How We Have Been Fooled - Alan Watts On The Ego 

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I love a break away from the daily lunatic asylum by listening to Alan Watts.

We are perpetually stressed and this stress has been accepted as normal. To be completely relaxed is unacceptable in society, because its misunderstood, it’s feared out of uncertainty.

Brilliant content The ego is the disguise consciousness wears to have the human experience

Don't read this wrong!! this is not to brag but to motivate!! I’m glad I pulled through, despite the crises. I am retiring next yr at 55 with 3 houses paid off worth 4.5 million . One is my place of residence the other 2 properties will give me $80,000per/yr rent . I will have an income stream of $20,000 per yr through my super which gives me total $100,000 a yr to live comfortably . I have no debts ... Stay Motivated!!

Ego: the marriage of an illusion to a futility. Priceless!

Occasionally you kill your ego or “glimpse past it” and it’s an incredible thing to do. It allows you to live in humility and peace

His laugh is infectious. I absolutely adore him and his chuckle.

He's right! As soon as we become aware of our own presence we tighten up! I've done that all my life, he knows it so true.

The ego: adding music to a lecture, somehow believing it needs something beyond the simple truth it contains. Language is an art in its own right, like philosophy, but today everything has to have more, 'be' more. People can't walk down the street with their own thoughts, hearing the sound of their feet and the things around them. Everyone is wearing earbuds, or on their phone, engaged in a reality outside themselves. Words are powerful on their own, but when someone adds music to it thinking they are making it 'better', they are in fact taking something very important away. Listen to Watts and enjoy the silence between the words and phrases. It is important to do this without music.

The ego isn’t bad it’s just been abused it doesn’t know any better it lives off analytics and the data is negative. It just needs to put in harmony with the rest of the brain and not let it take charge. It’s trying to protect you in its twisted way. Once the environment becomes positive the ego will be balanced. But we lived in imbalanced world so our consciousness is out of wake.

When thé ego is no more thé center of thé existence it becomes thé greatest tool for our soul to learn the lessons 🕊

I love Alan Watts and his laugh is so genuine❤️

This man started my spiriual and musical journey. Thank you for freeing my mind. Thank you for showing me that I am not really who I am but from my philosophy you are who you are by what you do out of the realness of the heart. What you do unconsciously and or without thinking. Like for example giving away money or doing good “deeds” is who you are. Your actions speak clearly

Trust in yourself fully, especially in areas you are uncertain. Grant yourself the power nobody else can. Your ego will be easier to control when you surrender your emotions to fate but fully trust in your abilities.

I could live a half dozen lifetimes and still not fully grasp all of the teachings of Mr. Alan Watts. With that being said, with the one lifetime that I have, I am going to grasp as much as I can.

Love it...it keeps Alan Watts alive! Thank you

Man, this is pure poetry. Amazing 🎉

What you think, you create. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you become. You are pure love. Much Love from a Law Of Attraction RU-vidr 💜

Another masterpiece! Thank you

The words are deep and true, confusion becomes clear

Ego is something very friendly when you not realized about it... It becomes your enemy when start noticing it..

Straight to the point. Brutally honest. Unvarnished. Authentic. Mr. Watts remains to this day a teller of Truth.

ive been studying philosophy for about five years and nobody talks about this person and with quote like this "Ego: the marriage of an illusion to a futility. Priceless!" its easy to see why

i absolutely love this thank you!

Being forty, and going through a spiritual awakening, then being thrown into the dark night of the soul, it's been so hard. My ego got hit for a six, and all that is left are questions and emptiness.

The classical mistake... since we are "the only ones there", we assume ownership over things. As a byproduct, we get all the unpleasantness in our lives

Sir, You are making perfect sense ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Thank you, again.

I don't understand this much, but I love to lesson this again and again

You shed some light on my questions.

