Alan Watts ~ Work as Play, Wiara on YouTube

  • “what is it that fascinates us about that because it’s not useful it doesn’t really achieve anything” ⤴️
  • “in our culture we make an extremely rigid division between work and play” ⤴️
  • “you’re supposed to work in order to earn enough money to give you sufficient Leisure Time for something entirely different” ⤴️
  • “suppose he has a different thing in his head supposing he has the idea that moving this enormous conveyance through complicated traffic is a very very subtle game” ⤴️
  • “bring in your mind to the state of reality which is is as I’ve pointed out to you only now this is where we are” ⤴️
  • “you turn the cleaning movement into a dance” ⤴️
  • “you get this rhythm going see and you you’re not under compulsion all the time” ⤴️
  • “like the whole game of life we’re all involved in it’s only a game but everybody has got to belong” ⤴️
  • “all he enjoyed was the suffering that he endured that made him feel that he had really contributed to the human race because he suffered so much he identified his existence and his worth with his suffering” ⤴️
  • “were dancing the game” ⤴️
  • “don’t make a distinction between work and play regard everything that you’re doing as play” ⤴️
  • “think for a moment what are vegetables doing” ⤴️
  • “what is it from its own point of view” ⤴️
  • “it’s using up air it’s using up energy it’s uh really not doing anything” ⤴️
  • “they’re all doing this dance and what is it all about why do they do it well we say one must live it’s necessary to survive” ⤴️
  • “you really must go on it’s your it’s your duty it’s your duty to your children but you see the thing I feel is if you bring up your children that way and tell them that they ought to be grateful to you because you’re doing your duty towards they will learn to bring up their children in the same way and everybody will be depressed there really is no necessity to go on living” ⤴️
  • “the fear of death is completely absurd because if you’re dead you’ve got nothing to worry about” ⤴️
  • “this plant I’m quite sure it doesn’t say to itself you ought to go on living you’ve got an instinct to survive which is something other than yourself in which you have to obey” ⤴️
  • “I think of my instincts as myself” ⤴️
  • “I am this desire to make love and I am this desire to eat it’s not something else that pushes me around it’s me well all right but it doesn’t have to go on I don’t feel uh so compelled that if it were to stop what if it were to stop before if I were to be killed that would be another scene that would be a different form of the dance” ⤴️
  • “we Stamp Out in human beings their natural release from the problem of pain if you’re in pain cry” ⤴️
  • “we interpret them in a negative way so long as we are under the sense that you absolutely must go on living” ⤴️
  • “living like this plant is something spontaneous in Chinese the word for nature Islam which means that which happens of itself not under any control of an outside boss” ⤴️
  • “you stop this spontaneous flowering of nature cold if you tell it you must do” ⤴️
  • “when you try to command a spontaneous process you stop it” ⤴️
  • “this is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with what you’re doing in the Here and Now” ⤴️
  • “in Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Leela that means the play of Vishnu Leela means dance or play” ⤴️
  • “they also in Hindu philosophy call the world an illusion and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludare to play” ⤴️