Life is NOT Complicated - Alan Watts
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- Speech extract from "Do You Do It or Does It Do You?: How to Let the Universe Meditate You" by Alan Watts, courtesy of alanwatts.org
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 - 16 November 1973) was a well-known British philosopher, writer and speaker, best known for his interpretation of Eastern philosophy for Western audiences. He left behind more than 25 books and an audio library of nearly 400 talks, which are still in great demand.
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We build much of our life on assumptions. Alan Watts has a beautiful way of dismantling those assumptions, letting us down gently and then painting a new vision on a new foundation. Although Alan Watts passed away nearly 50 years ago, his words continue to make sense in a time where common sense is lacking. I am currently working with Alan Watts' son on a graphic novel to illustrate the wisdom of Alan Watts. If there are specific Alan Watts speeches you love and would like to see in the book, please send them my way (Email info@afterskool.net). And if you want to help support this venture, please consider supporting After Skool on Patreon. Thank you. www.patreon.com/AfterSkool
Kind of like King Solomon, after chasing after everything he comes to the conclusion that most of what we race around for is vanity, a striving after the wind and that happiness and contentment can be found in simplicity.
CZcams unsubbed me from the channel .... im back 😃
Success for Alan is his legacy of recordings. His failure is his limited years on the planet. Our endownment: his love.
Keep up the great work
is patreon the only way we can support? thank you for all of your hard work
Your Watts video "The Illusion of Time, Money and Ego" jump started my journey and changed my life forever. I'm so happy you keep returning to the Watts well, the man's already a genius and yet your art takes his words and provides a whole new context that imaginations can really grab on to...and it takes his elevated concepts and makes them so much easier to understand. I am in grateful awe.
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Same video spoke to me as well, cool to see I’m not the only one
@@ColemanGlascock I show that video to anyone who will listen. How cool we share a similar connection to that video and speech!
Next in line for listening would be Terence McKenna. simply put, it takes Watts’ words to a whole new level
Alan Watts changed my life too! 🧘🏻😇
I’m a simple woman, I see After Skool and Alan Watts, I click.😆
I believe the purpose of life is to find the thing(s) that you enjoy doing so much that you forget time exists. When we are in this flow, we are serving spirit and that’s the most beautiful and meaningful state we can achieve. That feeling of being so united with the experience that you become it and disappear. It can’t be explained, only felt.
There's nothing simple about a lady.
@@dontcomment6012 HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
Flow state is nice and purposeful, but one has to exist in the grinding times as well. There has to be balance, otherwise your expression will have no meaning.
@Dont Comment bruh your username doesn't check out. But a simple woman made you comment. Understandable.💀😜
@@mst5g826 I agree, balance is always optimal. Whatever that may look like for you
It puts you into a state where nothing matters in a good way. You truly don't give a shit about anything and you're just happy as fuck as a result, because nothing matters. Nothing matters, nothing means anything, there's nothing to do, there's no point, there's no goal but there's also no boredom, there's no negative meanings attached to the meaninglessness, it's just perfectly meaningless and it's awesome. You're basically just like sitting like a cat on a windowsill enjoying whatever experience is before it, just being and it feels amazing.
Perfectly said my friend
You've just described nihilism. Not good at all.
@@Beastmaster1221 Cum to Sweden and smoke DMT
@@Beastmaster1221 Who are you to label OP's experience as "not good"? He literally said it's awesome and amazing. And here you go categorizing and assigning things as bad.
Alan Wats is like the sober and eloquent version of the really high friend who just figured out the key to the universe.
Probably not sober.
@@pappajnm Far from sober.
He’s the drunken master
Hahahahaha Alan Watts IS that high friend. He's open about the fact he trips. Psychedelics
And just like that really high friend, they're talking out of their ass and didn't figure out the key to the universe.
I was depressed then I found Alan Watts, now I am enlightened, in love with life and you as well. Whoever you are, I love you ❤️
🧡God bless you💜
Ditto ❤ found Alan watts during depression and now have forever changed. I seek his guidance and insight to remind myself how to pull through hard times when I feel like I don't have the strength to do it on my own. Love you too stranger, Lev.
Well done Lev. Hats off 👏 ✌
hey same to u, my coffee is great
We💙you too.
To the *incredible person* that's seeing this, I wish you all the best in life❤ don't over blame yourself, accept things and go forward. Don't let others define what “success” is for you. Get up, learn the skills needed and get after it, all the keys to a happy life is in your hands. Keep pushing.