LOVE your content

The ego is an illusion of their own minds. We know nothing other than what is in our own mind. Its solitary. How can we even think about what is in another's mind or tomorrow.... we cannot

You just do it, I've had times where I was laying down the room would shake or spin and I'd fade into a dream 🤷‍♂️ happened since I was a kid I just never told nobody I thought it was normal

Everybody is just playing their roll, its all an act, some might take it too serious. And then when you try to explain then you are considered mentally troubled or even emotionally too.

thank you Mr Watts. Thank you Life/Universe. 💟 beloved.

I think with the video and the score, and Watts’ attention commanding voice, I could become emotional if he read the weather report.

Ah how i needed to hear some alan watts thank you youtube.

This is my medicine for past and future things to come. Music it's the way you use it. It makes you move and move the movement. Nahko the Bear

AWESOME

The *ego* is a compressed [put in a box and limited] perception of who you *think* you are; again, based on what limited knowledge you have. It is said that consciousness is - in fact - by definition: a state of ignorance! As to Watts's definition of the ego, I differ: - the ego is an unseen physical construct that develops over time. In fact, I would compare it to the growth of a tree or plant: the ego is dependent on two things, *a)* starting from childhood... every act you partake in; every course or path you take - including: prayer, sleep, meditation, studying a subject to specialize in, going to a party, who you have or don't have sex with - this creates a physical root system in time itself. In other words, your actions that are reliant upon the *heart* to *physically* move through existence. *b)* the second dependent factor of the ego is *the brain,* which I would compare to *the branches* and *leaves* of a *tree/plant.* So, first you have the heart [that *DOES* represent *the SOUL* ] , which allows your *image* a.k.a. your *PHYSICAL BODY* to navigate existence - in turn, you create pathways in the brain - referred to as *LEARNING.* These new pathways in the brain, i.e. neurons and their connections, wouldn't exist without first having the heart allowing us to create those pathways. And I would liken these neural pathways as branches and leaves of a tree. Both the heart and the brain combine to create the ego - not the physical heart and brain, since these are merely hardware; like engine parts, that would be useless without the fuel/gas and electrical stimulus; the gas and electrical stimulus are comparable to *breath.* The difficulty with the ego is that it transcends into consciousness itself; and we all know how difficult it is to define consciousness. Like consciousness, the ego is aethereal; and, though the ego is subject to change, it has a permanent signature from moment to moment. I am sure people have no idea what I am talking about(the last sentence, specifically). I would simplify and summate the definition of the ego to this: the ego is primarily the compression and rarefaction of *survival of the self* ; it then *transcends the self, as consciousness* - of which, *we all share.*

Thank you 🙏

We humans evolved from primal self-awareness, to self-consciousness. This change came with existential dilemmas-with questions “why?” Like eyes that once could see without seeing themselves see, our primal sense of self was without question; a matter of spontaneous such-ness. By natural intuitions and unquestioned faith alone, we went with the flow of existence. Voluntary/involuntary action (like breathing) were inseparable opposites, arbitrarily distinct, working together unconsciously-‘doing without doing’- as a unity in polarity. Our human organism, and the environment that grew it, were simultaneously two in one experience. With self-consciousness came the sense of self as separate and alone in a world not of its own making. We went from ‘letting our existence be,’ to questioning and controlling it. Existential angst.

His laughter♥️💕

Needed to hear this

Love it 😊

Great insight…

I can honestly say I left my ego in 2019 and it’s never coming back. I remember the idea of what an ego is and can see it in everyone but mine is gone forever and it’s fantastic.

I believe Alan Watts would just die (again) if he were to see these wonderful graphics melded with his stellar voice. Bravo to the max!

This is a informative video. Just a reminder for everyone that World Ego Awareness Day is coming upon May the 11th.😊

Unreal ✔️

Arrived here this week I guess and loving it.

WOW , Brilliant .

Thanks

I don't know how ego but it separated us and make us feel special

The initial expression "from my philosophy" is a good example of what ego is: the definition of ego as a conventional designation built through relationships - as well as the whole talk - is not "Watts' philosophy" but a Buddhist teaching.

