Nothingness is the Ultimate Reality - Alan Watts 

I want to be nothing, no sense, no being, no object, no consciousness, just need eternal peace

You have to feel what he's saying. You can't realise it intellectually

Nothingness. The feeling you have when you sleep and when you wake up, Before you have any dream and thought.

I had to listen to this twice because I’m so stoned watching this it’s like literally two universes against each other but in the end it’s all nothingness

Nothingness is the fundamental reality of who I AM. It's pure, infinite and can never be contaminated. Out of nothingness arises the entire visible universe. Thanks Alan. 🏆🍾🌲🌸🐧🥁🎀👍

I listen to this almost every day, and every day it strikes a cord deep within me. It is so beautiful.

Haha in the end we'll just laugh it out and know that we did all this for nothing but we won't care cause it's all so beautiful. Allan watts oh how much I love you

If someone would ask me: "If you could spend a day with 1 person, no matter who, who would you choose?" I would say Alan Watts

Losing faith in humanity on a daily basis, this gives me hope

I experinced this yesterday on 5Meo-Dmt , it was terrifying for my ego (me) but I saw that ultimately we are infinate nothingness ...out of which comes everything , liberating !

I couldn't imagine the horror of being consciously aware in this one relatively small Human mind throughout all of eternity. There is great power in nothing because everything came from it. Just imagine the instant conscious thought ends there it is again in another form all through the power of nothing.

I've been on a journey finding what is the ultimate reality and how its logic works, I read books, meditated, tried hallucinating drugs, watched videos and I was inside of my mind for too long thinking what the fuck is reality? why am I here? and what it's like to die? and after that, I realized I was in a total emptiness I lose interest on everything I don't even have emotion I feel like I'm ready to die after learning the reality perhaps the ultimate reality is emptiness. After I stop learning reality I feel like I'm born again the emptiness I feel was filled little by little I gain interest on things I became happy again and I'm back from the journey and all I found is nothing/void/emptiness but that nothingness gives me a power to decide what to put in it and that's what I've learned from the journey I've been to.

Nothingness, Emptiness, Oneness, Allness and Wholeness are the same. Buddhists call them "Sunyatā".

In the beginning, there was Nothing. And God said, "Let there be light." And there was light. But there was still Nothing.

"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust"

Ive listened to this like 10 times and broke out crying, smiling, and giggling about 3 or 4 times. So beautiful and great and amazing it all is if you can see what this is pointing at. Its literally what you are. Namaste 👍🏻😁👍🏻

Thank you Alan Watts.I feel healed from depression with this way of thinking.Nearly died from depression,from my fake ego,from way of thinking of matters and living.Nothingness make me feel released from worry of living.Nothing matters at all...

"To grasp what it means to exist, one needs to grasp the fact that he might not exist, that he treads at every moment on the sharp edge of possible annihilation and can never escape the fact that death will arrive at some unknown moment in the future." - Rollo May

I experienced the nothingness out of nowhere. It was awesome!

I vanished into Nothingness. Everything is Bliss.

Love listening to Alan. He has such Great Insight into Reality. Thank You so Much Alan.

It is so beautiful im glad i am nothing 😊 😊 😊 i dont have anything. all i do is work&drink water&sleep.life is way too short for anything.i have failed in life but it makes me happy because nothingness is perfect 😊

Thanks for posting this, very well made as always :-) Great lecture on nothingness/emptiness, though I guess it can be hard to grasp if you haven't already been learning about this principle. But Alan Watts can always make you feel it. :-) Mindful greetings, Simple Happy Zen

There's no such thing as nothingness, that might be the whole reason there is such thing as something, because of the fact that you cant experience nothing meaning you'll always be experiencing something

Nothing may seem scary to us But even fear doesn’t exist here And when u realise it, it’s the most enlightened thing our mind can achieve and it makes ur mind calm cause it is experiencing the reality

This is some deep shit right here

This absolutely blows my mind. Amazing

So powerfully freeing! It took my serious health crisis to be pushed to this realization, but I could have never described it like this man. I’ve been trying to explain it to my wife without success, so perhaps this will video help her to understand?

My mind can't seem to grasp this. Maybe in time I will understand.

