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Alan Watts – Motivational speech


just in the same way as you don’t focus
your attention on how you make your
thyroid gland function
so in the same way you don’t have any
attention focused on how you shine the
Sun
so then let me connect this with the
problem of birth and death which puzzles
people enormous Lee of course because in
order to understand what what the self
is you have to remember that it doesn’t
need to remember anything just like you
don’t need to know how you work your
thyroid gland so then when you die
you’re not going to have to put up with
everlasting non-existence because that’s
not an experience a lot of people are
afraid that when they die they’re going
to be locked up in a darkroom forever
and I’m sort of undergo that
but one of the most interesting things
in the world this is a yoga this is a
way of realization try and imagine what
it will be like to go to sleep and never
wake up think about that children think
about it it’s one of the great wonders
of life what will it be like to go to
sleep and never wake up and if you think
long enough about that something will
happen to you we’ll find out among other
things that it’ll pose the next question
to you what was it like to wake up after
having never gone to sleep that was when
you were born
you see you you can’t have an experience
of nothing nature abhors a vacuum so
after you’re dead the only thing that
can happen is the same experience of the
same sort of experiences when you were
born
in other words we all know very well
that after people die other people are
born and they’re all you only you could
only experience at one at a time
everybody is I you all know you are you
and wheresoever beings exist throughout
all galaxies it doesn’t make any
difference you are all up and when they
come into being that’s you coming into
being you know that very well
only you don’t have to remember the past
in the same way you don’t have to think
about how you work your thyroid gland or
whatever else it is in your
like you breathe is there doesn’t it
really astonish you that you are the
fantastically complex thing and that
you’re doing all of this and you never
had any education in how to do it never
learn the picture this miracle well the
point is that from a strictly physical
scientific standpoint this organism is a
continuous energy with everything else
that’s going on and if I am my foot I am
the Sun
try and imagine what it will be like to
go to sleep and never wake up think
about that
children think about it it’s one of the
great wonders of life what will it be
like to go to sleep and never wake up
and if you think long enough about that
something will happen to you propose the
next question to you what was it like to
wake up after having never gone to sleep
that was when you were born
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