The British Zen Master: A Guide To Alan Watts

[icecofffeee]

I love his quote "You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago."

[felipeb]

I really like the inclusion of internet culture and animation to present philosophy in an entertaining manner. Keep up the good work, you have earned my subscription.

[caesare.j.w.]

Watts saved my life. Say what you want, but his ideas helped me find reasons to live.

[AvgDietCokeEnjoyer]

You are the universe experiencing itself.
Thank you mr. watts

[javierfito]

That "maybe" Thing is so real. My GF broke up whit me at the start of the year. We were planning going on vacation but since we broke up the vacation was canceled. I used that time to look for a better job. I landed a great job that i wouldn´t have gotten if i sat down coftable organising vacation and going to the beach. Now my country is in hardlockdown and its really hard to find job. if she didn´t broke up whit me in that moment she would´ve broke up eventually but thanks god it was at the exact momento i heard about that new job oportinity. i was extremly motivated to get that job and i did everything right.

In the moment i was sad for the break up. But now in retrospective i think it was a good thing

[mitchellporductin]

I disliked Watts ever since I found him, but I think you did a great job showing what he was all about.
Didn't label his ideas as universal truths, didn't completely disregard his ideas as nihilistic and dumb.
Really unbiased and truthful.

[MAD]

Wait wait wait. Did you just say Muscular Christianity? Reps for Jesus?

[benvel]

Muscular Christianity sounds like a religion for Über-Chads

[ryanatkinson]

I've always taken more of an interest in Watts over other philosophers. Some people might think he talks about nothing, but he's the only one who really makes sense to me. It kinda feels like everyone is just grasping at increasingly complex ways of justifying our reality, but Watts cuts straight through that and shows how vast and meaningless the universe is. It's kinda comforting to me to know that the matter making me up started out floating through space in a very sparse cloud, became "me", and in several billion years it'll just be floating through space again. Quantum mechanics suggests that determinism isn't possible. There's no way to know what happens next, except to experience the reality right now. It's all that matters. But I don't do a very good job of living in the moment soooo

[smaimth]

"A man who does nothing but think has nothing to think about except thoughts" -Alan Watts

[Mad_S]

"Boioioioioioioinnggg" -Alan Watts, every time I turn the volume up.

[dillonjohnlane]

Fantastic. Even though I've watched several of his lectures I still learned a great deal from this video. Great sense of pacing, doesn't dwell on one aspect too long or lose its rhythm, really, well-done.

[StarCornet]

It's just a gooey prickly universe

[kinfilmdiaries]

I had no idea that Alan Watts knew Carl Jung personally?? Amazing. Now I know that all his references to Carl in his latter work were from first hand experiences with Jung. 😄

[dinorancher]

Thanks for making this. Watts was one of my favorite. When I am feeling down, I find his lectures and listen. I also discovered that WattsWave is a genre of music.

[ShadowcZ-pugl]

You blew my fucking mind with that Allen watts quote “ there is no past, just the present memory of the past “

[ertsasius]

He might have been an alcoholic, a bad husband, and a bad father. But you could consider how much worse of a human he could have been without his beliefs. Or that in order to enlighten others you might need to do sacrifices yourself. I see a broken man trying to figure life out and fighting his demons in a battle of the mind.
Nobody is perfect, some worse than others, but to me it’s the effort that counts. In his suffering he fought to find meaning and purpose to leave a legacy behind that others could use to grow past his mistakes. For that we should be thankful.

[stevesayewich]

Enjoyed your presentation on Alan Watts. I remember his talking about the, "Natural Accident."
He was a great source of Eastern Philosophy.

[Dragonthreek]

I totally love Alan. I feel like he would say, what is there to love me, then he would laugh the way he does and begin to explain to what he meant.

[Ludifant]

Nobody likes to be very present with all those memories of past abuse and all those fears for the future and judgement of yourself.. Gives you the shakes..
The now offers constant grief to us, poor victims of fate.
Don´t go to the now, intoxicate yourself and dance nonsensically,
live in the there and never..

Or you can face every fear you ever had break through the shakes.
Leaving fear behind..
It´s calm, serene and boring, no laughs, many calm smiles.
Nice place to visit, but you don´t want to go live there.
It´s like visiting home sometimes.. It can feel safe, but nothing ever happens.
So you choose to go back out there and find something you want to be safe from again.