If you have no one, then no one can hurt you (from a katatonia song), except yourself of course. But you are much more capable of forgiving yourself over time. Seeing beauty is one thing, like a woman or man you are truly mad for at the time, when you pick the flower the beauty becomes yours briefly then fades away (some proverb idk), you shouldn't always seek to personally possess the beauty of the universe, but capture it in other ways, keep the flow of beauty going and the light cuts trough the darkness seemingly propelled forwards by bouncing off of this pale black nothingness. Once you accept the concepts of the abyss and death in general, it stops having that control over you, that fear. I remember being afraid to run in the dark, but I forced myself to go without a light source and run through wooded trails at 2AM with scarcely more than dilapidated moonlight on a good night. Later on it became the most soothing and beautiful experience to me after the initial fright. It was a secluded valley, an escape I could feasibly call my own, and not only in dream. The moon gave depth to everything and the darkness was resolute yet welcoming, it was the dream I wanted to be a part of. Prior to this I would stare at the moon for long periods of time, hoping to break reality somehow, just upset that I was stuck in this place with my mind bewildered with a deep sense of abandonment and grief. Later I tried acid a few times and felt absolutely vanquished like nothing mattered after all, and that I was the only one giving purpose to this unending tirade of nonsense in the first place. This may well be the truth, but if I am the only one giving purpose to this fate called life, why not try a bit harder to accept it and all that it entails... For what is heaven or hell if I remain the same, the mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven...(paradise lost paraphrased) I may be miserable, but there are still ways to escape society's cruel grasp and live within, but as you do so, you become a ghost in the tireless march of ants in a fog of an ever-encroaching materialistic cancer. When I drive by cemeteries, I merely think of how I am not doing anything worthwhile myself, why am I still doing this, and I think of how my friend has been under that same soil for over 9 years, and was just like me, nerdy but with a sense of humor, eager to see out life in a unique way. I've learned to accept that all my hard work is meaningless, and that I simply don't have the tools to just exist any way I choose. Not even dreams are that satisfying anymore, they are bizarre but a mad reflection of life picked up from the electrical impulses of the brain, which sounds alot like a simulated feature... The perception of time is hilariously altered by drugs, the passage of time during a work day seems to be changed by your state of mind on any given day, nothing seems to make sense. Aging seems unreal, the fact that we are loosely strung together with many vital organs all working in unison...evolved from, and still acting like simple animals... but why do I feel apart from this? Is it pure luxury to be lost in thought, is it illness to be torn apart at the seams in a comfortable part of the world? Fuck if I know, but being in a coma sounds good as long as you never wake up. The idea of losing consciousness isn't that bad of a concept, it's losing identify and all progress, desires and woes, fighting through the storm to become who you are, pushing away so many possibilities and alternate realities just to have options... for nothing, while time still flies by regardless? What a tragedy. If you reverse the statement "without death, life would have no meaning" You get "without life, death would have no meaning" which makes no sense at first. But if you think of everything as a pure form of death (a word we stick to nothingness) you see that, without our observation in flesh of what is around us, the grand mechanism of life and space around us has no meaning indeed, so fuck it, let's experience this life and give the great death some meaning after all, even if it is all inside our heads. Maybe we were a pure form of consciousness in a vast empty space, and we invented a life for ourself temporarily to become part of, as a child we were clumsy still figuring it all out and we allowed ourselves to full commit to this experience, we had long forgotten the god being we were before, but society as a whole tried to paint the picture in many different ways, all very similar but with different oral stories passed down region to region. We have become too involved in this body and not enough with the state of mind that once had power of all, but without this body, we could not fully appreciate it. I'm just letting stream of consciousness kick in, see where it got me. Not very far, forsooth... Oh well

We live in an illusion

Thanks too much great wisdom to absorb at one sitting

Its as simple as if all sound has silence that precedes it and there must be silence for there to be sound, then the same goes for existence. Somethingness is the expression of nothingness. Sounds are held within silence, they come from it, they are of it. Even looking at space there is clearly so much nothing holding such little something

"As the walls of reality that we create for ourselves crumble and fall away there it is only one truth, and it is nothing". - Said by no one. (Finally peace for an unquiet mind. Love it).

Yay this was one of my favorites thank you!!!!!!!!

