It's Already Happening But People Don't See It - Alan Watts on What Is

all i can do is to talk about what is it amuses me to talk about what is because it's wonderful i love it and therefore i like to talk so this is not on a you see this is the whole approach is not to convert you not to make you over not to improve you but for you to discover if you really knew the way you are things would be would be sane but you see you can't do that you can't make that discovery because you're in your own way you can't control your thoughts you can't control your feelings because there is no controller you are your thoughts and your feelings and they are running along running along running along just sit and watch them there they go you're still breathing aren't you still growing your hair still seeing and hearing are you doing that i mean is is breathing something that you do do you see i mean do you organize the operations of your eyes know exactly how to work those rods and cones in the retina do you do that it's a happening it happens so you can feel all this happening your breathing is happening your thinking is happening your feeling is happening you're hearing you're seeing the clouds are happening across the sky the sky is happening blue the sun is happening shining there it is all this happening and may i introduce you this is yourself this begins to be a vision of who you really are and that's the way you function you function by happening that is to say by spontaneous occurrence and this is not a state of affairs that you should realize i cannot possibly preach it to you because the minute you start thinking i should understand that this is this stupid notion again if i should bring it about when there is no you to bring it about see that's why i'm not preaching you can only preach to egos so long as you think i'm i so long as that hallucination blocks it and the hallucination disappears only in the realization of its own futility when at last you see you can't do it you cannot make yourself over you cannot really control your own mind see when we try to control the mind you get concentrating so when you see that that's nonsense there naturally comes over you a quietness and seeing that you cannot control your mind [Music] you realize there is no control what you took to be the thinker of thoughts is just one of the thoughts what you took to be the feeler of the feelings which was that chronic muscular strain is just one of the feelings what you took to be the experience of experience is just part of the experience [Music] so there isn't any thinker of thoughts feeler of feelings we we get into that bind because we have a grammatical rule that verbs have to have subjects but we always insist that there is this subject called the noah and without a noah there can't be knowing well that's just a grammatical rule it isn't a rule of nature in nature there's just knowing like you're feeling it and i have to say you are feeling it as if you were somehow different from the feeling when i say i am feeling what i mean is there is feeling here when i say you are feeling i mean there is feeling there well anyway when you come to see that you can do nothing that the play of thought of feeling etc just goes on by itself as a happening [Music] then you are in a state which we will call meditation and slowly without being pushed your thoughts will come to silence that is to say all the verbal symbolic chatter going on in the skull don't try and get rid of it because that will again produce the illusion that there's a controller just it it goes on it goes on it goes on finally it gets tired of itself and bored and stops and so then there's a silence and this is a deeper level of meditation and in that silence you suddenly begin to see the world as it is and you don't see any past and you don't see any future you don't see any difference between yourself and the rest of it that's just an idea you can't put your hand on the difference between myself and you you know you can't blow it you can't bounce it you can't pull it it's just an idea you can't find any material body because material body is an idea so a spiritual body is somebody's philosophical notions see reality isn't material that's an idea reality isn't spiritual that's an idea reality is [Music] [Applause] so we find if i've got to put it back into words that we live in an eternal now you've got all the time in the world because you've got all the time there is which is now and uh you are this universe and then [Music] we get this strange feeling that we have never had you see in our lives except occasionally by accident some people get a glimpse that we are no longer this poor little stranger and afraid in a world it never made but that you are this universe and you are creating it at every moment because you see it starts now [Music] you

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Length: 8min 14sec (494 seconds)

Published: Mon May 10 2021

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