If I can't forgive someone(s), I see about forgiving myself for not being so forgiving.
If I hold grudges against others, I don't hold a grudge against myself for holding grudges.

If I'm sad, I'm not saddened about being sad.
If I'm shy, I see about not being embarrassed about my shyness.

The difference is whether one feels too imperfect to be themselves, or too imperfect not to be.

Basically, all perception of "problem" are the problem of trying to not have them. Whatever I feel, like a "block", I see about not feeling the same feeling about the feeling I have. This is the block, nothing else, not the feeling, but the (same) feeling about the feeling. If I still don't feel natural but rather blocked, it must occur to me that the feeling of blockness came about naturally.

"The water doesn’t pursue [that] course. It simply rises, and then it finds a way it can go, but it never uses any effort. It only uses weight, gravity. It takes the line of least resistance, and eventually finds a course.

Now we will do the same thing. Only we’re ashamed of it, but we’re going to do it anyway. We think that when we come to a dead end, a blind alley, “Oh, I’ve failed!” Supposing the water, at each place where a finger of water stretches out over dry ground, and doesn’t go any further because the land is too high, were to say to itself, “I’ve failed!” We would say it was neurotic water.""

I know that pain and suffering is inevitable in life. But there are instances where suffering can be avoided. Until what point is suffering good to endure or not?

I always have the difficulty of going out of bed, and Alan Watts also said dont force things. So should I not force going out of bed? Help me because I think I'm missing the point here.

And then sat down and meditated on to figure out why

Can anyone explain what separates these mindsets. We consider one a great thing for spiritual awareness and pure consciousness and the other a psychological concern. Are these two sides of a coin, or the exact same thing being looked at from two angles, whereby we champion it and others fear it?

The other day I was listening to one of his lectures titled "Not What Should Be" on the Waking Up app.

During the talk, I had this feeling of enlightenment and being connected to everything; inner peace. Granted, this feeling wasn't very long and I drifted back to the false sense of self. The illusion of 'I'.

I'd love to have this feeling forever, but again, who is this 'I' that wants this feeling? ;)

Does anyone have all the old Terrestrial_Exitium mixes of Alan Watts chillstep?? 🙏🏼🙏🏼 I believe there were like 12-13 mixes on youtube and they all get removed and re-uploaded frequently. Today I got an itch to start the journey over from the first and all the new mixes have messed up snippets 😐.

Could someone please let me know if they have all or any of these mixes!! I would like to save them on my computer so I don’t ever lose them.

I’m noticing so many videos featuring an AI copy of Alan Watts’ voice saying something that he never said. Usually it’s a quote from a book or something else. I just find it kind of disrespectful to use his voice to say something he never would have said. I do understand that it’s a very iconic and powerful voice but it still feels wrong to me.

Not too long ago I heard a phrase from Alan watts and it was along the lines of “do you do it or does it do you? Well it’s both ya see!”. I’ve tried to find this quote again, there are even videos titled “do you do it or does it do you?” But to no avail am I able to find that passage again, I’ve heard him say similar things, but no quite that quote, so if anyone is familiar with it or knows, even just him saying “do you do it or does it do you?” I would appreciate any input🙏🏽 thanks guys

Where can I find Alan watts’ complete collection of tv series for free? So far In YouTube I’ve found channels that have a good number of episodes, but non are complete.

Also, has there only been one series hosted by him?

Trying to find a YouTube clip of someone, may’ve been Alan, that talks about what the end result is of a person’s journey for god/universe/nirvana/enlightenment might “feel” like. Been up and down Alan’s playlists and related videos and can’t stumble upon it again. The video in question includes analogies of what someone might feel once they’ve extensively looked for and found the “truth” of the universe/god. That super “aha” moment that’s borderline indescribable. TIA.

I'm also a fan of Eckhart Tolle. Are there any other folks with lectures on spirituality and cosmology that I'd enjoy?

I’ve repeated this phrase to myself hundreds of times over the last decade, and do to a recent career switch I got to experience it. Obviously not a full on eyes closed session (we still have to work) but during my break I gave it all a good watch. Surreal to say the least!

He basically says something like "we need to act almost suddenly so we don't know what we are going to do ourselves. Because if we are to contemplate, then the devil in us knows what we are planning to do. And he tempts us with all sorts of things. Like let's do that later. Let's not quit this just yet. Let's do that later. So we have to get a jump on the devil which is part of us so as to not let him know"

Someone please let me know which lecture it is from I would really appreciate it

Alan himself had a mystical experience, these are direct experience of.. for want of a better word 'god/cosmic consciousness' & it's life changing & he experienced the profound bliss & ecstacy that comes with the experience.

This experience had such a profound affect that he eventually abandoned Christianity which he was a minister of at one time to embrace the eastern philosophies.

Have a listen to this.

Alan Watts - The mystical experience

Only 9 minutes https://youtu.be/BKbbTm3LGzo?si=yt3SgqNHgH7t9C3R

Or do you have to do a little bit of both?

Hello! I just wanted to post something because I started my spiritual journey thanks to Michael Singer, who speaks a lot about "shakti", this energy of your spirit that you can feel all the time and that gives you ecstasy, unconditional love etc but somehow it looks like Alan Watts never speaks about it.

Why is it so? Is it because he prefers to speak about more "intellectual things"? Because he just never felt it? Because it doesn't exist and Michael Singer is a conman haha?

And please excuse the ignorance of my question, i'm a newcomer!

Hello there! I'm trying to recollect one story: it was either from one of Alan's lectures or from one of his books. There were two zen monks (master and student) sitting in the garden discussing the topic of detachment from emotions and feelings. I remember that at one point suddenly a deer (or some other wild animal) ran out and the student got scared. The master commented on this somehow but eventually it turned out that the student's reaction to the situation was a good and proper one. As you can see, I don't remember the moral of the story at all but I really wish to revise it. Maybe this gibberish of mine sounds familiar to anyone?..