Wow, just wow so remarkable

It's more than just a knowing it's more of a feeling Xx

I love Relativism and Idealism, there is so much power in those philosophies

Some of these comments lol.ur missing the point completely. Basically in a nut shell: u cant die. Someone else will have the feeling of "I" as u do now. Its the same as u now its always now its always i am now. Dont worry about it if u cant understand keep listening to alan watts and make sure u actually listen. Listen more than once when u get it u will never be worried again about anything i promise (Well until u die and forgot everything and then u'll be scared of dying again coz u wont remember how u sussed it out last time haha its crazy)

How do you feel if all will come to nothing? I feel relief!

SO MANY FEELS

Thanks TJOP.

That which is, that is nothing in particular (actual), is by definition everything in general (potential). Being aware of nothing is still being aware - of being aware.

He's absolutely correct 👏 🙏 Bless Alan Watts 🙏

I love this so much! Deeper than atoms and quantum's is nothing and the crazy thing is nothingness creates everything. They say "Nothing Matters" but it's more that nothing is all that matters. A constant relationship between nothing and matter, constantly creating connected as one.

It was Watts who said, “Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”

Thank you!

MahaSamadi .... The Absolute.... Being as Unconditional Love in the infinite realm of Peace. No things manifest yet Christ Consciousness mirrored back through manifestation as creating/being and knowing peace and unconditional love in life. If one ‘experiences’ this , the only ‘thing’ afraid is the ego and will be stripped down in the enlightenment of Knowing thy real Self (and all others as that).

Thank you very much for such great content .

“Life is the lie told to humanity to keep the beautiful truth of death a secret.Life is the distraction” Albert U.V

And finally someone talk reality

NOTHING IS THE REAL REALITY

God bless

Nothingness is where everything came from, you, me and everything. And that's why Nothing can be gone forever there will always be something in which is that special Nothing.

I think...accepting that the understanding of all of whatever "this is (reality or whatever it is you call it) is far beyond our capacity, which makes me realize we never can, we don't have that capacity to "understand it". Which is fine, because then we just start to appreciate what is here. Plus even if we do or don't understand it, does it matter? It's going to continue like it always has

I did meditation one time and it was amazing, I feel like everything was spinning around me and I felt so relaxed, like I was one with everything else…we are definitely not what we think we are

Great video!

thank you

"Those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil." -Alan Watts

I’ll be honest, the song “Something” by azedia introduced me to Alan Watts as it uses this excerpt as part of the lyrics. There’s no one who sings it, rather it’s straight up Alan himself speaking these lines within the song. Anytime I’m depressed or down or feel like… ending it all so to speak, I listen to that song and now look up Alan Watts regularly.

Brilliant video ! i wish i had the chance to me the man himself, very inspiring

"'in CTMU cosmogony, "nothingness" is informationally defined as zero constraint or pure freedom...and the apparent construction of the universe is explained as a self--restriction of this potential." C.M.Langan, CTMU. Science has provided the proper means to describe reality, we're just waiting for the old guard to die off at this point.

Everything doesn't matter because it's nothing

The void is Gods consciousness and we are God dreaming in 3d living stories, where we don't know how it all tends!!! Wow that makes sense......... That's why life so crazy!!!!

I constantly fantasise the state of nothingness can’t wait to be free from this horrible existence

The fact that everything disappears is also pretty sad though eternity would be worse

beautiful video, great job

I'm looking at the philosophical implications of the ultimate reality being nothing... meaning in its self is meant 😉👍🏽

It's like let's say in after 150 years from now all the people living in this world right now say 7 billion of them won't exist , all shall be dead their happiness , sorrow , achievement, failures, emotions, passion, love , money, anger, ego , healthy , sickness, fight , all would turn into dust and add few more years nobody wouldn't even know we existed at all ....... that's called NOTHINGNESS

If you are something you could only be one certain thing with one certain form and therefore youd be limited to those things, but if you believe your existence is limitless, that it is without boundaries then realize that it would have to be nothing to fit that description. Something could only be somewhere, only nothingness could be everywhere and everything at once

Amen

I'm nothing and its a good place to be

we actually don't exist. if something came from nothing then the thing "came" is nothing. also if we are everything then it includes nothing in it. we are not even sure that past is past that actually happened or just inside our head.

This is what shiva teaches parvati after nonduality meditation... Universal love

All we are is dust in the wind.