There's no such thing as a bad allan watts lecture

Brilliant. Thank you

I feel like I got a glimpse of this feeling of being detached from my ego when I last took shrooms. I looked at a picture of myself and I realized that this is just the body that I inhabit, I live this girl’s life, this is the person I live inside daily but I felt no attachment to her body. I just felt like me, the real me not attached to this world and I didn’t care how others saw me in that moment, because they only saw my body but I didn’t feel attached to that body, so their perceptions didn’t matter.

The ego is a duality of every human being

My ego only rears it's ugly head when I feel threatened, and it can turn me into an ugly, angry mess ready to fight over a pittance, when I have the world to lose. My most horrible battles have been keeping myself, my ego, in check. 52yrs... and it can still kick my ass some days.

I'M IN AWE❤

Every word is a cry of the incompleteness and incompetence

I'm like uhh just *crys a little* amazing 👏

Ego is not something we have but is something that is if identification with "I thought" exists. If no identication exists then no ego exists. Enlightement is recognizing that you are not "I thought". You do that simply by not thinking in your everyday life until you see it clearly. It happens automatically from not thinking.

I never have know who I am....this is uncomfortable yet liberating

I love listening to this guy as a Catholic

I don't know why the algorithm brought this video to me . But it helps

let's see.. if our ego is our thoughts of who we are.. then letting go of our ego is being present with our whole being, which extends past our bodies and is one with all

8:01 the whole truth 🙏

Ego is living to impress other yous, show off or for fill expectations.

Talking That Reality.

Yes, I am

In other words, one can't live without his ego. It's one of the most precious things which shape our entity. It represents who we are. How can one express his opinions without saying "I believe..." "In my opinion..." "I guess..."? The pronoun "I" embodies our ego. Most people misunderstand the true meaning of this concept which has nothing to do with arrogance

thank you

We are all living a predestined state. We are Spiritual individuals having a human experience. HalleluYah!!! 😇🕊🕊

I know that I want to be able to help people in the best way I can in today's world. So that is natural medicines, eating the right food to support our wellbeing.

Yes

Alan Watts and j Krishnamurthy are two ppl whose talks are so deep.

remember u cant get rid or desire to remove yourself, thats the worst part on spiritual path. the ego cant get rid of the ego. in some way i wish someone told me that, in another way that was a hell of weird deep and psycho experience. so take it wherever u feel 🙂

If the universe had a voice it would sound like Alan

That is Trippin

"The you, you're talking about doesn't exist!"

You are your “heart” not the organ. But the mind of the heart. The saying “the heart wants what it wants,” is your actual self. What you do out of the “kindness” of your heart or what you do without restraint or thought is who you actually are. At least thats my way of thinking

The world made me sick n Allan came along to cure me.i love you Allan

Hi Alan , i seen as a bad Blank, john Wick style😊... one love Genius

Simply our ego is how our soul and who we our define what we see in ourselves. We are souls in a fleshy body to express our lifeness, that’s why I believe we see thing and feel things on another level Like controlling ever muscle and throught in our brain and body.

MERAA...SELF RESPECT...

Alan Watts saves lifes….

Conscious Ego = your personality/character unfettered by past conditioning, charisma, enthusiasm, excitement Unconscious Ego = what you've been hearing about; the false self; unconscious identification with form and ideas

Wowww u gotta listen to the last second woah

The ego may be unique to humans. The problem is that it was formed when we were children.

And now, we are at a time in human history where it is "fun" to create an alter ego personality... Just check it on the medias, such as RU-vid, how much it has become something "great" to enhance oneself, to upgrade oneself through an alter ego... To split oneself further more... We really live in a crazy world.

I love how they all laughed at that first line 😂 like they even think its joke 🥹

The "Ego" isn't something seperate from you, not an extension of you, not even a shadow figure of you. Despite what dear Alan says, the ego, is you and this you, along with this so called egoic personality, is an illusion. There really is no you, or an ego.

The self as reference data

Who is it looking outside from within !... because of the ego we all have different perspectives, if it wasn’t for the ego we’d all have the same perspective, the perspective of heaven on earth.

Develop and maintain a monster ego my fellow males

There is no one to be fooled

This man is right so I play The joker just like you do behind your