Thank you. Very inspirational. Cheers.
Thank you sir! Great advice.
Thank you!
Thank you and same to you 🙏🏻❤️💫
Namaste to you my fellow human being. May you live long and prosper.
At the beginning of the Scamdemic lockdowns I would listen to Alan Watts late at night accompanied by some ambient music in the background, it was one of the few things that would calm my nerves..
Covaids- haven’t we been here before?
When I simply observe, that’s when I truly feel free. We have mental models to explain every single thing and we get caught up with words and symbols. What I used to call enlightenment was only a realization of what I am. Experience the totality of being my friends 🙏🏼
Thank you for the upload 👏🏼
Beautifully said.
That’s way too complicated
We think with symbols, then we put words to the symbols. Metaphors and analogies (Symbols explained with words) also play a huge part in our understanding and this is deeply intertwined with our thought process
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated" - Confucius
"I farted" - Confucius
When I was 19, meditations revealed a great truth. I saw with my own eyes how we are all connected. Then later on I saw How the more we try to quantify existence the more shortsighted we become.
As children we get it. The world is colorful and one thing not parts. Then our societal enforcements systematically indoctrinate us into objectivism instead of subjectivism. Those people, that cloud, that land.
Such sensibilities ain’t spiritually sustainable. It creates walls where there are none. It cheapens life to a heartbreaking degree
Absolutely. The more effort and resources we spend trying to "explore" the universe, the more disconnected we become from ourselves. We need to explore and master the "inside" before we explore beyond the Earth.
I am recently into this concept that we r one. Many masters seem to agree on this, but how can I experience this? Just meditation???
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You start by shedding yourself of all pettiness and immaturity. No more beef (with anyone). No more triggers. No more harboring resentment. Letting go is much easier than holding on. And remember, this is not for others to behold. It’s for you and your inner peace. Meditation will bring it all together. The universe will reveal great spiritual truths once it sees you are ready to understand. Godspeed
@@AustinKoleCarlisle what about exploring things like research into how to manage illnesses and disabilities to give those with who have them a far better quality of life? Surely exploration of things like that is good to do?
@@jessanderson4419 there is no point in extending life if we remain unaware of it's purpose, and the purpose is within us, not simply living a long life because we're human and humans deserve to live long because we figured out how to use tools and animals didn't.
When I was a child I had an epiphany of sorts. I was accustomed to seeing a clock in our kitchen, but one day I really "saw" it. I was aware of its presence on the wall, the flowers drawn on it, the shape of it. Before I could only see "a clock." I recognized it for its "meaning" its purpose, rather than actually seeing it. In this way we often see the world through a lens of interpreting things according to categories or stereotypes.
The same thing when I'm on the toilet and notice the little flower prints on the toilet paper
And the most important lesson that I have learned from all this: Smartphone bad! Nature Good!
Out of coincidence I was able to break through on a psychedelic experience and visually experience what he talks about here. We are all one, words can not go into how connected the universe is. The cycle of life and death and the kiss of forgetfulness that we get when we are able to let go of our ego, and be reborn again.
same here
Psychedelics are an incredible tool for empathy and understanding, of the world and for ourselves
A description is one step removed from reality. A mental barrier between consciousness and experience. ❤️ ✌🏼
The seer and the things seen
The secret that can’t be told :)
👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖✌
@@ikaros4203 dont fucking talk about fight club bruh
so now description is a mental barrier rather than complementing experience?
Alan Watts, wherever you are, thank you for being.
Thank you brother! 💛✨🙏
👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖✌
the illustrator is amazing!!!!
Years ago Alan Watts saved me from myself! Bravo!
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3am in Atlanta…Alan Watts and chill type of night
I discovered Alan Watts thanks to your channel and it has been such a journey so far... Thank you!
If you're into games, get a game called "Everything". That is what got me into Alan Watts. Check it out..
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Me too. Thank you!
There is something about his voice that makes me want to listen. Love the Alan Watts videos 💛
🤣🤣me too
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Its that 480p audio
Same!
His voice is so relaxing
Although wonderfully calming and mellifluous, I’d wager it’s not his voice you love so much, rather the words he is saying. People are drawn to the things he is talking about because these things have a tendency to resonate with us all. And the reason they resonate with us all is because they’re speaking to an ultimate truth that we all know. Deep, deep down, far, far in our very selves. The ultimate and undeniable truth. The thing WE ALL long for and seek, via different means. Love, joy and peace. An end to any and all suffering.
