Who Are You? - Alan Watts On The Illusion Of Thoughts

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” ― Alan Watts

One needs only three things in life: freedom, gratitude and a sense of wonder. ☯️ Alan Watts

Watts is so down-to-earth exact for the obvious...:)

I love Alan watts seriously. He’s changed my life so much

the thinker behind the thought is just a thought.

I struggle with overthinking and analyzing everything. It makes one insecure and creates anxiety Alan watts helps me to slow everything down

Feel so "Blessed!" reading his posts

“There is an expression in Chinese which means “the flow of thoughts” or what we call “streams of consciousness”, and so you will notice that thought follows thought follows thought the thoughts arise and go like waves on the water. All the time they come and go and when they go, they are as if I’ve never been here. So actually, this shows your mind doesn’t stick, really. You could get the illusion of it sticking by for example cycling the same succession of thoughts over and over again, and that gives a sense of permanence… and it is from these connecting of thoughts that we get the sensation that behind our thoughts there is a thinker who controls them and experiences them, although, the notion that there is a thinker is just one member in the stream of thoughts. But you know, in your stream of thought and experience I am in object, and a very fleeting and passing one, and concert also in my stream of experience you also are people who come and go. We are all living in the same world. We think, there is “me” and there is an “external world” around me, but I am in your external world, and you are in my external world, and if you think about that you see we are all in one world going along together. There isn’t really the internal in the external, there is simply the process. It’s very important to get rid of that illusion of duality between the thinker and the thought. So, find out who is the thinker behind the thoughts. Who is the real genuine you?” -- Alan Watts

A man who is universally interested is universally interesting. I'm loving all of these videos

Wow! This is mind blowing

Thank you, wow Powerful statements. Who is the real genuine you? That was deep

All we really know is that this place is here and we are in it now

Freedom is found when one can see what and who they are Not. This purity and clarity comes gradually as discovery is sought, thought and then realized.

" And when you find out you laugh yourself sily" A.W

At the end🌝 when he said "who is the thinker, who is the real you?"That is what was going through my head when I was 6. Awakening on mega blast✨

Freedom comes when you realize everything

We look outside ourselves all the time. We make the mistake of comparing ourselves to others. Most people enter relationships with others in order to feel complete. People can't make themselves happy, they look to others to do that for them. I like being isolated from others.

Thank you Alan. We love you ❤

This one talk here from alan watts is life changing. Ive watched and read a lot about alan watts, but this one little 9 minute recording is one that hits home the hardest when it comes to trying to understand how your brain works. Its a scary concept and i dont quite like it, but i think what he is saying is so close to the truth you dont even need to question it.

God bless