These videos always make me cry. Not out of sadness or happiness, but I think simply because they speak the truth to me. They'd make sense in a way that nothing else does.
old account Or do what you love... We forgot how to enjoy the process since we became conscious of our thought, and maybe that's why it can be somewhat difficult to relearn what we knew when we were like other animals...
Yeah, be happy now, not in a future some day when you have this or that. If you're not happy now you will never be happy because there only is now. The future is just imagination.
+Slave2PaperWithInkOn You've missed the point. The message is not trying to tell you what you should do (be happy and ignore suffering in the world) but rather that you should love WHATEVER you do. "Dance each step of [your] way". Whichever way you walk on.
@Slave2PaperWithInkOn While I appreciate your spirit and your energy, the way you've communicated your message - CAPs and parentheticals and quotation marks, et cetera - unfortunately reminds me of the person shouting their truths on a street corner when there's an orchestral quartet playing to an otherwise attentive crowd. Or the overly-enthusiastic Jehovah's Witnesses who arrive on your doorstep just when you're about to give your baby a bath and just...won't...go...away. Take your pick. : )
Slave2PaperWithInkOn You thinl to mutch about the negative aspects. Not everyone wants to be rich or have a goal since childhood to sell weapons. I bet even the arms dealers had a different dream of doing something else in life. Guess everyone should chase their own passion, even if it is on wall street or a truck driver.
theJourneyofPurposeTJOP , I have always suffered from depression, darkness. I'm dramatic and melancholic but now, ı am trying to change it with your videos. Thank you.
@@thareealgee Hi, it's from the song it's played on the video: Saturn by Sleeping at last. When the video ends, it's the part that follows: "I'd give anything to hear, You say it one more time That the universe was made, Just to be seen by my eyes"
it can correlate to the point of the video, life is about living, that's it, no need to search for a greater meaning that itself. Make the meaning in the living. Doing things with meaning. If it brings true meaning for you, it will probably give meaning to your surroundings as well, and society at large. JUST TO BE SEEN, life is about experiencing, JUST FOR THAT SAME PURPOSE.
@@thareealgee :oo Thank you! I saw it one time in a book about the Shadow, I think, from Carl Jung, and I really liked the meaning "In Classical Greek metanoia meant changing one's mind about someone or something. When personified, Metanoia was depicted as a shadowy goddess, cloaked and sorrowful, who accompanied Kairos, the god of Opportunity, sowing regret and inspiring repentance for the "missed moment". This conventional portrayal continued through the Renaissance. "The elements of repentance, regret, reflection, and transformation are always present in the concept of metanoia to some degree, ..."
Have been a student of Alan's for over 10 years along with other master thinkers. His zen way of seeing the world has helped me grow in many ways. At the point of my life now here in 2020 locked down due to a virus outbreak, and through many months leading up to today, I realized I was missing a true purpose in life which I thought I had. No my purpose was not pursuit of wealth or success or even happiness. To me my inner feelings told me my purpose was to make the most use of the creative power I was given, we were all given as human beings. That purpose served me for many years and it brought me happiness even in adversity but still I felt it was not enough. Now it finally clicked to me about his comparison to music. It's not even about being creative but it's about really savouring every note and every beat of your time in this song we call life. Thank you
- Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it - Salvador Dali I'm sorry M. Dali, but it does exist and it's all the little things you do in life. - La perfection existe dans le cheminement, jamais à destination. - Johnny Cool
That song... "Saturn" and the other one, absolutely perfect. Sleeping at Last will always hold a place in my heart as the most personal and transformative music that i discovered (along with Alan Watts), at the most critical time of my life and helped to initiate my Awakening... wow.
I cry every time. Every. Single. Time. I'm young and ready for things to move along so I can be my own person but older people tell me to stop "wishing my life away". I'm not really, I'm just wishing this PART away, because right now, life is so meaningless.
I was living to retire until I watched this video. Listening to this has since changed my life. I now try to play in the present and experience fun today while I can, instead of worrying about the future.
This video will speak out to your heart and that's why it gets emotional. Your heart knows truth and this is the way it must speak to you. Follow your heart!
weird. He explained to detail about how i feel about the world. I love motorcycles and the thing about driving was always the journey, not the destination. I dont like how society is turning out. These days we use to mutch time on our social media, just like what I am doing right now!
The sad part is that I thought I always knew it, but when the talking part of the video ended and the song kicked in, I skipped through it to see if there's anything after it. There was nothing, I was just supposed to listen to the song.
I love Alan! He has enlightened me so much! His words are a beautiful counter song of spiritual logic against the so called materialistic "logic" of todays world.
TJOP, my second thanks to you.... THANK YOU for the wonderful waves you are creating and setting in motion throughout the world and beyond, through your videos! Immensely thankful and grateful for your creation.
Most people are not ready to check out yet. If you love life there is no problem just dance with it. After all we are not significant, even the planet or galaxies is not.
he makes the same comparison as shopenhauer- of all the art forms, music is distinct in that it is not a representation but a direct copy of the will in itself
TheSliderBy I've listened to every talk he's ever made probably three or four times. "The Joker" is awesome. "Zen and Bones" is amazing too, but get his podcast on iTunes. You can listen for days. "The World As Just So" is like twelve hours. It's life changing.
This experience is an involuntarily action, we're doing it but don't know how we are doing it. Like your heart beats. Why should I have to work my ass off or pay somebody else so that I can be an involuntary action? Simplicity was never supposed to be so difficult.
this oddly cuts out a few words which confuses the meaning when he says "one doesn't make the end of the composition " you leave out "the point of the composition", which is vital to understanding his point.
I don´t really agree with the point, that the analogy of life to a journey should be basically bad or useless, because if you really succeed to define goals and purposes in your life, they can be actually one of the best basics to live in harmony with yourself and the world around you, simply because you can live in peace and with the constant feeling that we are here to accomplish certain goals or create enduring things in art, science or humanity or maybe just to give life to a baby and be a mother or father. I really do believe that such a life would be at least as good and important as the view that life is merely a kind of adventure game or play without any particular destination, meaning or fulfilling substance..if life is really meaningless (to the individual self) then why live (or play) at all? Because then you could commit suicide right away, it wouldn`make any difference at all..why don´t look at us as loving creators than just as aimless entities, who are just trying to enjoy every single moment in a selfish kind of way..
MrEmotional33 he never said life was a the journey was bad or useless, hes saying, like he says in another talk, dont go on living doing things you dont like so you can go on living to do more things you don't like. Life is a suppose to be this thing were you go on and do everything you like, and not to be spent miserably.
Yes, but if you are doing those things to please someone or to be seen being sucessefull or something like that you are just fooling yourself, thats the point of his words. He all have goals, Alan has goals, but you cant forget to be present, to be hear and enjoy the moment. If you are training, will be much more enjoyable if you are present on the moment
Of course life has purpose. My purpose is to feel good and make others feel good. But the first purpose is allways feel good. Same as you. Everyting you do, want to do, every person you want to help or be with is because makes you feel good.