Life is as simple as you make it out to be. BE EASY ON YOURSELF 🌱🌞
Im exactly at this point and I literally find joy in everything.
Watts is the 🐐. He definitely got it and was way before his time.
Yes, he was a prophet .. in his own way.
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Dumbest speech I’ve ever heard. “Life isn’t complicated, it’s just hard to put it into words”
Tell that to a doctor and he’ll laugh in your face. Life is complex because God is smart and we are dumb, simple concept.
@@buddy_132 I think you’re missing the point. He’s saying there’s no reason in wasting energy trying to fight life or think you’re going to understand it based solely on the human experience. It just is what it is and you will never be able to grab ahold of it.
confucious, lao tzu, etc...
Alan watts has that special ability to teach profound mystical lessons so eloquently :)
I think he is also saying that enlightenment is not something you have to search and strive for. It's always there, our natural state, but we get distracted by the mind and our internal dialogue.
What Alan Watts says here reminds me of an episode from the cartoon series Dexter's Laboratory: Way of the Dee Dee. In this episode Dee Dee teaches Dexter to see the world with his own eyes and not using scientific instruments. He shouldn't over analyze every little thing, it's not healthy. The answer was right there in front of me. I just didn't see it when I was little.
Just finished a book of his The way of Zen....this guy is amazing to listen and read his work.
I love listening to Alan Watts! Wish he was still alive giving his lectures. I can listen to him all day . He was a very intelligent man who knew what life & the world was all about & puts other professors to shame. 💯❤️
I listen to him at night... he helps me to sleep.. He was so 'Human' .. not always PC.. but 50 years ago, the world was a different place. He died when I was 17 years old, and wasn't in my life then. But now.. now is the right time to be in my life,.. I'm so grateful for his presence now...and to all the people that have recorded an released his lectures. Blessings to Everyone.
@@laurakeyse9944 were you related to Alan watts?
@@evyvon69 I wish.. but maybe in spirit.. I have a few favorite philosophers.. I call them my 'Boyfriends '.. they have all left this world.. but their stories resonate with me...
👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖✌
@@laurakeyse9944 my girlfriend calls me Alan Watts sometimes, I am like him, I think like him
Dear Alan was so ahead of his time and what a gift he was and still is. Thanks for giving his words a stage 🙏🏼
What fantastic timing. Thank you
I always love a good Alan watts talk
The occasions that I've watched these videos, I am always in a sense of awe in the deliverance. My kinda skool...thanks for sharing part of this lecture, in this way! ✌️💚
I love After Skool and I love Alan Watts, every video containing both is an instant favorite
I’ve been listening to Mr Watts for two years now and there’s always new content to be found. It’s fantastic!
Such a beautiful tribute to one of Alan Watts' great lectures
I just simply love the visuals of these videos, they impress me every time. Thank you for the great content!
The title is correct. Life is not complicated, people make it complicated for themselves and others.
Incredible as always, family. Thank you. All my love.
This was nice to start my afternoon with. Thank you.
Alan Watts' lectures are always so comforting =)
Exquisite how you put together Alan Watts' profound words with your unique and, tender imaging.
Very grateful.
Im so glad I found this channel. Alan Watts' voice is as soothing as his messages. Keep it up 👍👍
Thank you for this, After Skool! Your "Life is NOT a journey" video was my first Alan Watts lecture (4 years ago) and it changed my life. This one was also beautiful to watch.
The illustration’s have levelled up BIG TIME 👏
Your art brings so much life to these videos. Thank you.
I so much love your visualisations to Watt's speeches. It's wonderful that keep the wisdom of this extraordinary man accessible. Thank you!
Alan Watts is for sure a life well lived. I must have had a ball when I was him!
Great videos! This is so much needed in our society… there’s so much anger driven by high levels of ignorance.
Thank you again for yet another wonderful video.
You channel has introduced me to so many great minds that I can truthfully say you have positively impacted my life. Thank you so much After Skool!!
