😇😇💝💝💝 The perfect man employs his mind like a mirror. It grasps nothing, refuses nothing. It receives but doesn’t keep. Drift like a cloud and flow like water. All life is a magnificent illusion, a playing of energy. Thanks Alan. 22 January 2025. 🧲🛍⛳️🍰🍮🎂🍮🎂🌸💝💶🎂

[@robertwylie326]

Amen brother Watts 🙏

[@greenblue6935]

This made me cry ❤

[@carolinewolf565]

Love it! Forever a student in life❤

[@msafiri707]

Thank you for an illuminating video, beautifully made 🙏🏽

[@neilpollicino80]

Alan Watts inspires.

[@thatcutebarista]

Beautiful, thank you for creating this.💫❤️

[@tyianac]

Grateful thanks everybody! ♥︎

[@Geetanjali-inspired]

I must say to everyone pls listen to this video till end or if possible till mid of the video say till first 6 minutes pls as in the begining though you won't be able to strike any understanding as to where n what I'd the video trying to convey but cross it till 6 minutes & lo n behold it might start making grrrt sense n grrt meaning n message in this video.... so go on lidtenbtill end might benefit us all in one way or other. .. 👍 👏 thank u for this video highly appreciate the content n message in it...

[@Nikfar21]

This is wonderful❤Thank You❤

[@kalimaadevi3214]

Watts can let zen emerge in one’s consciousness if they who listen do this without generating own thoughts in their mind. Confusion as a result of overthinking can be taken away.

[@aletheabaldwin6612]

Yes, you can be you now, passover and have a go at something you always wished to be, or you could do that Right Now.!

[@bradrandel1408]

Outstanding🦋🕊🌹

[@erukaarivu6404]

Love for mr.watts from bharat

[@Jellybellycat]

Beautifully composed

[@Anonymouse428]

Sitting here, awake too early and doomscrolling through my feed filled with bad news about politics and climate issues, I felt a deep sense that “I don’t want to be alive in this world.” Then this video appeared on my screen, like a response to my unuttered thoughts. Are KZbin’s algorithms really that magical or is magic actually at play here?

[@brentmacklem1872]

When you are ready for the teacher they show up. For me it was a book that fell off the shelf basically. I was in dire need of reminding me of who and what I am. Sort of like this video. We are in existant.

[@perfectlove333]

Stop reading the so called”News” & stop watching television. You can’t control the world. Just relax!!

[@AngeloCaruso-et5gm]

❤

[@judicoerver613]

​@@brentmacklem1872 What was the book?

[@aletheabaldwin6612]

I have had the same synchronisity. It isnt you tube that does it, its You. You asked, you sought, it was given

[@dajaknes]

I like the music in the background ❤

[@taodruidry]

This is the most glorious, thank you so much for sharing😊🙏🏼 I shared this to my community page😊🙏🏼

[@AyishaShamna-e8p]

Thank you. 🙏🏽

[@Moonmagick444]

💜🌟🌿love light n healing to all 💜🌟🌿

[@roguaranys]

Thank you!❤

[@InfintieSpaceWithMak]

Really, I have had it back, and it is wonderful. I hope you keep it up

[@jamesbanks4606]

Sharing this love with all

[@Dragonfruits_]

I did that. Initially for a long time I couldn’t really get it right so it was an on and off thing but eventually I developed the skills and had enough motivation to really go for it this time and it worked. The problem was it worked so well that I kind adeveloped an ego. The world and my mind really did open up for me but I got attached to this one thing and ended up losing some of the mindsets that got me here. Eventually I had to let that thing go because I thought that was the right thing to do but I didn’t realize how much it hurt me so I kept ignoring it until I got lost so I’m not sure where I am anymore.

[@jameschesterton]

You always do a good job of the music.

[@Michael_X313]

Just keep swimming 🎵 just keep swimming

[@tiffanybittman7523]

Thank you 🎉