I'm in my 50's now. I was 27 when I had brain surgery to reduce the size of a large brain tumor. The doctors told me, the remaining brain tumor "might" one day grow out of control.. So. I have lived my life, every year, since then, knowing death is standing next to me. Waiting and waiting for me to drop dead. "Death" has been very useful to me in that I never had to worry about old age, or if I would have enough retirement savings, or 401k contributions. etc. Since that surgery day, I didn't have thoughts of wanting to be "Important" in society. Yet, I did become a very dignified, honest, respectful person, so say people in my life. "Death" has given me a reason to live in today.
I finally found it.... After five long years. I've been looking for this talk since I first heard Alan's voice on the architects Doomsday album. His voice is in the middle of memento mori. Thank you, Alan. I treasure your talks and wisdom
The man I have considered a 'spiritual grandfather' talking about death fifty years after the first time I heard him and nine months after my actual father died. Life is a wave, indeed...
Thanks for your work, it's very helpful to me and I appreciate it, I have lots of background noise in my life right now but I'm going to have to deal with it
“He said nothing; and so he won the whole argument.” I like to imagine those monks sat in silence for about ten minutes and then someone finally got it and the whole room erupted with the most visceral “YOOOOOOOOOO” history ever experienced.
Hey markfromct2 why don't you run this video thru a 1. Talk to text 2. Text to speech 3. Speech to AI Alan Watts algorithm Then you will have perfect audio
@@rudolfboukal1538 ✨💓💫☄💰💰🪙♒ lets go ! lol :D lets not lose our inner child and have fun and help each other realise what is true. It is so liberating when expressed fully , with transparency i feel .. im taking major changes right now in my life. i have a sense of mission. dont know exactly what and where to begin yet, but i know its for the good and understanding of all
@@TerribleShmeltingAccident what would consciousness be without the capacity for memory. Acquire the wisdom without remembering how or whence it came? Doesn’t make sense or seem likely. “I am memory and awareness, but I have no shape or form…”
@@josephr.6081 i believe In order to “hallucinate our own consciousness” our brains would have to be massive & we would have to consume a huge amount of calories every day. Plus that’s way to complicated! I think instead We are set up much more like computers connected to a central server. Memory is a function of consciousness that is framed from our perspective. Consciousness is something that permeates all things.
LoL IT'S all a lie man. Wait till you find out . I was going to sacrifice myself for all you people. Now I wouldn't give you a f****** piece of lint from my pocket unless I saw u in person. People rather see me die than to see me live.
Alan Watts was an alcoholic who died at the Mandala House in Druid Heights, California, at the age of 58 in November 1973. Friends of Watts had been concerned about him for some time over his alcoholism.2 Some sources suggest that he was an alcoholic by habituation, as he had a servant who would give him a pitcher of wine before every lecture.3 Others argue that he had learned Buddhism from books and his view of liberation was facile, not acknowledging the real work that was a part of it. Watts was also a cheater on his wives and one of the early experimenters with psychedelics.0 While some people found him to be a knowledgeable person in Dhamma, others found him to be an alcoholic and died as a result.
dear fellow, just mind your own habits, addictions and isms; Alan's life was by far richer and more effective in transferring basic Taoist and Buddhist wisdom to the west, than the many multitudes of posing Buddhists; Stay True!
Did you get his message? Or you maybe too dumb to understand higher thought 💭 my advice to you is get a drink 🥃 and go and jerk off. You need a release
Imagine being so weak minded that you die because somebody else is an alcoholic. Maybe if you manage to look past the superficial characteristics and and actually listen to what he says, you'll learn something.