I agree with his view point and disagree. I agree with the point that we shouldn't forget how fragile life is and that our time in this form is short. However, we have to be able to dissect stuff analytically while being able to think critically. Lots of people have lost their abilities to think critically and just do at their told, opting to not use their scalpals and just be too simple. At the end of the day we all have to be able to question why things are the way they are dissecting analytically is apart of what keeps us free. We just need to find the happy medium I think
everything has a duality, also depends on lifestyle i guess, youre right about finding a happy medium; everything should be balanced. but for example when youre walking through nature, i find it so much more calming and real to just let things be, not naming everything. puting labels and judgements on anything ties a string to the thing, and then youre left with an association that your mind made, and i found out that i cant trust my mind, because its basically just made up of things that i experienced in this life, so by not puting any labels or judgements on anything youre able to experience actual truth! but ofcourse this doesnt apply in every situation, i just try to do it as much as possible. but these are also just words haha! peace and love from me to who ever is reading this
Study Rudolph Steiner
You would love his teachings. Dissects everything into spirituality. Steiner and Alan are great teachers but are almost like polar opposite but once you combined their knowledge it will open a whole new world. Also Yogananda is one of the greatest gurus of our time give him a search as well. Truth is wisdom and wisdom is God
👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖✌
I somewhat agree, with a caveat. We should not throw away our scalpels and just live an unreflective or unquestioning life. We should, however, be mindful of getting ourselves into the trap of allowing our analytical nature to create unsolvable problems, and then (most importantly) turning on the pressure to demand that we MUST solve them.
As a student of philosophy, I know full well that I will never reach the day when I put down my books, throw my hands in the air and say "Aha! I now understand all of this perfectly and can put all that I know into words that other people will understand!" Instead of focusing on reaching that impossible destination, I instead choose to continue learning out of the love of wisdom and a desire to understand things as best as I am able.
I think it is kinda lacking of some kind of reflection that a person explains that explanations are control and we shouldn't do that. I guess that kind of person doesn't enjoy explanations about things, but enjoys explanations about humans. That's fine, everyone is different, but to state that explanations and analysations about things are control or necessarily a bad thing is not really fine for me.
Myself, I greatly enjoy thinking about why the sunset is red, and how the colors come to be. I understand how that works, and I enjoy thinking about it. Doing that doesn't take away from the beauty of the sunset. In fact, it makes it even more magic for me. Not less. It's not a problem at all, as it doesn't impair my enjoyment of being in the moment. Thinking about these things IS being in the moment. It's a natural part of it for me. Not something that is "foreign" to it.
Everyone is different. Some people enjoy thinking about physics. Some do not. That's fine. Nobody needs to do anything. But to think that doing what you personally don't enjoy is somehow problematic or wrong is in a way some sort of "othering", and I guess I didn't expect such a thing from Alan Watts. Maybe he didn't meant it that way and the visuals of this video are expressing something that he didn't intend to say. I don't know.
I always like when you do Alan Watts videos.
What more could you want ALAN - fantastic illustrations that help you see hear and understand 🙏💪
Its amazing that a community of open minded thinkers and artists, whove created a series of videos full of interesting perceptions and facts, can share this stuff with everybody around the globe. It's truly a show for those who love learning something new and practicing mental and spiritual flexibility :) Blessed be
yes more Alan Watts videos! 🕊
To the first channel that I heard Alan Watts lectures - Afterskool, you guys are amazing. Watts has really been an influential figure in my life, so are you too guys ❤️
Alan Watts, the best way to expand your thinking and living.
I could sit and listen Alan Watts for days. His perspective is absolutely genuine 👍👍😎🤟🤟♒️
This man never ceases to amaze me. Legit live life in a much simpler way by listening to Alan watts.
The purpose of life is to just live ✨ Thank you for another great video , Alan Watts has become my go-to. I hope this message reaches as many people who need it 🙏
This has just been the video that I've enjoyed watching the most for ages!
Alan watts is the man. He offers you a perspective that is proably the truest of all.
The world itself is one single piece. But seemingly we're unable to draw any picture about the world, without cutting things into pieces our mind can cope with. The realisation of the world is rather a realisation of the observers limits. I really liked the video! Great work - thanks a lot!
Excellent message!
I needed this. I've been in such a cycle and the deja vu is intense.
Really makes my day seeing one of these episodes came out
Watts is the best of all philosophers, the master of Zen and synthesizer of Eastern and Western ideas! The more people learn from his speeches the happier and harmonious they’ll be as part of this magical universe, enjoying the musical that life is now!
I needed to hear this. thank you.
I've loved Watts for a while now, but you videos really help the information sink in. Proper cool illustrations.
