Alan Watts: Most of Us Think Compulsively All the Time | Meditation (First 10 Minutes)

These are the first ten minutes of Meditation, in Alan's own voice, no AI. The full 28-minute film, remastered from the original tapes, is at https://alanwatts.com/products/alan-w... Most of us think compulsively all the time, talking to ourselves, and so we live in a world of symbols and lose touch with reality. Alan on why meditation is the way back, why it has no goal (like music and dancing), why it is supposed to be fun, and the simple props: a gong, incense, a string of beads. It stops just as he begins the practice itself. This is the opening of the film exactly as he made it: nothing cut, nothing added. One of The Essentials, the twelve films he made in 1971 and 1972, remastered from the original tapes by the Alan Watts Organization. CHAPTERS 0:00 Getting into touch with reality 1:16 What do I mean by reality? 2:12 What doesn't exist in the real world 3:39 What that requires is that we shut up 4:05 The first sign of madness 4:49 Like music and dancing 5:57 The point of life is always now 7:04 Meditation is supposed to be fun 8:01 A gong, incense and a string of beads 10:00 How to sit 11:23 Begin by listening THE FULL FILM Meditation and the other eleven restored films, The Essentials: https://alanwatts.com/products/alan-w... The complete audio archive: https://alanwatts.org JOIN THE CONVERSATION The community for these films, run by the Alan Watts Organization:   / discord   ABOUT THIS CHANNEL The official archive of the Alan Watts Organization, run by his son Mark Watts, who recorded and has kept these tapes since 1968. Every word here is Alan Watts' own voice from the original recordings. Nothing on this channel is synthesised, re-voiced or generated. Alan Watts (1915 to 1973) was a British writer and speaker who did more than anyone to bring Zen, Taoism and Vedanta into everyday English.