Well if you want to be nothing go with it energy doesn’t die and neither do we

I really dont find a need in making something of your life. im happy with the average life. and upon death, if I look back and wish I did more well fuck it i'll be dead in a minute so I won't have to worry about it...

If you compare Divine Everythingness with Divine Everythingness, you come to a differential of nothing, but to compare Divine Everythingness with nothingness, you get a potential for Divine Everythingness to be expressed and experienced.

Azedia - Something

Death cannot be escaped, thus life doesn't have permanent meaning.

if you create something out of nothing then nothing is something and nothing was never nothing at all....so it is the same with us...we exist so we can never be nothing. We are in fact something...how we live our lfe determines whether we are something wonderful or nothing at all

Believe it or not " more believe for

It sounds authentic, risk is the precursor of faith, functioning in the negation of oneself in a physical visceral sense, a 7 year old articulated it in a poem with the line "sand castle virtues" it encompasses in 3 words the premise of existentialist philosophy. Idk ?????? Anyone???

I suppose I could have been something but I would have learnt nothing x

We always think that we need 'something' to create something . What if 'nothing' is the origin of everything . Like , you need 'the right ammount of nothingness to spark a chain reaction to kickstart a big bang .

In this Mystical State of nothingness, you become self aware of everything. I don’t think everyone can truly enter this state. It’s a tough and harsh road. It’s also, hard for some to enter because it’s a total self surrender to everything to become Nothing. Many become attached to things in the Physical realm. Thats where our suffering comes but it doesn’t mean you can’t learn to live in the physical realm with proper balance. Crazy how amazing the Light can be - but it’s just that we won’t ever truly understand it. It will drain us. Don’t dwell too much in this nothingness state. Go and Live your Life. Experience and enjoy every moment :) Do good to others from the heart and remember we are here to learn and grow and understand the best we can :)

A universe from nothing- Lawrence Krause

I really like these videos you're making but if I could make one suggestion for when you're editing them. Try and find a section of clean background audio that's just the sound of the room ambience from Alan Watts' lecture. This is so between his soundbites the audio doesn't abruptly cut off and instead will sound like a more consistent flow of speech. It's just something I find that tiny bit distracting when listening to these videos.

When I talk to people ,they say what you say, I say nothing...

Watts is not someone to listen to if you're seeking comfort. Wisdom maybe, but not comfort.

True purpose realizing your nothing(No perception)

Ok. I get it. Void cause when it comes into the Darkness it is laid claim to beings that exist in the dark. From the Eternal Light. I know so much about everything. Wow. I would make a great Professor. 1 hour lectures couldn’t be enough.

There is a thing called "Legacy"

Strfkr - Golden Lights 1:30

Wonderful video.. I love the idea that we created all of this out of thin air, which is actually true because you cannot deny half the stuff in your room wasn't found here on earth somebody had to have a thought come to them and then bring that thought to reality. In fact, the best thing about this video is that it has finally proved that we are all Gods.. We own this world and no one man shall have all that power.

On the contrary, I would argue that everything-ness is the ultimate reality. There is no such thing as "no thing"

I do find comfort in this. I believe in heaven, possibly hell, and God, ect. But even so i feared death, i thought "what if im wrong, what if when i die its just nothing, a void." But why should that be feared, i dont know what nothing feels like for im aware im here and have no reference. So if when i die, it feels like before i was ever born why does it matter. Itll be nothing and i wont even be aware of it. But it makes living life the fullest all the more important because in the end all we have are memories and that how we live on. In the memories of others, so why not make them good.

I believe there is one sure way to not becoming trapped in this depressive state of that you're nothing and that's what you'll ever be, and that is simply being remembered before you die over the course of history. No one can ever forget about Alexander The Great, Confucius, or Michael Jordan etc. because they still live on in people's heart and create emotions to people therefore they mean something to someone thus they're out of the void.

FOR ME AT THE ESSENCE OF ANYTHING IS INTELLIGENT-ENERGY-CONSCIOUSNESS BUT NOT NOTHING...

Well clearly there’s a link between nothingness and a state of being. That fully explains the ability “to come” from nothingness. After all, nothing can continue being nothing forever without any state of being coming to be. It’s silly to think something coming from nothing is a norm. It’s like thinking a cabin can come from a forest without a builder just because you didn’t see it being built. “Of course a cabin can come from the forest spontaneously- where else could it come from?”