Incredible videos, every single time. Great job! Feel myself and my mind expanding every time, and all I have to do is listen, watch, observe, and let go
This channel deserves so much more credit. You guys are brilliant.
Alan woke me up. I wish I discovered him sooner. He's a gem
Read autobiography of a yogi by paramhansa yogananda
I find now I can look up Watts at any time and it can be any video, the first that comes up, and it seems to be exactly what I needed to hear
Seraphim Rose
The Soul After Death
Thank you. Just what I needed to hear today (and every day!)
One of the best yet!!!!!!
Ever since I was very young I vaguely remember wondering about what triggered my existence.. why I was living here on this rock and had responsibilities such as going to school and doing my chores... why I felt like I was so different from everyone else... After listening to Alan Watts I felt like someone understood my confusion and I wasn't alone. I hope you all find your purposes in life and we can all get through this together ❤️
Alan Watts: The Voice of Sanity.
Best page ever
Alan Watt enlightened person thank you after skool💚
Just found this page and also recently learned about Alan watts. Currently dealing with depression and mental health, this gives me hope that I can get over my current state and just reading the comments makes me feel like I’m in the right place. Thank you for creating digestible content to accompany the good words of Alan Watts. 🙏🏾
I’ve been where you are and I promise you that if you continue to try and improve your situation, it will 100% get better. I was insanely depressed and felt like it would never go away. Got to the point where I was wanting to end it all. Never did tho, and now I’m happier than I’ve ever been. Just keep pushing! I don’t know you but the fact you’re watching this channel gives me a lot of faith that you’ll overcome this mental fog.
The conclusion that life is about life itself and being alive, was also reached by Leo Tolstoy. I tend to agree with these great thinkers.
To truly appreciate life and what it has to offer, one needs to get out of the confines of the city. Buy a house on the outside somewhere in nature, have a family, a garden, join a small community, and just enjoy the feeling of being alive. Cities have become too big and unnatural to be able to represent what life is about. You can't even see the stars! Humans weren't built to be able to live in cities.
But if u don't like the feeling of beeing alive? I never asked to be here.
@@mitch5222 same. ..Too much agony and chaos
@@WonderlustThing stop focusing on it, you were unaware of it as a child and you were weightless mentally and experientially, the phones have opened us up to the possibility of thinking we, by observing far away suffering can somehow solve it by internalizing it, you can't. start with you and work out from there. The people who broadcast the pains and sufferings in the world siphon off your energy by your engagement alone. I've fallen for it too but stop engaging and reclaim your portion of energy.
I fully disagree with the city Statement
I feel way more alive visiting a huge vibrating city. All the people inside, their emotions, the possibilitys to eat, drink, Listen and watch increadible stuff is way beyond other places.
The real answer simply is, cities are damn expensive so most people with a normal job tend to get stuck in suffering - hardly even going out and live. They suffer because they eager the life of the rich, not willing to accept they are to poor to live confienient in such an expensive city
So my Advise would be: live as near a big City as you can afford to, without dramatically shorten your financial abilities to spend your free time
@@mitch5222 you think you know the answer
I came across this video EXACTLY when I needed to hear it. Manifestation is a funny thing to observe as it's starting to unfold. Words and analysis will never capture that distinct feeling of alignment!
After Skool is one of my best finds on youtube . Thank you for all your teams hard work! You are making a difference, at least for me!
When you break something down to its parts, like the flower, you no longer have the flower.
Yes,... and if you break a human down to their parts ( like doctors do) you no longer have the 'Human.'
So long story short somethings are just left better unsaid
The animations do a great job of tying Watts' timeless wisdom into modern life. Amazing work.
I'm infinitely thankful to be able to educate myself thanks to this channel while I'm still young
If I could take psychedelics with anyone, it would be Alan Watts, hands down!
Love it love it love it! Such an important reminder 🙏🏼
Love me ❤️
Thank you for making these Alan Watts videos. Please make more of them.
when i ever i find myself at my lowest you drop another banger
Being healthy is wealthy
As Confucius used to say: Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated...
he is describing the eyes of an artist... balance is the key...
Thanks !
Stay alive and do more videos , all good !
Man I love Alan! So basically what he is saying is, we should look at the world and universe the same way a baby would be looking at it. Just look, observe, be in the present moment, now. ( I threw a little Eckhart in there as well. 😉
Yes it is.
I cried listening to this!
This intense complexity that we see in everything is created by our attempt to analyze it all- that hit