Awakened Man – Alan Watts and Russell Brand

is inescapable but our role while we’re
at work we are workers when we’re at
home with consumers with designated
roles that prevent us from having an
authentic interaction with reality an
authentic experience of ourselves
you work in order to make money to play
this is insane because you spend most of
the time working if you don’t really
value the work I mean you’re lucky if
you’ve got work that you really enjoy
doing but if you don’t really value the
work all you get out of it is money then
you come home with that and you’re
supposed to play they sit and passively
watch television and but we don’t enjoy
it
it’s somewhat contradictory happiness
consists in the possession of things a
lot of people when they feel inadequate
bored unfulfilled try to get rid of this
sensation by going shopping a lot of
yes the real world now is always
unseasonal it’s changing you can’t grasp
it there’s nothing to hold on to but
that’s why it’s spiritual when you lean
on it it collapses but don’t lean on
live in it but don’t lean on it don’t
try to hold it because in just the same
way as when you embrace someone and you
try to hold too hard who squeezed the
breath
and therefore your strength so in the
same way you don’t grab hold of the of
the world you can’t sense it that way I
cannot feel whatever this is that the
physical world right here and now this
absolutely concrete moment is everything
that you could ever have imagined the
beatific vision today this is quite
started so if you are really wide awake
it’s a kind of a light touch you let it
flow through your fingers and so by
letting life slip and it’s always
slipping it’s now ever-changing it’s the
the more it runs the more it stays the
more it stays the more it runs that’s
that’s the way it is and if you don’t
hold on to it it’s always here if you do hold on to it is always running away